Australia

A news report showing restrained 501-ers being herded onto a repatriation flight while being harassed by an Aussie TV reporter raised hackles here because an Australian minister called it “taking out… Audio

New South Wales farmer Graham Forbes says stock have died and lots of milk has had to be spilled because of widespread flooding near his farm at Gloucester. Audio

Some New Zealanders have not waited for an Australian travel bubble before taking holidays across the ditch - with about 27 people heading there and back over Christmas and New Year.

They are among… Audio

Australia correspondent Chris Niesche looks at the situation in New South Wales, where 40,000 people have been affected by evacuation orders forced by flooding and where a risk of landslips remains… Audio

Fighting back tears, the Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised he is listening to women.

In an extraordinary media conference today, he called for urgent change following recent… Audio

Trans-Tasman quarantine-free travel is essential, even if it might be complicated, the Australian Tourism Industry council says.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced yesterday that… Video, Audio

According to new research, almost 75 percent of healthy Australians aged over 70 years use complementary medicines, either daily or occasionally. But how necessary are these supplementary medicines… Audio

It's Friday so we cross the ditch to Canberra to talk to our correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh. Audio

The prospect of being able to leave the country for a holiday in Australia raises the question about what happens if either country has an outbreak, and the borders snap shut.

So where does that… Audio

New Zealanders and Australians could be winging their way over the Tasman for quarantine free visits by the end of next month.

Since Australia pulled out of trans-Tasman bubble talks in February… Audio

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about the rallies held around the country against sexual assault, discrimination and harassment of women and what impact recent… Audio

Two years after cracking an egg on the bald head of an Aussie politician who made anti-Muslim statements on the same day as the Christchurch mosque attacks, the teenager known as 'Egg Boy' is… Video, Audio

Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta has defended her decision not to give the Prime Minister a heads up about the deportation of a teenager from Australia.

The 15-year-old is in managed isolation and is… Audio

The National Party says the time for a trans-Tasman travel bubble is now, calling on the Government to begin quarantine-free movement with Australia immediately. 

University of Otago epidemiologist… Audio

An Australian lawyer has described the deportation of a 15-year-old New Zealander as unconscionable.

Yesterday it was revealed the teenager was in managed isolation, after being deported on a flight… Audio

Jacinda Ardern says she was only told this afternoon, in response to media enquiries, there was a 15-year-old boy on last week's deportation flight from Australia.

It's just one of several flights… Audio

Australia has added insult to injury - with a senior government minister describing New Zealanders being deported here as "trash".

Australian television network 9 News was given extraordinary access… Audio

Australia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn to look at how Prime Minister Scott Morrison is rejecting calls for an independent inquiry into a historical rape allegation against Christian… Audio