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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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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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