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Sunday, 15 July 2012

Child poverty is back in the headlines with 80 organisations banding together to call on the Government to make the well-being of children its top priority.

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Sunday, 8 July 2012

In the latest of our occasional Countries in Focus series we take a look at Singapore.

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Sunday, 1 July 2012

International Year of the Cooperative

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Sunday, 24 June 2012

Justice Joe Williams talks to Chris Laidlaw about his life and influences.

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Sunday, 17 June 2012

In the second of our two part look at imprisonment we focus on rehabilitation

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Sunday, 10 June 2012

Bryan Stevenson,  US prison reform campaigner and the grandson of Rosa Parks, and Roger Brooking on what’s wrong with our present policies and what changes are needed.

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Sunday, 3 June 2012

The 25th anniversary of the passing New Zealand’s nuclear free legislation.

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Sunday, 27 May 2012

In the latest of our occasional lived philosophies series we take a look at libertarianism

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Sunday, 20 May 2012

Chris Laidlaw talks to Dame Iritana about her life, ideas and influences.

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Sunday, 13 May 2012

More than 3000 people are estimated to have been killed in CIA drone attacks in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen since President Obama came to power.

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Sunday, 6 May 2012

Laurent Dubois – the author of Haiti: The Aftershocks of History - tells us about some of that history; and we talk to Haitian orthopaedic surgeon Ogedad Pierre and nurse Robyn Couper, who spent more than 30 years living in Haiti.

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Sunday, 29 April 2012

Jeremy Rose about growing up bilingual and Chris Laidlaw talks to historian Angela Wanhalla, of Kai Tahu and Irish descent, about the history of Pakeha Maori.

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Sunday, 22 April 2012

Professor Bill Manhire, New Zealand's inaugural Poet Laureate, and the Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University.

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Sunday, 15 April 2012

Are we breeding a nation of risk averse children?

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Sunday, 8 April 2012

SPCA’s executive director Bob Kerridge reflects on the individuals, books and thinkers who have influenced him.

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Sunday, 1 April 2012

Ideas talks to artist Manu Taria Rio and Turkish immigrant Nas Kavas about their art and explores the concept of outsider art.

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Sunday, 25 March 2012

The case for a tobin - or Robin Hood - tax; the tax implications of a universal basic income; and the history of tax in New Zealand.

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Sunday, 18 March 2012

Its proponents say it’s safe and has the potential to free up vast quantities of natural gas and oil. Its opponents say it’s been linked to the contamination of aquifers, the setting off of earthquakes, and wide scale pollution.

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Sunday, 11 March 2012

Jeremy Rose and Chris Laidlaw explore the practice and philosophy of Freemasonry.

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Sunday, 4 March 2012

The state of fish stocks and recreational fishing in New Zealand.

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Sunday, 26 February 2012

The economic and health benefits of creating cycle and walking friendly cities.

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Sunday, 19 February 2012

Military contracting is now a $100 billion industry employing former soldiers from throughout the world

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Sunday, 12 February 2012

Employee-owned businesses.

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Sunday, 5 February 2012

Chris Laidlaw talks to Gareth Morgan – economist, author, philanthropist, adventurer, Phoenix Football Club co-owner, and father of Sam.

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Ideas concluded on 16 March 2014.

Produced by Jeremy Rose