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November 19, 2025
By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist The editor of Samoa’s only daily newspaper barred on Monday from accessing the Prime Minister’s press conferences says media freedom in Samoa is under attack. Samoan Prime Minister La’aulialemalietoa Leuatea Polataivao Schmidt “temporarily” banned the Samoa Observer from engagements with him and his ministers. In a statement, La’aulialemalietoa said ... <a title="Samoa editor says media freedom under attack in response to PM’s ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/samoa-editor-says-media-freedom-under-attack-in-response-to-pms-ban/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa editor says media freedom under attack in response to PM’s ban">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka. RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The government is celebrating the end of emergency housing motels in Rotorua – but Labour says it has just shifted the problem elsewhere. Rotorua became the country’s epicentre for emergency housing. At its peak, there were more than 240 households across 13 ... <a title="Emergency housing motels end in Rotorua – but has it just shifted the problem elsewhere?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/emergency-housing-motels-end-in-rotorua-but-has-it-just-shifted-the-problem-elsewhere/" aria-label="Read more about Emergency housing motels end in Rotorua – but has it just shifted the problem elsewhere?">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk French minister for overseas Naïma Moutchou left New Caledonia at the weekend after a 5-day stay, with an announcement regarding a re-scheduled referendum-like consultation on a project for the French Pacific territory’s political future — but few pledges regarding further French commitment to tackle a dire ... <a title="Minister Moutchou ends New Caledonia visit – political announcements, no new financial pledge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/minister-moutchou-ends-new-caledonia-visit-political-announcements-no-new-financial-pledge/" aria-label="Read more about Minister Moutchou ends New Caledonia visit – political announcements, no new financial pledge">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand should be a rich country, but instead inequality is growing and the middle class are on the way out, British YouTuber, economist and trader Gary Stevenson says. He told 30 with Guyon Espiner the divide between the middle class and the rich had been growing since 2011. “I started ... <a title="30 with Guyon Espiner: Economist Gary Stevenson on why New Zealand should tax the rich" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/19/30-with-guyon-espiner-economist-gary-stevenson-on-why-new-zealand-should-tax-the-rich/" aria-label="Read more about 30 with Guyon Espiner: Economist Gary Stevenson on why New Zealand should tax the rich">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Prime Minister says the coalition will not ease up on criminals just because costs are rising. RNZ / Reece Baker Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has declared the soaring prison population to be a “good thing”, characterising it as the price of restoring law and order He also conceded the government ... <a title="Luxon calls growing prisoner numbers ‘a good thing’ as police target slips" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/luxon-calls-growing-prisoner-numbers-a-good-thing-as-police-target-slips/" aria-label="Read more about Luxon calls growing prisoner numbers ‘a good thing’ as police target slips">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand B416 chief executive Nicole Green speaking at the handover of a petition calling for a ban on social media for under-16 year old. RNZ/Giles Dexter The Education Minister is promising regulatory change to address social media harm, as a petition calling for a minimum age of 16 for social media access ... <a title="Stanford promises change after social media ban petition outside parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/stanford-promises-change-after-social-media-ban-petition-outside-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Stanford promises change after social media ban petition outside parliament">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gerard Otto As you know, there’s a tiny group of Dame Jacinda Ardern haters in New Zealand who are easily triggered by facts and the ongoing success of the former prime minister on the world stage. The tiny eeny weeny group is made to look bigger online by an automated army of fake ... <a title="Jacinda Ardern: Why NZ’s tiny group of hysterical haters can’t face the facts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/jacinda-ardern-why-nzs-tiny-group-of-hysterical-haters-cant-face-the-facts/" aria-label="Read more about Jacinda Ardern: Why NZ’s tiny group of hysterical haters can’t face the facts">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A petition containing 90,000 signatures is presented to Parliament. RNZ / Giles Dexter A petition calling for the government to urgently fix the health system – which organisers estimate is New Zealand’s longest petition ever – has been delivered to Parliament. Unfurled across Parliament’s lawn, the petition stretched down the steps, ... <a title="200kg of signatures: Huge petition to fix ‘broken’ health system presented to Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/200kg-of-signatures-huge-petition-to-fix-broken-health-system-presented-to-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about 200kg of signatures: Huge petition to fix ‘broken’ health system presented to Parliament">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Chris Bishop. Supplied Senior minister Chris Bishop is rejecting criticism over a funding decision shifting Kāinga Ora money to a walking and cycling bridge in his electorate that he campaigned on, which the government cancelled. Bishop – the minister for housing and transport, and Hutt South MP – agreed in March ... <a title="PM backs minister’s ‘pragmatic’ call to spend Kāinga Ora money on local bridge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/pm-backs-ministers-pragmatic-call-to-spend-kainga-ora-money-on-local-bridge/" aria-label="Read more about PM backs minister’s ‘pragmatic’ call to spend Kāinga Ora money on local bridge">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Marilyn Garson How shall we speak and act now? For six years, Alternative Jewish Voices has spoken in an aspirational voice. This is intentional. Research shows, the voice that mobilises new political engagement is a voice of moral clarity which invites others to join the work of making a better world. We ground ... <a title="Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/marilyn-garson-how-shall-we-speak-now-since-the-gaza-ceasefire/" aria-label="Read more about Marilyn Garson: How shall we speak now since the Gaza ‘ceasefire’?">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police Minister Mark Mitchell sitting beside commissioner Richard Chambers. (File photo) RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Police Minister Mark Mitchell has showered the police commissioner Richard Chambers with praise, saying a few “minor infractions” should not detract from his “phenomenal” performance in the job. On Tuesday morning, RNZ revealed Chambers took a ... <a title="‘Minor infractions’: Police Minister showers police commissioner Richard Chambers with praise following swim during tsunami advisory" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/minor-infractions-police-minister-showers-police-commissioner-richard-chambers-with-praise-following-swim-during-tsunami-advisory/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Minor infractions’: Police Minister showers police commissioner Richard Chambers with praise following swim during tsunami advisory">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2025
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer They say the march toward authoritarian rule begins with one simple act: taking control of the narrative and silencing the independent press. Yesterday, Samoa witnessed a step in that direction. Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt, elected by the people to serve them, has already moved to weaken one of democracy’s ... <a title="Samoa Observer: The PM’s wish and our promise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/18/samoa-observer-the-pms-wish-and-our-promise/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: The PM’s wish and our promise">Read more</a>
