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How emissions targets are ignored in Auckland transport plans
12 Apr 2023One council plan says transport emissions must come down by 50 percent. Other council plans make those cuts impossible.
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What makes our buses so bad
11 Apr 2023There's plenty of blame to share around - including for ourselves, the public.
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Mortuary workers exposed to potentially dangerous amounts of formaldehyde
11 Apr 2023The country's largest funeral home operator says it can't give staff individual exposure results but acknowledges formaldehyde levels were higher than recommended at some sites.
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Bus 'reliability' statistics that are anything but reliable
8 Apr 2023My bus showed up 34 percent of the time when it was supposed to. Why do official statistics say it's 98 percent punctual?
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Who owns our buses?
6 Apr 2023The worst bus routes for cancellations in Auckland are operated by a bus company that's owned by a US private equity firm.
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Why bus drivers keep quitting
5 Apr 2023It's not unusual for drivers to work 14 hour days at little better than the minimum wage.
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Auckland's least reliable bus routes revealed
5 Apr 2023See how your bus route ranks for regular cancellations.
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Wellington's least reliable bus routes revealed
6 Apr 2023See how your bus route ranks for regular cancellations.
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Cancelled: Hundreds of ghost buses every day
6 Apr 2023An RNZ investigation reveals the extraordinary scale of disruption bus commuters encounter every day.
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'Why are we hiding?' - Lobbyist's letter to colleagues calling for change
28 Mar 2023A lobbyist has written to industry peers arguing "there's no accountability to the public" in what they do.
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The unseen, unchecked industry in lobbying the powerful
25 Mar 2023When a big corporate is alarmed about possible law changes, it asks its well-connected lobbyist to intervene. A text message exchange between a Cabinet Minister and his lobbyist "mate" follows.
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How lobbyists throw their weight around for corporate clients
23 Mar 2023'Section 61 C needs to be deleted': The former minister telling Beehive staff to change legislation for his clients.
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What you didn't see the day the protest was cleared
3 Mar 2023It's a year since the illegal occupation at Parliament was cleared by police. If you thought you'd seen it all from that chaotic day, you should think again.
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Watch: How the Parliament protest exploded
20 Mar 2023New footage from the front lines of a shocking day in New Zealand's history.
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The day flames licked Parliament's lawn
28 Feb 2023A new RNZ documentary shows the Parliament protests as they've never been seen before.
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How ultra-processed food became a battleground
23 Sep 2023Ultra-processed food is blamed for a global obesity epidemic - but the food industry is fiercely resistant to regulation
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Ministers were told GST cut 'would not decrease price' of fruit and vege
21 Sep 2023Health officials said removing GST on fruit and vege wouldn't be effective, instead pushing the case for a tax on sugary drinks.
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Salt, sugar limits 'can be a really good idea'
20 Sep 2023A proposed legal cap on the amount of sugar or salt in food has a surprise supporter.
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Conspiracy and misinformation collides with the campaign
18 Sep 2023While some conspiracists are gate crashing campaign events, a more sophisticated few slip into political parties with a realistic shot of election.
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The 3-year fight by Jehovah's Witness church to avoid scrutiny
4 Sep 2023The Jehovah's Witness church has been fighting scrutiny from a national inquiry into the historical abuse of children for three years, court documents show.
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Covid-19 data visualisations: NZ in numbers
15 Aug 2023Track the very latest Covid-19 data in New Zealand, with new charts on the current trends from RNZ data journalist Farah Hancock.
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'Unprecedented' donations stream into National, Act
23 Aug 2023National has banked millions more than Labour, raising concern over the fairness of political donation rules.
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What killed the plan to price agricultural emissions?
19 Aug 2023There is yet another "final plan" to address the climate impact of farming, but it will almost certainly end in further disagreement and delay.
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When agriculture and government fell out, and the climate lost
18 Aug 2023Three years of work on an agreed approach to pricing agricultural emissions dissolved in acrimony within months.
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