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Who cares? The fight over Funded Family Care
4 Dec 2020For decades, parents have fought to be paid for the care they provide their severely disabled grown-up children. Two months ago the existing scheme was scrapped, but families say the real issues…
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'Defining my own masculinity and what it means to me'
19 Nov 2020HERE WE ARE - Nikolai Talamahina, aka Brown Boy Magik, talks about what it's like when you're suddenly expected to be "one of the boys".
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'Some women are born into womanhood and some women have to fight for it'
18 Nov 2020Here We Are - Poet, dancer and student Stellar Angafili Makarita Pritchard talks about finding herself and her community.
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Why 1 in 5 transgender people end up homeless
17 Nov 2020Angelo was kicked out of home at 14. He's one of many New Zealanders who have been made homeless for being transgender. Susan Strongman and Murphy explore the country's grim statistics.
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Woman evicted with 3 hours' notice after being called 'offensive' by landlord
16 Nov 2020Kristine Ablinger says she was kicked out of her flat because she is transgender. The Human Rights Commission says her landlord acted within the law.
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Getting away with murder: Freedom deal for men in Stone-Maney case
11 Nov 2020Two men were granted immunity for murder and rape in exchange for a story that sent Gail Maney to prison for life. Should they have been? Guyon Espiner investigates.
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The poets, the spies, the vodka and the magpies
2 Nov 2020The SIS spied on literary great Denis Glover, newly released files show. Guyon Espiner reports.
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Iran threatens legal action against NZ government if SIS raid is 'proven'
2 Nov 2020Iran is threatening legal action against New Zealand after learning the SIS broke into its Wellington embassy to plant bugs in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Exclusive: The secret case of the NZ First Foundation
16 Oct 2020Despite a legal battle, the names of those charged in the NZ First Foundation fraud case remain suppressed. As Guyon Espiner reports, the foundation has been shrouded in secrecy from the start.
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Prison guard says he was impersonated for 'false evidence'
7 Oct 2020A former Corrections officer says someone impersonated him to fabricate evidence in the case of convicted murderer Gail Maney.
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Booth of truth: Finding New Zealand's bellwethers
6 Oct 2020Is it possible to tell the outcome of the election from a single voting place? Kate Newton reports.
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Down the drain: How phones in the shower are scuppering sustainability
29 Sep 2020Some internet surfers are in hot water over their in-shower cellphone use, Teresa Cowie discovers.
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SIS left girl to be sexually abused - former spy
24 Sep 2020The SIS knew a young woman was being sexually abused by her father but failed to lodge a complaint with the police, effectively allowing the abuse to continue for years, a former spy says.
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'We were always taught to look after each other' - what Pasifika families' unpaid work means to NZ
10 Sep 2020For many Pasifika serving their communities is a natural calling, but their contribution to New Zealand though volunteering and unpaid work is not fully recognised . Video
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Prolonged confinement of prisoners could prompt legal action against Corrections
9 Sep 2020Corrections admits it has opened itself up to the possibility of legal action as it may have broken the law by confining women to their cells for more than 23 hours a day.
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'Punitive culture' at NZ's largest women's prison - review
7 Sep 2020New Zealand's largest women's prison has a "punitive culture" where guards are too quick to resort to force and women's health needs go unmet because of a lack of staff, according to an internal…
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When a relative falls down a conspiracy theory rabbit hole
21 Aug 2020How does it feel to watch family members become obsessed with Bill Gates, microchips and 5G - and is there anything you can do to help them?
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I was filmed in a Kmart changing cubicle
19 Aug 2020When a stranger videoed Veronica Schmidt undressed in a changing room, the store's staff refused to call police. Here she writes about what it took to finally get the offender in front of a judge.
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Inmate organised bar tab for Mt Eden prison guards
28 Aug 2020An imprisoned gang member organised a bar tab for Corrections guards drinking at a pub after hours, in an attempt to corrupt them.
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'Serious concerns' raised about Pūhoi-Ōkahu highway
15 Sep 2020Serious safety concerns have been highlighted in the design of two highway viaducts being built north of Auckland.
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Stone appeals murder convictions 30 years after deaths
19 Aug 2020A man labelled one of New Zealand's most notorious killers has lodged an appeal against the murders featured in hit podcast Gone Fishing.
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Border exemptions for horse-racing track workers
Four people have been let in from Australia to work on an all-weather horse-racing track in Cambridge, sparking questions about what the government is prioritising during the pandemic.
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How a city race track bagged Provincial Growth Fund money
10 Aug 2020More than $10 million is going to a horse track in the middle of NZ's second largest city, despite officials saying Christchurch is ineligible for PGF funding.
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Vitamin dosing via bluetooth? Physicist warns don't waste your money
29 Jul 2020A month after saying a dietary supplement could prevent Covid-19, Orewa psychic Jeanette Wilson now claims a bluetooth device she's selling can dose vitamins "vibrationally". Audio
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