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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand When it comes to buying kids technology-based presents for Christmas, Sean Lyons from Netsafe, an organisation dedicated to online safety, likens these gifts to something they are not: a bike. “In my day, when there was a bike, and I said ‘I wanted a bike’, my parents were really, really sure ... <a title="What to consider if your kid wants tech for Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/what-to-consider-if-your-kid-wants-tech-for-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about What to consider if your kid wants tech for Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The financial burden of keeping the camera going is “colossal”, say community groups. Unsplash/ Johny Goh Community-owned high-tech cameras were used to catch suspects in two killings, but the volunteer group involved can not afford to keep running the crime fighting kit. Cameras that link to automated number plate recognition software ... <a title="Cameras used by police after killings – but who covers the cost?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/cameras-used-by-police-after-killings-but-who-covers-the-cost/" aria-label="Read more about Cameras used by police after killings – but who covers the cost?">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The House was in the midst of its fourth evening of urgency on Friday. VNP / Daniela Maoate-Cox A late night voting error during a fourth evening of urgency last week forced the government to end urgency sooner than expected. Most Friday evenings at Parliament, not many people are around – ... <a title="The House: Urgency ends early after voting gaffe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/the-house-urgency-ends-early-after-voting-gaffe/" aria-label="Read more about The House: Urgency ends early after voting gaffe">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Lower interest rates and an increase in property listings is driving confidence. File photo. 123rf Confidence in the New Zealand housing market has risen to its highest level in 15 years, with more people thinking it is a good time to buy. The latest ASB Housing Confidence Survey indicates 28 percent ... <a title="Housing market confidence rises: ‘It’s very much a buyer’s market’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/housing-market-confidence-rises-its-very-much-a-buyers-market/" aria-label="Read more about Housing market confidence rises: ‘It’s very much a buyer’s market’">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A public hospital doctor is owed $1.27 million in annual leave while many more are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars for leave they have been unable to take. RNZ asked Health NZ to provide the highest 20 annual leave balances owed to senior doctors to the end of September. It ... <a title="Hospital doctor owed $1.27m in annual leave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/hospital-doctor-owed-1-27m-in-annual-leave/" aria-label="Read more about Hospital doctor owed $1.27m in annual leave">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand People in New Zealand with family in Sri Lanka are describing the widespread devastation caused by severe flooding from Cyclone Ditwah. The extreme weather system has destroyed homes, leaving thousands displaced A state of emergency has also been declared. There are also reports that entire villages have been washed away in ... <a title="Sri Lanka flooding: ‘Entire lives swept away in a single night’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/sri-lanka-flooding-entire-lives-swept-away-in-a-single-night/" aria-label="Read more about Sri Lanka flooding: ‘Entire lives swept away in a single night’">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Kate Aynsley’s gun likely went off by accident as she either fell or fumbled in steep, slippery terrain. Supplied / NZ Hunting and Wildlife Magazine The death of a Dunedin woman who shot herself while deer hunting in an Otago forest was a terrible accident, a coroner has ruled. Kate Aynsley, ... <a title="Dunedin woman fatally shot herself in head while deer hunting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/dunedin-woman-fatally-shot-herself-in-head-while-deer-hunting/" aria-label="Read more about Dunedin woman fatally shot herself in head while deer hunting">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Labour leader Chris Hipkins shook people’s hands as he walked out of the theatre hand in hand with his fiancé Toni Grace. RNZ / Anneke Smith Analysis – The Labour Party will be chuffed with how its party looks and feels after an energetic annual general meeting in Auckland this weekend. ... <a title="‘We’ve got a shot’: Labour readies for political revival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/weve-got-a-shot-labour-readies-for-political-revival/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’ve got a shot’: Labour readies for political revival">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
A transition in global emphasis from “nuclear to climate crisis survivors”, plus new geopolitical exposés. REVIEW: By Amit Sarwal of The Australia Today Forty years after the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, award-winning journalist and author David Robie has revisited the ship’s fateful last mission — a journey that became ... <a title="David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/david-robies-eyes-of-fire-rekindles-the-legacy-of-the-rainbow-warrior-40-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about David Robie’s Eyes of Fire rekindles the legacy of the Rainbow Warrior 40 years on">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Ian Powell The origin of the expression “tuckered out” goes back to the east of the United States around the 1830s. After New Englanders began to compare the wrinkled and drawn appearance of overworked and undernourished horses and dogs to the appearance of tucked cloth, it became associated with people being exhausted. Expressions ... <a title="Tucker Carlson ‘tuckered out’ with Donald Trump and Israel – insights for New Zealand rightwing politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/tucker-carlson-tuckered-out-with-donald-trump-and-israel-insights-for-new-zealand-rightwing-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Tucker Carlson ‘tuckered out’ with Donald Trump and Israel – insights for New Zealand rightwing politics">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand For generations, researchers have been convinced autism was a “male issue” and simply haven’t bothered to look out for signs of it in women, says British neuroscientist Gina Rippon. We now know that autism presents differently in females, who often mask the traits so they can fit in. In her new ... <a title="How autistic girls and women get shortchanged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/30/how-autistic-girls-and-women-get-shortchanged/" aria-label="Read more about How autistic girls and women get shortchanged">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Paula Beilby (fourth from left) with her whānau outside the High Court at Hamilton. Belinda Feek/NZME/Supplied A woman whose brother was killed by a group of Mongrel Mob members says she feels revictimised, after a judge stopped her from reading out all her pre-approved victim impact statement. Paula Beilby was not ... <a title="Mitchell Te Kani’s sister told off after reading pre-approved victim impact statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/30/mitchell-te-kanis-sister-told-off-after-reading-pre-approved-victim-impact-statement/" aria-label="Read more about Mitchell Te Kani’s sister told off after reading pre-approved victim impact statement">Read more</a>
