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How did we become known as 'Kiwis'?
How did residents of Aotearoa New Zealand come to be called by the name of a flightless brown bird? Audio
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Turning Palmerston North into the 'capital of drag' in Aotearoa
20 Sep 2024Provincial cities are not normally thought of as hotbeds of drag culture, but Palmerston North is changing that. Audio
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X-plainer: Who are Generation X?
22 Jul 2024You're probably familiar with Boomers and Millennials, but what about the generation in the middle?
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Tusiata Avia: the voice of New Zealand Pasifika
19 Jul 2024Racist slurs and a tin of corned beef - Frank Film's new Stories from the South documentary meets the award-winning poet and performer.
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Māori-Chinese New Zealanders embrace their mixed heritage
27 Jun 2024As New Zealand celebrates Matariki, mixed generations reconnect with their roots.
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The shortest day of the year is here: Here's how some celebrate it
20 Jun 2024One group is celebrating winter solstice and Matariki together.
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Why Chinese migrants change their names
28 May 2024Reporter Ke-Xin went through five names before coming back to her original one. Audio
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Aya Al-Chalabi: 'Ramadan is a re-set'
9 Apr 2024A New Zealand-Arab influencer has been showcasing Muslim faith and culture to a new audience this Ramadan.
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Abba Rose Vaiaoga-Ioasa: 'Our culture affects everything in every way'
How does a chemical engineer make a film? Take equal parts curiosity, creativity, culture, complex subject matter and add a generous measure of comedy. Shake it up.
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Wairoa's Mātangirau sings loudly for Day Two of Te Matatini
23 Feb 2023The second day of Te Matatini brought another 15 groups, including Wairoa's kapa Mātangirau - who journeyed through mud, break-downs and broken roads.
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Bill making it easier to change sex on birth certificate closer to law
12 Aug 2021Under the bill, people would no longer have to go through the Family Court or show evidence of medical treatment to change the sex on their birth certificate.
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Breaking the homogeneity of 'Asian': Report on inequities among students
Voices - A new report on Asian students' health and wellbeing finds explores their experiences of lack of safe spaces, "achievement pressure", poverty, mental health, and discrimination. Audio
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'We see a process of decolonisation in New Zealand' - Behrouz Boochani
17 May 2021Voices - The Auckland Writers Festival theatre was packed out with people wanting to hear the award-winning Kurdish-Iranian writer's story and views. Audio
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'You don’t have to compromise your identity to follow what you want'
10 May 2021Voices - Athletes observing Ramadan - the month of fasting in Islam - talk about how they balance their faith and sport. Audio
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NZ's Fijian-Indians want to be recognised as Pasifika, not Asians
Fijian-Indians living in New Zealand are opposing moves by the government to classify them as Asians and not Pacific Islanders.
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Young queer and trans people face growing housing barriers in level 3
26 Aug 2020Increasing numbers of queer and trans young people are unable to access emergency accommodation during Auckland's level 3 lockdown, RainbowYOUTH says.
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'I wish that society would be accepting'
The Detail - The man who helped write guidelines on transgender players in women's rugby says he hates that his work has created a platform for people to attack transgender people as cheats.
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Walking between two worlds
18 Feb 2020The Detail - Children of immigrants, in their efforts to fit in, often end up turning their backs on the culture of their parents. For Julie Zhu, learning te reo Māori helped change that.
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Singh vs Smith: Most common surname in New Zealand revealed
27 Dec 2019Ask someone what the most common surname in New Zealand is and invariably the answer is Smith.
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How different communities around the country celebrate on Christmas Day
25 Dec 2019For Christmas Day 2019, Karoline Tuckey takes a look at how some of our communities of belief will be celebrating today, and during the holiday season.
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Nepalese women reach for the sky
21 Oct 2019Voices: Nepalese women are working hard in their communities in New Zealand as well as changing village societies for the better back in Nepal - and their efforts are being noticed. Audio
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Severe inequities in trans and non-binary health: 'It's not getting any better'
23 Sep 2019Gender diverse people are rarely counted in national statistics - the first comprehensive study on the health of trans and non-binary NZers is a chance to fill the gaps. Digital journalist Murphy repo…
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'More than two divisions to account for gender diversity'
17 Jul 2019The rules which allow trans women to compete in elite women's sporting divisions need to change because trans women have a physiological advantage, University of Otago researchers say.
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Transgender and gender diverse support services get funding boost
16 Jul 2019Transgender and gender diverse people in the Northland and Auckland regions will soon be able to access DHB funded peer-support services provided by two of the country's longest running rainbow…
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Opinion: Close-knit community Ravelry unravels racism
3 Jul 2019Fibre-craft social media platform Ravelry last week banned pro-Trump discussion in a move much celebrated by the community, knitter and blogger Tash Barneveld writes.
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Why Christians disagree over the Israel Folau saga
26 Jun 2019Opinion: For many Christians, Folau has become a talisman for religious freedom. But not all Christians see it that way, writes Geoff Thompson for The Conversation.
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