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Public money going to lobbying firms
20 Mar 2023An RNZ investigation reveals hundreds of thousands of dollars of public money is being spent on lobbying firms.
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The best of RNZ’s In Depth stories in 2022
30 Dec 2022RNZ's In Depth team has published some of the most significant investigative stories and profile pieces of 2022 - here's some that you might have missed.
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Cleaners' social media posts 'morally repugnant' - but no charges
23 Dec 2022Crime Scene Cleaners broke the law when it posted graphic scenes of sudden deaths and suspected suicides to its social media accounts. But it will not be charged.
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Covid campaign boss investigated over several alleged conflicts of interest
16 Dec 2022Colleagues were so alarmed they wrote an open letter and left it lying around the office.
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The $1.59m vaccination campaign that came too late
16 Dec 2022When a Covid vaccination social media campaign finally got underway in earnest, almost all the people it was trying to convince had already been vaccinated.
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Shrinking gangs from behind prison walls
13 Dec 2022Nowhere are gangs more visible and harder to contain than in our prisons. A surprising partnership between a private prison and an ex-drug lord seems to have a formula for cracking their hold over…
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The shadow of racism over cancer diagnosis, treatment and outcomes
8 Dec 2022A cancer diagnosis should be an open korero between doctor and patient. But for Terauoriwa Pere, it was a two-minute, one-way phone call.
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Doctors without peers - how the health workforce is little like the patients it serves
14 Dec 2022The health workforce doesn't reflect the patients that it serves. It's one of the reasons some people get much sicker - and die earlier - than others.
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Bullied by a doctor, beaten by the health system - the scourge of diabetes
14 Dec 2022The scourge of diabetes looms darkly over the people of Aotearoa. But its impact falls much more heavily on Māori than non-Māori.
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‘How is that a thing?’ - The persistent life expectancy gap that must come down
14 Dec 2022Measures that directly address the racial chasm in the length of Kiwi lives should not be feared, the Māori Health Authority chief executive says.
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One kilo used to be a big drug bust - now it's 613kg
2 Dec 2022With decades of experience in the war on drugs between them, a Customs boss and a regional cop are uniquely qualified to talk about the state of the national struggle against drug harm.
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How a US President set NZ's drug laws
1 Dec 2022In a new documentary, RNZ's Guyon Espiner asks what business Richard Nixon has in sending hundreds of New Zealanders to prison each year for low-level drug offences.
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Guyon Espiner: Wasted - Our long, costly and failed fight
15 Dec 2022Watch - Why is the world passing New Zealand by on drug law reform? Guyon Espiner: Wasted is an RNZ documentary special on the cost of our decades-long war on drugs.
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Aotearoa's vanishing species: Flora, fungi and funding
27 Nov 2022If you're a threatened species does being cute help you get funding to improve your odds of survival? Spoiler: fungi don't do well.
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Aotearoa's vanishing species: Creatures great and small
15 Dec 2022Our goal is to stop human-induced extinctions by 2025. But a lot of our creatures are at the very edge of a future where they're only seen on souvenir postcards, tea towels and coasters.
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Covid infection survey 'taken longer than expected'
16 Nov 2022A Covid-19 survey method that's been in place in the United Kingdom since 2020 will now not be in place here until mid-2023.
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Principal's 'disappointing' credit card use revealed
28 Oct 2022A principal of a school where multiple bullying allegations were made over several years was challenged about "disappointing" spending on the school's credit card.
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'Just a bit of play': More allegations of school's bullying failure
A school accused of failures over repeated playground sexual incidents faces further allegations of ignoring or minimising bullying complaints.
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Children coerced into sexualised incidents at school
When children say they are coerced into sexualised encounters at school, parents expect a response from the school's leaders. For two families, it's been a long struggle.
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Why NZ remains a campylobacter capital
24 Sep 2022The gut infection campylobacteriosis can kill - so why is Aotearoa New Zealand still a campylobacter capital after decades spent trying to reduce rates?
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ACC pressed to eliminate disparities in care
24 Nov 2022The agency will need to help all injured people - not just those who make a claim - under new legislation to be introduced to Parliament on Friday.
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'Who is the community?' Where Lotto profits are actually going
19 Sep 2022Billions of dollars from Lotto's gambling profits have been handed out using an incoherent funding model built on 'systemic bias' that sees Māori, Pasifika and other minority groups miss out, papers…
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How NZers bought the Lotto dream
15 Sep 2022For years, Lotto pitched certain stores as "lucky". They weren't. In fact, the chances of becoming a problem gambler far outweigh the chances of winning a big Powerball prize.
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Govt under pressure to change law as 9-year-olds buy Lotto tickets
12 Sep 2022In the third of RNZ's investigative series on Lotto, we ask why children are able to gamble on Lotto - and it is completely legal.
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