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Confusion reigns as PNG waits for O'Neill's resignation
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Opinion: Consistency is key for Black Caps at Cricket World Cup
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Pharmac switches epilepsy drug against Medsafe advice
Pharmac is making 10,000 people with epilepsy change medication even though Medsafe opposed the move. Guyon Espiner asks why the drug-buying agency carries out up to 60 drug switches a year.
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Song Crush: new music we're loving
Is Tyler the Creator the Brian Wilson of this generation? The Song Crush team consider his new album Igor, and rave about new music from Kelsey Lu, SJD, and more. Video, Audio
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Theresa May: 'anguished, unhappy and miserable'
Theresa May's tenure as British prime minister was the most painful that veteran British political columnist Anne Perkins has seen. Audio
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Baby gear rental service launches in NZ
Soon New Zealanders will be able to hire baby equipment when they're on the road when the Australian service Tree Hut Village sets up here. Founder Eva Wintersberger tells Jesse Mulligan how it works. Audio
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POLL: Who's New Zealand's best live act right now?
1 minute agoWe want to know who New Zealand's favourite live act is. We've picked 25 of the best and all you have to do is vote for your favourites. We'll announce who got the top spot this Friday.
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Hymns on Sunday
29 minutes agoIn today's programme a Jewish cantor and a Methodist minister join forces, we've settings of Psalms 34 and 148, and there are hymns by New Zealanders Shirley Murray and David Burt. Audio
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Top NZ albums that are 25 this year
less than a minute agoFor NZ Music Month we're celebrating some of the enduring Kiwi albums that came out in 1994, including ones by Supergroove, Dave Dobbyn, The Mutton Birds, Strawpeople and Richard Nunns and Hirini Melbourne.
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Friday Night Live: A Strange Day's Night of The Beatles
1 minute agoEnjoy a celebration of The Beatles in A Strange Days Night - songs by the Fab Four performed by an array of local artists live at The Auckland Town Hall.
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Pharmac switches epilepsy drug against Medsafe advice
Pharmac is making 10,000 people with epilepsy change medication, despite Medsafe's opposition the move. Guyon Espiner asks why it carries out up to 60 drug…
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Pharmac's secret list
Desperate patients are being left in the dark as to when Pharmac will fund medicines. Guyon Espiner asks why the drug-buying agency operates with such secrecy. Video
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Pharmac: The NZ Buyer's Club
Guyon Espiner reveals how lung cancer patients are buying cut-price drugs from India, as other Kiwis fundraise, petition and apply for clinical trials to access…
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Ministerial diaries: Who's doing the mahi in government?
Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson are leading from the front as the country's busiest ministers, according to new data released by the government - but where's…
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Analysis - In a week that featured chaos and confusion after assertions a rapist was working at Parliament, there was also cooperation on climate, a big Budget…
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Opinion - Over three years Theresa May committed error after error in her handling of the negotiations to leave the European Union. Her mind set did not help…
Bad apples in the Parliament's barrel
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Australia's election shows again that people are more interested in who they can trust rather than what they will deliver, and that you can't rely on polls to…