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Revealed: The companies dumping contaminants down the drain
Talleys, Ernest Adams and Yoplait are among hundreds of manufacturers and brands dumping contaminants into New Zealand's drains and getting away with it.
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Lack of South Auckland abortion services ‘unacceptable’
Repeated calls for abortion services to be provided in South Auckland have been ignored for more than a decade.
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Prisoner sues to stop pepper spray bombs that 'make grown men cry'
An asthmatic woman who was bombed with pepper spray in her Auckland prison cell is going to court to stop Corrections using the gas, which is marketed as… Video
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The companies who breached their trade waste consents respond
At least 270 companies have dumped contaminants into New Zealand's drains in the past year. Here we give them the opportunity to comment.
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Revealed: SIS failed to report 'NZ’s Fritzl' Ronald Van Der Plaat
21 Dec 2020The SIS broke into a house and found evidence a man was raping his daughter, but didn't inform police. She was abused for two more years before she finally escaped.
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GPs tell inquest they were unaware Pharmac changed their patients' epilepsy drugs
30 Nov 2020Two GPs caring for patients who died after switching brands of an epilepsy drug say they were not aware of the Pharmac brand switch when they prescribed the drug for their patients.
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Drug change not ruled out as factor in epilepsy death, neurologist's report says
30 Nov 2020The first official recognition that changing brands of epilepsy drugs may have been a factor in at least one of six deaths has come to light as a Chief Coroner's inquest into the brand switch opens…
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High costs and long waits: Trans healthcare barriers remain in some regions
26 Nov 2020Access to gender affirming healthcare is relatively easy in some parts of the country, while in others it's out of reach.
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Trans healthcare a harmful 'postcode lottery'
28 Nov 2020Access to gender affirming medical services differs from region to region. Healthcare professionals say it's harming trans and gender diverse New Zealanders.
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Gassed in their cells, 'begging' for food at Auckland Women's prison
24 Nov 2020An asthmatic woman is repeatedly pepper sprayed and has to show her used sanitary products to male guards, while her seriously depressed girlfriend is left in isolation until she attempts suicide…
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'My phone never explodes more than during pride month'
23 Nov 2020HERE WE ARE - Te Manahou Mackay on tokenism in the modeling industry and being trans in te ao Māori.
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Who cares? The fight over Funded Family Care
4 Dec 2020For decades, parents have fought to be paid for the care they provide their severely disabled grown-up children. Two months ago the existing scheme was scrapped, but families say the real issues…
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'Defining my own masculinity and what it means to me'
19 Nov 2020HERE WE ARE - Nikolai Talamahina, aka Brown Boy Magik, talks about what it's like when you're suddenly expected to be "one of the boys".
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'Some women are born into womanhood and some women have to fight for it'
18 Nov 2020Here We Are - Poet, dancer and student Stellar Angafili Makarita Pritchard talks about finding herself and her community.
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Why 1 in 5 transgender people end up homeless
17 Nov 2020Angelo was kicked out of home at 14. He's one of many New Zealanders who have been made homeless for being transgender. Susan Strongman and Murphy explore the country's grim statistics.
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Woman evicted with 3 hours' notice after being called 'offensive' by landlord
16 Nov 2020Kristine Ablinger says she was kicked out of her flat because she is transgender. The Human Rights Commission says her landlord acted within the law.
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Getting away with murder: Freedom deal for men in Stone-Maney case
11 Nov 2020Two men were granted immunity for murder and rape in exchange for a story that sent Gail Maney to prison for life. Should they have been? Guyon Espiner investigates.
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The poets, the spies, the vodka and the magpies
2 Nov 2020The SIS spied on literary great Denis Glover, newly released files show. Guyon Espiner reports.
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Iran threatens legal action against NZ government if SIS raid is 'proven'
2 Nov 2020Iran is threatening legal action against New Zealand after learning the SIS broke into its Wellington embassy to plant bugs in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Exclusive: The secret case of the NZ First Foundation
16 Oct 2020Despite a legal battle, the names of those charged in the NZ First Foundation fraud case remain suppressed. As Guyon Espiner reports, the foundation has been shrouded in secrecy from the start.
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Prison guard says he was impersonated for 'false evidence'
7 Oct 2020A former Corrections officer says someone impersonated him to fabricate evidence in the case of convicted murderer Gail Maney.
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Booth of truth: Finding New Zealand's bellwethers
6 Oct 2020Is it possible to tell the outcome of the election from a single voting place? Kate Newton reports.
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Down the drain: How phones in the shower are scuppering sustainability
29 Sep 2020Some internet surfers are in hot water over their in-shower cellphone use, Teresa Cowie discovers.
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SIS left girl to be sexually abused - former spy
24 Sep 2020The SIS knew a young woman was being sexually abused by her father but failed to lodge a complaint with the police, effectively allowing the abuse to continue for years, a former spy says.
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'We were always taught to look after each other' - what Pasifika families' unpaid work means to NZ
10 Sep 2020For many Pasifika serving their communities is a natural calling, but their contribution to New Zealand though volunteering and unpaid work is not fully recognised . Video
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Prolonged confinement of prisoners could prompt legal action against Corrections
9 Sep 2020Corrections admits it has opened itself up to the possibility of legal action as it may have broken the law by confining women to their cells for more than 23 hours a day.
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'Punitive culture' at NZ's largest women's prison - review
7 Sep 2020New Zealand's largest women's prison has a "punitive culture" where guards are too quick to resort to force and women's health needs go unmet because of a lack of staff, according to an internal…
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When a relative falls down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole
21 Aug 2020How does it feel to watch family members become obsessed with Bill Gates, microchips and 5G - and is there anything you can do to help them?
