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9:08 AM.Three students from Christchurch Girls High School have made formal complaints to police of incidents of sexual abuse.This follows the release on Monday of a survey of 700 students from the school -… Read more Audio

11:30 AM.We've all been there. The frying pan's on the stove and the baby's crying and there's a knock on the door from someone holding a clip board. Kathryn speaks with market research interviewer Trish… Read more Audio

11:05 AM.Zespri shareholders vote on doing business with illegal growers in China, Education Perfect in Dunedin sells for $455m and Westpac decides not to float off its NZ operations; but sales of its life… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Jessie Bray Sharpin reviews Still Life by Sarah Winman, published by HarperCollins. Read more Audio

10:05 AM.After 16 years at the helm of the Port of Tauranga, Chief Executive Mark Cairns is handing over successor Leonard Sampson, leaving a legacy of significant investment in major infrastructure and staff… Read more Audio

9:45 AM.Susan talks to Kathryn about a rare walk back of a veto threat to keep Biden's infrastructure plans together and Donald Trump is holding rallies again. Susan Davis is a congressional correspondent for… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.A new study has found most mothers would prefer to take more time off after having a child than the maximum length of parental leave allows. The research from Motu compared mothers' intentions and… Read more Audio

9:05 AM.People in areas with the lowest average incomes are paying the highest electricity prices in the country, according to the latest released data from MBIE, analysed by Consumer New Zealand. The MBIE… Read more Audio

11:50 AM.Bill McKay attended the Co-Housing Hui at Victoria University. The Housing Innovation Society organised event saw co-housing advocates together sharing ideas and experiences. Read more Audio

11:35 AM.Scott Wynands runs gluten free bakery OM Goodness. The Hawkes Bay operation which employs nine staff has recently expanded into the Auckland market, with an outlet in the Britomart train station. The… Read more Audio, Gallery

11:07 AM.The Covid spread in Australia, sees the trans Tasman travel bubble paused and highlights slow vaccination rates here. Also frustration at the rollout of the Government's almost 2-billion dollar… Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Murray Williams reviews Tree Sense: Ways of Thinking About Trees edited by Susette Goldsmith, published by Massey University Press. Read more Audio

10:08 AM.Coss Marte is the founder and chief executive of Conbody. It's a prison-style fitness bootcamp in New York City that hires former inmates as trainers. Coss served a seven-year sentence in New York's… Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Hungary's controversial Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, has been confronted by other EU leaders at a summit in Brussels, in angry and personal clashes not seen for years among the bloc's leaders. The… Read more Audio

9:35 AM.In the Porirua suburb of Cannons Creek, more than 30 people are taking part in The Wellbeing Protocol pilot,. The six week micro economy exercise involves each participant receiving 50 cannon coins… Read more Audio

9:10 AM.Serious sexual assaults including group rape have been disclosed by students at Christchurch Girls' High School in a whole of school survey conducted last month. 59 percent of survey respondents said… Read more Audio

11:32 AM.Sam celebrates the Black Caps - World Champions, and talks to Kathryn about the unsung heroes of the team as well as the headliners. Also a look at the All Blacks Squad, Read more Audio

11:06 AM.A 50th birthday celebration for Joni Mitchell's masterpiece, plus Troy Kingi collaborates with Delaney Davidson for the latest in his sequence of albums, and St Vincent's homage to slippery 70s funk.

10:34 AM.Louise O'Brien reviews Languages of Truth by Salman Rushdie, published by Penguin Random House. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Nic Low is an author of Ngāi Tahu and European descent, born in Christchurch, he writes fiction, essays and criticism. Nic Low's new book Uprising takes the reader on fifteen treks through "ancestor… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:45 AM.Another dark period in Hong Kong with the forced closure of popular pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily and serious questions over whether Hong Kong's judicial independence is really under threat now… Read more Audio

9:37 AM.An Oranga Tamariki youth justice residence is providing opportunities for residents to learn hospitality skills, by getting their help to run a cafe at the facility. Te Au rere a te Tonga in… Read more Audio

9:17 AM.Justice Minister Kris Faafoi has released a discussion document on potential reform of New Zealand's adoption laws, including the Adoption Act, which hasn't been updated since 1955. There have been… Read more Audio