Irene Gardiner

Topics - MPs voted for gay marriage in a near-landslide last night, when a conscience vote on Labour MP Louisa Wall's bill passed before a packed public gallery at Parliament. What began as a… Audio

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Topics - According to a new poll conducted by Sight & Sound magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo has deposed Orson Welles' Citizen Kane as the greatest film of all time. New Zealand's first Charter… Audio

Topics - The Bronwyn Pullar affair; a new article. The NZ Herald reports multimillion-dollar Auckland house sales are back at peak 2007 levels and suburbs not previously associated with the top end of… Audio

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Topics - are you deliberating on whether the Olympics are worth a SKY subscription? KiwiRail is looking to disestablish up to 220 jobs as it attempts to find 200-million dollars in savings. Audio

Topics - Some schools have engaged debt collectors in an attempt to force parents to pay so-called "voluntary" donations. A new poll asks if New Zeanders are in favour of schools being given an… Audio

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Topics - Queen Elizabeth has sailed on a royal barge at the centre of a spectacular 1000-boat river pageant on the Thames, the set-piece of celebrations to mark her Diamond Jubilee. We have previously… Audio

Topics - Is the weekend's high road toll proof that enforcement by itself has little effect on the number of accidents? The Herald's reporting that receivers and law firms have raked in tens of… Audio

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Topics - The Sydney Morning Herald reports Australia's big four banks will have reported a combined first-half profit of about $12.5 billion by the end of the next fortnight. A Hamilton man has begun… Audio

Topics - The New Zealand First leader, Winston Peters, has accused the Prime Minister, John Key, of double standards for not forcing John Banks to stand down as a minister. A recording of a critical… Audio

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Topics - A fascinating article in The Guardian challenges Britain's admiration for the Germans as a "hardworking" nation with figures showing German workers take more holidays than anyone else in the… Audio

Topic - The Prime Minister, John Key, says councils will have to apply a 'public good' test to their spending under proposed new changes. A panel disucssion with David Thornton from the lobby group… Audio

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Topics - A British Cabinet minister is expected to warn that society is under threat from the rising tide of "militant secularisation" reminiscent of "totalitarian regimes". There's to be an… Audio

Topics - The Independent Maori Statutory Board says Auckland Council must move quickly to commit more spending to Maori development. The Wellington-based Solicitor-General, David Collins QC, spent… Audio

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