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Can New Zealand's mental health crisis be cured?
1 Aug 2019As mental health services wait for their biggest shake-up in half a century, Karen Brown explores the system's pressure points and asks what needs to change. Audio
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New Zealand's best young plumber is taking on the world
22 Aug 2019Lauren Phillips, a 21-year-old apprentice from Invercargill, is competing at the WorldSkills tournament in Russia this week. Is she nervous? 'Not really'.
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Insight: Safe or seized? Babies taken by Oranga Tamariki
Listen - Oranga Tamariki is under fire for taking babies, but must balance keeping kids safe against keeping families together. Māori News Correspondent Leigh-Marama McLachlan reports. Audio
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More residential homes could stop Oranga Tamariki uplifts
19 Jul 2019Insight - Vulnerable mothers desperately need access to more residential homes so they can keep their babies instead of watching them being taken into state care. Audio
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How closed adoption robbed Māori children of their identity
12 Jul 2019Insight - Thousands of Māori babies were adopted into Pākehā families under the 1955 Adoption Act, leaving them desperate to reconnect. Te Aniwa Hurihanganui investigates. Audio
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Tobacco company targeting Māori for money - minister
12 Jul 2019A tobacco company is targeting Māori with its new e-cigarette because it wants to make money and not because it's concerned about public health, Associate Health Minister Jenny Salesa says.
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Tuvalu's fight to stay above the waves
Tuvalu, the canary in the coal mine for climate change, is calling out for more help as it battles rising seas and sweltering temperatures. Sally Round investigates. Audio
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Can New Zealand's mental health crisis be cured?
26 Jul 2019Insight - New Zealand's mental health system is on the brink of a major overhaul, Health Correspondent Karen Brown examines the pressure points and asks what's need to help those living with mental… Audio
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Exclusive: Youth addiction worry as high-nicotine vape JUUL to hit NZ
11 Jul 2019Smoke and Mirrors - A US vaping product, which is so popular with young people it's under fire by the FDA, is coming to NZ. Guyon Espiner reports.
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Smoke and Mirrors: Big Tobacco targets Māori with e-cigarettes
11 Jul 2019Smoke and Mirrors - Philip Morris is visiting marae and sports clubs to offer free trials and discounts on its e-cigarette as it targets Māori. Guyon Espiner investigates. Video
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Time's up for volunteering
9 Jul 2019As lives become busier, organisations say the selfless task of volunteering is in danger of fading away. But as Insight's Teresa Cowie finds out, some people are finding novel ways to keep doing their… Audio
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Facebook becoming a ‘digital graveyard’
4 Jul 2019Within 50 years, the dead are expected to outnumber the living on Facebook. Does being 'friends' with our deceased loved ones help or hinder the grieving process.
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Inside the anti-5G movement
24 Jun 2019Scientists say that 5G is safe, but a small, vocal group of people insist it causes cancer. Susan Strongman speaks to two of the rollout's most rowdy opponents.
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The Pacific Ballot - Ticket to a new life
21 Jun 2019Insight: Thousands of Pacific Islanders enter the annual visa lotteries and are ready to wrench themselves from home for a NZ residence visa. But is the better life the ballot promises a reality?
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Historic rugby club refuses to leave company-owned grounds
18 Jun 2019Dunedin fertiliser company Ravensdown wants Harbour Rugby Club to look for new grounds, but after 130 years of rugby at Moller Park, the club is refusing to budge. Max Towle enters the scrum.
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Kim Dotcom and the seven-year itch
14 Jun 2019Seven years on from his arrest, the extradition battle between Kim Dotcom and the US reached NZ's Supreme Court this week. Kate Newton went to court to find out whether anyone seems to be winning. Video
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Christchurch attacks: What security agencies are keeping us safe?
10 Jun 2019Insight - The minister responsible for New Zealand's spy agencies says it's 'surprising' the country doesn't have a strategy to prevent terrorist attacks. Audio
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Struck by lightning: 'It was like you'd shifted into the twilight zone'
5 Jun 2019The percussive boom of a bass speaker, then the crawling sensation of being covered in ants. Kate Newton meets a man who survived a lightning strike to tell the tale.
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Are NZ's intelligence agencies watching the right people?
Insight - Have NZ's security agencies been unfair in their use of their powers? In this two-part investigation, Phil Pennington asks if the agencies have been monitoring the right people. Audio
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TOP down? Can the party survive in-fighting and mud-slinging?
4 Jun 2019Former leader Gareth Morgan says members are 'grovelling, compromising political aspirants' - and that's the least of his successor Geoff Simmons' problems. Can he rescue the party from itself? Video
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NZ diabetes drugs 'third world' - doctor
28 May 2019An endocrinologist says New Zealand's type 2 diabetes drugs are 'third world'. Guyon Espiner asks why Pharmac won't fund the medicines experts want.
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Intelligence agencies' white supremacist blind spot
9 Jun 2019Insight - New Zealand's security agencies are increasing their focus on the white supremacist threat since the Christchurch mosque attacks, Phil Pennington reports. Video, Audio
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Pharmac switches epilepsy drug against Medsafe advice
28 May 2019Pharmac is making 10,000 people with epilepsy change medication, despite Medsafe's opposition the move. Guyon Espiner asks why it carries out up to 60 drug switches a year.
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Has the military shaken off its anti-LGBTQI history?
26 May 2019Insight - The New Zealand Defence Force once banned LGBTQI personnel and it's now 25 years since the ban was lifted. How much has the culture improved, Jonathan Mitchell asks. Audio
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