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December 26, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Several weather watches have been issued (file image). 123rf.com People should prepare for stormy, wet weather, as they head out to Boxing Day sales. Several weather watches have been issued as thunderstorms are expected for the upper North Island and southeast of the South Island. MetService has issued a severe thunderstorm ... <a title="Weather: Large hail, thunderstorms forecast across New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/weather-large-hail-thunderstorms-forecast-across-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Weather: Large hail, thunderstorms forecast across New Zealand">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Arnold, Senior Lecturer, Sport & Exercise Biomechanics, University of South Australia The game of cricket is believed to have originated in rural England sometime in the 16th or 17th century. The earliest versions of cricket balls had no standard size, weight or stitching: they were handmade ... <a title="Why do cricket balls have to be so hard?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/why-do-cricket-balls-have-to-be-so-hard-269900/" aria-label="Read more about Why do cricket balls have to be so hard?">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hortle, Deputy Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania Australia has a fine tradition of unconventional politicians at all levels of government. Multiple examples probably spring to mind immediately. But in researching this piece, I went down a wacky rabbit hole. It turns out there are ... <a title="Cookbook authors, ‘dukes’ and card game gatecrashers: Australia’s quirkiest politicians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/cookbook-authors-dukes-and-card-game-gatecrashers-australias-quirkiest-politicians-271515/" aria-label="Read more about Cookbook authors, ‘dukes’ and card game gatecrashers: Australia’s quirkiest politicians">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Carew, Senior Lecturer in Audiology, The University of Melbourne; Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Rhett Noonan/Unsplash Swimming is one of the best parts of summer. But long after you’ve cooled down and dried off, you might be left with a niggling feeling – there is still water ... <a title="How can I get water out of my ear after swimming?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/how-can-i-get-water-out-of-my-ear-after-swimming-270674/" aria-label="Read more about How can I get water out of my ear after swimming?">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice; Lead, UNSW Public Interest Law & Tech Initiative, UNSW Sydney Yan Krukau/Pexels, CC BY You’ve been given an ugly t-shirt and a book you’ve already read. But if you don’t have the receipts, can you return them? Or ... <a title="Can you return gifts without a receipt or packaging? A legal expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/can-you-return-gifts-without-a-receipt-or-packaging-a-legal-expert-explains-270084/" aria-label="Read more about Can you return gifts without a receipt or packaging? A legal expert explains">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Rees-Lee, PhD Candidate, School of Design, RMIT University Daily Herald Archive/National Science and Media Museum/SSPL/Getty Images Daphne Oram (1925–2003) was one of Britain’s most important early electronic composers. Oram trained first as a pianist and composer and turned down a place at the Royal College of ... <a title="5 things to know about Daphne Oram, the visionary pioneer in electronic music" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/5-things-to-know-about-daphne-oram-the-visionary-pioneer-in-electronic-music-266591/" aria-label="Read more about 5 things to know about Daphne Oram, the visionary pioneer in electronic music">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Whiting, Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow in Music Industries and Cultural Economy, RMIT University Getty Images I recently had an urgent surgery to have a malignant growth removed. Unfortunately, this meant I was too immobile to attend the Melbourne event of the annual hard rock festival Good ... <a title="Too sick to attend, too bad: why the live music ticketing market is broken" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/too-sick-to-attend-too-bad-why-the-live-music-ticketing-market-is-broken-271618/" aria-label="Read more about Too sick to attend, too bad: why the live music ticketing market is broken">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand 123rf A quake described by GeoNet as “strong” shook the lower North Island on Friday morning. It measured 4.7 and struck 10 km southwest of Pongaroa at a depth of 17km at 7.16am. Pongaroa is southwest of Hastings and northeast of Wellington. Felt reports were lodged from the top of the ... <a title="‘Strong’ quake shakes lower North Island" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/strong-quake-shakes-lower-north-island/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Strong’ quake shakes lower North Island">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paulomi (Polly) Burey, Professor in Food Science, University of Southern Queensland Manki Kim/Unsplash When you splurge on a cocktail in a bar, the drink often comes with a slab of aesthetically pleasing, perfectly clear ice. The stuff looks much fancier than the slightly cloudy ice you get ... <a title="How do I make clear ice at home? A food scientist shares easy tips" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/how-do-i-make-clear-ice-at-home-a-food-scientist-shares-easy-tips-267544/" aria-label="Read more about How do I make clear ice at home? A food scientist shares easy tips">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Volunteer firefighters will respond to 111 calls during the strike hour. RNZ / Alexander Robertson Fire and Emergency will be relying on volunteer crews to fight fires in the main centres on Boxing Day between midday and 1pm, as its paid staff go on strike. Talks between the fire service and ... <a title="Paid firefighters to briefly strike on Boxing Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/paid-firefighters-to-briefly-strike-on-boxing-day/" aria-label="Read more about Paid firefighters to briefly strike on Boxing Day">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand File image. 123RF Rockfall has been causing disruption on the roads around Arthur’s Pass between Canterbury and the West Coast. Fire and Emergency says it responded to a crash around 10.15pm on Christmas Day on State Highway 73, near the turnoff to Mount White. A car had run into a fallen ... <a title="Rockfall blocks state highway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/rockfall-blocks-state-highway/" aria-label="Read more about Rockfall blocks state highway">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Some time in the mid-2000s, a singular piece of music found its way onto student radio and other playlists. Consisting only of multi-tracked voices – like a one-person choir – The Awakening was a spooky song-poem: “a canon set in purgatory” as its author would later describe it. The subject of ... <a title="What makes Dudley Benson’s The Awakening an essential album" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/26/what-makes-dudley-bensons-the-awakening-an-essential-album/" aria-label="Read more about What makes Dudley Benson’s The Awakening an essential album">Read more</a>
