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Scarlet Johansson playing a Japanese character
The casting of Scarlet Johansson as a Japanese character has been branded as Hollywood white-washing. Audio
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CYF 'racist' says Tariana Turia
Child Youth and Family is a racist institution and iwi should be given the right to care for children in state care, former Māori Party leader Tariana Turia says.
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'New ideas' needed on Māori health
Māori need to move on from being solely focused on the aftermath of colonisation as one of the causes of poor health, the Public Health Association spokeperson says.
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Diversity rising through the ranks
Krista Kite left school at 17 with no idea of what to do with her life. She became a cop just three years later and is now calling on other Māori women to join her.
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David Geary - Trudeaumania Part Deux
Trudeaumania was the phrase coined in the 1960s to capture the excitement generated during the early days of Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau premiership. Now it's his son Justin who has the world's… Audio
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James Crow: capturing homeless data
Toby Manhire interviews James Crow, the founder of Gimme Shelter, who has launched a campaign to set up the Homeless and Rough Sleeper Health survey, to capture data on the homeless and drive better… Audio
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Matthew Desmond: eviction, poverty and profit
Toby Manhire interviews Matthew Desmond, co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard University, and author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Audio
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Helen Clark makes UN pitch for top job
While most New Zealanders were still fast asleep, former prime minister Helen Clark was questioned for two hours about why she should lead the UN. Video
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Caitlin Moran: class, feminism and dufflecoats
Caitlin Moran talks with Philippa Tolley about her latest book and the risk of making Britain 'stupider as a country' by cutting social services. Audio
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Barbara Brookes: a history of New Zealand women
Guest host Philippa Tolley interviews Barbara Brookes, Professor of History at the University of Otago, about her new book A History of New Zealand Women. Audio
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Smári McCarthy: Iceland, the Pirate Party and the Panama Papers
Guest host Philippa Tolley interviews Smári McCarthy, chief technologist for the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and founder of the Iceland Pirate Party. Audio
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Govt wants firms employing disabled workers to pay minimum wage
The government says firms which employ disabled workers will have to start paying them the minimum wage. Audio
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Would Auckland begging ban help homeless?
Ihaka has lived rough for four years, but would a bylaw prohibiting him from begging actually help? Auckland mayoral candidate Mark Thomas thinks so, as John Campbell reports. Video
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Canada looks to NZ to improve race relations
The relationship between Māori and the government is being studied by Canadian officials keen to improve their own race relations.
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Researcher spoke to 'troubled' manager at Mossack Fonseca
An academic investigating offshore tax havens suspects a Mossack Fonseca wealth manager she spoke to may be the source of the recent data leak. Audio
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Panama leak: How does Mossack Fonseca work?
A massive data breach shows how a global industry of law firms and big banks sells financial secrecy to the elite.
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Doco maker warns not to emulate US
Inequality in New Zealand will get worse if the government follows United States policies, film maker Michael Moore says. Video, Audio
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Michael Moore: Where To Invade Next
Colin Peacock interviews American documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whose first film in six years, Where To Invade Next, looks at social welfare programmes across Europe, Scandinavia and the Middle… Audio
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Yossi Alpher: Israel's place in the Middle East
Colin Peacock interviews the Israeli writer and consultant who co-founded and edited the Israeli-Palestinian online publication bitterlemons.net. He is the author of Periphery: Israel's Search for… Audio
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Changes give poorer families a boost
Beneficiaries with children will get an extra $25 a week and families earning less than $27,000 a year an extra $24.50.
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24,000 employees underpaid under Holidays Act
Investigations have revealed that the number of employees underpaid in breach of the Holidays Act may be more widespread than imagined. Audio
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Tenzing calls for fairer treatment of Sherpas
Climbing expeditions at Mount Everest are reopening this month, after two seasons of lost income for Nepal's ethnic Sherpa community. Audio
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Is the minimum wage increase helpful or hopeless?
About 150,000 workers will get a 50 cent-an-hour pay increase from today with the minimum wage rising to $15.25. But is it enough? Audio
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Homelessness 'a national problem'
A national approach to solving homelessness is needed, says the Auckland Council, with many people living on the streets outside the central city.
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Gap growing between richest and poorest state schools - PPTA
The inequalities between the country's richest and poorest state schools has been revealed in data released by the Education Ministry, says the PPTA.
