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May 18, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand NZ Breakers looking for new coach after parting ways with Petteri Koponen after two seasons. Blake Armstrong/Photosport The off-season coaching turnover in the Australian NBL reached new heights when two more teams joined the recruitment process for a head coach in recent weeks. The New Zealand Breakers have been working to ... <a title="NZ Breakers face competitive market to land new coach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/nz-breakers-face-competitive-market-to-land-new-coach/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Breakers face competitive market to land new coach">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Marika Khabazi New Zealand First might want the government to buy back BNZ and meld it with Kiwibank to create a banking competitor to take on the Australian big banks – but there’s limited evidence that it would work. NZ First leader Winston Peters said at the weekend that ... <a title="Would buying BNZ actually help New Zealanders?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/would-buying-bnz-actually-help-new-zealanders/" aria-label="Read more about Would buying BNZ actually help New Zealanders?">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand 123rf.com An Auckland police officer has been charged in relation to an alleged family harm incident. Court documents seen by RNZ claim the 38-year-old police officer assaulted a person he was in a family relationship with in October 2025. Do you know more? Email sam.sherwood@rnz.co.nz Auckland City District Commander Superintendent Sunny ... <a title="Auckland police officer facing charge of abusing a person in a family relationship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/auckland-police-officer-facing-charge-of-abusing-a-person-in-a-family-relationship/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland police officer facing charge of abusing a person in a family relationship">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Tech giant Meta recently announced a set of new features to give parents greater oversight of how their children use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Horizon. This follows the company’s announcement earlier ... <a title="Meta’s new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids’ social media accounts. Will they work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/metas-new-tools-allow-parents-to-better-supervise-their-kids-social-media-accounts-will-they-work-283073/" aria-label="Read more about Meta’s new tools allow parents to better supervise their kids’ social media accounts. Will they work?">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher and Sustainable Future Lead, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University There is a large group in Australia’s housing crisis that often gets less attention. They are not homeless. They are not homeowners. They are renters in the middle. They may be working ... <a title="Not homeless, not homeowners: what does the budget mean for Australia’s squeezed renters?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/not-homeless-not-homeowners-what-does-the-budget-mean-for-australias-squeezed-renters-283093/" aria-label="Read more about Not homeless, not homeowners: what does the budget mean for Australia’s squeezed renters?">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne In three credible post-budget polls, One Nation is up one to three points, with their victory at the May 9 Farrer byelection probably also contributing. Labor took ... <a title="One Nation gains in polls as budget is poorly received in Newspoll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/one-nation-gains-in-polls-as-budget-is-poorly-received-in-newspoll-283121/" aria-label="Read more about One Nation gains in polls as budget is poorly received in Newspoll">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University The human brain is remarkably complex, with trillions of connections that control how you move, think and feel. Yet it’s still vulnerable to debilitating conditions such as paralysis, stroke, epilepsy and various neurodegenerative diseases. Scientists are ... <a title="Brain implants allow us to move and talk. But they could also be hacked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/brain-implants-allow-us-to-move-and-talk-but-they-could-also-be-hacked-281114/" aria-label="Read more about Brain implants allow us to move and talk. But they could also be hacked">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Griffin, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Management, University of California, Davis When rivers degrade, pests spread or drought hits crops, nature sends a bill. Yet it’s one rarely itemised on any balance sheet, because nature’s contribution to business remains genuinely hard to quantify. One major obstacle is ... <a title="Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/nature-is-good-for-business-and-we-now-have-numbers-to-show-it-283052/" aria-label="Read more about Nature is good for business – and we now have numbers to show it">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nerkez Opacin, Senior Research Fellow in Nature and People, The University of Melbourne One in three Australians says they are lonely. To be lonely is to feel a lack of adequate social connection. Loneliness is about feeling disconnected from others or unable to form the kinds of ... <a title="When we took 37 strangers into the urban bush, their loneliness began to ease" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/when-we-took-37-strangers-into-the-urban-bush-their-loneliness-began-to-ease-282378/" aria-label="Read more about When we took 37 strangers into the urban bush, their loneliness began to ease">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jess Carniel, Associate Professor in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland In a surprising turn of events, Bulgaria have taken home the crystal microphone trophy for the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with Dara’s infectious dance hit Bangaranga. It is Bulgaria’s first-ever win and all the more poignant given ... <a title="Eurovision 2026: a win for Bulgaria, fourth for Australia, and continued controversy for broadcasters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/eurovision-2026-a-win-for-bulgaria-fourth-for-australia-and-continued-controversy-for-broadcasters-282252/" aria-label="Read more about Eurovision 2026: a win for Bulgaria, fourth for Australia, and continued controversy for broadcasters">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
ANALYSIS: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The eighth floor of the Tempo building in Jakarta became the setting for a gathering rich with meaning. What brought together community leaders, politicians, academics, religious figures, journalists, and the family of the late Thom Beanal was not merely a book launch. It was an earnest attempt to revisit ... <a title="Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/thom-beanal-saluting-a-human-rights-legacy-for-papuas-father/" aria-label="Read more about Thom Beanal – saluting a human rights legacy for Papua’s ‘father’">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The government will spend $131 million on improving students’ reading, writing and maths in this year’s budget, the Education Minister Erica Stanford says. Stanford made the pre-Budget announcement alongside Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at Boulcott School in Lower Hutt on Monday. They revealed 12 initiatives as part of the government’s “generational ... <a title="Live: Erica Stanford announces $131m Budget spend on reading, writing and maths initiatives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/18/live-erica-stanford-announces-131m-budget-spend-on-reading-writing-and-maths-initiatives/" aria-label="Read more about Live: Erica Stanford announces $131m Budget spend on reading, writing and maths initiatives">Read more</a>
