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An RNZ investigation lifted the lid this week on lobbyists and how they communicate with politicians outside the public gaze or official oversight. But it also raised questions for the media about how the lobbyists lobby them - and appear in the media while the public have no idea who their clients are.…

An RNZ investigation lifted the lid this week on lobbyists and how they communicate with politicians outside the public gaze or official oversight. But it also raised questions for the media about how the lobbyists lobby them - and appear in the media while the public have no idea who their clients are.…

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Australia's first purpose-built office space designed by the Deaf, for the Deaf has just opened in Melbourne. The office is home to Expression Australia, which is the Deaf and Hard of Hearing organisation. CEO Nicky Long joins us.

The Phoenix Foundation is one of New Zealand's most well loved bands, and the fact they're still going after nearly 25 years is testament to that. Next Saturday they are the headline act at the One Fine Day Festival in Whanganui

The Ten Tenors have been a concert experience since 1995, and are the world's longest-running classical crossover act seamlessly transitioning between operatic arias and modern day ballads with amazing 10 part harmonies. They're about to tour New Zealand and there are two Kiwis in their mix. Cameron Barclay and Andrew Papas.…

The news that the Oxford English Dictionary has added 'chur' and 36 te reo words to their collection prompted AudioCulture's Chris Bourke to look into the history of the word.

Whanganui born Alex Rothman is calling home from Tashkent in Uzbekistan where he teaches high school history.

In the small town of Amberley just out of Christchurch Rachel Scott has made bread her life. She believes anyone can make bread. It needn't be fancy, and it absolutely needn't be expensive. Rachel joins Anna Thomas with some tips and tricks.

The fly-in fly-out visit of provocateur Posie Parker was obviously a divisive issue - with people going to court to try to prevent it and then taking to the streets when that failed. Opponents drowned out her public appearance in Auckland, but there was plenty about her - and her opinions - in the media this week.…

UK provocateur captures media's attention; lifting the lid on lobbying, ministers - and the media; a source burned and spurned - in the public interest?

An RNZ investigation this week revealed ministers and their staff are messaged by lobbyists using apps out of the public gaze - but discoverable under the OIA. In the UK, one minister’s messages exposing ‘government by WhatsApp’ are also in the headlines because of one journalist brutally betraying her source - and kicking off an angry ethical deba…

Dr Owen Jones is research fellow in the Department of Psychology at Otago University. An expert in memory, Alzheimer's and the much rarer, earlier-onset fronto-temporal dementia - brought to public attention recently following actor Bruce Willis' diagnosis. He joins us to talk about how our memory works and how we can keep it healthier for longer.…

An international collaboration between Dutch and New Zealand artists sees the opening of a new exhibition, 'Smells like Roses - Rozengeur' at Foxton's Mapuna Kabinet Art Gallery. We're joined by co-curator, Arjan van der Boon.

New Zealand Rugby hopes to triple the number of women referees in the game announcing a new scholarship for women referees this week. One of the best in the game, referee Natarsha Ganley joins us to tell us what it takes.

An increased appetite to learn Te reo Māori among different parts of the Parliament system means the work of the Māori Language Service is in demand more than ever.

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Children’s hymns feature in this week’s programme, along with a contemporary setting of Charles Wesley’s Love divine, all loves excelling and Graham Kendrick’s 20th century classic, The servant king.

A wrap of the day's big stories

In the last few years, Tom O'Brien's Southland farmland has become home to a hand-built bike and hiking track and an organic market garden.

Matariki Williams (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Hauiti, Taranaki) is a Whakatane-based writer, curator, and historian. She is the co-founder of and co-editor of ATE Journal of Maori Arts, alongside Bridget Reweti, which was set up to create a space to talk about Maori art, from a Maori perspective. "It's just very apparent if you look through a…

Matariki Williams (Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Whakaue, Ngati Hauiti, Taranaki) is a Whakatane-based writer, curator, and historian. She is the co-founder and co-editor of ATE Journal of Maori Art alongside Bridget Reweti. The journal was set up to create a space for conversations about Maori art from a Maori perspective. [picture id="4LBNG1Q_matarikiānd_jul…

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Life-long creative Judy Darragh is known for her bright and brilliant use of colour and found materials as a sculptor, painter and jeweller. Not afraid to use plastic, Darragh wants us to reflect on how we treat the plane

Ruapehu, the largest active volcano in Aotearoa, and its neighbour Tongariro, are iconic mountains in the central North Island. They don't look like most other New Zealand volcanoes though - their rough, undulating cones more closely resemble those found in Iceland.

National's leader Christopher Luxon ditched Parliament for the playground this week, touring schools to sell his party's solution to declining student performance with a back-to-basics focus on literacy and numeracy. Teacher unions have criticised the plan, but the party was unlikely to ever get their backing - instead targeting concerned parents a…

Pickleball – a form of paddle tennis played on a downsized court – is the fastest-growing sport in the US. Already well-established with older Americans, the game is now attracting people of all ages around the world, including former tennis stars.

Bonnie Garmus's debut novel Lessons in Chemistry has become a multi-million selling bestseller largely through word of mouth.The story concerns a American scientist who, sacked for being pregnant in 1955, takes revenge when she's hired to front a teatime cookery show. Stephen King has called it "the Catch 22 of early feminism."…

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NZ Army leader Dr Ellen Nelson worked night and day for almost a year to help evacuate 563 Afghan Defence Force allies and their families after the country fell to the Taliban in 2021. Ellen Nelson is a finalist for Local Hero of the Year at the 2023 New Zealander of the Year Awards.

New Zealand runner and two-time Olympian Zane Robertson has been banned from all sport for eight years. Fellow runner, author and journalist Adharanand Finn raced with Robertson in Kenya in 2011 and interviewed him last year for his podcast The Way of the Runner.

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Pacific needs to stand up and pay attention to AUKUS - Dame Meg Taylor; 'Hope in the Pacific keeps dwindling due to climate inaction' - Greenpeace; Tonga PM pleased with Pacific Education Ministers conference; Pacific leaders selected for Dawn Raids scholarship programme; Talanoa with 'Red, White and Brass' film director Damon Fepulea'i.…

'Posie Parker normalises hatred towards queer people' - LGBTQ+ activist; NZ Pasifika leaders gather in Auckland for Pasifika futures conference; Vanuatu distributes dry rations for communities in worst-hit areas; PNG Government looks to increase its cabinet.

'Posie Parker normalises hatred towards queer people' - LGBTQ+ activist.

NZ Pasifika leaders gather in Auckland for Pasifika futures conference.

Vanuatu distributes dry rations for communities in worst-hit areas.

PNG Government looks to increase its cabinet.

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What's Up With ADHD? by Mirjam Guesgen: ADHD diagnoses in adults have quadrupled in New Zealand in the past 10 years. What's behind it?

ABC Wantok Program for 24 March 2023.

Andrew Donaldson shaved four minutes off the previous record swimming 22.5 km from Perano Head in the Marlborough Sounds to Wellington in four hours and 33.5 minutes.

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