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9:45 AM.Matt Dathan is Home Affairs Editor at The Times. Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Farmers' representatives are worried that plans to speed up access to new agri-chemicals won't be fast enough to compete on the world stage.  Read more Audio

9:20 AM.The founder of one of the country's longest-running alternative education organisations, is urging a re-think on how the sector is viewed. Read more Audio

9:08 AM.New Zealand is pausing its funding to the Cook Islands in the wake of a controversial deal signed between China and the Cook Islands.  Read more Audio

11:47 AM.Science correspondent Allan Blackman joins Kathryn to talk about concerns in the world of mountaineering and among the Nepalese government about a recent feat by four British climbers.  Read more Audio

11:29 AM.Conflict can happen anywhere - from the playground to the office - or an actual battlefield. How we react to high-stress situations is largely hardwired into us as humans. But can we learn how to… Read more Audio

11:07 AM.Music correspondent Yadana Saw pays tribute to one Aotearoa's most beloved and respected music luminaries with a clutch of songs old and recent.  Read more Audio

10:50 AM.Hamilton Annual Economic Report for 2024 has just been released, while Waipa is sick of feral cats and wants them added to DOC's predator free hit list. Read more Audio

10:45 AM.Sally Battson from The Next Chapter in Wanaka reviews The Passengers on the Hankyu Line by Hiro Arikawa published by Penguin Random House. Read more Audio

10:37 AM.Over 25 years, a volunteer group in East Auckland has quietly achieved something remarkable - a transformation of the Mangemangeroa Reserve from farmland into thriving native bush. Read more Audio

10:34 AM.The Census is to be scrapped, in the biggest change to how New Zealand counts its population in more than 70 years.  Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Luke Hura has built a successful career in the film industry doing something that people generally advise against. working with animals.  Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Australia correspondent Karen Middleton details the shooting in Tasmania of a police officer who'd gone to serve a warrant to repossess a house in the state's rural north-west. Read more Audio

9:27 AM.Electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world - but it's also proving to be a boon for cyber-criminals.  Read more Audio

9:20 AM.Food prices have risen at their highest rate in 18 months, and inflation is heading towards the top of the Reserve Bank's 3 per cent target.  Read more Audio

9:06 AM.The government will take back power from local councils if their decisions are going to negatively impact economic growth, development or employment.  Read more Audio

11:48 AM.Glen Lamer has sports news. Read more Audio

11:28 AM.Historian Jock Phillips is in the Wellington studio. Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Victoria Young is BusinessDesk editor. Read more Audio

10:47 AM.Around the motu: Jesse Archer in Taupo. Read more Audio

10:40 AM.Last year, New Zealanders' perceptions of China were increasingly positive, but research released today indicates they have again turned negative.  Read more Audio

10:35 AM.Melanie O'Loughlin of Lamplight Books in Auckland reviews Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte published by Fourth Estate. Read more Audio

10:14 AM.Money makes the world go round, but what happens when you have none? Te Kahukura Boynton - founder of Māori Millionaire. Read more Audio

10:06 AM.USA correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben on the  G7 summit in Canada and the arrest of a man over the shooting of a Democratic state lawmaker and her husband,.

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9:49 AM.The distribution, manufacture, sale and supply of disposable vapes are  banned from today.  Read more Audio