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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins. RNZ / Mark Papalii Labour has been gaining ground in opinion polls, leading on issues from the economy and healthcare, but a new survey suggests voters are split on its capital gains tax proposals. Leader Chris Hipkins announced last month the party would campaign on the tax ... <a title="Morning Report live: Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/morning-report-live-labour-party-leader-chris-hipkins-on-capital-gains-tax/" aria-label="Read more about Morning Report live: Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins on capital gains tax">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The coalition government is set to slash the Clean Car Standard. RNZ/Nicky Park The coalition is being warned New Zealand will become a dumping ground for high-emission vehicles as it slashes the Clean Car Standard. The standard – an effective penalty set up to incentivise the uptake of low or no ... <a title="NZ will be ‘dumping ground’ for high emission cars, EV advocate warns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/nz-will-be-dumping-ground-for-high-emission-cars-ev-advocate-warns/" aria-label="Read more about NZ will be ‘dumping ground’ for high emission cars, EV advocate warns">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The government is tinkering with the Clean Car Standard – again – saying most importers are unable to meet the targets under the scheme as it currently stands. It will also fully review the scheme, with recommendations to Cabinet due by June 2026. The government last year watered down the standard ... <a title="Watch live: PM Christopher Luxon at post-cab conference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/watch-live-pm-christopher-luxon-at-post-cab-conference/" aria-label="Read more about Watch live: PM Christopher Luxon at post-cab conference">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins has announced his engagement to partner Toni Grace. Instagram/Chris Hipkins MP Labour leader Chris Hipkins has announced his engagement to partner Toni Grace, saying he feels like he has hit the jackpot. Hipkins first confirmed the relationship during his concession speech on the evening of the 2023 ... <a title="Labour leader Chris Hipkins announces engagement to partner Toni Grace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/labour-leader-chris-hipkins-announces-engagement-to-partner-toni-grace/" aria-label="Read more about Labour leader Chris Hipkins announces engagement to partner Toni Grace">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
RNZ Pacific Samoan Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has returned home after an eight-week absence for medical treatment in New Zealand. La’aulialemalietoa departed Apia for Auckland on a private jet just days after being sworn in as Samoa’s eighth prime minister on September 16. The Samoan government had previously said he was expected to return ... <a title="Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/samoan-pm-back-home-as-journalist-alleges-assault-outside-his-residence/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM back home as journalist alleges assault outside his residence">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Pacific Media University of the South Pacific’s Associate Professor Shailendra Singh, who edited the inaugural edition of Pacific Media journal along with co-editor Dr Amit Sarwal, has responded to the publication with a Q and A. The new journal has replaced the Pacific Journalism Review, which was founded by Professor David Robie at the University ... <a title="Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development and democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/pacific-media-a-renewed-commitment-to-research-on-pacific-media-development-and-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media: A renewed commitment to research on Pacific media, development and democracy">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Dr Gary Payinda. Supplied A high-profile emergency doctor has been selected to stand for the Labour Party against the incumbent Whāngarei MP, former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. Dr Gary Payinda said he felt compelled to do something about what he saw as the government’s ongoing attack on essential public services. ... <a title="Labour selects Dr Gary Payinda to take on former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/labour-selects-dr-gary-payinda-to-take-on-former-health-minister-dr-shane-reti/" aria-label="Read more about Labour selects Dr Gary Payinda to take on former Health Minister Dr Shane Reti">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Green Party-co-leader Marama Davidson. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The Green Party is pledging to revoke consents for any coal, hardrock gold, or seabed mining projects granted under the fast-track regime, if it forms part of a government at the next election. “Today, we are putting the Seabed mining, hardrock gold mining ... <a title="Greens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/greens-pledge-to-revoke-fast-track-consents-for-coal-hard-rock-gold-seabed-mining-projects/" aria-label="Read more about Greens pledge to revoke fast-track consents for coal, hard-rock gold, seabed mining projects">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Explainer – How will firearms proposals change access to guns in New Zealand? Here’s what you need to know. New Zealand is planning its biggest overhaul of gun regulations in more than 40 years. The proposal announced last week would repeal and replace the 1983 Arms Act in legislation Associate Justice ... <a title="What the government’s firearms act reform proposals will change – and what they won’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/what-the-governments-firearms-act-reform-proposals-will-change-and-what-they-wont/" aria-label="Read more about What the government’s firearms act reform proposals will change – and what they won’t">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The government rating of 3.9 out of 10 is the lowest since the survey began eight years ago. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Public ratings of government performance have reached another new low in the latest IPSOS Issues Monitor survey. The government rating of 3.9 out of 10 is the lowest since ... <a title="Government performance rating hits new low in survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/government-performance-rating-hits-new-low-in-survey/" aria-label="Read more about Government performance rating hits new low in survey">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Opportunity party leader Qiulae Wong says New Zealand needs a tax reset. RNZ / Supplied The political party founded by businessman Gareth Morgan almost 10 years ago has unveiled a new leader and new look. Touted as a builder of sustainable businesses, Aucklander Qiulae Wong will lead Opportunity – formerly ... <a title="Qiulae Wong named as new leader of Opportunity party" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/qiulae-wong-named-as-new-leader-of-opportunity-party/" aria-label="Read more about Qiulae Wong named as new leader of Opportunity party">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto Israeli prison guards punish the prisoners “by breaking their thumbs” said a released detainee as lawyers speak out about torture, abuse, rape, starving and killings in a notorious underground Israeli prison facility where detainees are held without sunlight, brutalised. And nobody in New Zealand says a word. Scores of detainees from ... <a title="Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet NZ remains silent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/17/israeli-torture-abuse-of-palestinian-prisoners-death-penalty-law-yet-nz-remains-silent/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli torture, abuse of Palestinian prisoners, death penalty law – yet NZ remains silent">Read more</a>
