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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The violence prevention watches given to some womens refuges have already produced results. Supplied A smart watch that doubles as an alarm for women at risk of family violence is helping to reduce police callouts. The social service Help at Hand has provided 1200 of the violence prevention watches to organisations ... <a title="Smart watches give family violence victims ‘a sense of protection’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/smart-watches-give-family-violence-victims-a-sense-of-protection/" aria-label="Read more about Smart watches give family violence victims ‘a sense of protection’">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand All Whites coach Darren Bazeley will attend his first senior Football World Cup draw this week. Trevor Ruszkowski / www.photosport.nz New Zealand Football boss Andrew Pragnell and All Whites coach Darren Bazeley are on an important mission in North America this week. They are part of a New Zealand delegation of ... <a title="FIFA World Cup draw and New Zealand Football’s other mission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/fifa-world-cup-draw-and-new-zealand-footballs-other-mission/" aria-label="Read more about FIFA World Cup draw and New Zealand Football’s other mission">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Most people are worse of income-wise against inflation on the year to September. RNZ Only two sectors have not experienced a reduction in their wages in real terms over the past year, data shows. While inflation was running at a 3 percent annual rate in the year to September, wage inflation ... <a title="Only two sectors have not experienced a real terms pay cut in the past year, data shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/only-two-sectors-have-not-experienced-a-real-terms-pay-cut-in-the-past-year-data-shows/" aria-label="Read more about Only two sectors have not experienced a real terms pay cut in the past year, data shows">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand From March next year, gift cards will be required to have an expiry date not less than three years from the date the card was sold. 123rf New rules will make gift cards more generous – but not until next year, and shoppers are being warned to be wary this Christmas. ... <a title="What to know about gift cards this Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/what-to-know-about-gift-cards-this-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about What to know about gift cards this Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand driver Liam Lawson. Photosport / ATP Images / Mark Peterson Liam Lawson will be in Formula 1 in 2026 after being confirmed in one of the Racing Bulls seats. It will be his first full season competing for one team after he started 2025 in Red Bull but was ... <a title="F1: Liam Lawson confirmed in Racing Bulls 2026 lineup" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/f1-liam-lawson-confirmed-in-racing-bulls-2026-lineup/" aria-label="Read more about F1: Liam Lawson confirmed in Racing Bulls 2026 lineup">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Award-winning author Catherine Chidgey says she received an email saying her books Remote Sympathy, The Wishchild and The Transformation had been identified as being caught up in the case. Marcel Tromp A Kiwi author included in a billion-dollar US settlement over the illegal downloading of books to build an AI chatbot ... <a title="NZ authors among global payout out after AI chatbot trained on pirated books" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/nz-authors-among-global-payout-out-after-ai-chatbot-trained-on-pirated-books/" aria-label="Read more about NZ authors among global payout out after AI chatbot trained on pirated books">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Standing outside Commercial Bay and Britomart, Auckland’s 18.5-metre tree is hard to miss: 10,000 LEDs, 200 stainless-steel baubles and thousands of flowers. Last year, Auckland Council supported the co-owners of the tree, Heart of the City and Precinct Properties, with a one-off $800,000 contribution – half went towards purchasing it and ... <a title="How much are public Christmas tree displays costing us?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/how-much-are-public-christmas-tree-displays-costing-us/" aria-label="Read more about How much are public Christmas tree displays costing us?">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Made with Flourish • Create your own Correction: The figure 309 mt in the final paragraph of this article has been updated to 305 mt. For a full explanation of each target and how it has changed, see RNZ’s target-by-target breakdown below. Four of the government’s nine key targets risk not being met, ... <a title="How many of the government’s 9 key targets has it achieved?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/how-many-of-the-governments-9-key-targets-has-it-achieved/" aria-label="Read more about How many of the government’s 9 key targets has it achieved?">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand New Zealand and other liberal democracies need to band together against the rise of modern kleptocracy, a top American journalist and historian says. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum told Guyon Espiner on 30 with Guyon Espiner how today’s dictators aren’t just seizing power, they’re stealing unimaginable wealth and hiding it in ... <a title="30 with Guyon Espiner: How New Zealand can combat the rise of kleptocracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/30-with-guyon-espiner-how-new-zealand-can-combat-the-rise-of-kleptocracy/" aria-label="Read more about 30 with Guyon Espiner: How New Zealand can combat the rise of kleptocracy">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Locate Technologies is the first company to quit the ASX in favour of the NZX RNZ / Angus Dreaver ASX-listed Bitcoin treasury business is moving to the NZX in pursuit of a faster pathway to growth than that offered by the Australian stock market. Locate Technologies is the first company to ... <a title="Bitcoin treasury business Locate Technologies moves shares to ‘forward-thinking’ NZX" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/bitcoin-treasury-business-locate-technologies-moves-shares-to-forward-thinking-nzx/" aria-label="Read more about Bitcoin treasury business Locate Technologies moves shares to ‘forward-thinking’ NZX">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A year on from taking the reins as the country’s top cop, Police Commissioner Richard Chambers sat down with National Crime Correspondent Sam Sherwood to discuss his first fraught year in the job and how he plans to rebuild trust and confidence in police. Sitting in an office on the 8th ... <a title="Inside Police Commissioner Richard Chambers’ first year and how he plans to rebuild trust" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/inside-police-commissioner-richard-chambers-first-year-and-how-he-plans-to-rebuild-trust/" aria-label="Read more about Inside Police Commissioner Richard Chambers’ first year and how he plans to rebuild trust">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The parents of a 13-year-old Christchurch girl who died after hitting her head while ice skating are angry the coroner will not open an inquiry into her death, saying they fear the same thing could happen again unless legislation changes to make helmets compulsory at rinks. Kymani Hiley-Hetaraka was not wearing ... <a title="Family of child who died in ice-skating accident angry coroner will not open inquiry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/03/family-of-child-who-died-in-ice-skating-accident-angry-coroner-will-not-open-inquiry/" aria-label="Read more about Family of child who died in ice-skating accident angry coroner will not open inquiry">Read more</a>
