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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: 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>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Naomi Osaka at the US Open tennis tournament on 28 August. AFP / Timothy A Clary Former world women’s tennis number one Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from this summer’s ASB Classic in Auckland. Osaka cited a change of schedule for her withdrawal. The Japanese player reached the final of the 2025 ... <a title="Osaka pulls out of ASB Classic, Svitolina and Navarro signed up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/osaka-pulls-out-of-asb-classic-svitolina-and-navarro-signed-up/" aria-label="Read more about Osaka pulls out of ASB Classic, Svitolina and Navarro signed up">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand triathlete Hayden Wilde. Alan Lee / www.photosport.nz New Zealand triathlete Hayden Wilde is sure there will be more robust technical involvement in future T100 events following a farcical finish to the latest round in Dubai. Wilde and a number of other athletes rode an extra lap on the bike ... <a title="Triathlon: Hayden Wilde puts chaotic race behind him" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/triathlon-hayden-wilde-puts-chaotic-race-behind-him/" aria-label="Read more about Triathlon: Hayden Wilde puts chaotic race behind him">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Indigenous educators from across the world reconnected with the knowledge of their tūpuna at WIPCE 2025 – guided by Māori kaihautū and two of the original Hōkūleʻa navigators whose first voyage helped revitalise Pacific wayfinding. RNZ / Layla Bailey-McDowell ‘If you’re on a canoe, you’re in the same space your ancestors ... <a title="‘Portals to the past’: Indigenous educators reconnect with Pacific wayfinding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/portals-to-the-past-indigenous-educators-reconnect-with-pacific-wayfinding/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Portals to the past’: Indigenous educators reconnect with Pacific wayfinding">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Monty Knight established his own winery, Okahu Estate, just outside Kaitāia. RNZ/Carol Stiles Kaitāia is reeling from the violent death of a man described as “an absolute legend” in business circles and as a generous, “relentlessly optimistic” advocate for his hometown by his friends. Monty Knight, who turned 80 earlier this ... <a title="Kaitāia reels at violent death of ‘relentlessly optimistic’ businessman Monty Knight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/kaitaia-reels-at-violent-death-of-relentlessly-optimistic-businessman-monty-knight/" aria-label="Read more about Kaitāia reels at violent death of ‘relentlessly optimistic’ businessman Monty Knight">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A white-headed petrel doing a water test to check its swimming and water resistance. RNZ / Finn Blackwell A native bird hospital is concerned about the number of sub-Antarctic seabirds landing sick or hurt in Auckland. BirdCare Aotearoa is a charity based in West Auckland and works to rehabilitate and care ... <a title="‘Not meant to be around here’: Auckland native bird hospital seeing more sub-Antarctic species" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/not-meant-to-be-around-here-auckland-native-bird-hospital-seeing-more-sub-antarctic-species/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Not meant to be around here’: Auckland native bird hospital seeing more sub-Antarctic species">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Fire and Emergency (FENZ) says it had to deal with three suspicious fires overnight in Dunedin. At 11:30pm on Monday, four crews were called to a vacant commercial building on Harrow street in central Dunedin. About an hour later at 12:23am, emergency services were called to a ... <a title="Three suspicious fires in Dunedin overnight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/three-suspicious-fires-in-dunedin-overnight/" aria-label="Read more about Three suspicious fires in Dunedin overnight">Read more</a>
