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Topics - how do we prevent cyclists and pedestrians getting killed or injured on our roads? Will stronger laws and penalties against motorists help prevent injuries to vulnerable road users? As you'll… Audio

Topics - With the prices of houses continuing to rise, first home buyers might have to ask for "mum and dad" third-party hand ups to help get onto the property market. Pakistani-born Invercargill taxi… Audio

Topics - The Labour party wants to bar non-residents from buying existing houses, flats or apartments. Under a new policy, buyers from overseas would be allowed to buy a house in New Zealand only if… Audio

Topic 1 - Pilot shortage? Topic 2 - Drug cheats. Topic 3 - School kids. Audio

Topics - New Zealand's local councils spent $700 million more than they earned in the past financial year. That has led to the worst operating deficit on record. An interesting article in the New… Audio

Topics - The Property Council says plans to strengthen buildings against earthquakes could lead owners to board up their properties and walk away from them. Coca-Cola says it will take steps to… Audio

Topics - A 21-gun salute has been fired in Wellington today, to mark the birth of a baby boy to Prince William and Catherine Duchess of Cambridge. The new prince, who is third in line to the throne… Audio

Topics - The Prime Minister, John Key, says any claims lodged with the Earthquake Commission as a result of yesterday's earthquake, will be honoured. We've had three big results in; Ashes cricket, The… Audio

Power Bills and Cyclists. Audio

Topics - The Minister of Conservation says his decision to reject a proposed tunnel through Fiordland reflects the high threshhold for disturbing national parks. Families of the Pike River Mine… Audio

Topics - Whanau Ora Minister Tariana Turia has defended a change in the way the scheme's funding is controlled. Children as young as three will be issued with personal identification numbers, which… Audio

Topics - The Minister of Transport says there is no need to rush a decision on new ways to fund major transport infrastructure projects in Auckland. Will first-home buyers be shut out of the housing… Audio

Topics - Winter made an appearance in Auckland today. The Beneficiary Advocacy Federation says welfare changes introduced today are bullying and punishment for beneficiaries in a tough employment… Audio

Red Vented Bulbul; The Juror; The Bill. Audio

Topics - Facebook is seeking to exempt itself from a new spying law that could see its two million New Zealand users' messages subject to interception by the GCSB. The Ministry of Business, Innovation… Audio

Topics - An Auckland-based Queen's counsel says convicted murderer Scott Watson would need compelling new evidence for a fresh appeal to the governor General to succeed. Scott Watson's family have… Audio

Topics - Police are carrying out a series of investigations into the fatal shooting of a former soldier on an Auckland motorway. A new report shows New Zealand schools have less of a mix of rich and… Audio

Topics - Experts are calling for compulsory cyber-education programmes in all schools from primary level to stem the impact of explicit material on young people. It's possible the first part of the… Audio

Pike River and a call for compensation from the government; is there building work or isn't there in Christchurch, some builders are struggling. Audio

Topics - Christchurch City Councillors have today voted unanimously to ask for Government help to sort out the consents crisis, with some asking how council leadership allowed the authority to get… Audio

Topics - Teachers feel unsafe in their own classrooms. Auckland council is drafting a bylaw to ban begging on the city's streets. Audio

Topics - The Maori Party co-leader, Pita Sharples, says it is clear to him that uncertainty about the party's leadership was damaging its support. New Zealanders scoffed $1.5 billion worth of… Audio

Fluoride in our drinking water, School soccer coach apologises for verbally abusing a referee, Criticism faces the latest stage of the Auckland Council's draft Unitary Plan process. Audio

Gifts from the government to Auckland; Sprawl in Auckland. Audio

Topics - Kevin Rudd has been sworn in again as Australia's prime minister - and it looks as though the country will go to the polls earlier than the planned September 14 election. A Waikato… Audio