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'Not a way to run a health service': the big bill for health redundancies
4 Mar 2025Health NZ has now paid out more than $33 million alone to staff it's cut and there's more at the Health Ministry.
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Government boosts medical school intake numbers
4 Mar 2025It is a part of a suite of initiatives designed to tackle the long waits for patients to see their GPs
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Ukraine must be at the negotiating table - Luxon
4 Mar 2025Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says it's not unreasonable for Ukraine to expect to be at the negotiating table, after its president's public spat with the US leadership. The meeting at...
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How citizen's arrest laws could make New Zealand more dangerous
4 Mar 2025The government wants to make retail a safer work environment by allowing for citizen's arrests. One legal expert fears the change will have the opposite effect.
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Govt announces funding boost for healthcare
4 Mar 2025The Health Minister has announced an extra 100 placements for overseas-trained doctors to work in primary care, and incentives for recruitment of 400 graduate nurses a year.
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How do you know when to give up on buying a home?
3 Mar 2025Onwership remains a key goal for many New Zealanders - but it might not be worth it for everyone.
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Police warn Te Pāti Māori over financial audit delay
3 Mar 2025The party filed an incomplete 2023 statement in mid-December, well after the July deadline.
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ACT accuses principals of 'lowering expectations' after call to scrap new NCEA tests
3 Mar 2025The party is pushing back on calls for stringent new online literacy and numeracy exams to be scaled back.
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New Zealand's part in provoking China
3 Mar 2025Analysis: China is being called 'provocative' after live firing in the Tasman, but New Zealand has done the same. Audio
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Luxon on school lunches: 'Go make a Marmite sandwich'
4 Mar 2025Christopher Luxon says he'd rather parents take responsibility for feeding their children than the government.
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Luxon on school lunches: 'Go make a Marmite sandwich'
4 Mar 2025Christopher Luxon says he'd rather parents take responsibility for feeding their children than the government.
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Luxon on school lunches: 'Go make a Marmite sandwich'
4 Mar 2025Christopher Luxon says he'd rather parents take responsibility for feeding their children than the government.
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Live: Stanford won't say if she backs Seymour to fix school lunches
4 Mar 2025A planned meeting between the Education minister and her associate to discuss the school unches programme has been delayed, but will rescheduled at the "earliest convenience". Audio
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Live: Stanford meets with Seymour over school lunches
4 Mar 2025Meanwhile, the Prime Minister says parents who are dissatisfied with the new school lunch programme should "make a marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag". Audio
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Tens of thousands of dollars stolen in alleged Wellington Water theft
3 Mar 2025Wellington Water has released a scathing report, after a probe uncovered alleged theft, poor value for money from contractors and structural issues.
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Principals call for end to new NCEA tests
3 Mar 2025Schools are warning the online exams will create a generation of school-leavers with no qualifications. Audio
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Lack of transparency over $29m government satellite, astronomers say
3 Mar 2025The space agency in charge has refused to say why staff and students at Auckland University are not driving the MethaneSAT satellite by now, as promised.
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'Crucial' healthcare roles being cut, workers, Labour say
3 Mar 2025Health care cuts are wreaking havoc on front-line services, according to a union survey released today. Audio
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The changing sound of politics: The voices of past PMs
Political voices have become very familiar since the beginning of radio, but they haven't always sounded the same. Listen to 14 former Prime Ministers from 1912 to 1990. Audio
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Building in 'dumb places': Survey finds people want more from government
2 Mar 2025An Insurance Council survey found 83 percent of respondents believed there should be more control on where properties were built so they were not at risk from flooding.
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Defending media against defunding
2 Mar 2025The two main public media networks in the US are facing bids to de-fund them - as well as MAGA-driven inquiries into bias and how they do business.
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The Prime Minister's increasing strength in foreign policy, deficiency in domestic
1 Mar 2025Analysis: The challenge facing him was convincing Vietnam of the ways it does actually need us, and so in that metric, striking such a deal is a success.
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Union flabbergasted by plan to switch funding for resource teachers
1 Mar 2025While the Minister of Education Erica Stanford said difficult decisions would need to be made, she said the government was not looking to defund expert teachers who support literacy or te reo Māori.
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World will 'judge us' if we don't spend more on defence - Peters
1 Mar 2025Winston Peters says our trading partners will judge us if NZ doesn't "step-up" and play its role by increasing defence spending.
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