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The Panel with Liam Hehir and Amy Carter (Part 1)
Panellists Liam Hehir and Amy Carter discuss the impact cutting meat from your diet could have on the environment, the Greens and student unions inquiry into student wellbeing and a strange case of… Audio
The Pre-Panel with Liam Hehir and Amy Carter
Panellists Liam Hehir and Amy Carter discuss the recent craze in Crown Lynn swans and tell us what they've been thinking. Audio
Midday News for 12 April 2022
Weather warnings are upgraded to red for Gisborne and Wairoa and two thirds of Ukrainian children have been forced from their homes. Audio
Concerns fire devastating southern conservation land may flare up
Southland firefighters are concerned a fire that's been devastating conservation land could flare up and spread with more windy, dry conditions on the way.
The fire at Awarua has burned through more… Audio
Surge of support for Woof! bar after online trolls' fake reviews
Local bar Woof! is biting back at fake bad reviews posted apparently in retaliation for the pub continuing to use vaccine certificates, even though they're no longer compulsory.
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More needed to keep people safe on bikes in Auckland
A grieving mother says Auckland Transport needs to do more to keep cyclists safe - after two deaths in the past two months.
Levi James died after being hit by a truck near the Royal Oak roundabout in… Audio
The Panel with Moata Tamaira and Peter Dunne (Part 2)
Panellists Moata Tamaira and Peter Dunne meet the Nelson local who found an innovative way to stop racers speeding down her street, discuss co-governance and the plans to expand a miniature train… Audio
The Panel with Moata Tamaira and Peter Dunne (Part 1)
Panellists Moata Tamaira and Peter Dunne discuss how the events of the past couple of years have left many of us with a short fuse and today's review into the "culture and environment" surrounding the… Audio
The Pre-Panel with Moata Tamaira and Peter Dunne
Panellists Moata Tamaira and Peter Dunne talk to a family who decided to move into a bus to swerve rising living costs and tell us what they've been thinking. Audio
Midday News for 11 April 2022
The Russian Ambassador's reluctant to front up to parliament, and luxury stores on Queen Street are hit by ram raids overnight. Audio
Waitematā Harbour training exercise keeps rescue chopper busy
A seemingly dramatic rescue is under way on Auckland's Waitematā Harbour, but it's not what it seems.
Midday News for 8 April 2022
Russia black lists New Zealanders
Tackling modern slavery in our supply chains
And Dan Carter keeps kicking Audio
Midday News for 7 April 2022
There are fresh allegations of Russian war crimes,
And Act says the cancer society has been hijacked by political activists for backing the Maori Health Authority Audio
Midday News for 6 April 2022
The Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield announces his resignation.
The Security Council stagnates while mass human suffering continues in Ukraine. Audio
West Coast DHB orders inquiry into closure of Ziman House rest home
The West Coast District Health Board has ordered an independent inquiry into the way it organised and communicated the closure of Ziman House rest home at Reefton Hospital a month ago.
Employers struggling to fill job vacancies
Job vacancies are soaring - a scenario the Employers and Manufacturers Association says has been coming for months.
60 percent of the more than 2000 people surveyed by Trade Me in the first three… Audio
Midday News for 5 March 2022
Midday News for Tuesday 5 April 2022 with Nicola Wright Audio
Journalist Greg Dixon has no regrets about moving to the country
Five years ago, journalists Greg Dixon and Michele Hewitson made the move from Auckland to a 12-acre block in the Wairarapa. The couple write a shared column about "two townies making a new life in… Audio
Second hand bus sales booming
A second-hand bus boom has developed after two years of closed borders and domestic restrictions wrecking havoc on the tour coach sector.
The start of the year saw a 71 percent increase in the number… Audio
Covid-19: More and more Aucklanders quit the big city
More and more Aucklanders are heading out of town for good.
According to the latest data, 25,000 of them have quit the City of Sails over the past two years in search of a different life elsewhere in… Audio