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4:03 PM.Yesterday we mentioned that NZ First Leader Winston Peters had confirmed his party would be pushing for a referendum on abortion law reform. Today he has doubled down, hitting out at his coalition… Read more Audio

3:55 PM.What the Panellists Chris Orr and Paula Penfold have been thinking about. Audio

3:46 PM.The first ever consumer product made in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. And given it's Soviet history it's rather apt that the first product is vodka. Read more Audio

12:00 PM.Wallace Chapman is joined by Paula Penfold, investigative journalist at Stuff Circuit, and Chris Orr, Access and Awareness Advisor at the Blind Foundation. 

4:47 PM.Uber eats has been pretty popular since it was introduced two years ago. But not all companies are faring well from the boom. The Herald has looked at the case of the Auckland eatery Poke Bar. Read more Audio

4:43 PM.Has Winston Peters blindsided Labour again? The Government announced all was going ahead with the bill on abortion reform earlier this week. Read more Audio

4:35 PM.Michael Fallows has written a piece on Stuff based on figures from Local Government NZ on who we are electing to these roles.  Read more Audio

4:28 PM.What is your favourite off-the-beaten track spot in New Zealand? Why? Read more Audio

4:09 PM.Earlier this week we talked about a well loved New Zealand fish Tarakihi. There's a proposal before Government to slash the amount of Tarakihi that commercial fishers are allowed to take.  Read more Audio

4:03 PM.Wages are up and unemployment is down, but how long will it last? Figures show that the unemployment rate fell to a seasonaly adjusted 3.9 per cent in the June quarter, the lowest unemployment rate… Read more Audio

3:56 PM.What the Panellists Jo McCarroll and Anton Matthews have been thinking about. Audio

12:00 PM.Wallace Chapman is joined by Jo McCarroll, editor of NZ Gardener magazine, and Anton Matthews, Christchurch restaurateur who runs Te Reo classes.

4:55 PM.We need to stop with this national obsession with pies, an opinion piece argues. Like most of the food that we love as part of kiwi culture - fish and chups, tomato sauce, L&P - the pie is a… Read more Audio

4:50 PM.A Mayoral candidate has criticised the Hastings District Council ban on councillors' campaign cars being parked in council carparks.  Read more Audio

4:45 PM.We're all pretending to be rich. Or at least we may be living the high live but we're also deep in debt. Stuff reports today on the rise of the "fake rich" - those kiwis who seem like they're doing… Read more Audio

4:40 PM.A wonderful long read in the Guardian talks about the last generation to have grown up without the internet. These are people born in the late 70's and social scientists call them the "Last of the… Read more Audio

4:32 PM.What did YOU do before the internet? Audio

4:25 PM.Mini shampoos, toothbrush and paste, soap and even sewing kits…all things you can happily nick from your hotel room. They're also all individually wrapped in plastic. Read more Audio

4:20 PM.Visitor numbers at the Len Lye Centre have plummeted since the introduction of a door charge for our of towners. The charge was decided by council to help pay for the annual running of the gallery.  Read more Audio

4:15 PM.The Education Review Office has slammed the way schools and the Education Ministry were preparing for the introduction of the new digital technologies curriculum in 2020.  Read more Audio

4:10 PM.Tensions were ratcheted up at Ihumātao last night, with an increased police presence blocking Quarry Road. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said police were concerned about a particular part of the site.