Immigration

Each year, a New Zealand social enterprise runs a space research incubator to help explore space-related technologies for climate change. Kadambari Raghukumar talks to the founders of Spacebase.

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

The Detail - With record numbers pouring into the country, New Zealand's immigration policies are under the microscope.

Self-serving, messy, and directionless. With record numbers pouring into the country, our immigration policies are under the microscope – and they don't stand up to scrutiny. 

The Taliban urged Pakistan to reconsider their plans following a number of cross-border attacks by militants.

Analysis - Record immigration will put pressure on New Zealand's population, infrastructure and productivity - where's the election debate?

More than 500 offshore migrants with work visas tied to employers under investigation are being prevented from coming to New Zealand.

The government's super-ministry has quietly embedded itself in the country's spy agency network, more than tripling the size and spending of its own intelligence-gathering arm.

It takes a bit of grit to grow veges in the Christchurch winter, but a group of Fijian families are rising to the challenge via a University of Canterbury-led project.

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Six suspected migrants have been rescued from the back of a truck in France, after the BBC helped track them down and alert the police.

The Labour Party's proposal for an immigration amnesty for people who have overstayed their visa for at least 10 years has sparked mixed reaction among overstayers.

Wellington woman Lalita Kasanji is on a mission to identify the pioneering Indian immigrants depicted in a collection of studio portraits taken on Cuba Street in the early 1900's.

Immigration laws in New Zealand are loose and need to be more consistent, says an immigration adviser association.