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New Zealanders like to think we have a “Number 8 Wire Mentality” - a rough and ready enthusiasm for fixing and building stuff with limited resources.  Video, Audio

The first-ever national health plan has been released by government agencies, aiming for a a huge shake up over the next two years.

It's big on ideas such as changing the way the sector gets workers… Video, Audio

Te Whatu Ora, Health NZ has released its plans for the next two years as it figures out how to replace 20 individual district ones that existed under the previous structure.  

The interim plan has a… Audio

Christchurch police say they have arrested three youths linked to an incident where a cyclist was knocked off his bike and seriously injured by young people driving a stolen car.

It's one of three… Audio

From a standing start of little tank engines chugging along wooden rails, New Zealand built a vast rail network, made up of enough steel rail to wrap halfway around the moon. Video, Audio

National population growth is predicted to slow to less than 1 percent each year for the next decade.

But what growth remains will be highest in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty.

And… Audio

The Fair Pay Agreement Bill - one of Labour's flagship worker policies - has passed, marking one of the most significant shifts in employment relations in decades.

Fair Pay Agreements will enable… Audio

Marine mammals were a source of food and clothing for Māori and Moriori, and valuable oil for Europeans. Hunting them brought cultures together, made fortunes and cost lives but today it's saving them… Video, Audio

Police are calling for sightings of a Hong Kong national who died in Queenstown over Labour Weekend.

51-year-old Wai Ming Lai died suddenly on Saturday in Sawpit Gully. He'd been in the country since… Video, Audio

The National Party is highlighting what it calls an "education disaster" in the results of a trial run of new NCEA literacy and numeracy tests.

While there was an initial focus on the poor overall… Audio

The new national transport ticketing system announced by the Government last week will be rolled out by an American contractor which provides training for military drones.

The Waka Kotahi deal is… Audio

A Government task force has delivered 101 recommendations to cut surgical wait times - but no targets for when they will be achieved.

The recommendations include giving GPs more ability to diagnose… Audio

These are the wars that cost more lives than any other in our history. Stretched over more than a decade & the entire country, these conflicts changed Māori warfare & much of what came next.

Australia has come under heavy criticism for obstructing United Nations delegates, there to visit prisons and detention centres.

Under the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or… Audio

The National Party is planning to revive Bill English's social investment agenda, saying that it will help in identifying the most effective social programmes and deliver more bang for our taxpayer… Audio

In 1841 a few tiny islands of Pākehā settlement existed in an ocean of Māori land. Today, that picture has reversed & Māori own a fraction of Aotearoa. A big part of the reason? The Native Land Court.

There has been both criticism and praise for the National Party's newly announced social investment fund policy.

The policy would see the private sector and philanthropists called on to lend a… Audio

Government spending on contractors and consultants jumped by a third last year, up $300 million.

The latest public service workforce data shows one-point-two-billion-dollars was spent, all while… Audio

National is insisting the Hamilton West by-election will be a "three-horse race" as both parties downplay their prospects of a win.

Waikato voters will head to the polling booths in just 50 days… Audio

The discovery of gold drew tens of thousands to New Zealand in search of fortune. It was a hard life, but diggers brought mateship, fashion & egalitarian ideas that changed the country forever. Video, Audio

The deputy leader of the National party insists a social investment fund with contribution from wealthy New Zealanders will not be idealogically driven and will instead be based on results.

Nicola… Audio

New Zealanders have battled Covid-19 for more than two years, but if you think it's the first time disease has knocked us around, well, this one's for you. Epidemics have long been part of our story. 

Inflation has now become embedded within the economy.

That's the view of the National Party after the latest inflation figures were announced yesterday - the annual rate was point-six of a percent… Audio

The 1950s saw an explosion of youth culture. “Bodgies and widgies' ' tearing round on motorbikes & hanging out in milk bars scandalised many Kiwi adults. Was “the teenager” invented in the 1950s? And… Video, Audio

You'll no doubt be aware - if you've been to the supermarket recently, the cost of food remains high In fact, latest StatsNZ data shows it's at a 13-year high. With some parents struggling to feed… Audio