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Month: December 2025

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NZ police to guard Jewish community locations following Bondi attack

December 16, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Police outside Kosher Deli NZ Nick Monro New Zealand police expect officers to guard key locations for the Jewish community until at least the end of the week. Police say the officers, who have been armed, will stay while they continue to assess the deadly attack at Bondi that killed 15 ... <a title="NZ police to guard Jewish community locations following Bondi attack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/nz-police-to-guard-jewish-community-locations-following-bondi-attack/" aria-label="Read more about NZ police to guard Jewish community locations following Bondi attack">Read more</a>

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New Zealand’s Winter Olympics team uniforms revealed

December 16, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Snowboarder Cam Melville Ives, left, skier Fin Melville Ives and skier Mischa Thomas model the uniforms the New Zealand team will be wearing at the Winter Olympics in northern Italy in February. SUPPLIED Twins Cam and Fin Melville Ives have revealed the New Zealand team’s uniform for the Milano Cortina 2026 ... <a title="New Zealand’s Winter Olympics team uniforms revealed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/new-zealands-winter-olympics-team-uniforms-revealed/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s Winter Olympics team uniforms revealed">Read more</a>

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Climate change could claim nearly all of NZ’s glaciers, research shows

December 16, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Tourists on Fox Glacier on the West Coast. supplied / Fox Glacier Guiding Almost all of New Zealand’s glaciers could completely disappear if global warming continues on its current track, new research shows. Local glacier researchers say that level of loss would contribute to sea-level rise, make water shortages worse, and ... <a title="Climate change could claim nearly all of NZ’s glaciers, research shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/climate-change-could-claim-nearly-all-of-nzs-glaciers-research-shows/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change could claim nearly all of NZ’s glaciers, research shows">Read more</a>

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Splore festival will end for good in 2026

December 16, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Splore music and arts festival organisers have announced that next year’s will be the last due to lower than hoped for ticket sales. Splore curator John Minty said after 18 years of financial viability the festival first hit headwinds with Covid postponements and cancellations. Then the cost of living crisis led ... <a title="Splore festival will end for good in 2026" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/splore-festival-will-end-for-good-in-2026/" aria-label="Read more about Splore festival will end for good in 2026">Read more</a>

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Parliament bill set to return historic Māori site in Northland to Ngāpuhi

December 16, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand Kororipo Pā as seen from the other side of Kerikeri Basin with Kemp House, New Zealand’s oldest surviving building, on the right. RNZ / Peter de Graaf A bill returning one of New Zealand’s most historic sites to Māori is due to be passed by Parliament on Wednesday, ending a 20-year ... <a title="Parliament bill set to return historic Māori site in Northland to Ngāpuhi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/parliament-bill-set-to-return-historic-maori-site-in-northland-to-ngapuhi/" aria-label="Read more about Parliament bill set to return historic Māori site in Northland to Ngāpuhi">Read more</a>

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Australia’s national plan says existing laws are enough to regulate AI. This is false hope

December 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Russ-Smith, Associate Professor of Social Work and Chair, Indigenous Research Ethics Advisory Panel, Australian Catholic University Earlier this month, Australia’s long-anticipated National AI Plan was released to a mixed reception. The plan shifts away from the government’s previously promised mandatory AI safeguards. Instead, it’s positioned as ... <a title="Australia’s national plan says existing laws are enough to regulate AI. This is false hope" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/australias-national-plan-says-existing-laws-are-enough-to-regulate-ai-this-is-false-hope-271725/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s national plan says existing laws are enough to regulate AI. This is false hope">Read more</a>

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How stores fighting thieves risk putting off shoppers with disabilities and kids

December 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Harpur, Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland; Syracuse University ad0sy/Reddit “Welcome”, the sign at the supermarket entrance says, above a drawing of a shopper walking in and pushing a trolley. But for many shoppers – especially those with wheelchairs, walkers or ... <a title="How stores fighting thieves risk putting off shoppers with disabilities and kids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/how-stores-fighting-thieves-risk-putting-off-shoppers-with-disabilities-and-kids-271397/" aria-label="Read more about How stores fighting thieves risk putting off shoppers with disabilities and kids">Read more</a>

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Festering families, difficult truths and transcendent grace: best podcasts of 2025

December 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Siobhan McHugh, Honorary Associate Professor, Journalism, University of Wollongong Wellcome Collection Quality narrative podcasts experienced a downturn this year, with industry layoffs in key networks including Pineapple Street Studios and Wondery. But commercial cutbacks have reinvigorated the artistic spirit of the genre. In a class of its ... <a title="Festering families, difficult truths and transcendent grace: best podcasts of 2025" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/festering-families-difficult-truths-and-transcendent-grace-best-podcasts-of-2025-270687/" aria-label="Read more about Festering families, difficult truths and transcendent grace: best podcasts of 2025">Read more</a>

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Paws on board: Inside the Pet Bus as it travels the country

December 16, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand was due Nearly two-thirds of households in New Zealand own a pet, and many more are planning to welcome a furry friend this Christmas. In Auckland, a family-run business is making sure pets get where they’re going safely – transporting more than 100 animals at a time on a bus that ... <a title="Paws on board: Inside the Pet Bus as it travels the country" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/paws-on-board-inside-the-pet-bus-as-it-travels-the-country/" aria-label="Read more about Paws on board: Inside the Pet Bus as it travels the country">Read more</a>

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Our Changing World: Return of The Kākāpō Files

December 16, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand The males stay in one spot and attract the females through their boom and ching calls. Jake Osborne, DOC On the small, bush-clad, Whenua Hou / Codfish Island preparations are underway. People and supplies are being dropped in by helicopter. Food hoppers are being filled. Transmitters are being checked. And come ... <a title="Our Changing World: Return of The Kākāpō Files" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/our-changing-world-return-of-the-kakapo-files/" aria-label="Read more about Our Changing World: Return of The Kākāpō Files">Read more</a>

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Homelessness in Auckland more than doubles to 940 people in year to September – survey

December 16, 2025

Source: Radio New Zealand The latest six-monthly survey of housing support providers shows homelessness in Auckland has more than doubled to 940 people in the year to September. RNZ / Finn Blackwell A worker at a special court that helps Auckland’s homeless who have committed low-level offences turn their lives around, says she is seeing ... <a title="Homelessness in Auckland more than doubles to 940 people in year to September – survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/homelessness-in-auckland-more-than-doubles-to-940-people-in-year-to-september-survey/" aria-label="Read more about Homelessness in Auckland more than doubles to 940 people in year to September – survey">Read more</a>

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Think you know Hans Christian Andersen? Four experts pick his weirdest fairy tales to read this Christmas

December 16, 2025

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ane Grum-Schwensen, Associate Professor at The Hans Christian Andersen Centre, Principal Investigator of "Fairy Tales and Stories – The Digital Manuscript Edition", University of Southern Denmark Hans Christian Andersen is one of Denmark’s most cherished writers – a master of the literary fairy tale whose influence stretches ... <a title="Think you know Hans Christian Andersen? Four experts pick his weirdest fairy tales to read this Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/16/think-you-know-hans-christian-andersen-four-experts-pick-his-weirdest-fairy-tales-to-read-this-christmas-270725/" aria-label="Read more about Think you know Hans Christian Andersen? Four experts pick his weirdest fairy tales to read this Christmas">Read more</a>