Paul Brennan
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Feb 2 2018
A review of the week's news including... bad weather hits, many victims from a Kiribati ferry sinking are likely to be high school children, the son of a medicinal marijuana campaigner says the… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Jan 26 2018
A review of the week's news including... The Government's announcement of a ministerial inquiry into mental health and addiction and it's first changes to employment laws since assuming power… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Dec 22 2017
A review of the week's news including... Some medicinal cannabis users say the Government's plan to overhaul the law offers hope but no material changes for them, mental health issues down on the… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Dec 15 2017
A review of the week's news including... the Government opens it's books and launches announces a family package to halve the number of children in poverty, nearly two thirds of MPs vote in support of… Audio
Late Edition for 11 December 2017
The first polls are in since the change of government. Can our public servants speak freely in the beehive? And in Dateline Pacific - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to anti-nuclear campaign. Audio
Enough about me...what about you..what do you think of me?
There has been considerable discussion in popular culture about whether younger generations are increasingly narcissistic. Yet in the scientific literature suggests that there is no scientific… Audio
New China Eye Witness
New China Eyewitness tells the story of how Canterbury Museum came to acquire the largest collection of Chinese art in New Zealand after a group of prominent New Zealanders visited the People's… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Dec 8 2017
A review of the week's news including... we meet the man who's the Government's longest ever motel tenant, hundred of thousands of people may be forced to have their water chlorinated, cancellations… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Dec 1 2017
A review of the week's news including... Widespread dismay at a decision not to prosecute anyone for the deaths of 115 in the CTV building collapse, the Chair of the embattled Waikato District health… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Nov 24 2017
A review of the week's news including... Global pressure mounts on Australia to address the plight of Manus Island detainees, options for re entering the Pike River Mine's drift presented to cabinet… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Nov 17 2017
A review of the week's news including... a re-fashioned TPP is met with jubilation and trepidation, when is a journalist not a journalist?, members of a family are in a vegetative state after eating… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Nov 10 2017
A review of the week's news including... The Prime Minister says there is only a fifty-fifty chance of a Trans Pacific trade deal being reached, media freedom advocates say an attempt to obtain the… Audio
Late Edition with Dateline Pacific for Thursday 9 November
You're listening to RNZ National Time now for Late Edition. In Tonight's programme... online exams Mitch James in session today's goings on in parliament in The House and in Dateline Pacific - A Manus… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Nov 3 2017
A review of the week's news including... questions are being asked about the impact of a ban on foreigners buying New Zealand homes, six people are arrested following a brawl linked to tension in the… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Oct 27 2017
A review of the week's news including... The new Labour-led government is officially in place, Southern DHB confirms there are over 500 urology patients waiting longer than they should for treatment… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Oct 20 2017
A review of the week's news including... New Zealand First makes it's choice and New Zealand has it's youngest Prime Minister in over a hundred and fifty years, the Court of Appeal is told the killing… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Oct 13 2017
A review of the week's news including... The talks are over, the horse trading is done and now it's decision time on who will lead the next government, a top police officer speaks of his horror at the… Audio
The Week In Review for week ending Fri Oct 6 2017
A review of the week's news including... The impact of the more than 380-thousand special votes to be revealed, a former Greens MP believes the strongest push for a Blue-Green coalition is coming from… Audio
Late Edition for Friday 6 October
You're listening to Nights on RNZ National and this is Late Edition...in tonight's programme arctic huts, ocean explorers and in Dateline Pacific - Fijians in California angry at Bainimarama's… Audio
The Mount Busking Festival
This Sunday, 8th October head down to Mount Maunganui Mainstreet for the Mount Busking Festival. We speak to Ingrid Flemming to find out all about it. Audio