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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Jone Vakarisi was heard screaming and begging, according to his sister. Supplied Jone Vakarisi was heard screaming and begging before he was “brutalised to death” in Fiji military custody last week, according to his sister. Melehola Tagaga told Pacific Waves that the well known drug pusher was asked if he was ... <a title="‘His life mattered’: Sister of man who died in military custody speaks out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/his-life-mattered-sister-of-man-who-died-in-military-custody-speaks-out/" aria-label="Read more about ‘His life mattered’: Sister of man who died in military custody speaks out">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The much-missed bells of the carillon in Wellington are playing again. Silent for most of the last 14 years, this Saturday they will be heard at the national Anzac commemorations at the national war memorial in Pukeahu Park. Inside the belltower, open now that quake strengthening had been done using a ... <a title="Pukeahu National War Memorial Park bells to sound on Anzac Day after long silence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/pukeahu-national-war-memorial-park-bells-to-sound-on-anzac-day-after-long-silence/" aria-label="Read more about Pukeahu National War Memorial Park bells to sound on Anzac Day after long silence">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand NZEI President Ripeka Lessels, the head of the country’s largest education sector union. NZEI supplied Hundreds of principals and thousands of teachers remain opposed to the government’s curriculum overhaul as consultation closes on Friday. Thirty-nine local and regional principals associations and six teacher subject associations have now signed a letter started ... <a title="Dozens of principal, teacher associations sign letter opposed to government’s curriculum changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/dozens-of-principal-teacher-associations-sign-letter-opposed-to-governments-curriculum-changes/" aria-label="Read more about Dozens of principal, teacher associations sign letter opposed to government’s curriculum changes">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand By Mata Che Wilson. Supplied / Aukaha Former Te Pāti Māori president Che Wilson has sparked debate following a controversial haka performed at the Tainui Regional Kapa Haka competition over the weekend. The haka, directed at ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar, included the phrase “purari karikari iniana”, which has been interpreted as ... <a title="Former Te Pāti Māori president’s haka targeting ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar sparks backlash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/former-te-pati-maori-presidents-haka-targeting-act-mp-parmjeet-parmar-sparks-backlash/" aria-label="Read more about Former Te Pāti Māori president’s haka targeting ACT MP Parmjeet Parmar sparks backlash">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand As the market slumps again, sellers are facing the prospect of gambling on a recovery or just cutting their losses. RNZ / Quin Tauetau New Zealand’s property market is facing another slow patch – leaving some owners who bought in the post-Covid peak wondering what to do next. Cotality’s latest data ... <a title="Property investors who ‘drank the Kool-Aid’ wondering whether to take a loss" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/23/property-investors-who-drank-the-kool-aid-wondering-whether-to-take-a-loss/" aria-label="Read more about Property investors who ‘drank the Kool-Aid’ wondering whether to take a loss">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ/Marika Khabazi A person has been rescued from a property fire in the Auckland suburb of Takanini on Wednesday. Emergency services received multiple calls about people potentially being trapped in a one-storey property about 6.20pm. FENZ northern communications shift manager Ryan Geen said crews found one person inside, who was taken ... <a title="Person rescued from property fire in Auckland’s Takanini" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/person-rescued-from-property-fire-in-aucklands-takanini/" aria-label="Read more about Person rescued from property fire in Auckland’s Takanini">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney In sweeping reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) announced today, the government will cut 160,000 participants from the scheme over the next four years and reduce funding for the average plan by A$5,000 in the next two ... <a title="Tightened eligibility and cuts to plans: what the NDIS changes mean for participants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/tightened-eligibility-and-cuts-to-plans-what-the-ndis-changes-mean-for-participants-281147/" aria-label="Read more about Tightened eligibility and cuts to plans: what the NDIS changes mean for participants">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Tarawera River, where two people died on Thursday Google Maps The two boys who died after a riverbank they were playing on collapsed at Kawerau last week have been named by police. They were 11-year-old Luti Maui Mafi and 10-year-old Paul Mason Lloyd. Police had said a group of children ... <a title="Police name two boys killed after Kawerau riverbank collapse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/police-name-two-boys-killed-after-kawerau-riverbank-collapse/" aria-label="Read more about Police name two boys killed after Kawerau riverbank collapse">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Updated research has shown up lingering headaches over the impacts of decades-long nuclear testing in the Pacific islands and interventions of outside powers, amid growing threats from climate change, writes Dr Lee Duffield. REVIEW: By Lee Duffield The journalist, professor and peace activist Dr David Robie, was one of a media party on the ill-fated ... <a title="Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/nuclear-now-climate-change-new-book-on-how-great-powers-have-plagued-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear – now climate change: New book on how great powers have plagued the Pacific">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Quin Tauetau A home care worker’s calling the government out for alleged double standards over mileage rates paid to MPs. Earlier this month, home and community support workers were given a temporary boost to their mileage rates – from 63.5 cents to 82.5 cents per kilometre. Relief teachers also ... <a title="Home care worker calls out ‘double standard’ over MP’s mileage allowance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/home-care-worker-calls-out-double-standard-over-mps-mileage-allowance/" aria-label="Read more about Home care worker calls out ‘double standard’ over MP’s mileage allowance">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand When director Tearepa Kahi went with a small crew on a reconnaissance mission to Tunisa for the film Sgt. Haane, a remarkable chance encounter occurred. “I’m shaking in terms of my memory of this, because it’s almost a year to the day,” he told RNZ’s Nine to Noon. They were visiting ... <a title="Director of new Māori Battalion movie didn’t feel worthy of his hero’s story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/director-of-new-maori-battalion-movie-didnt-feel-worthy-of-his-heros-story/" aria-label="Read more about Director of new Māori Battalion movie didn’t feel worthy of his hero’s story">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Supplied/ US CDC Health New Zealand has confirmed a new measles case in Wellington. It said the case was not known to be linked to any previous cases or overseas travel. The person may have been exposed to measles at Warbirds Over Wānaka in early April, or at the Ultra New ... <a title="New measles case in Wellington, possibly exposed at airshow or music festival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/22/new-measles-case-in-wellington-possibly-exposed-at-airshow-or-music-festival/" aria-label="Read more about New measles case in Wellington, possibly exposed at airshow or music festival">Read more</a>
