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11:28 AM.Are you a grown-up? Your relationships are the laboratory in which to find out, mental health counsellor Jenny Brown says. Read more Audio

10:07 AM.An exhibition in London next year promises to be the biggest display of Māori art overseas since Te Māori toured the world in the 1980s. Read more Audio

9:50 AM.Kate Adie on the Budget revealing the unavoidable fact the UK hasn't got a very healthy economic outlook, plus the controversy over a Scottish Labour MP's appearance in a jungle TV reality show, and a… Read more Audio

9:39 AM.Marine Biologist and researcher with Gateway Antarctica at the University of Canterbury Andrew Wright has found whales, dolphins and porpoises are putting themselves in danger when they sleep. Andrew… Read more Audio

9:20 AM.The Government plans to scrap cohort entry to school for children before they turn 5. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says that is in the best interest of kids. Families will still be able to start… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Credit card spending is expected to spike in the next few weeks as New Zealanders splash out on Christmas presents and holidays. Over the last five years, credit card spending has risen by a third to… Read more Audio

11:33 AM.From the 1930s through the 1950s, a substantial number of forced migrants - refugees from Nazism, displaced people after World War II and escapees from Communist countries - arrived in New Zealand… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.It's 2068 and the Kenyan flag is flying from a settlement on the moon... American author Andy Weir follows up his global hit The Martian with a new novel called Artemis. Read more Audio

9:21 AM.People with disabilities struggling to find homes in the tight rental market want the government to set aside social housing especially for them.

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9:09 AM.There are mass celebrations in Zimbabwe after the resignation of Robert Mugabe as president. The 93 year old is the only leader the country has known since independence from Britain in 1980. Kathryn… Read more Audio

11:28 AM.US based New Zealand, LeRoy Transfield has designed a special coin for the US Mint to commemorate the contributions of Americans to World War 1. He entered his design as part of a competition run by… Read more Audio

10:07 AM.Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Toby Kiers is interested in millenia-old underground biological 'markets', entwined in the roots of plants and trees. Toby is… Read more Audio

9:31 AM.Technology futurist Dr Rosie Bosworth, Honorary Professor of Agri-Food Systems at Lincoln University Keith Woodford and CE of Beef + Lamb NZ Sam McIvor discuss how much of a disruptive factor… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.The government is moving to set child poverty reduction targets into law. New legislation is being drafted which the government wants introduced in its first 100 days. Is a cross-party consensus on… Read more Audio