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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand All Blacks Sevens player Brady Rush. Photosport New Zealand has swept the Dubai round of the Sevens World Series with the Black Ferns Sevens and All Blacks Sevens beating Australia in their respective finals. The Black Ferns Sevens thumped their arch-rivals 29-14 before the All Blacks Sevens held on the beat ... <a title="All Blacks Sevens end title drought, Black Ferns Sevens get revenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/all-blacks-sevens-end-title-drought-black-ferns-sevens-get-revenge/" aria-label="Read more about All Blacks Sevens end title drought, Black Ferns Sevens get revenge">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand This year also marks 40 years since the Burnett Foundation (formerly the New Zealand AIDS Foundation) opened its doors. 123RF More than four decades after the first New Zealander was diagnosed with HIV, medical advances have completely changed the face of the once-fatal virus, but one man living with it says ... <a title="‘We are active members of society’: 40 Forty years of fighting HIV in NZ but the stigma is still there" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/we-are-active-members-of-society-40-forty-years-of-fighting-hiv-in-nz-but-the-stigma-is-still-there/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We are active members of society’: 40 Forty years of fighting HIV in NZ but the stigma is still there">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Penny Towns celebrating a medal at the Special Olympics World Summer Games Athens 2011 SUPPLIED / SPECIAL OLYMPICS High levels of anticipation and excitement have been expressed by some of the Special Olympics’ hometown heroes ahead of its return to Ōtautahi. The national summer games open in Christchurch next week, the ... <a title="Hometown heroes anticipating Christchurch Special Olympics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/hometown-heroes-anticipating-christchurch-special-olympics/" aria-label="Read more about Hometown heroes anticipating Christchurch Special Olympics">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand To celebrate his landmark album For The Working Class Man, Australian rocker Jimmy Barnes will hit the road. Barnes will play the iconic album from start to finish on Working Class Man 40th Anniversary Tour, taking the crowd from ‘I’d Die to be With You Tonight’ to ‘Paradise’, plus cuts from ... <a title="Jimmy Barnes to celebrate 40 years solo with two NZ shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/jimmy-barnes-to-celebrate-40-years-solo-with-two-nz-shows/" aria-label="Read more about Jimmy Barnes to celebrate 40 years solo with two NZ shows">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Sam Lane of New Zealand Black Sticks. Andrew Cornaga / www.photosport.nz The Black Sticks men have finished third at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia. New Zealand beat the hosts 6-1 in the play-off for third. Sam Lane opened the scoring with two field goals in the opening quarter. James ... <a title="One-man show as Black Sticks claim bronze medal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/one-man-show-as-black-sticks-claim-bronze-medal/" aria-label="Read more about One-man show as Black Sticks claim bronze medal">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Farmers affected by the latest overflow are likely not be able to harvest until after Christmas. Supplied Weeks after a 1200-cubic-metre wastewater spill into the Mahurangi River, Auckland oyster farmers are dealing with the effects of another overflow, which they say has stuffed their Christmas season. Watercare confirmed to RNZ that ... <a title="‘We’re basically stuffed’ – Oyster farmers shut down by another oveflow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/were-basically-stuffed-oyster-farmers-shut-down-by-another-oveflow/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re basically stuffed’ – Oyster farmers shut down by another oveflow">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Sam Lane of New Zealand Black Sticks. Andrew Cornaga / www.photosport.nz The Black Sticks men have finished third at the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Malaysia. New Zealand beat the hosts 6-1 in the play-off for third. Sam Lane opened the scoring with two field goals in the opening quarter. James ... <a title="A one man show as Black Sticks claim bronze medal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/01/a-one-man-show-as-black-sticks-claim-bronze-medal/" aria-label="Read more about A one man show as Black Sticks claim bronze medal">Read more</a>
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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 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>
