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Month: November 2025

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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ‘deeply supportive’ of social media ban for under 16s

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Nick Monro Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is “deeply supportive” of protecting young people by restricting social media use under 16 and will introduce a bill before next year’s election to enable it. Speaking to Morning Report, the National Party leader said society imposes restrictions on teens in ... <a title="Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ‘deeply supportive’ of social media ban for under 16s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/prime-minister-christopher-luxon-deeply-supportive-of-social-media-ban-for-under-16s/" aria-label="Read more about Prime Minister Christopher Luxon ‘deeply supportive’ of social media ban for under 16s">Read more</a>

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Part of Canterbury’s State Highway 73 blocked by serious crash

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly State Highway 73 in Canterbury is blocked due to a serious crash. Emergency services were called to the crash involving a ute and a truck between Kirwee and Darfield about 8am on Monday. Police said there appears to be serious injuries. The serious crash unit has been ... <a title="Part of Canterbury’s State Highway 73 blocked by serious crash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/part-of-canterburys-state-highway-73-blocked-by-serious-crash/" aria-label="Read more about Part of Canterbury’s State Highway 73 blocked by serious crash">Read more</a>

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How scientists are hacking bacteria to treat cancer, self-destruct, then vanish without a trace

November 10, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Josephine Wright, Senior Research Fellow,, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute Could engineered bacteria, including <i>Listeria monocytogenes</i>, help treat cancer? quantic69/Getty Bacteria are rapidly emerging as a new class of “living medicines” used to kill cancer cells. We’re still a long way from a “cure” for ... <a title="How scientists are hacking bacteria to treat cancer, self-destruct, then vanish without a trace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/how-scientists-are-hacking-bacteria-to-treat-cancer-self-destruct-then-vanish-without-a-trace-266486/" aria-label="Read more about How scientists are hacking bacteria to treat cancer, self-destruct, then vanish without a trace">Read more</a>

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Brazil claims to be an environmental leader. Are they?

November 10, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pedro Fidelman, Associate professor in environmental policy and governance, The University of Queensland World leaders and delegates are meeting in the northern Brazilian city of Belém for COP30, this year’s major UN climate summit. This is the first time the global climate meeting has been held in ... <a title="Brazil claims to be an environmental leader. Are they?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/brazil-claims-to-be-an-environmental-leader-are-they-267441/" aria-label="Read more about Brazil claims to be an environmental leader. Are they?">Read more</a>

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Extraordinary and occasionally inept: before The Dismissal, the Whitlam government changed Australia forever

November 10, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, President, Australian Historical Association, Macquarie University Wikimedia, facebook.com @Australian Labor Party, facebook.com @Whitlam Institute, Graeme Fletcher/Keystone/Getty Images, Australian Information Service/National Library of Australia When Australians of a certain age imagine Gough Whitlam, they probably think of him standing on the steps of ... <a title="Extraordinary and occasionally inept: before The Dismissal, the Whitlam government changed Australia forever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/extraordinary-and-occasionally-inept-before-the-dismissal-the-whitlam-government-changed-australia-forever-269101/" aria-label="Read more about Extraordinary and occasionally inept: before The Dismissal, the Whitlam government changed Australia forever">Read more</a>

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New interactive map shows how flammable your part of Australia is right now

November 10, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marta Yebra, Director, Bushfire Resaerch Centre of Excellence, Australian National University Vegetation moisture changes in the Lake Magenta region, Western Australia, during 2020. Red shows drier vegetation, blue tones wetter areas. Digital Earth Australia Fuel Moisture Content This year’s fire season in Australia feels unpredictable. One week ... <a title="New interactive map shows how flammable your part of Australia is right now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/new-interactive-map-shows-how-flammable-your-part-of-australia-is-right-now-268289/" aria-label="Read more about New interactive map shows how flammable your part of Australia is right now">Read more</a>

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Kneecap is revitalising Irish. These 5 artists are doing the same for Indigenous languages

November 10, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jill Vaughan, Senior Lecturer, Monash University Emily Wurramara/Instagram Northern Irish hip hop trio Kneecap have been making waves, not just as musicians, but as language activists who rap in both English and their native Irish. In Belfast’s Gaeltacht Quarter, Irish is a living language. It is also ... <a title="Kneecap is revitalising Irish. These 5 artists are doing the same for Indigenous languages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/kneecap-is-revitalising-irish-these-5-artists-are-doing-the-same-for-indigenous-languages-261754/" aria-label="Read more about Kneecap is revitalising Irish. These 5 artists are doing the same for Indigenous languages">Read more</a>

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Praise as government launches plan to combat methamphetamine

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Methamphetamine use had increased significantly and meth seized in New Zealand and offshore had increased by 266 percent over the past five years. Supplied / Customs There’s widespread support for the government’s new action plan to combat methamphetamine use, with the Drug Foundation commending its “health focused interventions”. A mental wellness ... <a title="Praise as government launches plan to combat methamphetamine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/praise-as-government-launches-plan-to-combat-methamphetamine/" aria-label="Read more about Praise as government launches plan to combat methamphetamine">Read more</a>

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Papamoa residents call chip seal resurfacing ‘road vandalism’

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Papamoa Residents and Ratepayers Association chair Philip Brown says residents living in a number of Papamoa roads do not think they need to be resealed at all. Supplied “Bloody minded road vandalism.” That’s how many residents in Papamoa have reacted to news their previously asphalted roads are going to be resurfaced ... <a title="Papamoa residents call chip seal resurfacing ‘road vandalism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/papamoa-residents-call-chip-seal-resurfacing-road-vandalism/" aria-label="Read more about Papamoa residents call chip seal resurfacing ‘road vandalism’">Read more</a>

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Live: Out of control Tongariro National Park fire spreads to 2500 hectares

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand A wall of smoke from the Tongariro National Park fire is providing a spectacular but worrying vista for a central plateau village. The blaze has burned through up to 2500 hectares and is 20 percent contained. Whakapapa Village was evacuated on Sunday, and the fire has forced the evacuation of trampers ... <a title="Live: Out of control Tongariro National Park fire spreads to 2500 hectares" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/live-out-of-control-tongariro-national-park-fire-spreads-to-2500-hectares/" aria-label="Read more about Live: Out of control Tongariro National Park fire spreads to 2500 hectares">Read more</a>

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Education Review Office says ‘stronger consequences’ needed for struggling schools

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand The Education Review Office said there is a need for a stronger, system-wide approach in order to improve struggling schools. Unsplash/ Taylor Flowe The Education Review Office wants tougher action on struggling schools that do not improve. In its annual report the office criticised the lack of support for under-performing schools ... <a title="Education Review Office says ‘stronger consequences’ needed for struggling schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/education-review-office-says-stronger-consequences-needed-for-struggling-schools/" aria-label="Read more about Education Review Office says ‘stronger consequences’ needed for struggling schools">Read more</a>

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‘I would definitely recommend getting on all-fours with your dog’

November 10, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Coming from a family who’d farmed for generations, Amelia Thomas expected that she’d inherited some understanding of animals. The day her family moved to an old dairy farm in Nova Scotia, the former journalist was divebombed by a hummingbird, and had to deal with escaped piglets, screaming horses, fighting dogs and ... <a title="‘I would definitely recommend getting on all-fours with your dog’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/i-would-definitely-recommend-getting-on-all-fours-with-your-dog/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I would definitely recommend getting on all-fours with your dog’">Read more</a>