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Labour’s capital gains NZ tax gamble – from leak to launch

October 29, 2025

COMMENTARY: By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News acting political editor It was hardly a dream debut for Labour’s long-awaited, much-argued-over tax package for Aotearoa New Zealand. What was meant to be a carefully choreographed reveal of a capital gains tax (CGT) later this week instead arrived early — leaked to RNZ over the long weekend and ... <a title="Labour’s capital gains NZ tax gamble – from leak to launch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/29/labours-capital-gains-nz-tax-gamble-from-leak-to-launch/" aria-label="Read more about Labour’s capital gains NZ tax gamble – from leak to launch">Read more</a>

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Blue Pacific’s unfinished business – West Papua and regional integrity

October 28, 2025

ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin When the Pacific Islands Forum concluded in Honiara last month, leaders pledged regional unity under the motto “Iumi Tugeda” — “We are Together”. Eighteen Pacific heads of government reached agreements on climate resilience and nuclear-free oceans. They signed the Pacific Resilience Facility treaty and endorsed Australia’s proposal to jointly host the ... <a title="Blue Pacific’s unfinished business – West Papua and regional integrity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/blue-pacifics-unfinished-business-west-papua-and-regional-integrity/" aria-label="Read more about Blue Pacific’s unfinished business – West Papua and regional integrity">Read more</a>

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‘Alarming gaps’ – WHO warns NZ to urgently close measles vaccination gap among Māori and Pacific communities

October 28, 2025

By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned Aotearoa New Zealand to urgently close the “alarming” gaps in measles immunisation, particularly among Māori and Pacific communities. A WHO review last year found measles vaccination rates were at their lowest since 2012, and said the country was at risk of ... <a title="‘Alarming gaps’ – WHO warns NZ to urgently close measles vaccination gap among Māori and Pacific communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/alarming-gaps-who-warns-nz-to-urgently-close-measles-vaccination-gap-among-maori-and-pacific-communities/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Alarming gaps’ – WHO warns NZ to urgently close measles vaccination gap among Māori and Pacific communities">Read more</a>

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Dark political clouds forming in Fiji – expect more lightning strikes after two DPMs charged

October 28, 2025

COMMENTARY: By Stanley Simpson, director of Mai TV You can wake up one morning in Fiji and feel like you’re living in a totally different country. Overnight we have lost two of our three Deputy Prime Ministers — by many accounts these were the two who were perhaps among the most influential and pivotal in ... <a title="Dark political clouds forming in Fiji – expect more lightning strikes after two DPMs charged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/28/dark-political-clouds-forming-in-fiji-expect-more-lightning-strikes-after-two-dpms-charged/" aria-label="Read more about Dark political clouds forming in Fiji – expect more lightning strikes after two DPMs charged">Read more</a>

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Mediawatch: Talley’s vs TVNZ in defamation confrontation

October 27, 2025

MEDIAWATCH: By RNZ Mediawatch presenter Colin Peacock Successive New Zealand governments have dodged the issue of how the news media should be held to account, leaving us with outdated and fragmented systems for standards and complaints. But the issue erupted recently when the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) advised The Platform it could consider public complaints ... <a title="Mediawatch: Talley’s vs TVNZ in defamation confrontation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/27/mediawatch-talleys-vs-tvnz-in-defamation-confrontation/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Talley’s vs TVNZ in defamation confrontation">Read more</a>

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Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor

October 26, 2025

The New Arab A Palestinian horror film inspired by folklore is moving forward, with journalist and author Plestia Alaqad joining the cast alongside American-born Kuwaiti-Palestinian journalist and media personality Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Titled The Visitor, the feature is written and directed by Palestinian-American filmmaker Rolla Selbak and produced by Black Poppy ... <a title="Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/26/gazas-plestia-alaqad-to-star-in-palestinian-horror-film-the-visitor/" aria-label="Read more about Gaza’s Plestia Alaqad to star in Palestinian horror film The Visitor">Read more</a>

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Hedges slams hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club and Western media betraying Gaza

October 26, 2025

Pacific Media Watch Pulitzer Prize–winning US journalist Chris Hedges joins Antoinette Lattouf on We Used To Be Journos to unpack his time in Australia, including some fraught interactions with sections of the Australian media. The pair also discuss what he flew all this way to talk about — how Western journalists are betraying their colleagues ... <a title="Hedges slams hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club and Western media betraying Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/26/hedges-slams-hostile-australian-interview-unpacks-press-club-and-western-media-betraying-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Hedges slams hostile Australian interview, unpacks Press Club and Western media betraying Gaza">Read more</a>

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NZ minister warned on possible risk over Israeli use of satellites

October 26, 2025

Pacific Media Watch New Zealand’s Space Minister Judith Collins was warned just two months into Israel’s war on Gaza that new BlackSky satellites being launched from NZ could be used by that country’s military, reports Television New Zealand’s 1News. According to a network news item on Friday, government documents showed officials had recommended the launches ... <a title="NZ minister warned on possible risk over Israeli use of satellites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/26/nz-minister-warned-on-possible-risk-over-israeli-use-of-satellites/" aria-label="Read more about NZ minister warned on possible risk over Israeli use of satellites">Read more</a>

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Fiji’s stance on Israel and new embassy stirs revived condemnation

October 25, 2025

Asia Pacific Report Fiji opening an embassy in Jerusalem last month in defiance of United Nations resolutions on Occupied Palestine and hosting a visit by a senior Israeli minister from the paraiah state this week has revived condemnation by Pacific human rights groups and Palestinian advocates. Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel visited the Philippines, Papua ... <a title="Fiji’s stance on Israel and new embassy stirs revived condemnation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/10/25/fijis-stance-on-israel-and-new-embassy-stirs-revived-condemnation/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s stance on Israel and new embassy stirs revived condemnation">Read more</a>