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March 1, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Foreign Affairs minister says New Zealand was not given any advance notice of the attack on Iran, and has again urged New Zealanders to leave if it is safe to do so. The United States and Israel launched a major attack on Iran, with US President Donald Trump claiming the ... <a title="Watch: Foreign Minister Winston Peters on Iran strikes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/watch-foreign-minister-winston-peters-on-iran-strikes/" aria-label="Read more about Watch: Foreign Minister Winston Peters on Iran strikes">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2026
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson Look around this morning. America and Israel, nuclear-armed states have attacked Iran. Israel, which has never declared its nuclear stockpiles nor its borders, has spent 2.5 years committing genocide against Gaza, a trapped community with no significant defensive weapons. Israel has bombed six countries which are not at war with it. ... <a title="Marilyn Garson: Waking up to terror in this new world of impunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/marilyn-garson-waking-up-to-terror-in-this-new-world-of-impunity/" aria-label="Read more about Marilyn Garson: Waking up to terror in this new world of impunity">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters spoke to media about the unfolding conflict in Iran. Peters was at Auckland’s Whenuapai Airbase on Sunday morning. It comes after a US-Israeli attack on Iran which US President Donald Trump had indicated was aimed at overturning Tehran’s government. The attack had killed more than 200 people, ... <a title="Watch live: Foreign Minister Winston Peters to speak to media on Iran strikes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/watch-live-foreign-minister-winston-peters-to-speak-to-media-on-iran-strikes/" aria-label="Read more about Watch live: Foreign Minister Winston Peters to speak to media on Iran strikes">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Finance Minister Nicola Willis announces changes to KiwiSaver for live-in service workers, on Sunday 1 March, alongside Rangitīkei MPs Suze Redmayne and Mike Butterick, at his Wairarapa farm. RNZ/ Anneke Smith The government is changing KiwiSaver laws so first-time farm buyers and other workers with ‘live in’ job residences can use ... <a title="KiwiSaver laws changing to help farmers buy first homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/kiwisaver-laws-changing-to-help-farmers-buy-first-homes/" aria-label="Read more about KiwiSaver laws changing to help farmers buy first homes">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The pathology lab sector has been marred by strikes over low public versus private lab pay and quality control issues. 123rf Health New Zealand has started working on a national plan for the troubled pathology lab sector. Pathology labs are vital but a choke point in processing virtually all the samples ... <a title="Health NZ works on national plan for troubled pathology lab sector" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/health-nz-works-on-national-plan-for-troubled-pathology-lab-sector/" aria-label="Read more about Health NZ works on national plan for troubled pathology lab sector">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Chair Deon Swiggs, Councillor Joe Davies and corporate and public transport director Giles Southwell in front of the new bus. Supplied / Environment Canterbury The lightest fully electric double decker bus to hit the road in New Zealand will officially join Metro’s fleet in Christchurch next week. Developed by global automotive ... <a title="Country’s lightest electric double-decker bus to hit Christchurch’s roads next week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/countrys-lightest-electric-double-decker-bus-to-hit-christchurchs-roads-next-week/" aria-label="Read more about Country’s lightest electric double-decker bus to hit Christchurch’s roads next week">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Asif Saeed Khan is the president of Pakistan Association of New Zealand. RNZ / Blessen Tom The Pakistan Association of New Zealand is fearing that the conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan will affect the relationship between Pakistani and Afghan New Zealanders. Pakistan bombed cities in Afghanistan, including the capital Kabul, on ... <a title="Worries war could affect relationship between Pakistani, Afghan New Zealanders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/worries-war-could-affect-relationship-between-pakistani-afghan-new-zealanders/" aria-label="Read more about Worries war could affect relationship between Pakistani, Afghan New Zealanders">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere In his disarmingly polite way, the acclaimed documentarian enters the toxic hellhole of the manosphere to expose the people pushing this misogynistic movement to men and teenage boys around the world. Talking to GQ, Theroux likened making this doco to facing “the final boss,” which, given ... <a title="Local addicts, Yellowstone expands and Louis Theroux mans up: March’s best TV" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/local-addicts-yellowstone-expands-and-louis-theroux-mans-up-marchs-best-tv/" aria-label="Read more about Local addicts, Yellowstone expands and Louis Theroux mans up: March’s best TV">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Heather Black has always sewed, starting age 12 on an old-style treadle sewing machine. It was a skill she taught herself out of necessity, she told RNZ’s Nine to Noon. “We didn’t have a lot of access to clothes. I was tired of wearing hand-me-downs, and so I just started making ... <a title="‘By the end of the year, they’re making their own clothes’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/by-the-end-of-the-year-theyre-making-their-own-clothes/" aria-label="Read more about ‘By the end of the year, they’re making their own clothes’">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2026
Asia Pacific Report Speakers at a pro-Palestine rally in central Auckland Tamaki Makaurau today were highly critical of the erosion of New Zealand’s once proud nuclear-free and independent foreign policy. They also warned against being tied into a United States that is pivoting a hostile policy towards China, New Zealand’s major trading partner. Ironically, just ... <a title="NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/03/01/nz-rally-slams-five-eyes-intelligence-ties-hours-before-us-israel-attack-on-iran/" aria-label="Read more about NZ rally slams Five Eyes intelligence ties hours before US-Israel attack on Iran">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2026
OBITUARY: By Joel Paredes Having known the Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut, who died yesterday aged 69, for nearly half a century, I feel that looking at his photos — how he documented the events that unfurled during his lifetime — reveals his own lifelong search for himself. By documenting the rawest parts of human existence, ... <a title="Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut: An extraordinary sense of truth in an ailing society" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/28/filipino-photojournalist-alex-baluyut-an-extraordinary-sense-of-truth-in-an-ailing-society/" aria-label="Read more about Filipino photojournalist Alex Baluyut: An extraordinary sense of truth in an ailing society">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2026
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan leader has accused the Indonesian government of lying over its operations and “masking” the military role of some civilian aircraft. Disputing an Indonesian government statement about reported that TPNPB fired upon an aircraft in Boven Digoel, killing both the pilot and copilot, United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) ... <a title="Papuan activist leader Wenda accuses Jakarta of ‘lying’ over shot down plane" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/28/papuan-activist-leader-wenda-accuses-jakarta-of-lying-over-shot-down-plane/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan activist leader Wenda accuses Jakarta of ‘lying’ over shot down plane">Read more</a>
