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The shady, controversial and sometimes downright villainous characters of NZ history. Join William Ray as he explores history through the lens of Kiwi dirtbags in NZ's most awarded podcast.
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In this “unashamedly homegrown” podcast we tell the story of our islands from the time before people arrived all the way up to the year 2000. Winner of the bronze award for Best Indie Podcast in the NZ Podcast Awards 2021, Silver for Best Educational and Best Indie in 2022 and Silver for Best History in 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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From nine to noon every weekday, Kathryn Ryan talks to the people driving the news - in New Zealand and around the world. Delve beneath the headlines to find out the real story, listen to Nine to Noon's expert commentators and reviewers and catch up with the latest lifestyle trends on this award-winning programme.
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Media chaplain and broadcaster Rev Frank Ritchie sits down with top New Zealand journalists to unpack that one story that most impacted them, personally and professionally.
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Gail Maney spent 15 years in prison for putting a hit on a man who stole drugs from her. She always insisted she knows nothing about his disappearance. The podcast that sparked a new investigation.
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RNZ National’s flagship news programme known for breaking news stories, incisive interviews with politicians across the political spectrum and newsmakers and commentators from Aotearoa and around the world. There's a lot to talk about in the mornings and Morning Report is covering the stories that matter to the people of Aotearoa.
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scigest - Plant & Food Research podcast

The New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Limited

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Welcome to Scigest - podcast-sized servings of digestible science from Plant & Food Research. Join us as we explore the advancements and impact our scientists are making in food production, including developing new cultivars, innovative new foods, to bioprotection science, AI and technology, and creating sustainable production systems. Listen to our scientists as they share and discuss current research in Aotearoa New Zealand, and beyond in this award-winning podcast collection. Make sure to ...
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In this episode, Michael talks to James about his recent report about the state of academic freedom in New Zealand universities, highlighting concerns about censorship, institutional bias, and self-censorship among academics.Their conversation explores the causes of these issues, including commercialisation of universities and the influence of prog…
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Once the economic driver of Tairawhiti, forestry in some parts of the region has ground to a halt. The sector's decline has triggered calls for the government to urgently commit to helping resource a transition into other more sustainable industries that use land. Local researchers and entrepreneurs have plenty of ideas - everything from therapeuti…
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Australia correspondent Peter Ryan spoke to Lisa Owen about how how critical the deal with Qatar Airways is to shaking up competition in Australia's airline industry, talks of Virgin Australia relisting on the Australian sharemarket and the crackdown widening for Woolworths and Coles being taken to court for deceptive practices on alleged fake disc…
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A new programme is being piloted at two kindergartens in Nelson and Motueka to help tamariki improve their speech skills before they start school. It comes after research shows children have fewer and fewer words when they arrive in the classroom - some schools say up to 30 percent of new entrants can't speak very well, with some only about to spea…
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The All Whites begin the qualification process for the 2026 Football World Cup next week knowing they need to be the best team in region to progress. A team from Oceania will get automatic qualification for the World Cup for the first time and New Zealand's first challenge comes against Tahiti in Vanuatu, sports reporter Felicity Reid spoke to Lisa…
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In tough financial times more of us are lining up to get credit cards, with applications at their highest levels since 2021. This despite overall demand for consumer credit dropping 4 percent compared to last year, according to just released Centrix data.The number of people behind in their debt repayments is on the rise too, North Harbour Budgetin…
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Patients could die if plans for a new Dunedin Hospital are down graded and it's backed up by research, according to the Nurses Organisation. 35,000 people marched in Dunedin at the weekend, opposing the government's plans to revise the hospital redevelopment due to a budget blow out, that could potentially top out at 3 billion dollars, up from 1.9 …
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A criminologist is calling on the government to invest in addiction programmes to treat the causes of crime, rather than spending billions of dollars on locking more people up. The government has recently rolled out changes to sentencing, including encouraging the use of cumulative sentencing for people who commit offences while on bail, parole or …
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There are calls to review the coronial system which can pit lawyered-up government agencies and bereaved families. Figures obtained by Checkpoint show that for two long-running inquests, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand spent over 100-thousand dollars on legal costs. In contrast, the families of the people who died when in hospital care weren't elig…
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Residents in Lower Hutt say they're shutting themselves indoors and turning off the air con to stop themselves becoming physically sick from yet another wave of putrid odours emanating from the beleaguered Seaview wastewater treatment plant. They say smells of faeces and rotting eggs are making them dry retch. Lauren Crimp has more…
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A flutter of kiwi feathers will soon be winging its way back to Aotearoa. There's 65 of the birds living at 18 international zoos or aquariums and the feathers they naturally shed are collected for repatriation. The feathers have got as far as Washington DC, but will soon be heading back to their whenua by the end of the year. Save the Kiwi has bee…
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You may have spotted what's believed to be New Zealand's first TV ad generated entirely by Artificial Intelligence. It's for Bremworth wool carpets and features a woman with tumbling dark hair intertwined with cloud like tufts of wool and images of sweeping landscapes that could be Aotearoa, intellectual property lawyer Narly Kalupahana spoke to Li…
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On today's episode, the Prime Minister is standing by his Associate Health Minister despite concerns she made policy decisions that would benefit tobacco company Philip Morris the most, the Resources Minister says repealing the oil and gas exploration ban is about ensuring New Zealand has long-term contingencies in place if we can't build out enoug…
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