Getting tough: How New Zealand could stop domestic violence
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Insight - New Zealand has one of the highest reported rates of domestic violence in the developed world. The government has just put tougher laws in place to try stop violence in families. Kim Griggs has been asking, will this make a difference?
Horse racing: Flogging tracks to survive
Alasdair Robertson looks on at the Awapuni stables. Photo: RNZ / Max Towle
Insight - Forcing racing clubs to close their tracks and outsourcing the TAB could revitalise the horse racing industry, but as Max Towle discovers, some diehards won't accept change without a fight.
Forget me not: Starting a new romance when your partner has dementia
Photo: RNZ Insight/Teresa Cowie
Insight - What if your beloved has dementia and doesn't know who you are anymore? Is it all right to start a new relationship with someone else? Teresa Cowie explores the tangle of emotions, family reaction and legal issues that can emerge
How closed adoption robbed Māori children of their identity
Paul Eagle with his adopted family Photo: Supplied
Insight - Under the 1955 Adoption Act, thousands of Māori babies were adopted into Pākehā families. Te Aniwa Hurihanganui investigates the impact on Māori who grew up desperate to re-connect
