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May 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Solar installation costs have been reducing and power prices increasing. Fabian Rieger / 123RF New Zealand has passed the “tipping point” where most people buying solar panels will save more money than they spend on them, researchers say, but more could be done to unlock households’ ability to make use of ... <a title="New Zealand passes solar tipping point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/new-zealand-passes-solar-tipping-point/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand passes solar tipping point">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Kaimanawa horses are mustered annually to keep the herd at a maximum of 300 animals. Supplied/Kimber Brown Just days after they were rounded up off the North Island’s central plateau, Kaimanawa horses are in training for their new homes and are warming up to human contact. Every year a muster ... <a title="Kaimanawa horses in training for new homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/kaimanawa-horses-in-training-for-new-homes/" aria-label="Read more about Kaimanawa horses in training for new homes">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Even if you’ve been earning income in a straightforward way, you could end up with a bill or a refund. 123RF Are you on track for a tax refund this year? Inland Revenue now sends automatic tax assessments to people whose only income is salary, wages or investment income that is ... <a title="It’s almost tax season: Will you get a refund?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/its-almost-tax-season-will-you-get-a-refund/" aria-label="Read more about It’s almost tax season: Will you get a refund?">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand NZ Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Singaporean Prime Minsiter Lawrence Wong. Supplied / PMO Analysis – Christopher Luxon will leave Singapore on Tuesday evening reassured fuel will continue to flow to New Zealand shores, but painfully aware of the trouble brewing on the horizon. There was a stark warning from his ... <a title="With New Zealand signing a free trade with Singapore what are the fuel concerns?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/with-new-zealand-signing-a-free-trade-with-singapore-what-are-the-fuel-concerns/" aria-label="Read more about With New Zealand signing a free trade with Singapore what are the fuel concerns?">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Police Commissioner Richard Chambers. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone A senior police officer is facing an employment investigation relating to a complaint that was laid nearly a year ago. Police Commissioner Richard Chambers said he has previously expressed concerns about matters involving employees taking too long to investigate and set an expectation ... <a title="Senior police officer facing employment investigation almost a year after complaint" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/senior-police-officer-facing-employment-investigation-almost-a-year-after-complaint/" aria-label="Read more about Senior police officer facing employment investigation almost a year after complaint">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Next week’s budget will contain cutbacks to the concessional treatment of electric vehicles (EVs) that will save the government $1.7 billion over the budget period. Announcing the changes to the Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) exemption for EVs, Treasurer Jim Chalmers ... <a title="Next week’s budget to reduce electric vehicle FBT concession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/next-weeks-budget-to-reduce-electric-vehicle-fbt-concession-282062/" aria-label="Read more about Next week’s budget to reduce electric vehicle FBT concession">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Eugene Doyle Kiwi Julien Blondel’s face may be bloodied but it is unbowed. So far the New Zealand government has done nothing after Blondel and other New Zealand peace activists were savagely beaten by Israeli soldiers who attacked the Global Sumud flotilla near the Greek Island of Crete on April 30. The flotilla ... <a title="After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/05/after-israels-brutal-attack-on-kiwis-the-nz-government-does-nothing/" aria-label="Read more about After Israel’s brutal attack on Kiwis the NZ government does nothing">Read more</a>
Submitted Analysis.Post
Keith Rankin.
There is a narrative going around that the war in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman – Israel/USA versus Iran – is a training exercise for the big one, a war between the United States and China centred on the Taiwan Strait.
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May 4, 2026
By Stefan Armbruster of Pasifika TV Fiji has recorded a dramatic jump in its media freedom rating to be in the top 25 nations globally while Samoan government press restrictions have seen its rating plummet in the latest World Press Freedom Index. Advocacy group Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) said globally it was the first time ... <a title="Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/04/fiji-jumps-samoa-plunges-in-world-press-freedom-index/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji jumps, Samoa plunges in World Press Freedom Index">Read more</a>
Submitted Analysis.Post
Keith Rankin.
Inflation is a topic which has, for a long time now, been at the forefront of normative economics. Normative economics is the economics of mainstream ideology, not the economics informed by concept or science.
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Keith Rankin.
Are we witnessing, for the first time, a British King appeasing a foreign emperor? And on the quarter-millennial anniversary of Britain's greatest ever geopolitical humiliation. Could King Charles be enacting one of the final straws in the deathknell of the Monarchy?
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May 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Brother Jordan and parents Alicia Toki and Andre Petera with a photo of Karnin “Tino” Petera outside the Whangārei Courthouse. RNZ / Peter de Graaf A teacher on a fatal caving trip has described how he was convinced he would die as he tried to push students to safety while he ... <a title="Abbey Caves inquest: Teacher ‘completely broke down’ when he realised Karnin Petera was missing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/05/04/abbey-caves-inquest-teacher-completely-broke-down-when-he-realised-karnin-petera-was-missing/" aria-label="Read more about Abbey Caves inquest: Teacher ‘completely broke down’ when he realised Karnin Petera was missing">Read more</a>
