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Private bill offers a more reflective debate
Because a private bill addresses a specific matter particular to just one person it offers a more mellow and reflective style of parliament debate. Audio
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Ukraine's second city without power after strikes
Kharkiv suffers "colossal" damage as the latest wave of Russian strikes targets power supplies.
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The Year in Detail: 2022
Natural disasters, economic turmoil, and injustices in the justice system - The Detail recaps the big stories from this year. Audio
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Twins born from embryos frozen 30 years ago
Twin babies have been born in the US state of Tennessee from embryos frozen more than 30 years ago.
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Three Kiwi women get real about infertility in the new book When Sex is Not Enough
Audio 7 Sep 2022Three Kiwi women get raw and honest about their personal struggles with fertility in the new book When Sex Is Not Enough. . Audio
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The Week in Detail: Charities, citizenship, and the Pacific Islands Forum
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
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Growing pains: Our outdated adoption laws
Our almost 70-year-old adoption laws are under review and there are calls for changes to make it easier for adopted children to reconnect with their biological family. Audio
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Ministry of Justice unveils options for adoption law reform
The country's 67-year-old adoption laws are set for an overhaul.
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Joshua Prager: whatever happened to baby Roe?
Almost 50 years ago the US Supreme Court handed down the landmark Roe v Wade ruling securing a woman's legal right to obtain an abortion. IThe plaintiff at the centre of the case, known by the… Audio
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Bill seeks streamlined path through surrogacy process
Surrogacy arrangements can often be difficult legal and health processes to navigate for intending parents and surrogates. A new Member’s Bill is looking to make it a smoother process that enhances… Audio
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Noelle McCarthy: 'The idea that I'd be the same as my mother was just this cosmic joke'
"I'll be grand, girl, I've great faith," Noelle McCarthy's mother Carol told her just before she died. Raised in the Irish city of Cork, Noelle “ran away” to New Zealand as a young woman, but things… Audio
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Lack of identity a lifelong pain, says wahine abused by adoptive family
The Royal Commission investigating abuse in care has heard from Māori who said the Adoption Act was used as a tool of assimilation.
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Parliament comes together to address an injustice
Paige Harris never met her mother. She wasn’t even on her birth certificate. Parliament is passing a law to fix that injustice - just for Paige. Audio
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Why Māori adoptees and their descendants need law change
A truly personal story lies behind Erica Newman's ground-breaking research that is helping reshape family relations in New Zealand. Audio
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Proposed changes to surrogacy law
The Law Commission is publishing an issues paper about the review of surrogacy law, submissions on which are invited until 23rd September 2021. Proposals for an overhaul of New Zealand's surrogacy law… Audio
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Lake Alice survivor glad to have had opportunity to talk to inquiry
A Niuean church elder has shared his horrid experience in state care this week with the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care.
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Budget 2021: Women left behind, despite focus on well-being
What did Budget 2021 offer those women who were significantly affected by the job losses resulting from Covid-19?
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Same-sex adoption, religious freedoms, and child-abuse petitions before Parliament
The House: Calls to force witnesses to child abuse to speak, reforming adoption law for same-sex couples, and better protections for religious freedoms have been made by petitions to Parliament. Audio
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Same-sex adoption, religious freedoms, and child-abuse petitions before Parliament
Calls to force witnesses to child abuse to speak, reforming adoption law for same-sex couples, and better protections for religious freedoms have been made at Parliament Audio
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Miscarriage bereavement leave bill passes unanimously in Parliament
Parliament has unanimously passed legislation giving mothers and their partners three days of bereavement leave following a miscarriage or stillbirth.
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Irish PM apologises over mother and baby homes
Prime Minister Mícheál Martin says an investigation that found an "appalling level of infant mortality" in mother-and-baby homes reflects a shameful chapter in history, but survivors have attacked the…
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Baby girl born from record-setting 27-year-old embryo
When Molly Gibson was born in October of this year, it was 27 years in the making.
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'When whānau are not in the equation, nothing gets fixed'
A kaumātua has told the Waitangi Tribunal "cultural sovereignty" should be the foundation for making Oranga Tamariki compliant with Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
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Labour's promise to ban conversion therapy receives mixed response from other parties
Labour's promise to ban conversion therapy is being welcomed by the Greens and rejected by ACT, while National is not commenting on the policy.
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Battle for surrogate son leaves parents broken-hearted
The parents of a 6-year-old boy born to a surrogate mother in China and embroiled in an immigration battle are set to be reunited with their son.
