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February 5, 2026
SPECIAL REPORT: By Jason Brown Fast-paced electronic music pumps in the background as a rapid montage of moving images flash across the screen. In a 20 second video, French sailors hunker down in an inflatable speeding over swells. Another sailor, in bright red shorts, is lowered from a helicopter onto the vessel’s back deck. Captured ... <a title="French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/french-shrug-off-cocaine-case-costs-with-new-smugglers-strategy/" aria-label="Read more about French shrug off cocaine case costs with new smugglers ‘strategy’">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The people of Ngāpuhi deliver a powerful haka, welcoming parliamentarians onto the upper Waitangi Treaty Grounds. Layla Bailey-McDowell / RNZ The prime minister and other MPs were welcomed back onto the Waitangi Treaty Grounds on Thursday morning as the long weekend gets underway. RNZ photographers and journalists were on the ground ... <a title="Waitangi 2026: Thursday in pictures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/waitangi-2026-thursday-in-pictures/" aria-label="Read more about Waitangi 2026: Thursday in pictures">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
By Coco Lance, RNZ Pacific digital journalist As Waitangi Day commemorations continue drawing people from across Aotearoa and around the world to the Bay of Islands, Te Tii Marae has become a gathering point for Indigenous ocean leadership from across the Pacific. Taiātea: Gathering of the Oceans held its public forum yesterday, uniting more than ... <a title="Indigenous and Pacific leaders unite at Waitangi with shared messages on ocean conservation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/indigenous-and-pacific-leaders-unite-at-waitangi-with-shared-messages-on-ocean-conservation/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous and Pacific leaders unite at Waitangi with shared messages on ocean conservation">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A pōwhiri for Te Arikinui Kuiini nga wai hono i te po and the Kiingitanga at Waitangi. Layla Bailey-McDowell / RNZ Coalition and opposition MPs will face the Waitangi crowds on Thursday morning, making their election year pitch after being officially welcomed to the Treaty Grounds. The past few years at ... <a title="Coalition and opposition MPs face Waitangi crowds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/05/coalition-and-opposition-mps-face-waitangi-crowds/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition and opposition MPs face Waitangi crowds">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the government is anti-Treaty and therefore anti-Māori, but the Prime Minister argues iwi leaders have worked to find “common ground”. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon rejects Hipkins’ claims, calling the Iwi Chairs Forum on Wednesday a positive engagement and the best forum he has participated in. He ... <a title="Prime Minister rejects opposition claim that government is anti-Treaty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/04/prime-minister-rejects-opposition-claim-that-government-is-anti-treaty/" aria-label="Read more about Prime Minister rejects opposition claim that government is anti-Treaty">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2026
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show looking at the arrests of two American journalists for covering a protest at the Cities Church [in the Minnesota Twin City of] St Paul, where a top ICE official serves as pastor. Former CNN anchor Don Lemon and independent journalist ... <a title="‘Journalism is not a crime’ – US journalists arrested for covering anti-ICE protest in church" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/04/journalism-is-not-a-crime-us-journalists-arrested-for-covering-anti-ice-protest-in-church/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Journalism is not a crime’ – US journalists arrested for covering anti-ICE protest in church">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Chris Hipkins says the latest unemployment figures are an indictment on the coalition. RNZ / Mark Papalii The Labour Party says the government is in denial about the damage it has done to New Zealand’s economy, after the latest job market figures. Unemployment has risen to its highest level in more ... <a title="Labour lambasts coalition over job figures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/04/labour-lambasts-coalition-over-job-figures/" aria-label="Read more about Labour lambasts coalition over job figures">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2026
Asia Pacific Report Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi, a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawai’ian) initiative for self-determination and self-governance formed in 1987, has sent a 17-member Indigenous delegation to Waitangi to stand in solidarity with Māori in defence of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The delegation is present to “stand alongside Māori leadership, strengthen international solidarity, and affirm the ... <a title="Big Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi delegation joins Māori in solidarity over Te Tiriti" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/04/big-ka-lahui-hawai%ca%bbi-delegation-joins-maori-in-solidarity-over-te-tiriti/" aria-label="Read more about Big Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi delegation joins Māori in solidarity over Te Tiriti">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2026
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor A court ruling in favour of Fiji’s dismissed anti-corruption chief has “embarrassed” Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, a New Zealand-based Fiji politics academic says. University of Canterbury distinguished professor Steven Ratuva told RNZ Pacific Waves that while the Fiji High Court decision on Barbara Malimali offered “clarity” on the separation ... <a title="High Court defeat piles pressure on ’embarrassed’ Fiji PM Rabuka’s leadership, says academic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/04/high-court-defeat-piles-pressure-on-embarrassed-fiji-pm-rabukas-leadership-says-academic/" aria-label="Read more about High Court defeat piles pressure on ’embarrassed’ Fiji PM Rabuka’s leadership, says academic">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand First deputy leader Shane Jones. RNZ / Mark Papalii New Zealand First deputy leader Shane Jones is questioning the circumstances behind Labour MP Peeni Henare’s shock resignation, believing the whole story is not being told. On Tuesday, Henare announced he was calling time on his 12-year Parliamentary career, citing ... <a title="New Zealand First’s Shane Jones questions circumstances behind Labour MP Peeni Henare’s shock resignation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/04/new-zealand-firsts-shane-jones-questions-circumstances-behind-labour-mp-peeni-henares-shock-resignation/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand First’s Shane Jones questions circumstances behind Labour MP Peeni Henare’s shock resignation">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon opted to stay away from Waitangi in 2025. RNZ / Calvin Samuel Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will arrive at Waitangi on Wednesday, ahead of meetings with iwi leaders, after opting to stay away in 2025. While he will not stick around for Friday’s commemorations, Luxon will meet ... <a title="Iwi chairs prepare to challenge government, ahead of Prime Minister’s Waitangi visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/04/iwi-chairs-prepare-to-challenge-government-ahead-of-prime-ministers-waitangi-visit/" aria-label="Read more about Iwi chairs prepare to challenge government, ahead of Prime Minister’s Waitangi visit">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Associate Education Minister David Seymour. RNZ / Mark Papalii Associate Education Minister David Seymour says a new charter school will provide more options for families in Wairoa, which is suffering high truancy rates. Te Whare Kounga will open with a roll of 65 secondary students in term three this year, rising ... <a title="New charter school aims to boost attendance in Wairoa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/02/04/new-charter-school-aims-to-boost-attendance-in-wairoa/" aria-label="Read more about New charter school aims to boost attendance in Wairoa">Read more</a>
