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‘It was an evil, evil place’: How a refuge for the mentally ill became a nightmare
16 Apr 2024It was designed to give the mentally ill a refuge from the cruel world. But some patients of Porirua Lunatic Asylum say it was nothing more than a prison.
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Brain injury discovered in late Blues halfback
14 Mar 2024Billy Guyton, the former halfback who died last year, had a brain injury likely connected with repeated head knocks, scientists have found.
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Minister accused of 'gaslighting' over Fast Track questions
19 Apr 2024The Green Party says Chris Bishop's suggestion members of the public could submit their own projects under the Fast Track Bill is dismissive.
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Secrecy shrouds which projects might be fast-tracked
16 Apr 2024Not even the MPs supposed to be scrutinising the Fast Track Bill are allowed to know which projects could bypass rules.
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How politicians funded their campaigns - and who spent the most
11 Mar 2024Analysis: What the numbers show about the cost of winning an electorate.
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The 'warts and all programme' coming to RNZ
12 Apr 2024Guyon Espiner says "there might be the odd f-bomb dropped" in his new, unedited 30 minute interview show.
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How do you pay for a 60% increase on home insurance?
10 Apr 2024Homeowners are dipping into their savings or cutting their insurance back in a bid to cope with steeply rising premiums.
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Where 'those sorts of people' were sent
1 Apr 2024'Lunatic asylums' were founded on ideas of paternalism, but they delivered decades of harm.
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The chaos, farce and fatigue of an emergency response
29 Mar 2024'Adrenalinised desk jockeys' cluttered the office and staff retreated to meetings in a cupboard, a review of the Cyclone Gabrielle response revealed.
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A man locked up 'under the act' for half his life
25 Mar 2024He's never appeared in court, there was no trial and he hasn't been convicted . Yet he is considered so dangerous, he has spent half his life in a secure facility.
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National's spend-up on social media ads
22 Mar 2024Christopher Luxon fronted quirky social media videos produced by renowned agency Topham Guerin. But National wasn't the top spender on advertising overall.
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How three men get unprecedented power from a coalition bill
21 Mar 2024What is the Fast Track Approval Bill and why do experts say it's a step beyond even the Muldoon era?
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Why do girls still take second billing in school rowing?
22 Mar 2024Year after year, the girls play second fiddle to the boys at rowing's Maadi Regatta. They're done with it.
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'Year 14' rowers under review
21 Mar 2024Some 'year 14' students come back to school and compete in the Maadi Regatta rowing event in a sign of the 'win at all costs' mentality.
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Luxon's tobacco claims at odds with evidence, documents reveal
21 Mar 2024The Prime Minister's office circulated 'talking points' on tobacco for his ministers that were completely at odds with official advice.
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The tobacco industry language in ministerial papers
4 Mar 2024The striking similarities between the language and themes of the tobacco industry and notes from a minister's office.
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'Acutely unwell' mental health patients at homeless shelter
29 Feb 2024Clinical care is typically full beyond capacity, leaving a homeless shelter feeling more at risk from 'very mentally unwell people'.
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Costello ignored Treaty breach warning
28 Feb 2024The minister in charge of tobacco regulation was warned repealing smokefree legislation would be seen as a breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.
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$2m surge in election campaign spending
26 Feb 2024Lobby and campaign groups spent 13 times more on the 2023 election campaign than in 2020.
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Unravelling the story of a life inside an asylum
20 Mar 2024Can you truly know someone when you've never met them? Reporter Kirsty Johnston spent a year trying to understand the tragic life and death of Nellie Wilson.
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Has the quest for school rowing supremacy got out of hand?
18 Mar 2024"Ethically dubious" tactics and outright cheating in the annual high school rowing event spark widespread concern the competition has got out of hand.
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An adoption, an asylum and a search for the truth
15 Mar 2024Sarah was taken by the state at birth and adopted to a new family in secret. By the time she went looking for her birth mother, it was too late.
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Why 'predator reinvasion' fears have been raised
13 Mar 2024In-fighting between agencies, and uncertainty over funding are putting a 2050 goal in doubt.
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Nellie's Baby: A new investigative podcast from RNZ
11 Mar 2024A woman's journey to uncover the truth about her birth mother's tragic life and mysterious death.
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