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March 16, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand In March 2024, Customs carried out search warrants in Gisborne, locating a significant amount of cash in a bedroom and in a vehicle parked outside the restaurant, as well as over a kilogram of loose tobacco and 11,000 cigarettes inside the restaurant. Supplied / New Zealand Customs New Zealand Customs has ... <a title="Fears NZ’s tobacco black market will get as bad as Australia’s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/fears-nzs-tobacco-black-market-will-get-as-bad-as-australias/" aria-label="Read more about Fears NZ’s tobacco black market will get as bad as Australia’s">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Farrer by-election on May 9 will be a major test for new Liberal leader Angus Taylor and new Nationals leader Matt Canavan, as well as a real-time measure of One Nation’s surging poll numbers. One Nation’s David Farley and ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: why Farrer is a key test for One Nation vs the Coalition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/politics-with-michelle-grattan-why-farrer-is-a-key-test-for-one-nation-vs-the-coalition-278393/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: why Farrer is a key test for One Nation vs the Coalition">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Former Nationals’ leader Michael McCormack has been brought back onto the frontbench as the opposition unveiled yet another reshuffle, this one triggered by the elevation of Matt Canavan to become Nationals leader. McCormack will be shadow minister for water and ... <a title="Canavan brings back McCormack in Nationals frontbench shake up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/canavan-brings-back-mccormack-in-nationals-frontbench-shake-up-278189/" aria-label="Read more about Canavan brings back McCormack in Nationals frontbench shake up">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Dwyer, Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania As the US–Israeli war with Iran enters its third week, reports are emerging that Israel is potentially running out of air defence interceptors due to Iran’s retaliatory attacks. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Israeli foreign minister ... <a title="Is Israel running low on missile interceptors? How long can it withstand Iran’s retaliatory attacks?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/is-israel-running-low-on-missile-interceptors-how-long-can-it-withstand-irans-retaliatory-attacks-278404/" aria-label="Read more about Is Israel running low on missile interceptors? How long can it withstand Iran’s retaliatory attacks?">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic Knight, Lecturer in Media Law, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney Despite Conan O’Brien joking he was the last human Oscars host, the 2026 edition was exceptionally human – with folly, filler and an f-bomb (ironically during the Best Sound acceptance speech). This ... <a title="From flat jokes, to politics, to red-carpet dazzle: 5 experts unpack the 2026 Oscars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/from-flat-jokes-to-politics-to-red-carpet-dazzle-5-experts-unpack-the-2026-oscars-278400/" aria-label="Read more about From flat jokes, to politics, to red-carpet dazzle: 5 experts unpack the 2026 Oscars">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Four dolphins have been killed off Kaikōura’s coast in the past two years, including three by set net entanglement Supplied / Genevieve Robinson Conservation groups are calling for action to reduce dolphin deaths off Canterbury’s coastline. A female Hector’s dolphin was killed in a set net off Kaikōura’s coast and discarded ... <a title="Dolphin’s death spurs calls for greater protection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/dolphins-death-spurs-calls-for-greater-protection/" aria-label="Read more about Dolphin’s death spurs calls for greater protection">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Melanna House has been closed since September. Supplied Waiheke Island’s only respite care house for kids with disabilities has closed, leaving parents who booked their children in for school holiday programmes and overnight stays in the lurch. Spectrum Care said the service at Melanna House was running at a loss and ... <a title="Parents left stranded as Waiheke Island’s only respite care house for kids with disabilities closes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/parents-left-stranded-as-waiheke-islands-only-respite-care-house-for-kids-with-disabilities-closes/" aria-label="Read more about Parents left stranded as Waiheke Island’s only respite care house for kids with disabilities closes">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The company received 27 shipments of the live green-lipped mussels. NIWA/Rebekah Parsons-King A Christchurch-based fish processor has been fined $20,000 for illegally handling live mussels from a restricted biosecurity zone. Ikana New Zealand was sentenced in the Christchurch District Court this month after admitting nine biosecurity offences. Ministry for Primary Industries ... <a title="Fish processor Ikana New Zealand fined $20,000 for nine biosecurity offences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/fish-processor-ikana-new-zealand-fined-20000-for-nine-biosecurity-offences/" aria-label="Read more about Fish processor Ikana New Zealand fined $20,000 for nine biosecurity offences">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Gloriavale members received payments into their own accounts but those payments could be taken out again by the community’s financial controller. RNZ / Jean Edwards Gloriavale’s leaders made sham payments to community members to make it appear as though they are rewarded for their efforts, the Employment Court has heard. A ... <a title="Gloriavale: Sham payments made to community members, court told" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/gloriavale-sham-payments-made-to-community-members-court-told/" aria-label="Read more about Gloriavale: Sham payments made to community members, court told">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yvette Grant, PhD Candidate in Dance and Dance History Tutor, The University of Melbourne In 1950 Australian writer and dancer Jean Garling argued: Dance reflects [a people’s] reaction to environment, for it is every art, and in its quality can be read the characteristics of a nation. ... <a title="Flora captures the Australian environment. It is something bold and new in Australian dance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/flora-captures-the-australian-environment-it-is-something-bold-and-new-in-australian-dance-277969/" aria-label="Read more about Flora captures the Australian environment. It is something bold and new in Australian dance">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Supplied / Kiwibank A recent insurance promotion in which customers were offered Prezzy cards for new business is a reminder to watch out for loyalty tax, Consumer NZ says. Glenn Marshall, who is an insurance broker but is acting in a personal capacity as a consumer, has complained to IAG about ... <a title="Prezzy promo a reminder to watch out for ‘loyalty tax’, Consumer NZ says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/prezzy-promo-a-reminder-to-watch-out-for-loyalty-tax-consumer-nz-says/" aria-label="Read more about Prezzy promo a reminder to watch out for ‘loyalty tax’, Consumer NZ says">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Christchurch District Court. RNZ / Nate McKinnon Warning: This story contains details of an alleged sexual assault. A man accused of taking a teenager 17 years his junior to a bach and then sexually violating him while the young man was intoxicated has pleaded not guilty. The accused, who has name ... <a title="Man denies sexually assaulting drunk teen in mid-1990s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/16/man-denies-sexually-assaulting-drunk-teen-in-mid-1990s/" aria-label="Read more about Man denies sexually assaulting drunk teen in mid-1990s">Read more</a>
