Stories by Susan Strongman (The Wireless)
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$1.4m funding boost for campus sexual violence prevention
'Sexual violence and consent is a wider issue for New Zealand. Changing the culture around it is challenging for all of us.'
Make Earth Great Again
These three Christchurch men want you to help plant a forest dedicated to Donald Trump.
Classic New Zealand
A major party leader and several other candidates turned up at a random housewarming on Saturday night to talk politics.
A question of free speech?
Student union votes on cutting ties with anti-abortion group.
Has National gone Full Metal Jacket?
Is bootcamp is the govt’s solution for hardened young crims?
Planes, trains and automobiles
How National and Labour plan to fix Auckland’s transport woes.
Oh baby! The question keeps coming up
Should Jacinda Ardern be asked about her plans for having kids?
In loving memory of Bobby Leach
The first male to survive the Niagara Falls died after slipping on an orange peel on Queen St.
Climate change targets should be legally binding.
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment says politicians must work together to put carbon emission targets into law.
Synthetic cannabis: The killer high
Eight deaths in just over a month. People know it's killing them. So why are they smoking it?
Psychopaths: Mean, misunderstood, and mistreated?
We talk to Professor Devon Polaschek about what makes a psychopath.
'It's not a happy place' - Life in the Kayan villages of Thailand
Questionable ethics behind the scenes of villages that are billed as a tourist attraction.
If NZ politicians were Game of Thrones characters
Winston as Walder, Maggie as Melisandre and Joyce as Brienne: We risked our public funding to bring you this.
Antiquated abortion law a $20 million ‘box ticking exercise’
The decriminalisation of abortion in New Zealand will save the taxpayer millions, a leading doctor says.
'I am ok, and thanks for asking!'
Former Greens MP Holly Walker on her memoir, The Whole Intimate Mess.
Animal welfare and the law
The law recognises that animals have emotions, but it's down to a charity to prosecute abusers.
Shake your money-maker
Young New Zealanders are showing they care, by pushing for change at the companies they invest in and support.
Farewell Gchat. Now we have to Hangout.
In a few days, Google's Gchat will be no more. We pay tribute to the home of inane online chat.
Unpaid, unhappy and over here - Labour's intern scandal explained
Labour is left tidying up after an internship programme organised by the party's former chief of staff gets out of hand.
Treasures of the forest under threat
Our rātā, pōhutukawa, mānuka and kānuka are taonga. How can we protect them from myrtle rust?
Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa
Ma'au i lou ofaga, maua'a i lou faasinomaga: Keep your identity alive to thrive.