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Is Netsafe too close to Big Tech?
20 Feb 2025Critics say the online safety regulator's funding from companies like Meta, X and Tiktok calls its independence into question. Audio
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Thousands fewer getting mental health care, new data shows
18 Feb 2025Demand for mental health specialist services is rising. So why are fewer people being treated now than just a few years ago? Audio
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Tech agencies 'failed to protect' Ardern from 'violence, misogyny' - HRC
17 Feb 2025Hundreds of people called the former prime minister vile and dehumanising things online. Internet safety agencies did nothing - then called in the lawyers.
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Inside the real conversations had at Waitangi Day
14 Feb 2025Away from the tense scenes on the paepae, under a closely guarded canvas tent, te iwi Māori do the real work of Waitangi: talking. We were invited inside to listen.
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Frontline health cash used for controversial fund
13 Feb 2025Critics say the money would have been better spent training more workers, including much-needed psychiatrists.
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Podmore inquest questions former cycling boss' later appointment
6 Dec 2024Before adjourning, the inquest heard an executive found to have demonstrated "sub-optimal" leadership was the best candidate for a later role at High Performance Sport NZ.
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Locals fear sand mining will ruin pristine beaches
12 Feb 2025A fast-tracked sand mining proposal is dredging up the painful past for local hapū members, who fear their voices will be ignored amid the rush.
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Why some turned their backs on ministers at Waitangi
6 Feb 2025Māori leaders in the Far North turned their collective back in an emotional demonstration.
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The day the Māori Queen came to Waitangi
5 Feb 2025Dressed in all white, the new queen stood out immediately among the kuia and kaumātua wearing their usual black formal pōwhiri clothes.
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Podmore inquest revisits contentious handling of biker's Olympic selection
4 Dec 2024"The behaviours of some of the people in our organisation, particularly ... during Olivia's induction, were appalling," Simon Peterson told an inquest.
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'Part of history changing' - A decade working at Waitangi Day
3 Feb 2025The first time Matarora Smith worked Waitangi Day commemorations in Paihia, she felt the wairua and whakapapa of the historic place. Audio
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What's in store for Waitangi 2025?
3 Feb 2025After a turbulent 12 months for Māori-Crown relations, the week of Waitangi Day will be crucial for te iwi Māori to discuss the kaupapa that will matter this year.
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1500 more builds in flood zones despite disaster
27 Jan 2025Law changes are coming - but more than one in 10 homes consented over a year in Auckland sat on a flood plain. Audio
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$2m upgrade for 'creaky' mega government database
16 Jan 2025The anonymised database is crucial to the government's social investment approach to funding programmes - but was incapable of doing so without extra investment.
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Athletes' legal bid for collective bargaining overturned
16 Jan 2025The battle between an elite athletes' union and High Performance Sport NZ now looks set to go another round in court. Audio
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Hui, protests, kotahitanga, and a new Kuini - A historic year for Māoridom
28 Dec 2024A hīkoi, a haka, and the rise of a new generation - RNZ unpacks a contentious and momentous year for Māoridom.
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Are stopbanks still the answer?
2 Dec 2024The Ngaruroro breached in more than a dozen places on 14 February, 2023. Local and experts are saying it's time for a rethink.
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Health practitioner who treated Olivia Podmore kept no notes, inquest hears
27 Nov 2024The practitioner worked with Podmore for more than four years and accepted his lack of note-taking was 'inappropriate'.
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Podmore inquest: Doc's emotional words bring panel to tears
22 Nov 2024A doctor has told the hearing into Olivia Podmore's death she endured "psychological abuse" in the Cycling NZ high performance squad.
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Government coy on police plan to target 'at risk' children for social investment
27 Dec 2024The "prevention support" would be targeted at primary school-age children, but the police minister will not say if the idea is being progressed.
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Fast-track bill's twisty, turny path to becoming law
18 Dec 2024The contentious Fast-track Approvals Bill is now law - but it hit a few speed bumps on the way.
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Complaints over athlete welfare and conduct concerns in high-performance yachting
17 Dec 2024RNZ understands multiple complaints have been made to the new Sport Integrity Commission, in the first test of the agency's powers. Audio
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In search of the world's largest manta rays in the Hauraki Gulf
12 Dec 2024Every summer, manta rays cruise the waters of the Hauraki Gulf. Researchers are racing to find out more. Audio
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Second audit finds more consent breaches by Macraes gold mine
11 Dec 2024The independent audit found damage to protected land from roaming stock, insufficient weed and pest control, and not enough protection of lizard habitats. Audio
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