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9:27 AM.From July community based midwives will get a 6 per cent pay rise. The $8 million dollar package was agreed to by the government in return for the College of Midwives withdrawing its high profile… Read more Audio

9:09 AM.Standards New Zealand has released its long awaited benchmark for the testing and remediation of P contaminated properties. Massey University environmental chemist Nick Kim, a top expert in P testing… Read more Audio

11:28 AM.Parent educator and mentor Mary Willow talks to Kathryn about the need for children to have downtime. She says children are born with the unstoppable urge to 'go get the world', but that comes with a… Read more Audio

10:12 AM.Queensland lawyer Debbie Kilroy is the only convicted drug trafficker in Australia to be admitted to the bar. As a young mother aged 28, Kilroy was sentenced to six years in the infamous Boggo Road… Read more Audio

9:51 AM.UK Correspondent Tim Sculthorpe on the Hillsborough Disaster charges, the Tory-DUP deal following Theresa May's election catastrophe, and the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire. Audio

9:33 AM.New Zealand school children see a surprising amount of advertising at school, including fast food advertisements, and there should be national guidelines to limit what they're exposed to, researchers… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Dozens of parents have met in Auckland to raise their concerns about what will happen to their disabled children when they can no longer care for them.   Read more Audio

11:20 AM.Kathryn Ryan talks to Aimee Charteris, the geneticist behind New Zealand's new lamb. Promoted as among the world's tastiest and best for you, Te Mana, with its high Omega-3 content, is putting… Read more Audio, Gallery

10:08 AM.Lisala Halapua is an Auckland writer and illustrator whose first children's book is a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults best first book award. Read more Audio

9:36 AM.Should fast food giants like Pizza Hut and McDonald's be made to put health star ratings on their food? It's the conclusion of a major new study by Australia's George Institute for Global Health after… Read more Audio

9:08 AM.Computer programming is about to stand alongside reading, writing and maths in the classroom in terms of core literacy skills. We take a look at what this new kind of literacy will mean for raising… Read more Audio

11:22 AM.Writer Tina Makereti outlines Black Marks on the White Page - a new collection of Māori and Pacific writing she co-edited with Witi Ihimaera.   Read more Audio

11:06 AM.Rod Oram talks to Kathryn Ryan, about a bidding war heating up for the insurer, Tower; Kirin puts its Australian dairy business up for sale… might Fonterra bid? And Winston Peters offers regions their… Read more Audio

10:06 AM.Dame Jane Goodall is the world-renowned conservationist and primatologist in the 1960s she made history with through her groundbreaking study on the chimpanzees of the Gombe, in Tanzania. Read more Video, Audio

9:52 AM.Steve Almond with the latest from the US, including rumours that Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court's "swing" vote is rumored to be ready to retire. Audio

9:39 AM.Kathryn Ryan talks to US researcher TR Reid about America's complicated tax system, and the loopholes for corporate giants. TR Reid says his country could learn a thing or two from New Zealand's tax… Read more Audio