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  • Who will Auckland's new mayor Wayne Brown turn out to be?

    News
    New Zealand Comment & Analysis
    18 Oct 2022
    Mayoral candidate Wayne Brown says having a dedicated voting day, along with an online voting option, could help increase voter turnout in Auckland.

    Analysis - After spending six months out in the public glare making promises about what he'd 'fix' and what needs to change, Wayne Brown has to figure out how to deliver, Todd Niall writes.

    Who will Auckland's new mayor Wayne Brown turn out to be?
  • Celebrating progress on the road to raising awareness of menopause

    News
    New Zealand Comment & Analysis
    18 Oct 2022
    Wellington writer Sarah Connor is the creator of the Menopause over Martinis initiative.

    Opinion - Menopause is becoming less taboo and fewer people going through it are feeling alone, but we still have a long way to go, writes Sarah Connor.

    World Menopause Day 2022: Celebrating progress on the road to raising awareness
  • Booker Prize 2022: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins with supernatural satire

    News
    World books
    18 Oct 2022
    Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka (L) poses next to Britain's Camilla, Queen Consort (R) after winning the British Booker Prize for his novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida', during the Booker Prize for Fiction 2022 awards ceremony, in London, on 17 October 17, 2022.

    Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka, who studied in New Zealand, has won this year's Booker Prize for his supernatural satire The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

    Booker Prize 2022: Sri Lankan author Shehan Karunatilaka wins with supernatural satire
  • 'Segregation within Pukekohe was more established than any other NZ township'

    Audio
    media te ao Maori
    18 Oct 2022
    No Māori Allowed

    The rural town of Pukekohe, south of Auckland, has a bleak history of racial segregation that has, for the most part, gone untold. A new TVNZ documentary No Māori Allowed sheds light on the town’s… Audio

  • Al Jazeera: Staff say bullying and harassment went unchecked

    News
    World media
    17 Oct 2022
    Al-Jazeera's English channel presenters prepare a newscast in the newsroom at the headquarters of the Qatar-based satellite news channel in Doha 14 November 2006. The English-language version of Al-Jazeera's launches 15 November 2006 after a year-long delay. The pan-Arab TV station is out to capitalise on the strategic importance of London as a European capital when it kicks off its English-language service tomorrow. AFP PHOTO/KARIM JAAFAR (Photo by KARIM JAAFAR / AFP)

    An investigation centred on ex-TVNZ broadcaster Kamahl Santamaria has found multiple allegations of sexual harassment and bullying at the international broadcaster.

    Kamahl Santamaria: Al Jazeera staff allege harassment and bullying went unchecked
  • Season 2 Ep 1: Rabbits & other Pests

    Audio
    history conservation
    17 Oct 2022
    The introduction of rabbits led to one of the worst economic and environmental disasters in New Zealand history.

    No-one knows for sure who first introduced rabbits to New Zealand, because no-one wanted to take the blame for what became one of New Zealand's biggest environmental and economic disasters. We start… Video, Audio

  • Why a surveillance firm the govt is using is embroiled in controversy

    News
    New Zealand Comment & Analysis
    14 Oct 2022
    Teenage Hacker Girl Attacks Corporate Servers in Dark, Typing on Red Lit Laptop Keyboard. Room is Dark

    Analysis - The government's use of a firm run by Israeli ex-spies and military commanders to scour social media platforms has landed NZ in a global debate over 'surveillance for hire', writes Phil…

    Government's use of surveillance firm Cobwebs Technologies embroiled in controversy
  • Winston Peters says NZ First is coming back, again

    News
    Politics
    14 Oct 2022
    Winston Peters talks to protesters outside Parliament on 22 February 2022.

    Winston Peters says NZ First is mounting a comeback and says people shouldn't assume next year's election result is set in stone.

    Winston Peters says NZ First is coming back, again
  • Down the rabbit hole: how online conspiracy theories take hold

    Audio 13 Oct 2022
    Dylan Reeve

    In his new book Fake Believe, writer and filmmaker Dylan Reeve takes a deep dive into how alternative beliefs are shared and adopted here in New Zealand. Video, Audio

  • 'Wake-up call' - Low council election turnout revives call for online voting

    News
    New Zealand Politics
    10 Oct 2022
    Voting in local body elections - Auckland

    Local Government New Zealand wants an independent review of voting to improve participation across the country, after preliminary analysis showed 36 percent turnout.

    Council election turnout: Low participation revives call for online voting
  • Supreme Court to deliver final ruling on Ellis historic child sex abuse appeal

    News
    New Zealand crime
    7 Oct 2022
    Supreme Court in Wellington, Coat of Arms

    The Supreme Court will today deliver the final ruling on one of the country's most high profile legal cases - Christchurch Civic Creche worker Peter Ellis's convictions for child sex offences.

    Supreme Court to deliver final ruling on Ellis historic child sex abuse appeal
  • Dark advertising: How products are marketed to you online

    Audio
    food policy
    4 Oct 2022
    People sitting down looking at their phones.

