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It's a Budget Day unlike any other. The government won't be unveiling its economic plans for the year, but the first step in its plan to start picking up the pieces left by Covid-19.

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As politicians rush to provide help to TV, radio, and online news, magazine sector representatives say they're being left out of the discussion. Audio

The story behind Troy Kingi's upcoming album is stranger than fiction. Video, Audio

A 'staging post' for New Zealand's recovery from Covid-19 - that's how the Finance Minister described Budget 2020 in a speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce - given via video link on Thursday.

It can’t be easy being in political opposition during a crisis. You don’t want to seem obstructive, but you’re the Opposition; it says it in the name. So, how do you oppose while supporting? Audio

Why do good people do nothing in the face of discrimination, bad behaviour and abuse? In The Bystander Effect, Catherine Sanderson explains why we might be good at recognising bad behaviour but bad at… Audio

Struggling news media companies hope the funding agency New Zealand on Air will bankroll more of their journalism, in addition to the local dramas and documentaries for TV it has funded from the… Audio

As huge audiences tune into the government's daily press briefings on Covid-19, more people than ever before are seeing how the journalism sausage is made. Some of them aren't happy with the…

The Parliamentary press gallery is 150 this year and like many birthdays it has prompted members, both newbies and veterans alike, to reflect on their roles in an ever-changing media landscape. Video

The Leader of the Opposition says it's not too early to start talking about an exit plan, but the focus has to remain on heightened levels of testing and contact tracing, and tougher border… Audio

The Epidemic Response Committee has had its first meeting. Probably no committee has been more watched - but is it normal? 

Ria Hall talks Yadana Saw through her new album Manawa Wera, which explores the personal and political through Aotearoa reggae. Video, Audio

Europe is seeing a rapid rise of extremist parties in government - in countries with similar political systems as ours. Why isn't that happening here? Or is it? Audio

When Parliament finally begins each year it goes off with a bang, and in an election year moreso. In the first debate the parties demoed their election messages. They were selling both sunflowers… Audio

A professor of management at San Francisco State University, Ronald Purser is a leading figure in the backlash against the mindfulness movement. He says that while mindfulness is promoted as an… Audio

While much of the focus has been on Concert FM, the chief executives of the two broadcasting companies heading for a merger - RNZ and TVNZ - have been talking about what the future might look like.

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Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately. This week Colin Peacock talks to Bryan Crump about RNZ's big music shake-up. Also - the media memorialising Mike Moore, an ODT reporter's sudden departure -…

Is New Zealand ready to cope in a global catastrophe? John Gerritsen investigates Video, Audio

Politics are never far away from the annual Waitangi commemorations, and this year has been no different.

Party leaders were welcomed onto the marae on the upper treaty grounds yesterday but it… Audio

Health and social scientists have documented the clearest picture so far of our  'hospital revolving-door problem', the concentration of crime, and long-term welfare dependence in a relatively small… Audio

The interim Retirement Commissioner says raising the Superannuation age will do more harm than good, and there are more pressing things to fix first.

In the latest three-yearly review of retirement… Audio

Consultations over Bougainville's future are getting underway in what is described as a critical stage in the region's post-referendum independence process. Audio