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4:37 PM.New research from the Asia New Zealand Foundation has found increased travel, entertainment and personal connections means New Zealanders understand the region better than ever before. It's a self… Read more Audio

4:32 PM.Question of the Day: What's your most memorable car experience? The last Volkswagon Beetle has rolled off the production line in Mexico. It's had a few incarnations, the latest began in 2011 and there… Read more Audio

4:27 PM.New Zealand is in the midst of far and away the best kakapo breeding season ever. The total adult population of these endangered birds is just 142. But this season 86 chicks have hatched the next best… Read more Audio

4:20 PM.The government has today released a set of proposed regulations for medicinal cannabis - around cultivation and around standards for medicinal products. Under the proposed new regulatory scheme… Read more Audio

4:10 PM.New Zealand's infrastructure is at crisis point. Tjis is the analysis of the Prime Minister's own Business Advisory Council, headed by outgoing Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon. This… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.Question of the Day: What's your most memorable car experience? The last Volkswagon Beetle has rolled off the production line in Mexico. It's had a few incarnations, the latest began in 2011 and there… Read more Audio

4:03 PM.New Zealand's infrastructure is at crisis point. Tjis is the analysis of the Prime Minister's own Business Advisory Council, headed by outgoing Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon. This… Read more Audio

3:53 PM.What the Panelists Ali Jones and Shamubeel Eaqub have been thinking about. Audio

3:45 PM.There's recently been a bit of publicity around school balls in NZ - Kerikeri High School banned plunging necklines, revealing splits and anything other than ankle-length dresses at the ball. Audio

4:50 PM.New Zealand Rugby has a list of socially oriented "character assessment values" when it comes to selecting players. Things like work ethic, competitiveness, resilience, coachability, and motivation in… Read more Audio

4:42 PM.A design for a new pedestrian bridge in Christchurch is calling into question the respect New Zealand has for its artists, after a design competition was scrapped and the council instead went for a… Read more Audio

4:34 PM.How about Matariki as a public holiday? And the Question of the Day is: If you could invent a public holiday what would it be to commemorate. Audio

4:28 PM.The Auckland Council has done a pre-election survey which gauges awareness and attitudes of potential voters. Overall, 52.2 per cent of those canvassed supported compulsory voting. Many of those are… Read more Audio

4:21 PM.New Zealand hasn't had a Race Relations Commissioner for over a year.The first attempt to replace Susan Devoy apparently didn't produce enough quality candidates, so the position was readvertised. The… Read more Audio

4:10 PM.The government has announced new subsidies for electric and hybrid vehicles up to $8000 off new or near-new vehicles arriving in the country. But there's stick as well as carrot, with a $3000 fee… Read more Audio

4:05 PM.How about Matariki as a public holiday? And the Question of the Day is: If you could invent a public holiday what would it be to commemorate. A design for a new pedestrian bridge in Christchurch is… Read more Audio

4:03 PM.The government has announced new subsidies for electric and hybrid vehicles up to $8000 off new or near-new vehicles arriving in the country. But there's stick as well as carrot, with a $3000 fee… Read more Audio

3:52 PM.What the Panelists Lizzie Marvelly and Gary McCormick have been thinking about. Audio

3:46 PM.We just had to talk about the young daredevil who scaled The Shard, in London. It's the highest structure in western europe - 305 metres tall... Anyway, 19 year-old George King freeclimbed up the… Read more Audio

4:55 PM.Company director Bruce Cotterill has written a piece on how managers need to learn how to lead this generation in the workplace. He says millennials are natural communicators, when most of their… Read more Audio

4:50 PM.When is something you buy not really something you own? When it's an e-book. Microsoft is closing its ebooks store later this month and when it does all the books you've bought will cease to work… Read more Audio

4:42 PM.In Tonga there's a hulabaloo over the Miss Heilala beuty pageant. Over the weekend the outgoing Miss Heilala, Kolo Funganitao, used her farewell speech to lambast the organisers for not protecting her… Read more Audio

4:36 PM.Online retailer Mighty Ape is selling Asahi Dry Zero, a non-alcoholic beer from Japan, with no age restrictions. It quotes Auckland Council Manager of Alcohol Licensing Peter Knight as saying any beer… Read more Audio

4:35 PM.If you became mayor what's one bylaw you'd enact? Audio

4:26 PM.Multi-level marketing schemes are growing in popularity in New Zealand. Odds on you've seem one on your social media feed. In a nutshell a company sells you a whole lot of product, and you then sell… Read more Audio