The Week In Review

A review of the week's news including... Barack Obama's visit to New Zealand, the Prime Minister tells the Regional Development minister to pull his head in, current and former Health Ministers were… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... labour's senior leadership comes under intense pressure after revelations of sexual assault at a youth camp, New Zealand's pursuit of a free trade deal with… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... inside the Canterbury Home Repair programme, the explosion in freedom campers has reached a crisis point, a hundred or so tourists trapped near Taumarunui are… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... Simon Bridges is in - Bill English checks out, seven years after the big one and still 48% of claims are unresolved, revelations law students and solicitors… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... Cyclone Gita rips through central New Zealand, two Olympic medals in just two hours breaks a 26 year drought, Australian cancer patients are better off and… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... A massive clean up is underway for Tonga after Cyclone Gita, Bill English resigns from Parliament and leadership of the National Party, a MP is forced to… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... the biggest and busiest Waitangi Day commemorations ever, tension in court as a 30 year old Dunedin doctor is charged with the murder of a 16 year old girl… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... bad weather hits, many victims from a Kiribati ferry sinking are likely to be high school children, the son of a medicinal marijuana campaigner says the… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... The Government's announcement of a ministerial inquiry into mental health and addiction and it's first changes to employment laws since assuming power… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... Some medicinal cannabis users say the Government's plan to overhaul the law offers hope but no material changes for them, mental health issues down on the… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... the Government opens it's books and launches announces a family package to halve the number of children in poverty, nearly two thirds of MPs vote in support of… Read more Audio

A review of the week's news including... we meet the man who's the Government's longest ever motel tenant, hundred of thousands of people may be forced to have their water chlorinated, cancellations… Read more Audio