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November 12, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand File photo. Former police commissioner Andrew Coster RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Analysis – Once a liberal darling and champion of progressive policing, former police commissioner Andrew Coster has gone to ground, his reputation and legacy in tatters. Coster is on leave from his role as chief executive of the government’s Social ... <a title="Analysis: Andrew Coster’s fall from champion of progressive policing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/12/analysis-andrew-costers-fall-from-champion-of-progressive-policing/" aria-label="Read more about Analysis: Andrew Coster’s fall from champion of progressive policing">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Chris Hipkins is comfortable being labelled a socialist, saying there is a more active role for the state to play. It comes after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayoralty in Donald Trump’s America. Hipkins, the leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, told Guyon Espiner on 30 with ... <a title="30 with Guyon Espiner: Labour leader Chris Hipkins comfortable being labelled a socialist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/12/30-with-guyon-espiner-labour-leader-chris-hipkins-comfortable-being-labelled-a-socialist/" aria-label="Read more about 30 with Guyon Espiner: Labour leader Chris Hipkins comfortable being labelled a socialist">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Gun Control co-founder Philippa Yasbek Supplied Gun control advocates have breathed a sigh of relief after the coalition unveiled its long-awaited overhaul of the Arms Act. The rewrite contains many changes, though most are relatively minor that either tweak or tighten existing gun regulations. Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee fought to ... <a title="‘So relieved’: Gun control advocates on Arms Act rewrite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/12/so-relieved-gun-control-advocates-on-arms-act-rewrite/" aria-label="Read more about ‘So relieved’: Gun control advocates on Arms Act rewrite">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Their first vote in Parliament as independents was a procedural one. RNZ Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris have delivered their first votes as independent MPs from afar, using the Green Party as proxies. Speaker Gerry Brownlee opened Parliament’s proceedings on Tuesday – the first sitting day since Te Pāti Māori’s co-leaders ... <a title="Expelled MPs Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris cast first votes as independents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/11/expelled-mps-mariameno-kapa-kingi-and-takuta-ferris-cast-first-votes-as-independents/" aria-label="Read more about Expelled MPs Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris cast first votes as independents">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2025
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/bulletin editor, and Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Pacific nations are at the world’s biggest climate talks making the familiar plea to keep global warming under 1.5C to stay alive, as scientists say the world will now certainly surpass the limit — at least temporarily. At the opening of the ... <a title="COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold nears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/11/cop30-pacific-nations-call-for-world-to-act-as-1-5c-threshold-nears/" aria-label="Read more about COP30: Pacific nations call for world to act as 1.5C threshold nears">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Cabinet has signed off on an overhaul of the country’s gun laws that shifts the responsibility of the firearms regulator from the Police Minister to the Firearms Minister. National and ACT agreed to rewrite the Arms Act – in place since the early 1980s – as part of its coalition arrangement. ... <a title="Details of gun law reforms unveiled as Cabinet signs off" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/11/details-of-gun-law-reforms-unveiled-as-cabinet-signs-off/" aria-label="Read more about Details of gun law reforms unveiled as Cabinet signs off">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2025
Pacific Media Watch The Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate says the Israeli occupation forces have killed 44 Palestinian journalists inside displacement tents in the Gaza Strip. The committee said that these journalists were among 254 media workers who had been killed since the beginning of the Israeli assault on Gaza in October 2023 ... <a title="Israeli forces kill 44 journalists inside Gaza displacement tents, says report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/11/israeli-forces-kill-44-journalists-inside-gaza-displacement-tents-says-report/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli forces kill 44 journalists inside Gaza displacement tents, says report">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Winston Peters says getting rid of assets will not fix the economy. RNZ / Mark Papalii NZ First leader Winston Peters has savaged National’s suggestion of asset sales as a “tawdry silly argument”, which he says it is falling back on after having failed to fix the economy fast enough. Prime ... <a title="‘Tawdry, silly argument’: Winston Peters criticises asset sales, says government has not fixed economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/11/tawdry-silly-argument-winston-peters-criticises-asset-sales-says-government-has-not-fixed-economy/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Tawdry, silly argument’: Winston Peters criticises asset sales, says government has not fixed economy">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Te Pāti Māori’s National Council has decided to expel Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta Ferris. RNZ/Liam K. Swiggs A former co-leader of Te Pāti Māori has expressed his sadness and disappointment at the expulsion of two of its MPs. Te Pāti Māori’s National Council has decided to expel Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and Tākuta ... <a title="Te Pāti Māori MPs’ expulsions questioned by law expert, former co-leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/11/te-pati-maori-mps-expulsions-questioned-by-law-expert-former-co-leader/" aria-label="Read more about Te Pāti Māori MPs’ expulsions questioned by law expert, former co-leader">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), arrive in the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region on 28 October, 2025. AFP Kadambari Raghukumar produces and presents Here Now, RNZ’s weekly series on people from various global backgrounds living in Aotearoa. ... <a title="Darfuri diaspora – grief and hope from afar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/11/darfuri-diaspora-grief-and-hope-from-afar/" aria-label="Read more about Darfuri diaspora – grief and hope from afar">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Asia Pacific Media Network Pacific Media, a new regional research journal, made its debut today with a collection of papers on issues challenging the future, such as independent journalism amid “intensifying geostrategic competition”. The papers have been largely drawn from an inaugural Pacific International Media conference hosted by The University of the South Pacific in ... <a title="New Pacific Media journal launched in APMN and USP partnership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/new-pacific-media-journal-launched-in-apmn-and-usp-partnership/" aria-label="Read more about New Pacific Media journal launched in APMN and USP partnership">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi. RNZ/Samuel Rillstone Analysis: As the Iwi Chairs Forum fought fruitlessly to keep Te Pāti Māori together last week, spokesperson Bayden Barber offered a warning: a split tōtara is only good for the fire. Now Te Pāti Māori finds itself in an inferno. ... <a title="Te Pāti Māori purge fails to end the party war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/te-pati-maori-purge-fails-to-end-the-party-war/" aria-label="Read more about Te Pāti Māori purge fails to end the party war">Read more</a>
