Features

The House - The government will move for the House to sit under urgency this week to put through a bill on Mycoplasma bovis, following moves to restrict foreign buyers and remove Pacific tariffs.  Audio

Julia Deans performs four songs from her new album We Light Fire, with an all-star band, live in our Auckland studio. Video, Audio

About 29,000 teachers and principals were on strike today, forcing the closure of most of the country's primary and intermediate schools. Video

Julie Biuso is in the mood for mezze, she talks preserved lemons and labna, which is drained yoghurt. Audio

Since January 2017, the Commerce Commission has received more than 400 complaints about the Switzerland-based website, many to do with the selling of fake concert tickets.

Mediawatch - Judith Collins has been condemned for endorsing fake news with critics claiming it's the first time a local MP has knowingly spread a story online that's made up, but it also echoes a beat-up story from before Twitter.  Audio

The RNZ Music Team of Alex Behan, Kirsten Johnstone, Tony Stamp, Danielle Street and Yadana Saw bring dancefloor bangers and warm fluffies to their mid-Winter play and tell.  Video, Audio

Anandi Bhattacharya recorded her debut album Joys Abound with her father Debashish – the greatest slide guitarist in India. Trevor Reekie meets the up-and-coming Indian singer. Video, Audio

Children’s literature - from fairy tales to Harry Potter - has used food and disgust to teach children about cultural acceptability, pop culture professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell says.  Audio

Marriage and children didn’t end the musical careers of Lauren (L.A. Mitchell) and Matt Barus (Dukes), but it did change the music. Video, Audio

While Samoan author Lani Wendt Young is no stranger to online abuse, none of her previous experiences prepared her for the torrent of threats that began in January.

The only Kiwi to study aerospace medicine with NASA, Lisa Brown, says the small field has massive potential and New Zealand should get on board. Audio

The Creative New Zealand Pacific Arts Strategy is close to being completed this month for launch in September.

Women tend to avoid varied and risky investments compared with men, and tend to have less money over time as a result, research shows.  Audio

Leading US left-wing intellectual Cornel West is headed to New Zealand to debate right-wing thinker Douglas Murray in an informed discussion the like of which, he says, has practically disappeared from America. Audio

Opinion - History was made as the first ever Warriors Women's side strode out onto Mt Smart Stadium.

Video recordings of all twelve groups performing at the semi-finals of the recent NZCT Chamber Music Contest are now published.

Twenty-eight defence force personnel, who died while serving in Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam and were buried overseas, have been exhumed and will be returned to their families later this month.

The words of Richard Don - a village leader from a remote earthquake-affected village in Papua New Guinea's Highlands region - have an unmistakable desperation.

Efforts to help earthquake-affected communities rebuild their lives in Papua New Guinea's Highlands region are in full swing.

Hinewirangi Kohu Morgan uses Tāonga Pūoro as a tool for healing with victims of sexual assault. In the exhibition The Right to Speak she has created a carved hue (gourd), based on a story retold to her from a fellow Hawaiian artist.  Audio

Fiji's government is remaining tight-lipped regarding its involvement with a South Korea church, whose leader has been arrested and accused of enslaving some 400 followers in Fiji.

A refugee on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island has mounted a protest against four companies providing services to about 600 men exiled there by Australia.

The Pacific Islands Forum summit in Nauru next month will consider the region pooling resources to create a US$1.5 billion climate change fund.