    The way alcohol companies and other unhealthy products market themselves online is going under the microscope in Wellington this week. Professor Nic Carah at Queensland University of Technology talks… Audio

  • 'Felt worse than jail' - Potential human rights breaches in emergency housing

    News
    New Zealand housing
    3 Oct 2022
    The woman, who does not want to be named, making a coffee in the emergency house.

    The Human Rights Commission says the government-funded emergency and transitional housing system has potentially breached human rights.

    Emergency accommodation users share stories with Human Rights Commission: 'Felt worse than jail'
  • 'You've got to question his state of mind' - What's Putin's next move?

    News
    World In Case You Missed It
    1 Oct 2022
    (L-R) The Moscow-appointed heads of Kherson region Vladimir Saldo and Zaporizhzhia region Yevgeny Balitsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin and Lugansk separatist leader Leonid Pasechnik join hands after signing treaties formally annexing four regions of Ukraine Russian troops occupy, at the Kremlin in Moscow on September 30, 2022. (Photo by Grigory SYSOYEV / SPUTNIK / AFP)

    After railing against the dangers of Western imperialism for more than 15 years, Russia's President Vladimir Putin now finds himself in the type of military quagmire he once claimed was a uniquely…

    Vladimir Putin used to call out America for its hubris. Now he appears to have fallen into the same trap
  • Pacific news in brief for September 30

    News
    Pacific
    30 Sep 2022
    Group of women from the Solomon Islands taking part in the group leadership development workshop.

    State of emergency in Tonga ends; Niue to host next PINA summit; Football workshop for women in Solomon Islands, and more.

    Pacific news in brief for September 30
  • School responds after bullying allegations surface in media

    News
    New Zealand education
    27 Sep 2022
    Ashburton College.

    The board of a Mid Canterbury secondary school at the centre of extensive bullying allegations believe recent media reports are not a fair representation of the school.

    Ashburton College provides reassurances after bullying allegations surface in media
  • Journalist and educationalist Gordon Dryden dies at 91

    News
    New Zealand media
    27 Sep 2022
    Broadcaster and educationalist Gordon Dryden

    Former prominent broadcaster and educationalist Gordon Dryden has died aged 91.

    Journalist and educationalist Gordon Dryden dies at 91
  • On the trail of Jacinda Ardern: hijinks and hiccups in New York

    News
    New Zealand Comment & Analysis
    26 Sep 2022
    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 23: Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern speaks at the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at U.N. headquarters on September 23, 2022 in New York City. After two years of holding the session virtually or in a hybrid format, 157 heads of state and representatives of government are expected to attend the General Assembly in person.   Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Michael M. Santiago / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

    First Person - RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch pulls back the curtain on some of the lighter moments behind the scenes and on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

    On the trail of Jacinda Ardern: Hijinks and hiccups in New York
  • CIA museum: Inside the world's most top secret museum

    News
    New Zealand World
    25 Sep 2022
    A man crosses the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seal in the lobby of CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, on August 14, 2008.

    It is the perhaps the most unusual - and exclusive - museum in the world, filled with artefacts that have shaped history but its doors are firmly shut to the public.

    CIA museum: Inside the world's most top secret museum
  • Carlos Dada: freedom of the press under El Salvador authoritarianism

    Audio
    media world politics
    24 Sep 2022
    Carlos Dada

    El Salvador journalist Carlos Dada received the IPI World Press Freedom Hero award this month in the face of continued persecution of the media in central America. Audio

  • Can you really Be Real on the internet?

    News
    World technology
    23 Sep 2022
    cropped shot of woman on couch using smartphone with ios apps on screen

    A French social media app has begun soaring to the top of download charts around the world - not because of what it offers, but because of what it doesn't.

    No likes, filters or influencers: Millions of people are using BeReal and TikTok is trying to copy it.
  • Commissioner to review contracts with Nanaia Mahuta's husband's company

    News
    Politics
    21 Sep 2022
    Public Service commissioner Peter Hughes speaks to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.

    The Public Service Commissioner will investigate contracts with government minister Nanaia Mahuta's husband's business.

    Commissioner to review contracts with Nanaia Mahuta's husband's company
  • Case numbers drop, but 'Covid is not going away' - Ministry of Health

    News
    New Zealand Covid-19
    21 Sep 2022
    Deputy Director-General of Health Andrew Old

    Case numbers, "as expected", have continued to decline but it is not the time to get complacent, Ministry of Health Deputy Director-General Dr Andrew Old says. Video

    Watch: Covid-19 response and vaccination update from Ministry of Health
  • Study launched to learn effects of social media algorithms

    Audio
    technology
    21 Sep 2022
    No caption

    The Prime Minister has announced a new initiative to research social media algorithms, but does not yet appear to have buy-in from some key tech players.

    Jacinda Ardern made the announcement in New… Audio

  • Looking for a UFO which crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014

    Audio
    science
    19 Sep 2022
    A meteor photographed in 2009

    Eight years ago, an object around half a metrefell into the ocean off the coast of Papua New Guinea. It came down so fast scientists starting speculating that it came from outside our solar system… Audio

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