ER Report: A Roundup of Significant Articles on EveningReport.nz for April 20, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on April 20, 2025.
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ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on April 20, 2025.

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter In 1979, Sam Neill appeared in an Australian comedy movie about hacks on a Sydney newspaper. The Journalist was billed as “a saucy, sexy, funny look at a man with a nose for scandal and a weakness for women”. That would probably not fly these days — but as ... <a title="Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/mediawatch-jailed-australian-foreign-correspondents-life-spread-across-the-big-screen/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Jailed Australian foreign correspondent’s life spread across the big screen">Read more</a>

Asia Pacific Report Peaceful protesters in Aotearoa New Zealand’s largest city Auckland held an Easter prayer vigil honouring Palestinian political prisoners and the sacrifice of thousands of innocent lives as relentless Israeli bombing of displaced Gazans in tents killed at least 92 people in two days. Organisers of the rally for the 80th week since ... <a title="Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/20/palestinian-solidarity-vigil-at-easter-in-nz-as-israeli-bombing-rages-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Palestinian solidarity vigil at Easter in NZ as Israeli bombing rages in Gaza">Read more</a>

ANALYSIS: By Ben Bohane This week Cambodia marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the murderous Khmer Rouge, and Vietnam celebrates the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese forces in April 1975. They are being commemorated very differently; after all, there’s nothing to celebrate in Cambodia. Its capital Phnom Penh was ... <a title="Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/did-australia-back-the-wrong-war-in-the-1960s-now-putins-russia-is-knocking-on-the-door/" aria-label="Read more about Did Australia back the wrong war in the 1960s? Now Putin’s Russia is knocking on the door">Read more</a>

By Gujari Singh in Washington The Trump administration has issued a new executive order opening up vast swathes of protected ocean to commercial exploitation, including areas within the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. It allows commercial fishing in areas long considered off-limits due to their ecological significance — despite overwhelming scientific consensus that marine ... <a title="Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/trump-executive-orders-roll-back-ocean-fisheries-protections-in-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Trump executive orders roll back ocean fisheries protections in Pacific">Read more</a>
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on April 19, 2025.

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney Tech giant Google has just suffered another legal blow in the United States, losing a landmark antitrust case. This follows on from the company’s loss in a similar case last year. Social media giant Meta ... <a title="Google loses online ad monopoly case. But it’s just one of many antitrust battles against big tech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/19/google-loses-online-ad-monopoly-case-but-its-just-one-of-many-antitrust-battles-against-big-tech-254602/" aria-label="Read more about Google loses online ad monopoly case. But it’s just one of many antitrust battles against big tech">Read more</a>

By Susana Leiataua, RNZ National presenter There are calls for greater transparency about what the HMNZS Manawanui was doing before it sank in Samoa last October — including whether the New Zealand warship was performing specific security for King Charles and Queen Camilla. The Manawanui grounded on the reef off the south coast of Upolu ... <a title="What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/18/what-was-hmnzs-manawanui-doing-before-it-sank-calls-for-greater-transparency/" aria-label="Read more about What was HMNZS Manawanui doing before it sank? Calls for greater transparency">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Labor increased its lead again in a YouGov poll, but Freshwater put the party ahead by just 50.3–49.7. This article also covers the final WA upper house ... <a title="Labor’s poll surge continues in YouGov, but it’s barely ahead in Freshwater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/18/labors-poll-surge-continues-in-yougov-but-its-barely-ahead-in-freshwater-254708/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s poll surge continues in YouGov, but it’s barely ahead in Freshwater">Read more</a>
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on April 18, 2025.
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Labor increased their lead again in a YouGov poll, but Freshwater put them ahead by just 50.3–49.7. This article also covers the final WA upper house results ... <a title="Labor’s poll surge continues in YouGov, but they’re barely ahead in Freshwater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/18/labors-poll-surge-continues-in-yougov-but-theyre-barely-ahead-in-freshwater-254708/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s poll surge continues in YouGov, but they’re barely ahead in Freshwater">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gode Bola, Lecturer in Hydrology, University of Kinshasa The April 2025 flooding disaster in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn’t just about intense rainfall. It was a symptom of recent land use change which has occurred rapidly in the city, turning it into ... <a title="Why Kinshasa keeps flooding – and why it’s not just about the rain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/18/why-kinshasa-keeps-flooding-and-why-its-not-just-about-the-rain-254411/" aria-label="Read more about Why Kinshasa keeps flooding – and why it’s not just about the rain">Read more</a>