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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Analysis – It’s hard to know which team this morning’s test in Cardiff said more about. The 52-26 result saw Wales rightfully given plaudits, despite it only being a penalty goal away from their highest score ever conceded in the fixture. Meanwhile, the All Blacks scored seven tries and put the ... <a title="All Blacks: Barrett coy on future as review conversation kicks off" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/all-blacks-barrett-coy-on-future-as-review-conversation-kicks-off/" aria-label="Read more about All Blacks: Barrett coy on future as review conversation kicks off">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand National is pledging to further increase the default KiwiSaver contribution rate if re-elected at the next election. The policy is the first firm National policy ahead of the election, which is still around a year away. At the Budget, the government confirmed an increase to the default contribution from 3 percent ... <a title="Watch: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announces new National Party KiwiSaver policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/watch-prime-minister-christopher-luxon-announces-new-national-party-kiwisaver-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Watch: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announces new National Party KiwiSaver policy">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand May Moncur says the removal of her post and her account from New Zealand Chinese-media outlet Skykiwi is concerning, but the Human Rights Tribunal found the site did not discriminate against her (file photo). The Detail/Sharon Brettkelly A tribunal has found Chinese-media outlet Skykiwi did not discriminate against an Auckland forum ... <a title="Stoush over Chinese media ‘censorship’ in Skykiwi forum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/stoush-over-chinese-media-censorship-in-skykiwi-forum/" aria-label="Read more about Stoush over Chinese media ‘censorship’ in Skykiwi forum">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is due to speak from the Silverstream Retreat Centre in Lower Hutt just after 11.30am today. Policy announcement season has begun, with Labour last month proposing a capital gains tax on investment properties as part of its election campaign, following leaks to RNZ. Luxon’s announcement comes on ... <a title="Watch: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to make announcement in Lower Hutt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/watch-prime-minister-christopher-luxon-to-make-announcement-in-lower-hutt/" aria-label="Read more about Watch: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to make announcement in Lower Hutt">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Parker Jackson-Cartwright was a big contributor in Breakers latest NBL win. Blake Armstrong/Photosport The New Zealand Breakers have scored a second win in three games as their Australian basketball league season continues. The Breakers eked out the victory, beating the bottom-placed Cairns Taipans in their own arena 102-96, despite a 35-point ... <a title="Basketball: Breakers beat bottom-table Taipans 102-96" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/basketball-breakers-beat-bottom-table-taipans-102-96/" aria-label="Read more about Basketball: Breakers beat bottom-table Taipans 102-96">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Nate McKinnon Police are investigating after a fire broke out in the basement of a central Auckland nightclub early on Sunday. Emergency services were called to Karangahape Road around 1.40am after an automatic fire alarm was activated. The road was blocked for around an hour while Fire and Emergency ... <a title="Police investigate Auckland nightclub basement blaze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/police-investigate-auckland-nightclub-basement-blaze/" aria-label="Read more about Police investigate Auckland nightclub basement blaze">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand From the famous Universal Studios globe in Florida to a 2019 IKEA wall map, New Zealand has been cropping up as a glaring omission. But why does it keep happening, and what does it reveal about the way we read maps? These are the sorts of cartographic puzzles that British comedians ... <a title="Why does NZ keep disappearing from world maps?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/why-does-nz-keep-disappearing-from-world-maps/" aria-label="Read more about Why does NZ keep disappearing from world maps?">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Close up of a truck wheel. siwakorn / 123RF The trucking industry is urging the government to grant stronger powers to impound unsafe vehicles after an Auckland operator was jailed for manslaughter. Ashik Ali kept his truck on the road despite it being banned, and its failed brakes caused it to ... <a title="Truckies call for tougher rules on unsafe vehicles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/truckies-call-for-tougher-rules-on-unsafe-vehicles/" aria-label="Read more about Truckies call for tougher rules on unsafe vehicles">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The lead vocalist of US progressive rock unit Tool has apologised for performing in New Zealand with Covid at the start of the pandemic in 2020. Speaking to a sold-out crowd at Spark Arena in Auckland on Saturday, singer Maynard James Keenan said he was “sorry about the whole Covid thing”. ... <a title="‘Sorry about the whole Covid thing’: Tool apologise with catalogue deep-dive in Auckland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/sorry-about-the-whole-covid-thing-tool-apologise-with-catalogue-deep-dive-in-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Sorry about the whole Covid thing’: Tool apologise with catalogue deep-dive in Auckland">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Jasmine Donaldson has been found guilty of careless driving, causing the death of her friend, Jade Richards. Kelly Makiha / Open Justice / NZME “The word ‘sorry’ would have gone a long way,” a judge has told a woman whose driving on the way home from Rhythm and Vines caused a ... <a title="Jasmine Donaldson discharged without conviction for New Year’s Day crash that killed Jade Richards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/jasmine-donaldson-discharged-without-conviction-for-new-years-day-crash-that-killed-jade-richards/" aria-label="Read more about Jasmine Donaldson discharged without conviction for New Year’s Day crash that killed Jade Richards">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Jack Crowley of Ireland is shown a yellow card by referee Matthew Carley during the Quilter Nations Series 2025 match between Ireland and South Africa at the Aviva Stadium. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images It was billed as the most anticipated match of the northern autumn, but no one could have anticipated the ... <a title="Live updates: Springboks beat Ireland in dramatic Dublin test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/live-updates-springboks-beat-ireland-in-dramatic-dublin-test/" aria-label="Read more about Live updates: Springboks beat Ireland in dramatic Dublin test">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Media reports about electric vehicles on fire have fuelled fears about safety. Manawatu Standard “Easing the cost of new and used imported vehicles” was the pitch of transport minister Chris Bishop’s media release last Monday. The means to that end was slashing by 80 percent the clean car standard – which ... <a title="Mediawatch: Angst about EVs blows up in the headlines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/23/mediawatch-angst-about-evs-blows-up-in-the-headlines/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Angst about EVs blows up in the headlines">Read more</a>
