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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia Rezan Soleh/AFP via Getty Images More than 900 people are dead, thousands more missing and millions affected by a band of cyclones and extreme monsoonal weather across southern Asia. Torrential rain has triggered the worst flooding in decades, ... <a title="Death and devastation: why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/death-and-devastation-why-a-rare-equatorial-cyclone-and-other-storms-have-hit-southern-asia-so-hard-270939/" aria-label="Read more about Death and devastation: why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The government’s long-awaited rates cap will be a variable target band, and would be enforced by a new regulator. Likely starting with minimum increases of two percent and a maximum of four percent, the cap would take effect from 1 January 2027. It was not clear from the initial written statement ... <a title="Watch: Christopher Luxon faces questions amid speculation over rates cap policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/watch-christopher-luxon-faces-questions-amid-speculation-over-rates-cap-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Watch: Christopher Luxon faces questions amid speculation over rates cap policy">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Professional Association for Transgender Health Aotearoa has filed an application for an urgent injunction to prevent the ban coming into effect on 19 December. File photo. RNZ // Angus Dreaver An urgent legal injunction has been filed to stop the incoming ban on new prescriptions of puberty blockers to treat ... <a title="Puberty blocker regulation ‘based on politics’, legal injunction filed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/puberty-blocker-regulation-based-on-politics-legal-injunction-filed/" aria-label="Read more about Puberty blocker regulation ‘based on politics’, legal injunction filed">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on December 1, 2025.
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Firefighters are working with specialist equipment to rescue the driver. RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King Firefighters have freed the driver of a logging truck who was trapped after a crash north of Balclutha. Police said the crash occurred on Coe Road just after 11am on Monday. Fire and Emergency said specialist equipment ... <a title="Firefighters free driver trapped in Otago logging truck crash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/firefighters-free-driver-trapped-in-otago-logging-truck-crash/" aria-label="Read more about Firefighters free driver trapped in Otago logging truck crash">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police said they are investigating the thefts from grave sites at St Johns Cemetery between 28 October and 22 November. RNZ / Nate McKinnon Several burial plaques of First and Second World War soldiers have been stolen from grave sites in Invercargill. Police said they are investigating the thefts from grave ... <a title="Soldiers’ burial plaques stolen from grave sites in Invercargill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/soldiers-burial-plaques-stolen-from-grave-sites-in-invercargill/" aria-label="Read more about Soldiers’ burial plaques stolen from grave sites in Invercargill">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The school has recalled the lunches, but some had already been eaten by students. Unsplash A Christchurch school says it has been provided with contaminated school lunches in a significant health and safety breach. Haeata Community Campus, which covers from Year 1 to 13, has put up a post on Facebook ... <a title="Food poisoning warning after Christchurch students eat contaminated school lunches" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/food-poisoning-warning-after-christchurch-students-eat-contaminated-school-lunches/" aria-label="Read more about Food poisoning warning after Christchurch students eat contaminated school lunches">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Police said a car had collided with a tree between Harwoods Road and Tapapa Road. RNZ / Marika Khabazi A person has died after a car crashed into a tree and caught on fire. Emergency services were called to the crash on State Highway 5 near Tapapa, Waikato at 10.45am on ... <a title="Person dies after car crashes into tree, catches fire on SH5, Waikato" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/person-dies-after-car-crashes-into-tree-catches-fire-on-sh5-waikato/" aria-label="Read more about Person dies after car crashes into tree, catches fire on SH5, Waikato">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Sky City Convention Centre’s foyer. RNZ/Nona Pelletier The opening of the New Zealand International Convention Centre (NZICC) is just around the corner and expected to contribute an initial $90 million a year to the economy over the next three years. The convention centre had been nearly 17 years in the ... <a title="Auckland’s new convention centre to bring million-dollar boost to economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/aucklands-new-convention-centre-to-bring-million-dollar-boost-to-economy/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland’s new convention centre to bring million-dollar boost to economy">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arthur Wyns, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne The United Nations’ global climate summit has finished for another year. Some progress was made in Brazil on climate finance and adaptation. But efforts to end reliance on fossil fuels were stymied by – you guessed it – fossil ... <a title="Are UN climate summits a waste of time? No, but they are in dire need of reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/are-un-climate-summits-a-waste-of-time-no-but-they-are-in-dire-need-of-reform-270457/" aria-label="Read more about Are UN climate summits a waste of time? No, but they are in dire need of reform">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Former Pharmac chief executive Sarah Fitt. RNZ / LUKE MCPAKE The Minister for Pharmac says the departure of its former chief executive – which appears to have come with a $357,000 payout – was “very well managed” by the board. Sarah Fitt resigned from the drug-buying agency in February after years ... <a title="David Seymour, Paula Bennett defend $357k exit payment to former Pharmac head" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/david-seymour-paula-bennett-defend-357k-exit-payment-to-former-pharmac-head/" aria-label="Read more about David Seymour, Paula Bennett defend $357k exit payment to former Pharmac head">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Northland Coastguard Air Patrol conducting the aerial search for a fisherman who was swept off the rocks at Tapotupotu Bay near Cape Reinga. Northland Coastguard Air Patrol The Police Dive Squad is searching the water near Cape Reinga for a fisherman swept from rocks at Tapotupotu Bay. The man was fishing ... <a title="Search for fisherman missing at Tapotupotu Bay continues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/search-for-fisherman-missing-at-tapotupotu-bay-continues/" aria-label="Read more about Search for fisherman missing at Tapotupotu Bay continues">Read more</a>
