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December 8, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Papua New Guinea conjoined twins. Audrey Taula / Life Flight and NEST retrieval team Rare conjoined twins from Papua New Guinea had a seven-hour operation in Australia to surgically separate them on Sunday, but only one of the boys survived. Tom and Sawong were rushed into emergency surgery at Sydney Children’s ... <a title="Conjoined twin dies after separation surgery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/conjoined-twin-dies-after-separation-surgery/" aria-label="Read more about Conjoined twin dies after separation surgery">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The Bulahdelah fire has burnt through 3,400 hectares of the Myall Lakes National Park. ABC News: Ross McLoughlin A firefighter from the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has died after being crushed by a tree during bushfire prevention work north of Newcastle. The Bulahdelah fire, which has destroyed four ... <a title="Firefighter killed by falling tree during bushfire prevention work in New South Wales" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/firefighter-killed-by-falling-tree-during-bushfire-prevention-work-in-new-south-wales/" aria-label="Read more about Firefighter killed by falling tree during bushfire prevention work in New South Wales">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Scientists have hailed the benefits of exercising early in life to lower the risk of your brain degenerating later. But new research suggests that even when you’re 45 or older, it’s not too late to try. Having the highest levels of physical activity in midlife (45 to 64) and late life ... <a title="For better brain health, it’s never too late to get active" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/for-better-brain-health-its-never-too-late-to-get-active/" aria-label="Read more about For better brain health, it’s never too late to get active">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand By Max Saltman, Jennifer Hansler and Billy Stockwell, CNN Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a joint press conference with Turkey’s President following their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on November 19, 2025 AFP Talks between US and Ukrainian negotiators over a proposed peace deal with Russia ended in Miami ... <a title="Ukraine peace talks in Miami end with lingering questions over security guarantees and territory" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/ukraine-peace-talks-in-miami-end-with-lingering-questions-over-security-guarantees-and-territory/" aria-label="Read more about Ukraine peace talks in Miami end with lingering questions over security guarantees and territory">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Running prodigy Sam Ruthe is having a record-breaking year. Andrew Cornaga/www.photosport.nz The ease at which running prodigy Sam Ruthe smashed the long-standing secondary schools 1500 metre record took the 16-year-old by surprise. The Tauranga Boys’ College student shattered the record, held by Commonwealth Games runner Richard Potts since 1989, by eight ... <a title="Running prodigy Sam Ruthe explains how he smashed the 1500m school record" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/running-prodigy-sam-ruthe-explains-how-he-smashed-the-1500m-school-record/" aria-label="Read more about Running prodigy Sam Ruthe explains how he smashed the 1500m school record">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Cam Roigard of the Hurricanes. Elias Rodriguez / www.photosport.nz The Hurricanes will start the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season with a new ownership structure as the Wellington Rugby Football Union (WRFU) sells its 50 percent stake. The WRFU’s sale of their shares in the Hurricanes is part of securing the financial ... <a title="Financial struggles see Wellington Rugby sell Hurricanes stake" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/financial-struggles-see-wellington-rugby-sell-hurricanes-stake/" aria-label="Read more about Financial struggles see Wellington Rugby sell Hurricanes stake">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Firefighters are scrambling to contain a fire burning in Tongariro National Park. Sixteen fire vehicles, 60 firefighters and nine choppers are battling the blaze, now mapped at more than 320 hectares, which as of 5.30pm Monday was uncontained. It comes just a month after another mass of wildfire ripped through 3000 ... <a title="Firefighters battle another blaze at Tongariro National Park" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/firefighters-battle-another-blaze-at-tongariro-national-park/" aria-label="Read more about Firefighters battle another blaze at Tongariro National Park">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Christopher Luxon remains ahead as preferred Prime Minister on 23 percent, while Chris Hipkins is on 21 percent. RNZ The government would still have the numbers to stay in power, according to the latest 1News Verian poll. After three 1News polls in a row on 34 percent, National is up two ... <a title="Government still has the numbers to stay in power in new poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/government-still-has-the-numbers-to-stay-in-power-in-new-poll/" aria-label="Read more about Government still has the numbers to stay in power in new poll">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Ian Turner reckons his unique pink-door shop, nestled in a small village on SH1 between Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay, “puts Eketāhuna on the map”. “People who live here, they all tell their friends, ‘oh, I live in the town with the sex shop’, and even if they don’t come in, I think ... <a title="Pink-door adult shop ‘puts Eketāhuna on the map’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/pink-door-adult-shop-puts-eketahuna-on-the-map/" aria-label="Read more about Pink-door adult shop ‘puts Eketāhuna on the map’">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Distinguished Professor of Ecology, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Reforms to Australia’s nature laws have passed federal parliament. A longstanding exemption that meant federal environment laws did not apply to native logging has finally been removed from the Environment Protection and ... <a title="Australia has new laws to protect nature. Do they signal an end to native forest logging?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/australia-has-new-laws-to-protect-nature-do-they-signal-an-end-to-native-forest-logging-271203/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has new laws to protect nature. Do they signal an end to native forest logging?">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Tian, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Technology Sydney In October, Australia signed an A$13 billion rare earths and critical minerals agreement with the United States. This is designed to boost supply of minerals vital to everything from military technology to clean energy. Australia has large ... <a title="Australia wants to be a critical minerals superpower – but processing is messy and dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/australia-wants-to-be-a-critical-minerals-superpower-but-processing-is-messy-and-dangerous-269799/" aria-label="Read more about Australia wants to be a critical minerals superpower – but processing is messy and dangerous">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University Installation view of Westwood | Kawakubo on display from December 7 2025 to April 19 2026, at NGV International, Melbourne. Photo: Sean Fennessy Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo are two fashion designers who redefined “the look” of ... <a title="How self-taught, self-made mavericks Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo redefined punk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/08/how-self-taught-self-made-mavericks-vivienne-westwood-and-rei-kawakubo-redefined-punk-269517/" aria-label="Read more about How self-taught, self-made mavericks Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo redefined punk">Read more</a>
