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Covid-19 disproportionately affects women jobs more than men
Women who've lost their jobs due to Covid-19 are being forced to either retrain or seek work well below their skill level. The pandemic has disproportionately affected women's employment, with… Audio
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How workforce equality has crashed in this pandemic
Just because New Zealand's leader is a woman doesn't mean all is fine for women in the workplace - in fact, in this pandemic, things have got significantly worse. Audio
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How workforce equality has crashed in this pandemic
Just because New Zealand's leader is a woman doesn't mean all is fine for women in the workplace - in fact, in this pandemic, things have got significantly worse.
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VIDEO PREMIERE: Soul singer Deva Mahal with powerful new ballad ‘Stand In’
Audio 26 Aug 2020RNZ Music is proud to present the new singe and video from Deva Mahal. ‘Stand In’ is heavily rooted in Deva’s upbringing between Hawaii and New Zealand, her Afro-Caribbean heritage and her background… Video
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Covid causing extra budgeting stress for struggling families
An Auckland budgeting and family support service has found some families of four have less than 40 dollars a week to put food on the table. The Mangere Budgeting Service also says many of the people… Audio
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Auckland City Mission:all hands on deck for second lockdown
It's all hands on deck at the Auckland City Mission, close to two weeks after it was announced the city would be going back to alert level 3. Demand for food parcels trebelled during the first… Audio
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Why is there such strong resistance against lowering the voting age?
You can legally drive, fly a plane, have sex or own a gun at 16 - so why can't you vote? Well, there's a campaign underway aimed at changing that. Audio
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Why is there such strong resistance against lowering the voting age?
You can legally drive, fly a plane, have sex or own a gun at 16 - so why can't you vote? Well, there's a campaign underway aimed at changing that.
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Mt Messenger roading project opponents protest outside High Court
A small group of protesters picketed the High Court in New Plymouth this morning in support of an appeal against the $200 million Mt Messenger bypass roading project.
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'Let us vote' - teens take their case to the High Court
'Let us vote!' That's the desperate plea from 16 and 17-year-olds who have taken their case to the High Court.
A youth-led campaign, Make It Sixteen, has argued the current voting age of 18 is… Audio
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New approach needed for Covid management - academic
Dr Elana Curtis is calling for a "new recipe for pandemic management". Audio
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Alice Snedden's Bad News | Episode 5: Women's Bodies
Why are we so scared of breasts? In this episode, Alice attempts to change the minds of viewers using exposure therapy and her soap-opera fantasies. Video
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Calls to bump up sick leave for front-line Covid-19 workers
The Union representing aged care workers, wants unrestricted sick leave brought in for its members as Covid-19 adds further strain on the sector. Audio
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The hidden cost of our PPE gear - slave labour
As a second Covid wave hits the country we are gearing up - but some of that PPE gear including gloves and masks could have reached New Zealand via slave labour factories in Asia. Audio
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The hidden cost of our PPE gear - slave labour
As a second Covid wave hits the country we are gearing up - but some of that PPE gear including gloves and masks could have reached New Zealand via slave labour factories in Asia.
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Why is National struggling to convince voters?
Opinion - National and its leader Judith Collins don't fit very well with the times, writes Josiah Banbury in a look at the wider context of this year's general election.
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'Full House' actress sentenced to jail for US college scam
The American actress Lori Loughlin, star of the sitcom Full House, has been sentenced to two months in prison for her part in a US college admissions scam.
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Why Australia is facing calls to stop jailing 10-year-olds
News 22 Aug 2020A growing movement led by a coalition of lawyers, doctors and Aboriginal rights activists is pushing for Australia to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14.
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The Unraveling of America: Wade Davis
"In a dark season of pestilence, COVID has reduced to tatters the illusion of American exceptionalism" In his recent Rolling Stone essay The Unraveling of America Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis… Audio
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When a relative falls down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole
How does it feel to watch family members become obsessed with Bill Gates, microchips and 5G - and is there anything you can do to help them?
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Best of First Up for Friday 21 August
Audio 21 Aug 2020On the pod today: Netballs' Pulse coach Yvette McCausland-Durie on the ANZ Premiership decider against the Tactix, this weekend; while Covid-19 forced many magazines off our shelves - North and South… Audio
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Covid-19: Families hit by lockdown downturn
Kids doing schoolwork in cars and multiple breadwinners from the same family suddenly out of work - these are the stories of struggle emerging from the second Covid-19 lockdown in Auckland.
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Could the coronavirus vaccine be mandatory in Australia? Experts say it's possible
New Australia could have 25 million doses of the so-called Oxford vaccine by early 2021 raises hopes and ethical questions about making it compulsory and who gets it first.
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DHBs urged to upgrade hospital IT systems
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield says "very serious consideration" should be given to digital and data projects in the coming year to allow more staff to work from home Audio
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Covid-19: Auckland foodbank numbers grow to 29
Thousands of Aucklanders are desperately turning to food banks as increasing job losses wipe out family incomes.
There are now 29 registered foodbanks serving the city. Prior to Covid-19 there was… Audio
