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4:30 PM.What song could you listen to forever? Namibian-German artist Max Siedentopf has installed a piece in the southern African coast that plays Toto's "Africa" on a loop through six solar-powered… Read more Audio

4:25 PM.The Government looks set to impose a 10km/h speed limit on Lime electric scooters, following a string of accidents. The scooters can travel up to 27km/h.  Read more Audio

4:20 PM.The Pope has called on parents to save their arguments for a time when the kids aren't around. He declared at a baptismal mass at the Vatican that parents should never argue in front of their kids.  Read more Audio

4:16 PM.Parents are left with little choice but to buy devices for their kids schooling. Ipads, laptops, and other electronic devices aren't always compulsory but it's expected children bring them to school. 

4:05 PM.Research by Dr Clare George at AUT has found truck drivers are working dangerous hours to get the job done, forgoing bathroom and meal breaks.  Read more Audio

5:00 PM.NZ Gardener editor Jo McCarroll and sports commentator Mike Rehu are both in the RNZ Auckland studio. They'll be joined by Meg de Ronde from 4:30pm for the day's big issue: Gender.

4:31 PM.The Panelists are joined by Mark Graham of the Building Guide and Emma McInnes of Women in Urbanism Aotearoa to talk about the hosuing crisis. What's going right, what's going wrong and what needs to… Read more Audio

4:27 PM.The Ministry of Justice is applying a sort of peer pressure to get people to pay their fines. It's discovered the philospher's stone of wording to get people to pay their fines which the ministry… Read more Audio

4:22 PM.Many households and businesses throughout the country will be receiving their annual updated copies of the Yellow Pages. Does anyone even use the hard-copy directory anymore? Audio

4:19 PM.A group of travellers has had run-ins with the law and the public as they create havoc in Auckland and Waikato. They've nicked stuff, not paid bills, threatened to knock peoples' blocks off, and… Read more Audio

4:14 PM.Working and training conditions are at the core of a strike by junior doctors. Long hours and working for up top 10 days without a day off is taking its toll on the trainees according to their union… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.The British PMs Brexit deal has been soundly rejected triggering a vote of no-confidence in Theresa May's government. So, what now for the UK and Europe? Audio

3:45 PM.Wallace is joined today by Emma Espiner and Joe Bennett who share what they've been thinking and Caitlin Cherry has the story of the day. Audio

5:00 PM.Commentator Emma Espiner is in Auckland and Joe Bennett is in the RNZ Christchurch studio.

4:35 PM.Panelists Janet Wilson and David Cormack are joined by political commentators Kate Nicholls and Ben Thomas to talk about the political hits and misses in 2018, and what they're expecting in 2019. Audio

4:30 PM.Question of the day: Should kids bike to school - would you let your kids do it? Audio

4:30 PM.What plastic packaging MOST annoys you in a supermarket? Audio

4:23 PM.There's no stoner like an old stoner. The fastest growing group of cannabis users in the US are those aged over 50. The reasons given are various, with legalization taking a lot of the stigma away… Read more Audio

4:17 PM.A warning that the global climate could go back to heat levels that the Earth had during the times of the dinosaurs. Climate scientist James Renwick discusses what this mean and how individuals can to… Read more Audio

4:08 PM.Sunday's fatal crash after a Police pursuit in Christchurch has brough up the idea of banning chases altogether. It's described as a complicated issue by the head of the Police Association Chris… Read more Audio

3:45 PM.Wallace is joined today by Janet Wilson and David Cormack, who share what they've been thinking and Caitlin Cherry has the story of the day - how to stick to New Years resolutions Audio

12:00 PM.Columnist David Cormack is in Wellington and former journalist Janet Wilson is in the RNZ Auckland studio

4:25 PM.Some Buddhists are releasing animals into the wild as a way to get good karma. This has included releasing live fish, which are bought at fish markets, into Auckland's Waitemata Harbour and red-eared… Read more Audio