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Business news for 24 February 2025. Audio

An advocacy group for New Zealand business owners says planned changes to the Overseas Investment Act will send a positive signal to the rest of the world. BusinessNZ Director of Advocacy Catherine… Audio

Canterbury University's Anne-Marie Brady says China's military activity in the Tasman means New Zealand must "muscle up" on its defence spending. Brady spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss. Audio

An update on what's happening in the sports world with Nathan Rarere. Audio

News from the rural farming sector. Audio

Latest news from Radio New Zealand's business team. Audio

Voting in Germany's elections closed at 6 o'clock Monday morning (NZT). The country headed to the polls early in a snap election - prompted after the three-party coalition fell apart at the end of… Audio

The Black Ferns Sevens beat hosts Canada 34-12 in the quarter-finals of the Vancouver round of the World Series and they'll face arch-rivals Australia in this morning's semi-finals. Audio

New Zealand's biggest supermarket opens tomorrow, owner Wade Brown talked Nathan through the employment process. Audio

LA's Mayor Karen Bass has sacked the city's fire chief - Eleisha Foon reports from California Audio

Associate Minister of Fruit and Veggies Tony Teau joined First Up with news from Ohakune Audio

Germans head to the polls - Anita Purcell-Sjölund reports from Europe Audio

The Girmit - Nadia Freeman  Audio

Music from the world, for the world, featuring Oumou Sangaré, Tiken Jah Fakoly, Greg Johnson, and South African male choral group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Audio

The Poneke psych-rock duo's second album contains stories about UFOs, satanic panic, and Spongebob Squarepants, paired with dynamic music drawing on everything from krautrock to new wave. Audio

Major concerns over censorship in Australian Venice Biennale decision and a new NZSO CEO Audio

The youngest performer at this years Laneway is still in his teens, and with the help of some key players in the Auckland hip-hop scene has released a debut bursting with confidence, regional… Audio

Picture this: it's 2030, in the seaside suburb of Sumner in Otautahi Christchurch. That's only five years' time, but the sea is already to quote novelist and science writer Jane Shearer, tearing off… Audio

The Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts has kicked off in Melbourne returning after a five-year hiatus. For the next three weeks, the city will be celebrating diverse and dynamic creatives and… Audio

Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa for our Regional Week. This week, we're heading north of Auckland Tamaki Makaurau to the Matakana region. A 45-minute drive… Audio

Nadia Freeman's show The Girmit takes us back to the time between 1879 and 1916 when more than 60,000 people were transferred from India to Fiji by the British to work on sugar-cane plantations as… Audio

David Cronenberg's 1979 body horror The Brood teases in its trailer that it's "a film so terrifying that it will devastate you totally". What possesses us to love horror films so? Curator of Screams… Audio

The Hamilton Arts Festival has kicked off for another year. Music, theatre, dance, comedy and artistic experiences fill the Hamilton Gardens with more than 800 peformers this year, across 9 days. Most… Audio