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4:08 PM.Auckland landlords are charging the Government large amounts of money to house homeless people. Some are charging up to $300 a night to house homeless people who have nowhere else to go.  Read more Audio

3:55 PM.What the Panellists Guy Williams and Jo McCarroll have been thinking about. Read more Audio

3:48 PM.Favourite fodder of the tabloids Meghan Markle is our story today.  Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Wallace Chapman is joined by Jo McCarroll, editor of NZ Gardener magazine, and Guy Williams, Comedian and host the TV show New Zealand Today.

4:57 PM.The humble typewriter is back, baby! I'm sure some may be arguing it never left...but it has of course fallen out of favour since the invent of the computer and all it's word-processing power.  Read more Audio

4:54 PM.The classic sleepover - staying up all night with your mates, refusing to sleep, eating junk food and building forts. It's one of the best things about being a kid.  Read more Audio

4:50 PM.Oranga Tamariki workers have been physically and verbally attacked, and since the controversy over the removal of babies in OT care, they say the abuse has increased.  Read more Audio

4:41 PM.NZ First has shot down a plan to make drug testing legal by this summer, because they say it could encourage drug use. Police Minister Stuart Nash said the move would save lives and hospitalisations.

4:36 PM.The National Party's accused the Speaker, Trevor Mallard, of attempting censorship after his call for political attack ads using footage from Parliamentary TV to be withdrawn from social media.  Read more Audio

4:32 PM.Would you like to see CEO pay capped, and to what level? Why? Audio

4:25 PM.The University of Auckland will not remove white supremacists signs from campus. The University's vice-chancellor says it's quote "unfortunate" but won't condemn them, as it's free speech.  Read more Audio

4:19 PM.Dismal Levels - that's how New Zealand's business confidence has been described. According to the the ANZ Business Outlook survey confidence fell 2 points. Read more Audio

4:03 PM.Max Rashbrooke, a researcher on economic inequality, wants limits brought in on what he calls the astronomically high executive pay levels in the public service. Finance Minister Grant Robertson has… Read more Audio

3:55 PM.What the Panellists Ruwani Perera and Simon Pound have been thinking about. Audio

3:46 PM.A scathing piece about the leafy green in the Atlantic has had a huge response, with many people sighing with relief that they no longer have to pretend to like the vegetable. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Wallace Chapman is joined by Ruwani Perera, journalist for the Hui, and Simon Pound, Ingrid Starnes co-founder, business podcaster and consultant.

4:44 PM.The flight shaming movement that started in Sweden and has grown quite fast in parts of the world, but it's seems unlikely to take off in New Zealand - mainly because it's hard to get anywhere without… Read more Audio

4:44 PM.Many of our cities are unaffordable, particularly when it comes to housing. An underlying trend, an opinion for Stuff argues, is our continued love affair with single dwelling housing.  Read more Audio

4:44 PM.A fierce debate over dirty laundry is heating up in Hobsonville Point in Auckland. Some residents are furious about washing being hung out to dry on lines rigged up outside homes. Read more Audio

4:41 PM.Irish writer, Ewan McKenna has stirred the pot with his call for a ban on the All Blacks' haka at each match, saying it gives them an edge over their opponents and is merely an ego trip for the New… Read more Audio

4:32 PM.Who would you choose as the next Nobel peace prize winner? Trump, Thunberg, Ardern...why? Read more Audio