Insight
Sunday at 8:12am during Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw, repeated on Monday at 7:30 pm during Nights with Bryan Crump
NZ Radio Awards 2013: winner of the Best Documentary or Feature Programme & co-winner of Best Daily or Weekly series under an Hour Duration
- Insight for 27 January 2013 - The Future of Shopping
Penny MacKay investigates if the retail High St can survive the pressure of electronic shopping (27′53″)
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New Zealanders have taken to online shopping with gusto and the growth in the sector for 2012 is expected to be about 20 percent up on figures from 2011.Thirty-five percent of those purchases will have been from overseas websites and that's making many in the domestic retail sector anxious.
The sector - the country's second-largest employer - says the Government could help by charging GST on the tsunami of goods crashing across the border.
But the government says under a certain dollar value it's just not economical.
Penny MacKay looks at the changing face of retail and asks what price can be put on a thriving High Street.
Coming Up
8:12 am Sunday 26 May: Insight: Auckland Council vs the Government
Auckland Council and the Government are at a crucial point in their almost three year old relationship.
The council wants Government support for big projects such as the $2.4 billion, downtown rail tunnel, and new ways to fund $15 billion of transport projects.
So far the Government has been cool on both, and there's also tension over the implementation of the city's 30 year development blueprint, the Unitary Plan.
Radio New Zealand's Auckland Correspondent Todd Niall looks behind the photo-opportunity handshakes, at the state of the relationship between the country's two biggest political bodies.
Image: John Key and Len Brown opening the new wharf and ferry service between the CBD, Beach Haven, and the Government's flagship housing development at Hobsonville Point.
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A weekly current affairs programme of national and international interest.
Insight provides an in-depth analysis of a topical issue. It is broadcast on Radio New Zealand National at 8:15am on Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw and repeats on Mondays at 7:30pm and Wednesdays at 12:30am.
NZ Radio Awards 2012 winner: Best Daily or Weekly Series (under an hour duration)
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