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Kiwis leaving NZ to access lifesaving drugs
Claudine Johnstone uprooted her family to move from Dunedin to Australia in order to get treament for breast cancer. The medicine she needs isn't available in New Zealand. The cancer society's medical… Audio
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'Broken promises and lies, people like me don't matter'
A Breast cancer sufferer is devastated by lack of funding in Budget 2019 for the government's drug buying agency, Pharmac. Audio
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Matt Blomfield: Seven years of hell at the hands of Whale Oil
Words have power. No one knows that better than Matt Blomfield, a former Hell's Pizza executive who found himself the subject of an orchestrated attack by Cameron Slater on the blog Whale Oil in… Audio
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Lung cancer sufferer says Pharmac not fit for purpose
A lung cancer sufferer and pharmacology expert's told says he doesn't think Pharmac is fit for purpose. In late 2012, at 48-years-old, John Ashton - who's an associate professor at the Univeristy of… Audio
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Parents beg Pharmac to fund drugs as son’s muscles waste away
Two four-year-old children suffering from SMA, a rare degenerative disorder, are living vastly different lives, because while one can access life-changing drugs in Australia, the other - living in New… Video, Audio
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40 percent of deportees from Australia re-offending once back in NZ
Re-offending rates by New Zealanders being deported back here from Australia are on the rise. As Nita Blake-Persen reports, more than 40 percent of deportees have been charged with an offence since… Video, Audio
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The Chills' Martin Phillipps opens up in new documentary
Martin Phillipps and his band The Chills came very close to international fame in the 1980s, before illness, drug addiction, and debt brought him crashing down. A new documentary charts the frontman’s… Video, Audio
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Global squeeze on Vice prompts local closure
Over the past four years, a small team of local journalists at multimedia outlet Vice has published New Zealand and Pacific stories watched and read around the world over the past four years. A new… Video, Audio
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Who are the Comancheros gang?
The police say the New Zealand chapter of the notorious Comancheros motorcycle gang was established by deportees from Australia. In raids in Auckland on Thursday, six members and associates of the… Video, Audio
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PNG's worsening battle against tuberculosis
Papua New Guinea has some of the worst rates of tuberculosis in the world and they have got worse in recent years. Audio
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Prioritise lung cancer treatments, patients tell MPs
Lung cancer patients are launching a petition to push MPs to back more treatments at a drug funding review next month. Audio
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Sound Archives - 125 Influential New Zealand Women
Next week, the final entries of a project to mark 125 years of women's suffrage in New Zealand by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision will go online. The project curate's a permanent exhibition profiling 125… Audio, Gallery
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Why is Scribe always in the news?
Since March last year, Scribe has featured in articles at least a dozen times - more than one per month - despite his alleged crimes being minor and it having been ten years since his last album…
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Cancer and the unbearable asymmetry of BS
A major cancer conference in Wellington attracted experts from around the world but Mediawatch's Jeremy Rose argues some media coverage was anything but world class. Audio
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The Panel with Heather Roy and James Nokise (Part 2)
Audio 16 Nov 2018A study has found 62 percent of people listen to music while falling asleep and Ed Sheeran's love songs about doing drugs and sleeping with prostitutes are a favourite. More than 500 artists were… Audio
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PNG to host APEC - but is it leaders before locals?
Johnny Blades looks at Papua New Guinea's road to hosting the APEC leaders' summit as it teeters on the verge of social breakdown. Video, Audio
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Australian politican Fiona Patten on sex, drugs and the electoral roll
Fiona Patten is an MP in the Victorian state parliament and the founder of the Australian Sex Party, now renamed the Reason Party. In the past, she's been a fashion designer, a sex worker and… Audio
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Steve Kilbey of The Church on Straitjacket Fits, his year of heroin and how his band inspired The Smiths
Veteran Aussie psych-rockers The Church are coming to NZ to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their 1988 album Starfish. Founding member, principal songwriter, lead vocalist and bass player Steve… Video, Audio
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Lily Allen on the toxic internet and her new, happier place
Lily Allen has dealt with fame since she was 21. In an interview promoting her upcoming New Zealand show she addresses both the up and downsides to fame, the rawness of her new album, toxic internet… Audio
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John Zalcberg, Richard Vines: Kiwis denied life-saving drugs
NZ is lagging well behind even poor nations when it comes to funding advanced cancer drugs. Australian researcher Professor John Zalcberg and Richard Vines from Rare Cancers Australia founder are part… Audio
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Cancer doctors demand Pharmac fund last-chance drugs
Two terminally ill bowel cancer patients who cannot tolerate regular chemotherapy have been denied access by drug-buyer Pharmac to an alternative life-prolonging drug that's funded in Australia and… Audio
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Silos and sexism: addiction services and mental health
Despite addiction often being tied up with other mental health problems, treatment tends to be separate and siloed - and aimed primarily at men - author, journalist and former addict Jenny Valentish… Audio
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Hemp 'superfood' recipes and the push to legalise
New Zealand is the last country in the world to make nutritious hemp a legally consumable food, promoter Cameron Sims says, and New Zealanders are missing out on a powerful source of nutrition. He… Audio, Gallery
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NZ cancer drug funding the 'survival of the richest'
Cancer Society's Medical Director Chris Jackson has called the way some of his patients can afford better cancer drugs than others "survival of the richest", while oncologists throughout NZ call on… Video, Audio
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Bake Your Thesis: Otago students serve up concepts as cakes
University of Otago Masters and PhD students yesterday turned out edible editions of their thesis, bringing a dash of extra flavour to what can be a dry intellectual meal. Audio, Gallery
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Tash Sultana on 'Jungle', feminism, and her insane rise to fame
The astonishingly talented Australian musician Tash Sultana is in New Zealand for four shows. RNZ Music's Kirsten Johnstone caught up with her to dicuss feminism, mental health and the crazy-big setup… Video, Audio
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NZer abused as boy in Australia takes compensation case to UN
A man who was sexually abused in Australian state care as a boy is taking his fight for compensation to the United Nations. The man, who RNZ has agreed only to name as John, turned to drugs after the… Audio
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Medicine shortages cripple hospitals in Solomon Islands, PNG
Audio 23 Jul 2018Doctors in both Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea are complaining of chronic shortages of medicines -- to the point where one major hospital is about to shut down. Audio
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Insight: Money Laundering in NZ
New anti-money laundering regulations have come into effect. But some question if they will make any difference. Jeremy Rose investigates money laundering in New Zealand and the attempts to counter… Audio
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NZer abused in Australia, deported, denied compensation
A New Zealander who was sexually abused in Australian state care as a boy has been barred from getting compensation. The man, who RNZ has agreed only to name as John, turned to drugs after the abuse… Audio