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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elliott Logan, Lecturer in Film, Screen, and Culture, Monash University Apple TV Viewers of Apple TV’s new science fiction series, Plur1bus, have been quick to point out eerie similarities with modern concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) – even if that’s not what it’s maker intended. Writer and ... <a title="Vince Gilligan’s sci-fi series Plur1bus taps into our greatest fears about AI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/vince-gilligans-sci-fi-series-plur1bus-taps-into-our-greatest-fears-about-ai-269497/" aria-label="Read more about Vince Gilligan’s sci-fi series Plur1bus taps into our greatest fears about AI">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Less than 50 percent of trainees are completing apprenticeships. RNZ / Dom Thomas Vocational Education Minister Penny Simmonds says she is seeking extra funding so new industry bodies can investigate low apprenticeship completion rates. Speaking at the Vocational Education and Training Research Forum in Wellington, Simmonds said she was concerned that ... <a title="Penny Simmonds concerned less than 50 percent of trainees completing apprenticeships" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/penny-simmonds-concerned-less-than-50-percent-of-trainees-completing-apprenticeships/" aria-label="Read more about Penny Simmonds concerned less than 50 percent of trainees completing apprenticeships">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The children have been named in the Givealittle campaign for their mother as August, Hugo and Goldie. GIVEALITTLE / SUPPLIED Police have been keeping guard overnight at the scene of a house fire in Manawatū on Saturday, where three children and their father died. The deaths at Sanson are being treated ... <a title="‘The hardest journey possible’: $250,000 raised for mother of children killed in Sanson fire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/the-hardest-journey-possible-250000-raised-for-mother-of-children-killed-in-sanson-fire/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The hardest journey possible’: $250,000 raised for mother of children killed in Sanson fire">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah-Kay Coulter, Lecturer in Indigenous Studies, The University of Melbourne John Bryers Ruddock was born in Australia but is a New Zealand citizen by descent through his Māori mother. However, his children are not citizens under the current law because they were born in the United States. ... <a title="Strangers in their own land: how a new citizenship category could avoid a trap for Indigenous children born overseas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/strangers-in-their-own-land-how-a-new-citizenship-category-could-avoid-a-trap-for-indigenous-children-born-overseas-269389/" aria-label="Read more about Strangers in their own land: how a new citizenship category could avoid a trap for Indigenous children born overseas">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elena Collinson, Senior Project and Research Officer, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney Australians remain supportive of the US alliance, but they are viewing it much more critically than before. And many are more concerned about American behaviour under the Trump administration, while softening their views ... <a title="Australians are markedly more worried about the US, still wary about China: new poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/australians-are-markedly-more-worried-about-the-us-still-wary-about-china-new-poll-268209/" aria-label="Read more about Australians are markedly more worried about the US, still wary about China: new poll">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Anthony Joshua after his fight against Oleksander Usyk in 2021. Mark Robinson / PHOTOSPORT Former world heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua will take on YouTube star Jake Paul in a bout next month. Joshua and Paul will meet in Miami on 19 December, with the fight to be broadcast on Netflix. ... <a title="Boxing: Anthony Joshua to fight Jake Paul next month" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/boxing-anthony-joshua-to-fight-jake-paul-next-month/" aria-label="Read more about Boxing: Anthony Joshua to fight Jake Paul next month">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins. RNZ / Mark Papalii Labour has been gaining ground in opinion polls, leading on issues from the economy and healthcare, but a new survey suggests voters are split on its capital gains tax proposals. Leader Chris Hipkins announced last month the party would campaign on the tax ... <a title="Morning Report : Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/morning-report-labour-party-leader-chris-hipkins-on-capital-gains-tax/" aria-label="Read more about Morning Report : Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Statistics Minister Shane Reti has called the national system “dated and constrained”. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone A unique trove of information for measuring the impact of government services on millions of New Zealanders is sitting on “old and increasingly unstable” technology. It is hard to use and badly in need of ... <a title="Stats NZ: Grinding gears in data’s ‘big machine’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/stats-nz-grinding-gears-in-datas-big-machine/" aria-label="Read more about Stats NZ: Grinding gears in data’s ‘big machine’">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins. RNZ / Mark Papalii Labour has been gaining ground in opinion polls, leading on issues from the economy and healthcare, but a new survey suggests voters are split on its capital gains tax proposals. Leader Chris Hipkins announced last month the party would campaign on the tax ... <a title="Morning Report live: Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/morning-report-live-labour-party-leader-chris-hipkins-on-capital-gains-tax/" aria-label="Read more about Morning Report live: Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Pixabay/shafin_protic An advocacy organisation says it receives calls from people covertly asking for help to avoid offending – but despite evidence that programmes work, resources to help are thin. When The Detail ran a podcast episode about how Customs tries to stop child sexual exploitation material at our borders, our listeners ... <a title="‘No minimum sentence’: Do child sexual exploitation prison terms reflect the severity of the crime?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/no-minimum-sentence-do-child-sexual-exploitation-prison-terms-reflect-the-severity-of-the-crime/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No minimum sentence’: Do child sexual exploitation prison terms reflect the severity of the crime?">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Asma Aziz, Senior Lecturer in Power Engineering, Edith Cowan University Unsplash/The Conversation, CC BY-SA If you follow news about climate change, you’ve probably seen the term “primary energy”. This phrase refers to the raw energy in fuels and natural resources – the energy content of oil in ... <a title="This widely used chart makes the clean energy switch seem much harder than it actually is" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/this-widely-used-chart-makes-the-clean-energy-switch-seem-much-harder-than-it-actually-is-264322/" aria-label="Read more about This widely used chart makes the clean energy switch seem much harder than it actually is">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand My favourite number has always been three. In my mind, three is a waltz moving in circles, graceful and hypnotic. It plays brightly in a major key, hauntingly beautiful in minor. It’s a deep midnight blue fading into royal purple, like an acrylic painting of the setting sun. In a numerical ... <a title="Everything feels better in sets of three. Three’s also my prison." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/everything-feels-better-in-sets-of-three-threes-also-my-prison/" aria-label="Read more about Everything feels better in sets of three. Three’s also my prison.">Read more</a>
