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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney Summer’s here and after a wet spring in many parts of Australia, mosquitoes are out in force. Insect repellent has become a routine requirement for time outdoors. ... <a title="Are mozzie repellents safe to use? And do I really need them in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/are-mozzie-repellents-safe-to-use-and-do-i-really-need-them-in-australia-267974/" aria-label="Read more about Are mozzie repellents safe to use? And do I really need them in Australia?">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna Grant-Smith, Professor of Management, University of the Sunshine Coast Vishnu R Nair/Pexels Around Australia, music festival season is once again kicking into high gear. Yet behind every headline act is a vast and often invisible workforce of stage crew, sound engineers, lighting techs, riggers, truck drivers, ... <a title="As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/as-music-festival-season-ramps-up-artists-can-help-shine-a-light-on-an-invisible-workforce-270967/" aria-label="Read more about As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Will Jeffery, Sessional Academic, Discipline of Film Studies, University of Sydney Psycho (1960) I was recently watching a scene from the 2025 film Weapons for a monograph I’m writing and noticed a familiar sound: a low, unsettling drone as a character walks down a hallway. It’s the ... <a title="The scariest stuff is what you can’t see: how we got the sound of horror films" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/the-scariest-stuff-is-what-you-cant-see-how-we-got-the-sound-of-horror-films-267639/" aria-label="Read more about The scariest stuff is what you can’t see: how we got the sound of horror films">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A tornado have flipped a caravan injuring one person at a motor camp at Lake Dudding in rural Manawatū. Supplied / Rangitikei District Council A man who was flipped twice in his caravan during a tornado that hit a rural Rangitīkei campground is going to be “traumatised for a little bit”. ... <a title="‘All hell broke loose’: Caretaker describes moment tornado hit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/all-hell-broke-loose-caretaker-describes-moment-tornado-hit/" aria-label="Read more about ‘All hell broke loose’: Caretaker describes moment tornado hit">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Applications for information about a partner’s history of violence have fallen by nearly 75 percent in the last five years. 123RF A UK criminologist is labelling New Zealand’s scheme to allow the disclosure of a partner’s history of violence as a missed opportunity to protect vulnerable people from family harm. Dr ... <a title="Police looking at improving scheme that allows disclosure of history of violence to partners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/police-looking-at-improving-scheme-that-allows-disclosure-of-history-of-violence-to-partners/" aria-label="Read more about Police looking at improving scheme that allows disclosure of history of violence to partners">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Breakers guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright celebrates Blake Armstrong / PHOTOSPORT Another impressive performance by captain Parker Jackson-Cartwright has given the Breakers their second successive win in the NBL and edged them closer to a place in the final of the Ignite Cup. Jackson-Cartwright hit 24 points as the Breakers beat the Sydney ... <a title="Parker Jackson-Cartwright rescues Breakers as they take down Kings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/parker-jackson-cartwright-rescues-breakers-as-they-take-down-kings/" aria-label="Read more about Parker Jackson-Cartwright rescues Breakers as they take down Kings">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand RNZ / REECE BAKER One person is seriously injured following a crash in Lower Hutt. Rutherford Street, between Melling Link and Connolly Street, is closed as a result of the single-vehicle crash that occurred around 5.30am on Thursday. Police said the road is expected to be closed “for some time” and ... <a title="Lower Hutt road closed following serious crash, motorists asked to avoid area" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/lower-hutt-road-closed-following-serious-crash-motorists-asked-to-avoid-area/" aria-label="Read more about Lower Hutt road closed following serious crash, motorists asked to avoid area">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Happiness in the workplace has held steady over the past year. Unsplash Two-thirds surveyed happy at work Direct line managers more influential, but only 56 pct happy with their manager Purpose is main happiness driver along with responsibilities Job security more important for happiness, but fewer feel it Nearly a third ... <a title="Gen Z workers least happy, 40 percent dread going to work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/gen-z-workers-least-happy-40-percent-dread-going-to-work/" aria-label="Read more about Gen Z workers least happy, 40 percent dread going to work">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand F1 driver Liam Lawson. MPS AGENCY / PHOTOSPORT Analysis: New Zealand driver Liam Lawson can probably afford to sit back and take a couple of deep breaths following the 2025 Formula 1 season, but he won’t have long to relax. If the 23-year-old thought he was under pressure in ... <a title="No time to relax for Liam Lawson" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/no-time-to-relax-for-liam-lawson/" aria-label="Read more about No time to relax for Liam Lawson">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The rain radar as of 6am Thursday morning. Supplied / Metservice Weather watches remain in place for parts of the North Island following a stormy night for some regions. Heavy rain and powerful winds swept through Te Ika-a-Māui overnight. MetService says the wettest areas included parts of Tai Rāwhiti, including Wharerata ... <a title="Weather watches remain for North Island following stormy night" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/weather-watches-remain-for-north-island-following-stormy-night/" aria-label="Read more about Weather watches remain for North Island following stormy night">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Health New Zealand has confirmed five new cases of measles. 123rf A paediatrician is worried that a new wave of measles cases means the disease is spreading undetected. Health New Zealand (HNZ) confirmed five new cases on Wednesday – one person in Dunedin, one in Waikato and three people in Auckland. ... <a title="Paediatrician worries new measles wave spreading undetected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/paediatrician-worries-new-measles-wave-spreading-undetected/" aria-label="Read more about Paediatrician worries new measles wave spreading undetected">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Now it’s December, people throughout the country have been hunting for the perfect Christmas tree. But that doesn’t always mean a fir, spruce, pine… or plastic. Christmas is celebrated in summer after all… so why bother with an evergreen tree? . “We collected driftwood and made a stand, then our children ... <a title="Ditching the traditional Christmas tree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/04/ditching-the-traditional-christmas-tree/" aria-label="Read more about Ditching the traditional Christmas tree">Read more</a>
