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'A melting pot of gnarly issues’ - financial struggles worry Kiwis, Samoa tackles dengue outbreak, Wellington peanut butter in space, Harry Potter super fan
More people are spending their days worrying about money according to the Financial Services Council. We talk to the FSC's Chief Executive about who is struggling most.
Samoa is tackling an outbreak of dengue fever, nut butters from a.Wellington maker are heading into space plus the biggest Harry Potter collector. -
Tik Tok and US propaganda fears, house prices flat, no breakfast vs bad breakfast, cicada-geddon hits California
The clock is ticking for Tiktok in the US with the government giving the social media giant a deadline to sell its US operations .
The property market is stagnating along with the rest of the economy. We talk to a property expert about how long things will be on hold. What is worse for getting your brain performing, no breakfast or an unhealthy breakfast ? Plus we told you last month about the cicada-geddon about to hit the US, with trillions of insects set to emerge from underground - Now the noise is driving Californians to distraction. -
Unpacking the AUKUS defence pact, the inquest into a toddler's death in oxidation ponds, female doctors and your health, beating the bots on picture verification
Winston Peters is expected to clarify New Zealand’s position on the defence pact, AUKUS, tomorrow, but what is it all about?
A Coroner’s inquest has opened into the death of a Gore toddler who drowned in oxidation ponds, we have the background to this confusing tragedy.
Could you live longer if you had a female doctor and how it's getting harder to pass the picture verification test in an effort to stave off AI guesses.
E kawatau ana ka whakamahuki te pirimia tuarua a Winston Peters i tā Aotearoa kaupapa here mō te haumi whakamaru a AUKUS, āpōpō, engari he aha katoa tēnei āhuatanga?
Kua tuwhera te matewhawhati a te kaitirotiro matewhawhati ki te matenga o tētahi kōhungahunga nō Gore i toromi i roto i ngā pūroto ōhikitanga, kei a mātou te whakamōhiotanga tuarongo ki tēnei aituā pīroiroi.
Ka taea e koe te ora roa ake mehemea he tākuta wahine tāu? Ā, e uaua ake ai te whakaoti i te whakamātautau manatokonga pikitia i runga i te hiahia ki te karo i ngā whakapae AI.
Translated into Te Reo Māori using the power of Microsoft AI and Stuff's Kaiwhakamāori Joel Maxwell -
King Charles and his first year on the throne, Australia's medicinal cannabis industry called "the Wild West" - how is it here? Student protests escalate in the US, troublesome Mount Fuji Insta shots
It is all but a year since King Charles and Queen Camilla were crowned. How have the first 12 months gone? We talk to a US podcaster.
Researchers in Australia have called the medicinal cannabis industry there the Wild West, but is it the same here? Plus we get the details on the student protests growing in the US and the problems being caused by the oh so snappable Mount Fuji in Japan. -
Jumping the ditch for more money - how bad could the numbers of New Zealanders leaving get? Can the Phoenix regain their top spot, taste testing
New Zealand citizens are jumping ship and moving overseas at record rates. We meet one Kiwi who’s recently left for Australia and ask an expert, sociologist, Distinguised Professor Paul Spoonley what the impacts could be.
Can the Wellington Phoenix regain their top of the table spot before heading into the playoffs? We talk to one of the founders of the Yellow Fever supporters about how he is feeling about Saturday night's match.
Plus taste testing K Pop cola.
Kei te peke ngā kirirarau o Aotearoa i te kaipuke, a, kei te hūnuku ki rāwāhi i ngā pāpātanga nui rawa atu. E tūtaki ana tātou ki tētahi tangata nō Aotearoa kātahi anō kua hūnuku ki a Ahitereiria, ā, ka ui atu ki tētahi mātanga mātai pāpori, ko Te Ahorangi ko Paul Spoonley tēnā mō ngā pānga o te āhuatanga nei.
Ka taea e te Phoenix te tū tonu ki runga i te tēpu whakataetae i mua i tā rātou tae atu ki ngā whiringa toa? E kōrero ana mātou ki tētahi o ngā kaiwhakaū o te Kirikā Kōwhai mō ōna whakaaro me ōna kare a-roto e pā ana i te kēmu o te pō Hātarei.
Tāpiri atu i ērā, ka whakamātauhia te rongo o te K Pop cola.
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Breaking - government ministers stripped of media and disability portfolios
In a surprise move, Melissa Lee has been booted from Cabinet and stripped of the Media portfolio, and Penny Simmonds has lost the Disability Issues portfolio in a reshuffle.
Simmonds was a minister outside of Cabinet.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith would take over the Media and Broadcasting role, while Social Development Minister Louise Upston would pick up Disability Issues.