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Venture capitalists last month pumped $US 15.3 million into Substack - a start up the New York Times has described as "the new social network that isn't new at all." Mediawatch's Jeremy Rose talks… Audio

Parliament's question time provides a chance for MPs to bring up all sorts of issues and this week foreign donations to parties entered the mix. Audio

New Zealand's spy agencies have warned they know of troubling foreign donations and relationships right across the political spectrum at local and central government. They've told MPs they support… Audio

Lots of listeners heard Alan Jones’s violent verbiage directed at Jacinda Ardern last week on the air in Australia, but the worst of it only hit headlines this week. Will the outcry run the… Audio

Hong Kong residents would prefer to concentrate on their business activities - but they realise they're losing their freedom to a Chinese government that's not remote enough for them, and they're… Audio

Nikki Mandow tells us why social procurement is way more exciting than it sounds - and how it might change the world. Audio

Getting the census right is important, not just for electoral boundaries but for a host of government funding decisions. Why has it been such a disaster this time around?  Audio

Paula Bennett is walking away from her Upper Harbour electorate, but denies rumours that it paves the way for Air New Zealand boss Christopher Luxon to stand in the Auckland seat.

National's deputy… Video, Audio

Last year's botched census saw a 20 per cent drop in the response rate among Maori to 68 per cent - the worst ever. Andrew Sporle is an Auckland University sociologist and statistican and a founding… Audio

Coverage of political party conferences tends to focus on the leaders who we see all the time in the news - and ignore the party members who gather once a year to be heard. But at the Green… Audio

The war of Parliament’s Question Time is measured out in daily skirmishes. A proxy campaign fought by a handful of combatants, over rules as much as policy. Audio

Simon Bridges asks the same question of the PM every day. Sometimes twice. It’s not even a very specific one. So why does he do it?  Audio

Prospective politicians with hired hands from PR are flying kites in the media before committing to a campaign. Candidates running for office should be covered as news but can the media avoid being… Video, Audio

Youth MPs declared a climate emergency at Youth Parliament this week putting pressure on the real Parliament to follow suit writes Sophie Dixon. 

Dr Elizabeth Economy is an author and academic specialising in China's domestic and foreign policy, named by Politico Magazine as one of the '10 Names That Matter on China Policy'. The director for… Audio

About 5,000 tonnes of bauxite ore, a raw ingredient for aluminium production, has spilled into a bay in Solomon Islands where a bulk carrier ran aground earlier this year, spilling thousands of litres… Audio

Us is out on home video today. Dan Slevin looks at some of the critical responses to the ideas behind one of the most creative films of the past ten years.

Oversight is one of Parliament’s main jobs. But looking forward is even harder. Audio

A package for family and sexual violence sits across eight different portfolios so some of those responsible told a select committee how it will work.  Audio