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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Students leave flowers and paper cranes on Kevin Hu’s desk at Takapuna Grammar School in Auckland. Supplied The death of a beloved Auckland maths teacher has sent shock waves through the Chinese community. Students and parents paid tribute to Kevin Hu, head of calculus at Takapuna Grammar School, who died in ... <a title="Community mourns death of beloved Takapuna Grammar School teacher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/community-mourns-death-of-beloved-takapuna-grammar-school-teacher/" aria-label="Read more about Community mourns death of beloved Takapuna Grammar School teacher">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Te Manahou Mackay says she started using puberty blockers at age 13-14 after “extensive” discussions with psychiatrists and therapists and nurse practitioners. Supplied A model who used puberty blockers as a teenager says the government is “cursing an entire generation of young transgender women to social stigma” after it halted new ... <a title="Halt to puberty blockers curses ‘young transgender women to stigma’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/halt-to-puberty-blockers-curses-young-transgender-women-to-stigma/" aria-label="Read more about Halt to puberty blockers curses ‘young transgender women to stigma’">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Nigel Hampton KC says he can’t say who the charges would be laid against, without breaching confidentiality. Iain McGregor/The Press The lawyer for Pike River families says police now have enough evidence to lay manslaughter charges over the disaster. Nigel Hampton KC said police believe they have evidence showing specific acts ... <a title="Pike River deaths: Enough evidence for manslaughter charges – lawyer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/pike-river-deaths-enough-evidence-for-manslaughter-charges-lawyer/" aria-label="Read more about Pike River deaths: Enough evidence for manslaughter charges – lawyer">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand This screen grab shows emergency crews battling a fire that broke out at a pavilion at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, in Brazil, on November 20, 2025. AFP / AFPTV A New Zealand disability advocate caught up in the fire at the annual COP climate meeting in Brazil ... <a title="No support as Kiwi disabled delegates flee COP30 fire in Brazil" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/no-support-as-kiwi-disabled-delegates-flee-cop30-fire-in-brazil/" aria-label="Read more about No support as Kiwi disabled delegates flee COP30 fire in Brazil">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand David Seymour, Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters. RNZ Analysis: New Zealand politics has long acknowledged a truth of coalition life – sooner or later, everyone swallows a dead rat. Less examined is the art of spitting one back up. This term has already delivered its fair share of deceased squeakers. National ... <a title="Dead rats and discord: What next in the Peters-Seymour stoush?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/dead-rats-and-discord-what-next-in-the-peters-seymour-stoush/" aria-label="Read more about Dead rats and discord: What next in the Peters-Seymour stoush?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific climate leaders are disappointed that Australia has lost the bid to host the United Nations Climate Conference, COP31, in 2026. Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr said he was “deeply disappointed” by the outcome. Australia had campaigned for years for the meeting to be held in its country, and ... <a title="Pacific climate leaders ‘deeply disappointed’ as Australia loses bid to host COP31" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/pacific-climate-leaders-deeply-disappointed-as-australia-loses-bid-to-host-cop31/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific climate leaders ‘deeply disappointed’ as Australia loses bid to host COP31">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A rift within New Caledonia’s pro-independence movement has further widened after the second component of the “moderates”, the UPM (Progressist Union in Melanesia), has officially announced it has now left the once united Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS). The UPM announcement, at a press ... <a title="New Caledonia’s pro-independence split widens – another party quits FLNKS" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/new-caledonias-pro-independence-split-widens-another-party-quits-flnks/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s pro-independence split widens – another party quits FLNKS">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Mayor Andrew Little says the council needs to establish why several of its projects have gone way over their budgets. RNZ / Mark Papalii Wellington’s mayor says a review of the Golden Mile project will give the council an opportunity to take another look at what the project was trying to ... <a title="Concern over ‘cost blowouts’ behind pause on Wellington’s Golden Mile project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/concern-over-cost-blowouts-behind-pause-on-wellingtons-golden-mile-project/" aria-label="Read more about Concern over ‘cost blowouts’ behind pause on Wellington’s Golden Mile project">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Moeaia Tuai during his trial at the High Court at Auckland. RNZ / Gill Bonnett A jury has found Auckland man Moeaia Tuai guilty of slavery, and a string of sexual attacks on one of the slavery victims. The 63-year-old has been on trial for the past month on 20 charges, ... <a title="Auckland slavery case: Man found guilty of treating young people as property" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/auckland-slavery-case-man-found-guilty-of-treating-young-people-as-property/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland slavery case: Man found guilty of treating young people as property">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Minister for Sport and Recreation Mark Mitchell directed Sport NZ to to withdraw its Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport in July this year. RNZ / Mark Papalii Auckland Pride says it has taken the government to court, filing for judicial review in the High Court. ... <a title="Auckland Pride takes legal action over scrapping of transgender inclusive sports guidelines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/auckland-pride-takes-legal-action-over-scrapping-of-transgender-inclusive-sports-guidelines/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland Pride takes legal action over scrapping of transgender inclusive sports guidelines">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police Minister Mark Mitchell RNZ / Mark Papalii The police minister says the correct process was followed by his electorate staff who forwarded emails containing allegations about former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming to his ministerial office, months before he was made aware. The Independent Police Conduct Authority’s report found ” the ... <a title="Police Minister’s staff replied to Jevon McSkimming accuser’s emails" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/police-ministers-staff-replied-to-jevon-mcskimming-accusers-emails/" aria-label="Read more about Police Minister’s staff replied to Jevon McSkimming accuser’s emails">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand August, Hugo and Goldie Supplied The mother of three children who died following a fire in the Manawatū town of Sanson has spoken out for the first time. August, Hugo and Goldie died last weekend, in what is being treated as a murder-suicide. Their father, Dean Field, also died. Below are ... <a title="Full statement by Chelsey Field, mum to August, Hugo and Goldie who died in the Sanson house fire" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/21/full-statement-by-chelsey-field-mum-to-august-hugo-and-goldie-who-died-in-the-sanson-house-fire/" aria-label="Read more about Full statement by Chelsey Field, mum to August, Hugo and Goldie who died in the Sanson house fire">Read more</a>
