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With a referendum on independence due on Sunday expected to confirm the status quo, the French prime minister has told the National Assembly in Paris that he doesn't "trust results proclaimed in advance".

It’s getting on for thirty years since Neneh Cherry soared to global fame on the back of ‘Buffalo Stance’, still one of great dance records. There have been long silences in the intervening years, but a new album shows her talents are intact while her music has matured. Audio

VIDEO - In the latest episode of Beyond the Beehive, Max Towle explores Southland's reputation for deep stoicism and the impact of that on mental health. Video

Porirua people are demanding urgent help after six suicides and a death in a car accident since June.

The government is reviewing New Zealand's 30-year old education platform Tomorrow's Schools and aiming to make education "much more personalised and much less one-size-fits-all”. Audio

Horatio Robley witnessed the most famous battle of the New Zealand Wars, fathered a child with the daughter of a sworn enemy, his sketching helped end a war and his writing helped save the art of Māori tattooing. Audio

With a referendum on independence due on Sunday expected to confirm the status quo, the French prime minister has told the National Assembly in Paris that he doesn't "trust results proclaimed in advance".

Poll of Polls - A year on from when the coalition government was sworn in, it has built voter support.

Gisborne GP Dr Nicholas Wright is a big advocate of a plant-based diet and says he has seen patients come off insulin and other medicines when they adopt it.   Audio

A group behind plans for a floating island in the Pacific has given up on a cryptocurrency it planned to build the project's economy on.

We have a new collection of recent RNZ recordings featuring the ever-mellow cello.

Hamish McKeich conducts the NZSO in classical hits and they première a new work by Gillian Whitehead, marking 250 years since Captain Cook and his crew made landfall at Turanga-nui-a-kiwa.

New Zealand’s mental health system has been repeatedly pulled apart in major investigations, the latest of which reports next month. Jess McAllen looks at the history and recurring themes of the past 30 years.

The future of New Zealand's relationship with the Pacific is the focus of a meeting of government, business and community leaders from New Zealand and the Pacific in Wellington today.

Taking on the country's skyrocketing house prices and helping first home buyers get a step on the ladder was what Labour promised to do in its election campaign. Tom Furley looks at what they've delivered so far. Video

New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade has detailed how its aid to Papua New Guinea for next month's APEC meeting is being spent.

Back in 2016, six uni mates having a drink together came up with an idea of how students like them could help support Canterbury farmers under stress – a club called Handy Landys. Audio, Gallery

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Samoa says it will tighten adoption laws after hearing adopted Samoan children living overseas are being exploited and treated like slaves.

Eleven Pacific countries will form a working group to try and address the region's problems with domestic violence.

On last weekend's Q+A political scientist Dr Bryce Edwards said media and politicians "sort of have to" start reporting politiican's sex lives. Mediawatch asks if that's really the case. Video, Audio

Orchestra Of Spheres are ethnographers of the imagination. Nick Bollinger delves into their homegrown exotica. Audio

Singer songwriter Tony Joe White, best known for 'Rainy Night in Georgia' and 'Polk Salad Annie', died on Friday. RNZ's Nick Bollinger spoke to the king of swamp-rock last year. Audio

VIDEO - National MP Hamish Walker tells Phil Smith about his bid to tighten up the laws around high-power laser pointers.

Insight: Johnny Blades looks at Papua New Guinea's road to hosting the APEC leaders' summit as it teeters on the verge of social breakdown. Video, Audio