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December 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rhys Ashby, Lecturer in Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology Vitaly Gariev/Unsplash We’ve all been there – splitting a bill at dinner, covering a mate’s coffee, or sending a quick transfer for concert tickets. It’s part of modern social life. As money becomes increasingly digital and instantaneous, we ... <a title="In a world of digital money, what’s the right etiquette to split the bill with friends?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/in-a-world-of-digital-money-whats-the-right-etiquette-to-split-the-bill-with-friends-270971/" aria-label="Read more about In a world of digital money, what’s the right etiquette to split the bill with friends?">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Founder of accounting company Xero, Rod Drury. RNZ / Diego Opatowski Founder of accounting company Xero, Sir Rod Drury, who has been made a Knight Companion in the New Year Honours, says he has loved using his business skills to help the community in recent years. Drury has been made a ... <a title="New Year Honours: Xero co-founder Sir Rod Drury knighted" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/new-year-honours-xero-co-founder-sir-rod-drury-knighted/" aria-label="Read more about New Year Honours: Xero co-founder Sir Rod Drury knighted">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia Harry Gouvas/Archaeological Museum of Nikopolis/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Parties in ancient Greece were wild, with evidence of copious alcohol and sex. That’s the popular idea that endures today. But there were different types of parties ... <a title="How to party like an ancient Greek" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/how-to-party-like-an-ancient-greek-270060/" aria-label="Read more about How to party like an ancient Greek">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Morteza Hajizadeh, Hajizadeh, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau An image of The Book of Kings shows a couple embracing with servants around them. Library of Congress, CC BY-SA For centuries, literature from Islamic regions, especially Iran, celebrated male homoerotic love as a symbol of beauty, mysticism ... <a title="Literature from Islamic societies embraced homoerotic love until the 19th century. What happened?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/literature-from-islamic-societies-embraced-homoerotic-love-until-the-19th-century-what-happened-266357/" aria-label="Read more about Literature from Islamic societies embraced homoerotic love until the 19th century. What happened?">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Sir Scott Dixon. David Allio/Icon Sportswire / PHOTOSPORT New Zealand’s most successful modern motorsport champion has been knighted – but Sir Scott Dixon is still a bit uncomfortable with his new title. “Just Scott is fine. “I thought it was maybe some spam or something,” the Indycar icon told RNZ. “But ... <a title="New Year Honours: ‘Fire still burns’ for Sir Scott Dixon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/new-year-honours-fire-still-burns-for-sir-scott-dixon/" aria-label="Read more about New Year Honours: ‘Fire still burns’ for Sir Scott Dixon">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Dame Coral Shaw has been recognised for her work, among other things, as a Commissioner on the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. Libby Kirkby-McLeod/RNZ Teacher, lawyer, judge and head of a royal commission – Dame Coral Shaw’s career has always been about giving back to those most vulnerable. ... <a title="New Year Honours: Recognition for Dame Coral Shaw – Teacher, lawyer, judge and head of a royal commission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/new-year-honours-recognition-for-dame-coral-shaw-teacher-lawyer-judge-and-head-of-a-royal-commission/" aria-label="Read more about New Year Honours: Recognition for Dame Coral Shaw – Teacher, lawyer, judge and head of a royal commission">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Erin and her horse Scooter. Supplied Auckland rider Erin Swainston knew she had to let go of the reins, or be crushed by her beloved horse when it lost its footing. “Waves were kind of throwing us around, Scooter was thrashing and trying to get his feet up underneath him and ... <a title="‘Literally the worst nightmare’: Hundreds-strong hunt for beloved runaway horse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/literally-the-worst-nightmare-hundreds-strong-hunt-for-beloved-runaway-horse/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Literally the worst nightmare’: Hundreds-strong hunt for beloved runaway horse">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Professor Graham Le Gros, Coral Shaw, Dorothy Spotswood and Scott Dixon are four of the seven being named Dames and Knights. RNZ Seven new Knights and Dames have been named on the New Year Honours list. They include Dames Helen Danesh-Meyer, Carol Shaw and Dorothy Spotswood and Sirs Scott Dixon, Rod ... <a title="2026 New Year Honours: Seven New Zealanders named Knights and Dames" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/2026-new-year-honours-seven-new-zealanders-named-knights-and-dames/" aria-label="Read more about 2026 New Year Honours: Seven New Zealanders named Knights and Dames">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Festival goers at Rhythm and Vines are off to a soggy start after the region was wiped with heavy rain. Lucy Parkinson Much of the country is in for another rainy day on Wednesday, after severe wind and rain battered the North Island and upper South Island. Tuesday’s wild weather downed ... <a title="‘Quite heavy in localised areas ‘: More rain on the way for New Year’s Eve" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/quite-heavy-in-localised-areas-more-rain-on-the-way-for-new-years-eve/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Quite heavy in localised areas ‘: More rain on the way for New Year’s Eve">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Supplied/ Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Here is the full list of everyone receiving a 2026 New Year Honour: Dame Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DNZM): DANESH-MEYER, Professor Helen Victoria, CNZM – for services to ophthalmology SHAW, Coral May – for services to public service, the ... <a title="New Year Honours 2026 – the full list" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/new-year-honours-2026-the-full-list/" aria-label="Read more about New Year Honours 2026 – the full list">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Think about how a great album is made, and it’s hard to escape the image of musicians notching up hundreds of hours of studio time crafting their masterwork, or engineers hunched over mixing boards, deliberating over every beat and chord. Some albums are made that way, but it isn’t the only ... <a title="Essential New Zealand Albums: The Warratahs – The Only Game In Town" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/essential-new-zealand-albums-the-warratahs-the-only-game-in-town/" aria-label="Read more about Essential New Zealand Albums: The Warratahs – The Only Game In Town">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The invasive gold clams. Supplied / MPI Te Arawa Lakes Trust and local councils are banding together in the battle against invasive gold clams. The trust is worried about the lakes in its area and the boaties coming to use them. A hui at Lake Ōkāreka has resolved to stand up ... <a title="Te Arawa Lakes Trust battles invasive gold clams" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/te-arawa-lakes-trust-battles-invasive-gold-clams/" aria-label="Read more about Te Arawa Lakes Trust battles invasive gold clams">Read more</a>
