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Dumped Tonga Cabinet Minister speaks out
Audio 10 Mar 2017Dr 'Aisake Eke, who until earlier this week was Tonga's Finance Minister, says he abstained from a no confidence vote because some of the claims by the nobles about Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pohiva were… Audio
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Making policy, not tea: Second-wave feminists say gender equality still a battle worth fighting
Audio 8 Mar 2017Contemporary Women - Nearly 50 years after the women's liberation movement kicked off in New Zealand, women have access to birth control, abortions and work after having children. JOELLE DALLY asks… Audio
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Question Time for 8 March 2017
METIRIA TUREI to the Minister for Women: When she said that she was “fully equipped to kinda leap in and tackle” the challenge of pay equity, why is she ruling out a law change to shrink the pay gap…
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US considers splitting up families that cross Mexican border
The United States is considering separating children from their parents if caught illegally crossing the Mexico border.
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$100,000 and rising for a car park in Auckland's CBD
A three bedroom home in parts of New Zealand now costs less than a carpark in Auckland's city centre. Zac Fleming reports Video, Audio
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Trump risks becoming a political Br'er Rabbit
Opinion - Donald Trump stumbles from self-inflicted crisis to crisis. Phil Smith wonders whether he is becoming the living embodiment of Br'er Rabbit.
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No confusion over govt social housing count - minister
The Social Housing Minister says there's nothing surprising about the government having two entirely different methods of counting the number of social houses. Social Housing Minister Amy Adams says…
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PM says high Wellington rent prices a "problem of success"
As rental prices continue to sky rocket in Wellington, Prime Minister Bill English continues to deny a housing crisis - which is angering many struggling tenants in the capital. Audio
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Tenant with rats in walls can't afford to move
The Wellington woman, who has a newborn child, says the Prime Minister's view soaring rental prices were a sign of "success" is ridiculous.
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Tenant of rundown flat shocked by PM's comment
The Prime Minister has called the shortage of rental homes in Wellington a "problem of success" and says there's no housing crisis in the capital. But that's a shock to a Wellington mother living with… Audio
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Wgtn students living in tents, caravans due to rental shortage
A combination of record prices and fewer rentals available is forcing university students in Wellington to find alternative accommodation. Audio
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Family forced to live in tent in Cromwell due to rising rent
Despite both parents having jobs, a couple and their three children have lived in a tent since Christmas because they cannot afford to rent a house. Video, Audio
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Otago town faces accommodation crisis - mayor
Cromwell families are living in motor camps, tents and caravans because they cannot find a house to rent, locals say. Video
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Mayor to lead Cromwell affordable housing scheme amid crisis
The housing crisis has expanded to Central Otago with average house prices in Cromwell now at $500,000 and rising. Video, Audio
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Central Otago housing crisis
Social agencies in Cromwelll, which is 50 kilometres from Queenstown, say the town is suffering a rental crisis, with some families being forced to live in caravans and garages. Audio
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'It's hard to have data about people you can't find' - PM on social housing
The government not only used four times its annual budget in three months, but was unable to keep records of how long people waited for social housing. Video
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VIDEO: PM responds to criticism over housing crisis
Video - A blowout in the budget to put homeless people up in short term accommodation is only a small part of the total being spent on emergency housing, Prime Minister Bill English says. Video
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Labour slams emergency housing budget blowout
Labour leader Andrew Little says the cost blowout in the emergency housing benefit is proof the Government is completely out of touch on the number of New Zealanders affected by the housing crisis. Audio
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PM not worried about housing grant blowout, not a sign of housing crisis
Prime Minister Bill English says he's not worried about a housing grant budget blowout. The Government spent almost four times its annual budget allocation, puttin homeless people up in hotels and… Audio
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ACT says prisoners could earn time off by learning
The ACT Party has announced a policy to give prisoners time off their sentences for learning to read and write aimed at reducing reoffending.
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New bid to push broadcasting up the agenda
A new lobby group is hitting the road to make broadcasting and the media an election year issue. Mediawatch asks a former broadcasting minister if that might work - and why Donald Trump might help. Audio
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New bid to push broadcasting up the agenda
A new lobby group is hitting the road to make broadcasting and the media an election year issue. Mediawatch asks a former broadcasting minister if that might work - and why Donald Trump might help.
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Wellington to build 750 new housing units
The Wellington City Council will build 750 new units of social and affordable housing in the next 10 years, the mayor has announced. Audio
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750 units to be built in Wgtn to avoid Akld style crisis
Wellington City Council has revealed plans for 750 new housing units over 10 years. Some are already being built on a site in the inner city suburb of Mt Cook. Audio
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Housing the hot issue in Mt Albert by-election
Housing is the top issue on the minds of both voters and candidates in this Saturday's Mt Albert by-election.
