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Pākehā granted name suppression three times as often as Māori
17 Sep 2021An Auckland couple who breached lockdown to go to Wānaka have thrown name suppression into the spotlight. RNZ can now reveal startling statistics about suppression.
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Timeline: Terror at the shopping mall
4 Sep 2021In just two and a half minutes, a terrorist injured seven people before police shot and killed him. Veronica Schmidt reports on the fast-moving events of Friday afternoon.
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The racist aftermath of the Aotearoa debate
13 Aug 2021Judith Collins' Aotearoa debate set in motion a wave of hurt. Te Aniwa Hurihanganui reports on the harm done when debate spirals into racism.
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Family says choice is life in Australia or death waiting for Pharmac
2 Aug 2021A Tauranga mother is moving to Australia with her ill daughter to access treatment for Spinal Muscular Atrophy that Pharmac won't fund. She has to leave her husband and son behind.
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Who's eating New Zealand? Explore the series
2 Aug 2021Who's eating the food New Zealand produces? What is producing that food doing to our environment? And have we become to reliant on exporting? Explore the popular series.
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'We should be ashamed' - Injured sharks and turtle trouble at national aquarium
22 Jul 2021Sharks with sore noses, water filter breakdowns and a turtle welfare petition. What's going on at the National Aquarium of New Zealand?
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Watch: The Barrier Between Us
20 Jul 2021How could the government offer land on Aotea/Great Barrier as part of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement for iwi who no longer live on the island without consulting with an iwi who do?
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Who's eating New Zealand?
7 Jul 2021There are only 5 million people in New Zealand but we produce enough food to feed about 40m. Who's gobbling all our goods?
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New podcast shines light on China's influence, infiltration of NZ
28 Jun 2021Can NZ continue to walk the thin red line between what some see as an evil empire, but others see as our greatest economic opportunity and the centre of a new world order?
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The Yoghurt Mafia: An unexpected prison culture
23 Jun 2021Two inmates swap making meth for making yoghurt and turn their product into a prison trading commodity so popular that yoghurt culture is smuggled between prisons.
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The untold story of how police shot Shargin Stephens
22 Jun 2021Five years after an officer shot and killed a young Māori man, Guyon Espiner reveals previously untold disparities between what the public knows and what the evidence reveals.
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The rise of cybercrime and NZ's fragmented response
15 Jun 2021Cybercrime is on the rise but, in the wake of the Waikato District Health Board ransomware attack, Anusha Bradley finds New Zealand's response to it is fragmented and victims rarely get justice.
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Māori war veteran’s skin still peeling 50 years after Agent Orange exposure
3 Jun 2021Turoa Karatea frequently scratches himself until he bleeds, but will a Waitangi Tribunal inquiry finally deliver him and other Vietnam veterans compensation before they die?
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How a pervert became CEO of a crown entity
25 May 2021Feature - How was Phillip Barnes promoted to CEO of International Accreditation New Zealand, after he planted a spy camera in a gym's changing room? Veronica Schmidt investigates.
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‘Revenge porn’ victims struggling for help from ACC, justice system
19 May 2021Out-of-date laws mean victims of image-based sexual abuse can't get help from ACC and must prove their abuser intended to cause them harm before police will prosecute.
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Pakiri locals fight plans to take their sand for Auckland beaches
5 May 2021The fate of Pakiri's sand is again at the centre of a fight between sand mining companies who want to ship it to Auckland, and locals who want to keep it on their beach. Farah Hancock reports.
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'There's no shame': Pasifika mums urged to get help for depression
Pacific women in New Zealand have the highest rates of antenatal and postnatal depression, yet low numbers get help. Sela Jane Hopgood asks why.
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Pharmac likely to end blanket funding for kids’ cancer drugs
3 May 2021A woman trying to get drugs funded for young SMA patients is horrified Pharmac says it might end blanket funding of kids' cancer medicines because she accused it of discrimination.
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Don't play sick children off against each other - Children's Commissioner
3 May 2021Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft is warning Pharmac not to play one group of children with a life-threatening illness off against another.
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The environmental hangover from NZ's winemaking
22 Apr 2021Marlborough's wine industry is booming, but there's no industrial-sized solution to deal with its waste.
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Only 10 percent of health workers 'definitely willing' to carry out euthanasia
22 Apr 2021More than a 1000 people are expected to request to end their lives in the first year of New Zealand's assisted dying regime, the Ministry of Health says.
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Distressing death warning for 'unregulated' euthanasia drugs
20 Apr 2021Patients requesting euthanasia will be given unapproved, unregulated and "off label" medicines, sparking warnings of prolonged and distressing deaths.
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Why should Māori trust the Covid-19 vaccine?
19 Apr 2021Ahead of a nationwide rollout of the Covid-19 vaccine to kaumātua, health providers say they're up against a tidal wave of misinformation and a deep-rooted distrust of the health system. But Māori are…
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Switched: Woman lost job after drug changed without her knowledge
7 Apr 2021Laura Hume says it was only after her health began deteriorating that she found out she was one of thousands of people who had been switched to a generic drug in a cost saving drive by Pharmac.
