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Survival mode: Why some rural emergency services are under threat
Insight - Rural GPs and nurses are thin on the ground and as Tess Brunton reports the pressure on those trying to provide life saving emergency help is even more evident over the summer. Audio
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Together Alone: NZ's silent Pasifika mental health crisis
11 Dec 2018What do you do if your culture treats mental illness like a curse? Bury it deep. Indira Stewart reports on why so many Pasifika people suffer psychological distress - and why so few seek help.
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Youth justice: 'We need to do something for these people'
Insight - Is Oranga Tamariki succeeding in turning young lives around? Philippa Tolley investigates for Insight. Audio
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The beginning of the end for religious classes in schools?
7 Dec 2018A powerful secular group says schools' religious classes favour Christianity and divide children, and the government is turning its focus on the classes too. Will they survive?
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Flying the flag for cannabis law reform
4 Dec 2018With a referendum on legalising cannabis in the offing, a new group is trying to give the 'yes' campaign a respectable face. Can they push through change? Russell Brown reports.
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Frittering away - Why whitebait is in decline
2 Dec 2018Insight - With four out of the five whitebait species under threat or in decline, Teresa Cowie heads to the West Coast to find out if we have to give up on our springtime whitebait treat. Audio
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Wheels in motion for ride sharing revolution
Could we be on the cusp of a new way of living, can we stop global warming? Bernard Hickey literally puts his life on the line to highlight the ongoing growth of the sharing economy.
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Why we're ignoring climate change
30 Nov 2018It's a dark cloud hanging over our civilisation, but there's still a chance to act. So why do we all have our heads in the sand? Susan Strongman reports.
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HIV: The shame, stigma and progress
30 Nov 2018Half of Kiwi parents wouldn't want their child playing with an HIV-positive child. Ahead of World AIDS Day, Max Towle asks how much attitudes have changed.
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Difficult and dangerous - why truck drivers are quitting
Insight - The road freight industry is short of 2500 drivers as those pressured by tight deadlines and long hours quit, reports Tracy Neal. Audio
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The GM debate and its potential effects on agriculture
Insight - Should we back or block the genetically changed plants New Zealand scientists are growing? Charlie Dreaver reports. Audio
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The lifelong health hangover of teen drinking
23 Nov 2018Teen binge drinking is often brushed off as an experimental phase, but research shows it's setting up young people for serious problems later in life.
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Learning revolution or pathway to ignorance?
Insight - Secondary schools are divided over new methods of teaching and learning. RNZ's education correspondent John Gerritsen investigates the heated debate over how best to teach our teens. Audio
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Inside New Zealand’s unregulated sperm donor network
7 Nov 2018Why are women eschewing fertility clinics and looking for sperm donors online? And why are men donating to strangers they meet on Facebook? Amy Nelmes Bissett uncovers a world of hope and risk.
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The next pandemic: Are we ready?
Insight - November was the peak month of the 1918 pandemic that killed 9000 New Zealanders. One hundred years on, will we be able to deal with the next one? Audio
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Beyond the Beehive: 'Life for them is a day-by-day survival'
30 Oct 2018One Year On - How much have rises in accommodation supplements, the minimum wage and family tax credit payment rates helped people living in poverty? Video
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PNG to host APEC - but is it leaders before locals?
Insight - Johnny Blades looks at Papua New Guinea's road to hosting the APEC leaders' summit as it teeters on the verge of social breakdown. Audio
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The drug courts on trial - should they be permanent?
Insight - The Alcohol and Other Drugs Treatment Court has been run as a pilot for the past six years, Teresa Cowie visited to find out how it works, and if it is worth continuing. Audio
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The woman who says psychedelic 'medicine' cured her PTSD
24 Oct 2018Zoe Helene grew up in NZ. Now she's a 'psychedelic feminist' in the US, who leads women on hallucinogenic journeys in the Amazon jungle. Susan Strongman reports.
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On the outside: the problem with life after prison
14 Oct 2018Insight - Former prisoners trying to build a their lives on the outside speak to Leigh-Marama McLachlan about what it is really like. Audio
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History repeating - New Zealand's mental health inquiries
28 Oct 2018New Zealand's mental health system has been repeatedly pulled apart in major investigations, the latest of which is reporting back next month. Jess McAllen looks at the history and recurring themes of…
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Protect and promote: Can DOC really do both?
7 Oct 2018Insight - Belinda McCammon visits several small communities in the path of the tourism boom to see what impact it is having on them. Audio
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A crisis of the humanities
12 Oct 2018In an era of fake news and partisanship, society needs critical thinkers more than ever. So why are students increasingly turning away from the humanities? Kate Newton reports.
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Pacific Super Rugby team: Tackling soft diplomacy
Insight - RNZ Pacific's sports editor Vinnie Wylie asks if a Pacific-based rugby team will ever get off the ground and why the New Zealand government is getting involved. Audio
