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Lotto warned $25 million online Bingo plan could create more harm
8 Sep 2022Lotto is being urged to drop plans to launch online Bingo, with an expert saying it could increase gambling harm in Māori and Pasifika communities
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Māori students asked to perform karakia on human bones at Auckland school
7 Sep 2022Whānau were left upset after two Māori students from Epsom Girls Grammar were asked to perform a karakia on human kōiwi (bones) found at the prestigious school.
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Revealed: Lotto stores in poorest half of NZ account for 70% of sales
5 Sep 2022An expert warns Lotto is impacting poor communities "by stealth" and says it has hidden in the shadows as the spotlight shone on pokies.
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Uffindell and the era of boarding school bullies
12 Aug 2022Sam Uffindell denies terrifying a flatmate but admits beating a younger student during his school days. He says boarding schools were full of 'rough and tumble'. Was violence and bullying really par…
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Ex-Celebration Church members believe 'deliverance' harmed them
3 Aug 2022A former Celebration member believes deliverance - the Pentecostal equivalent of exorcism - has been used to replace counselling, medical care, and even law enforcement at the controversial church.
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Whose breath are you breathing?
11 Jul 2022How much of the air you're breathing is air someone else exhaled? And in the midst of a pandemic caused by an airborne virus, where are the riskiest places to be?
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Use of Cell Buster pepper spray in prisons was unlawful - Judge
1 Jul 2022Corrections has been breaking the law by gassing prisoners in their cells with a potent pepper spray called the Cell Buster, a High Court judge has ruled.
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'Ninja style' bail checks before police shooting of Shargin Stephens
29 Jun 2022Police emails seen by RNZ reveal officers planned to hide "ninja styles" close to Shargin Stephens' house late at night to try and catch him breaching bail.
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Mentally ill and behind bars: 'The poor guy shouldn't be in jail'
20 Jun 2022A man with severe mental illness is bounced between healthcare and prison because he can't get accommodation and treatment. A leading forensic psychiatrist says hundreds are in the same position.
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The dirty truth about the Waikato River
11 Jun 2022New Zealand's longest river is a mess of contaminants. There's a plan to save it, but it will take 80 years. Can't we do better?
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How Christopher Luxon is rebranding the National Party
7 Jun 2022He's white, male, bald, rich and Christian, but he's also championed gender pay equity, worked to halt human trafficking and has climate change credentials.
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The Land Laid Bare: Why Māori can’t build on their whenua
30 May 2022They held onto their land through war and confiscations or fought to get it back, but now they can't build on it. Ella Stewart finds out why.
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‘Communication gap’ blamed after toddler kept in hospital unnecessarily
5 May 2022A chronically-ill toddler was unduly kept in hospital for months and her mother asked to abandon Covid-19 isolation to come in and nurse her. The child picked up the virus. DHB failures and a staff…
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I was raped, then ruined by the systems that were supposed to help me
12 Apr 2022She was raped by an ex-boyfriend, then further traumatised by her interactions with colleagues, police and ACC.
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First interview: Man kept as slave in NZ speaks out
9 Apr 2022He was lured to New Zealand with promises of money and a better life, but instead he was kept as a slave, repeatedly assaulted and cut off from his family. For the first time, he tells his story.
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I know I’m Māori but sometimes I feel like a fraud
5 Apr 2022First person - As a white-passing Māori, Ella Stewart (Ngāpuhi), has been told she's lying about her ethnicity and constantly asked what percentage Māori she is.
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How the police watchdog is more secretive than the spy agency
30 Mar 2022Why is the SIS subject to the Official Information Act while the IPCA is not? The chair of the police watchdog defends the secrecy but admits it doesn't have enough resources to do its job properly.
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The streets have eyes: 'They're everywhere and I can't see them going away'
19 Apr 2022Millions of dollars of ratepayers' money has been spent installing and running CCTV systems, but the eyes on our streets are not necessarily making us any safer.
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Shooting to wound 'something from the movies' - Coster
1 Apr 2022After RNZ obtained a secret IPCA report that sheds light on the Armed Offenders Squad, Police Commissioner Andrew Coster denies 'shoot to kill' policy.
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Police who killed were given evidence in advance
23 Mar 2022When police shoot and kill, they're investigated by fellow officers. Guyon Espiner reveals that shooters have been shown evidence in advance of being interviewed.
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Licence to Kill: The startling truth about NZ's fatal police shootings
21 Mar 2022New Zealand police are fatally shooting people at 11 times the rate of officers in England and Wales. Who are they killing and are they justified?
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The town that backed a child sex abuser
1 Mar 2022When a firefighter abused his young son, many in their small town refused to believe it. Fire and Emergency kept him on, and locals turned on the boy's mum, saying she'd made up the allegations.
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'So I get raped, he gets away with it' - Young woman horrified and revictimised during trial
16 Feb 2022You think you're doing the right thing by reporting your rape. You think it might help prevent the same thing happening to others. But what happens if your attacker is found not guilty?
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Unvaccinated US man planning trip to NZ with illegally-obtained certificate
14 Feb 2022An unvaccinated man plans on travelling to New Zealand - and there's no way to tell he hasn't had the jab.
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