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Topics - The Official Cash Rate's been held at 3.5 percent for now, but the Reserve Bank is indicating modest increases will be needed from next year. There are concerns in Christchurch that a… Audio

Topics - the use of torture during interrogation has been officially acknowledged by the release of a report by the United States government's Senate Intelligence Committee today. The US tortured… Audio

Topics - President Xi of China raised with John Key the issue of getting back to China people who've escaped that country with dirty money, money from fraud and corruption. We hasten to add that a… Audio

Topics - traffic hell - as is the modern parlance - for Aucklanders on Saturday... the flow-on effect of a serious accident involving motorcycles and a truck on the Auckland Harbour Bridge. It slowed… Audio

Air New Zealand named world's best airline as British Airways scrapes into 10th place. Public servant numbers are climbing in Wellington. $1.5 million "lighthouse" sculpture on Queens Wharf is now… Audio

Topics - the Local Government Commission has Absolutely Positively recommended Wellington becomes the country's second super city. Its draft paper has come out today, recommending the nine councils… Audio

Topics - New Zealand freediver William Trubridge will have another shot at a world record tomorrow. This morning the 34-year-old came up short in an attempt to dive 102 metres into a cavern off the… Audio

Topics - Children's Commissioner Russell Wills says there's no actual plan to combat poverty. He's released his second annual Child Poverty Monitor. The Families Commission is now called the Social… Audio

Topics - Andrew Little has begun today to reframe the Labour party's relationship with the electorate. "From the smoko room to the boardroom, we'll work with you". He wants the party to connect better… Audio

Former Act Party leader and Auckland Mayoral candidate John Banks has had his conviction for filing a false electoral return, overturned today in the Court of Appeal. A second report in the Sir Owen… Audio

Topics - texts this week between John Key and Cameron Slater and John Key's related answers in Parliament. Another scam revealed of murderer Phillip Smith's. He swindled nearly $28,000 from the… Audio

Topics - Inspector General of Intelligence and Security Cheryl Gwyn's found attack blogger Cameron Slater requested and published politically damaging material about former Labour Leader Phil Goff… Audio

Topics - the Government inquiry into the former Justice Minister, Judith Collins, has cleared her of undermining the head of the Serious Fraud Office in 2011. However, it has found there were such… Audio

Topics - the new Labour leader Andrew Little has been quick to ask for Iain Rennie's head. Quote - "The idea that you arrange a press conference for a senior public servant, about whom a finding of… Audio

The Chinese President has told a business lunch in Auckland that he wants to continue to build on the China New Zealand relationship in a way that will be economically beneficial for both nations. At… Audio

Topics - the findings of a Commerce Commission investigation into supermarket company Progressive Enterprises has cleared it of intimidating its suppliers. There is a company called youi in the… Audio

Topics - Andrew Little has had his first full day as leader. He's wasted no time getting stuck in to the Prime Minister saying behind John Key's "appearance of a happy-go-lucky chappy" is the "vilest… Audio

Topics - former Minister of Transport has been fined $2000 for breaching airport security by the Civil Aviation Authority. In July, Gerry Brownlee and two of his staff were in a hurry and entered a… Audio

Topics - the boss of the Christchurch Earthquake Recovery Authority, Roger Suton has resigned. Because he hugs people, ostensibly. The State Services Commission investigated the CEO of CERA following… Audio

Topics - We now know that in recent years Phillip John Smith defrauded the taxpayer of the best part of $50,000 by obtaining bogus refunds from IRD. The Maori chiefs who signed the Treaty of Waitangi… Audio

Topics - Phillip John Smith found in a hostel in Brazil with $400, two credit cards, makeup and wigs. He wasn't as smart, thank goodness, as we were being led to believe he was? He could be on a plane… Audio

Topics - Air New Zealand has axed regional flights to Kaitaia, Whakatane and Westport and is shutting down Eagle Airways. A new charge laid against Phillip John Smith - escaping the custody of… Audio

Topics - the incredible saga of prison absconder Phillip Smith, now in Brazil. He left the country with $10,000 in cash. He's been in contact with his lawyer in New Zealand today. He wants to make… Audio

Topics - He's a murderer and a child-sex offender and he's in Chile. Phillip John Smith on three-day release from Springhill Prison near Huntly never arrives at the address he's supposed to be staying… Audio

Ngati Porou is the first iwi off the rank to try and buy state houses. The Australasian College for Emergency Medicine has carried out its biggest survey yet of alcohol harm in emergency departments… Audio