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January 30, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Manage My Health privacy breach is one of the biggest in New Zealand’s history. RNZ / Finn Blackwell A cybersecurity group says they’ve identified the person responsible for hacking into the Manage My Health portal, and now it wants justice served. The privacy breach is one of the biggest in ... <a title="Cybersecurity group identifies person behind Manage My Health hack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/cybersecurity-group-identifies-person-behind-manage-my-health-hack/" aria-label="Read more about Cybersecurity group identifies person behind Manage My Health hack">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The 50-year-old man has interim name suppression. SunLive A Ni-Vanuatu migrant worker has pleaded not guilty to murdering a woman on a Kiwifruit orchard in the Bay of Plenty. The 50-year-old man, who has interim name suppression, is accused of murdering a female Ni-Vanuatu tourist with whom he was in a ... <a title="Ni-Vanuatu RSE worker pleads not guilty to Pukehina orchard murder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/ni-vanuatu-rse-worker-pleads-not-guilty-to-pukehina-orchard-murder/" aria-label="Read more about Ni-Vanuatu RSE worker pleads not guilty to Pukehina orchard murder">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Christopher Luxon says he has a “tight disciplined team”. RNZ / Screenshot Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has confirmed he will return to Waitangi next week to meet with iwi, after opting to be elsewhere last year. Luxon, however, will not stay up north for the national holiday itself, instead spending Waitangi ... <a title="Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will return to Waitangi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/prime-minister-christopher-luxon-will-return-to-waitangi/" aria-label="Read more about Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will return to Waitangi">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Liu, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Most of us would agree fairness is a good guiding principle in life. Actually defining and applying it in the law, however, isn’t quite so simple. Since March last year, New Zealand’s ... <a title="NZ’s finance industry is required by law to treat customers fairly – but how do we define ‘fair’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/nzs-finance-industry-is-required-by-law-to-treat-customers-fairly-but-how-do-we-define-fair-272413/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s finance industry is required by law to treat customers fairly – but how do we define ‘fair’?">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The previous South Mole blaze, photographed on 25 January 2026. Supplied/ Facebook Firefighters in Whanganui are working at the scene of a scrub fire which has flared up twice in a week. Crews battled the six-hectare fire at the Whanganui South Mole last Sunday and Monday. Fire and emergency shift manager ... <a title="Firefighters battle second Whanganui scrub blaze in a week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/firefighters-battle-second-whanganui-scrub-blaze-in-a-week/" aria-label="Read more about Firefighters battle second Whanganui scrub blaze in a week">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand A police car seen behind a cordon as officers attend an incident. RNZ Emergency services are evacuating properties in Taupō after a digger hit a gas line. The rupture happened in the suburb of Wharewaka shortly after midday. A police spokesperson said residents in Harakeke Drive, Wharewaka Road and Lake Terrace ... <a title="Homes evacuated after gas leak in Taupō" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/homes-evacuated-after-gas-leak-in-taupo/" aria-label="Read more about Homes evacuated after gas leak in Taupō">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand The Manage My Health privacy breach is one of the biggest in New Zealand’s history. RNZ / Finn Blackwell A cybersecurity company says they’ve identified the person responsible for hacking into the Manage My Health portal, and now it wants justice served. The privacy breach is one of the biggest in ... <a title="Cybersecurity company identifies person behind Manage My Health hack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/cybersecurity-company-identifies-person-behind-manage-my-health-hack/" aria-label="Read more about Cybersecurity company identifies person behind Manage My Health hack">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Lisa Maclennan, 50, worked at Morrinsville Intermediate School. Supplied / Givealittle A third victim of the deadly Mt Maunganui landslide has been formally identified as Lisa Anne Maclennan, 50, who was hailed as a hero after giving warning to others at the campground. Her body was found on January 27, five ... <a title="Mt Maunganui landslide: Lisa Maclennan, who helped save the lives of others, formally identified" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/mt-maunganui-landslide-lisa-maclennan-who-helped-save-the-lives-of-others-formally-identified/" aria-label="Read more about Mt Maunganui landslide: Lisa Maclennan, who helped save the lives of others, formally identified">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kai Riemer, Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, University of Sydney Egor Komarov/Unsplash How do you translate ancient Palmyrene script from a Roman tombstone? How many paired tendons are supported by a specific sesamoid bone in a hummingbird? Can you identify closed syllables in Biblical Hebrew based ... <a title="AI is failing ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’. So what does that mean for machine intelligence?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/ai-is-failing-humanitys-last-exam-so-what-does-that-mean-for-machine-intelligence-274620/" aria-label="Read more about AI is failing ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’. So what does that mean for machine intelligence?">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech should unsettle Australian strategic thinkers, who have been raised in the belief the US alliance is the unshakeable foundation of Australia’s regional security. Carney’s point – ... <a title="Australia needs to get real about Trump’s changing America" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/australia-needs-to-get-real-about-trumps-changing-america-274424/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs to get real about Trump’s changing America">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allen Cheng, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University An outbreak of the deadly Nipah virus in India has put many countries in Asia on high alert, given the fatality rate in humans can be between 40% and 75%. Several countries, including Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore, have introduced ... <a title="What is Nipah virus? And what makes it so deadly?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/what-is-nipah-virus-and-what-makes-it-so-deadly-274725/" aria-label="Read more about What is Nipah virus? And what makes it so deadly?">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2026
Source: Radio New Zealand Lisa Maclennan, 50, worked at Morrinsville Intermediate School. Supplied / Givealittle A third victim of the deadly Mt Maunganui landslide has been formally identified as Lisa Anne Maclennan, 50. Six people were killed in the campground slip last Thursday. At an identification hearing at Tauranga District Court on Friday, Coroner Maclennan ... <a title="Mt Maunganui landslide: Third body identified as Lisa Maclennan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/01/30/mt-maunganui-landslide-third-body-identified-as-lisa-maclennan/" aria-label="Read more about Mt Maunganui landslide: Third body identified as Lisa Maclennan">Read more</a>
