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Forestry conversions rules 'totally out of control'
31 Oct 2019Wealthy European buyers have snapped up four more sheep and beef farms to convert to forestry, as rural concerns over the sales ramp up.
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Horse racing: Flogging tracks to survive
1 Nov 2019Insight - Forcing racing clubs to close their tracks and outsourcing the TAB could revitalise the horse racing industry, but, as Max Towle discovers, some diehards won't accept change without a fight. Audio
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Mother fears daughter's death linked to Pharmac's epilepsy drug brand switch
13 Nov 2019A woman who fears her daughter's death is linked to a change in her epilepsy medicine is urging vigilance among the 11,000 people being forced to switch drug brands by Pharmac .
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Govt gives Japanese-owned company free pass to buy NZ land
24 Oct 2019Land Information Minister and Green MP Eugenie Sage has given a foreign-owned forestry company a free pass to buy thousands of hectares of New Zealand land without applying to the OIO.
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The New Zealanders holding vigils for chickens
22 Oct 2019Meet the people showing love and compassion to animals about to be slaughtered, as part of a global movement that has arrived in our country. Video
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NZ's top 50 private landowners revealed
17 Oct 2019Green Rush - Rich-listers, established farming families and a former All Black are among New Zealand's top 50 landowners.
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Foreign forestry companies could face 'oil and gas' style ban
10 Oct 2019Green Rush - Forestry Minister Shane Jones is considering reining in conversions of farmland to forestry after a rural backlash. Video
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Austrian countess fined over NZ land purchase
17 Oct 2019Green Rush - The countess breached overseas investment rules while buying an iconic farm station, but was allowed to keep the property and was fined just a fraction of the purchase price. Video
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Green Rush: Will pines really save the planet?
10 Oct 2019Vast new pine forests are being hailed as a solution to NZ's carbon emissions deficit - but not all environmentalists see them as a silver bullet and farmers say they could gut rural communities.
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Green Rush: Foreign forestry companies NZ's biggest landowners
10 Oct 2019The four largest private landowners in New Zealand are all foreign-owned forestry companies, an RNZ investigation has found.
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Adrian Orr: The Reserve Bank governor taking on the Aussie banks
6 Oct 2019Insight - The big Australian-owned banks are making record profits here, and Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr wants to rein them in - but will he damage the economy, Guyon Espiner asks. Audio
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Seizures, driving stand-downs as Pharmac pulls epilepsy drug funding
30 Sep 2019People with epilepsy say their lives are being turned upside down by seizures after Pharmac switched their medicines in a cost savings drive. Warning: Graphic images.
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The New Zealanders involved in the exploitation of Filipinos
27 Sep 2019New Zealand is a dream destination for many Filipinos. But many are exploited and New Zealanders are increasingly becoming involved in exploitation in the Philippines as well. Gill Bonnett investigate… Audio
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John Key may have to relinquish banking role
4 Oct 2019The former prime minister could be forced to stand down from one of his banking roles because of a potential conflict of interest. Audio
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Strangulation offences: Five people a day charged since law change
Insight - Strangulation is such a strong precursor to domestic violence deaths it was made a separate offence last December. Since then, nearly 1300 charges have been laid. Audio
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Closed until further notice - a life on hold after the mosque attacks
13 Sep 2019A restaurateur, a chef and how the Christchurch terror attack changed everything.
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Anti-abortion charities received $300k taxpayer money
5 Sep 2019Internal Affairs has approved hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of community grants to anti-abortion pregnancy counselling organisations over the past 15 years. Susan Strongman reports.
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Solo mums on benefits having to decide between food and fuel
6 Sep 2019Insight - With solo mums saying benefits are not enough, and food banks seeing unprecedented demand, Sarah Robson investigates the government's welfare promises. Audio
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Written off: The true cost of road deaths
30 Aug 2019Insight - The total cost of crashes was about $6 billion last year, when 377 people died and thousands were injured. Why is the price so high, and what is being done about it? Ben Strang investigates. Audio
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Philip Morris tried to target poor through poverty group, DHB
27 Aug 2019The tobacco giant tried to gain access to an Auckland poverty group as well as a South Auckland DHB in a bid to get its new tobacco products marketed to poor people.
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Milk shake - Why the future of dairy looks scary
Insight - Dairy's huge role earning export dollars for New Zealand is facing a threat some say could bring it to its knees. Teresa Cowie investigates. Audio
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Gloves off: Smoking researcher shunned over Philip Morris funding
27 Aug 2019Yesterday smoking researcher Marewa Glover told MPs that children could heal from exposure to smoking in cars. But perhaps most controversial is the source of $1.5m of her research funding - tobacco… Audio
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A poor outcome: Māori, poverty and the struggle for survival
14 Aug 2019Poverty continues to impact Māori far more than non-Māori and the knock-on effects are brutal. Aaron Smale heads to Tairawhiti and finds a community taking matters into its own hands.
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Taking a spin: The dangers of online gambling revealed
20 Aug 2019Online gambling is growing fast in New Zealand, but critics say new government ideas for regulating websites focus on what's good for the industry, rather than protecting people from harm.
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