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"Scourge of violence" focus for Apia meeting
The world's development goals won't be achieved unless there's attention to violence against women and girls the Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland has warned.
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Funding for children from families on long-term welfare revealed to schools
One school will get more than $100,000 from a new funding stream targeting children from families on long-term welfare, the Education Minister says. Audio
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Govt gives $24m 'top-up' to Auckland social housing
The Social Housing Minister says she got the calculations wrong about how much money was needed to build new social housing in Auckland.
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Winston Peters: 'Most Kiwis are struggling'
New Zealand First aims to capture the votes of what it says is the growing number of struggling workers in next year's election. Audio
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Data-driven social welfare policy lacks humanity - economist
The government's approach to social welfare has come under fire, with a top economist fearing the system could lack empathy and compassion.
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Jenny and Jools
In August 2013 Labour MP Louisa Wall's Marriage Amendment Act came into effect. Since the passing of this historic law, more than two thousand same sex couples have tied the knot. RNZ's Eyewitness… Video, Audio
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Goff promises push for council staff living wage
Moves to get Auckland Council staff on to the living wage have been reopened with mayoral hopeful Phil Goff pledging he'll give it a shot.
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The politics of Māori health
Māori doctors and health advocates say they are battling institutional racism in a sector that is costing people's lives.
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Indigenous people in prison - can the vicious cycle be broken?
Around 15 percent of New Zealand's population is Maori and yet they make up over 50 percent of prison inmates. In Canada indigenous people represent 25% of the inmates in state prisons, despite making… Audio
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Championing better representation for women
In theatre women are still underrepresented in every aspect – on stage, behind the scenes, directing and in management and governance roles. The Hui on Women in Theatre in September brings together… Audio
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Unions to strike over fiscal reforms in New Caledonia
Unions in New Caledonia have called a general strike on Thursday to pressure the Congress to adopt fiscal reforms.
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Duncan Grieve and Barnaby Bennett: publishing and journalism
Kim Hill talks to Duncan Grieve, the founder and editor of The Spinoff, an Auckland-based online magazine and custom content creator. He appears at three WORD Christchurch events: The Spinoff After… Audio
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Leigh Hopkinson: stripping and empathy
Kim Hill talks to Leigh Hopkinson, a New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based writer and editor, whose first book is a memoir about her years working in striptease - Two Decades Naked. Audio
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Sheila Watt-Cloutier: Arctic and Inuit
Sheila Watt-Cloutier is an environmental and human rights advocate who was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for her work on how global climate change is affecting human rights, especially… Audio
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Cécile Maisonneuve and Marie-Anne Gobert: future cities
Kim Hill talks to Cécile Maisonneuve, President of La Fabrique de la Cité, and a senior adviser and former head of the Centre for Energy at the French Institute for International Relations, and to… Audio
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Lady Parts
Auckland theatre group Bits and Pieces Ensemble discuss topics often seen as taboo, from menstruation to women’s perspective of sex, their bodies and childbirth. Audio
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Kiwi soprano premieres feminist opera
New Zealand Soprano Joanne Roughton-Arnold premieres a one woman opera in London this week. Iris Dreaming is based on the life of New Zealand writer and pioneering feminist, Iris Wilkinson, who wrote… Audio
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Concerns for Kanak opportunities after new research
New research has found that efforts to reduce employment inequalities for New Caledonia's indigenous Kanak population have stagnated.
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Christina Heatherton and Jordan T. Camp - Black Lives Matter
Christina Heatherton and Jordan T. Camp are the editors of Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter, which traces the spread of what's known as the broken windows… Audio
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Debbie Stoller: feminism and knitting
Debbie Stoller is the co-founder, co-publisher and editor-in-chief of BUST magazine in New York, and co-edited The BUST Guide to the New Girl Order and The BUST DIY Guide to Life. In 1999, she formed… Audio
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Ryan Griffen: Aboriginal superheroes
Kim Hill talks to indigenous Australian director Ryan Griffen, creator of the Australia/New Zealand produced television series Cleverman, a futuristic drama with roots in Aboriginal mythology. Double… Audio
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Jacinta Ruru: law from a Maori perspective
Kim Hill talks to Professor Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa), who has been the only Maori Law Faculty staff member at the University of Otago since 1999. She has designed a new experience of learning law that… Audio
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Pacific children most at risk from ear infections
Pacific Island and Maori children are most at risk of contracting a middle ear infection says a paediatric specialist in New Zealand.
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The en pointe trailblazer
Nicolette Fraillon is the only woman to hold the job of chief conductor and musical director of a professional ballet company. She busted the glass ceiling years ago as top dog of The Australian… Audio
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Religion hinders fight against violence
Religious beliefs are amongst the biggest barriers towards ending violence against women in the Pacific. Audio
