15 Dec 2025

Celebrating the New Zealanders who run towards danger

From Afternoons, 1:15 pm on 15 December 2025
New Zealand Bravery Award recipient Hayden Paul Cornwall.

New Zealand Bravery Award recipient Hayden Paul Cornwall. Photo: SUPPLIED / Hayden Paul Cornwall

There is remarkable video footage of an Australian man tackling one of the Bondi shooters you can watch it on rnz.co.nz

His act of bravery is being lauded right across the world and quite rightly. 

People who risk their lives to help others are a special breed.

Over the weekend, 10 such New Zealanders received Bravery Awards for their acts of heroism. 

One of them was 23-year-old Hamiltonian Hayden Paul Cornwall, he joins me now.