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Recent items from Labour Day
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Settling the score
8:55 AM.RNZ Concert's annual countdown of New Zealand's favourite classical music is on today until 7pm and RNZ Concert host Nick Tipping has run across the corridor to fill us in on the hot classical goss! Read more Audio
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Labour Day's resonance over the 20th century
8:30 AM.Today is Labour Day, but what does that mean in 2019 and where have the name and the holiday come from? Cybèle Locke is a senior lecturer in history at Victoria University with a focus on Labour… Read more Audio
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Islamic State leader killed
8:05 AM.Donald Trump says US forces killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a "daring and dangerous" early morning raid by US Special Forces on Sunday. Read more Audio
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Sasha Borissenko - The Blaming of the Shrew
11:55 AM.A group of young writers came together at this year's Young Writer's Festival in Dunedin to talk about modern feminism. Journalist, Sasha Borissenko, was one of those on stage at The Blaming of the… Read more Audio
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Hollie Fullbrook - Tiny Ruins
11:25 AM.Tiny Ruins performs live in our Auckland studio ahead of tours in the UK, Europe, and Australia. Read more Audio
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An ethical and ecological alternative to the almond
11:06 AM.The "equanut" is bringing a new economy to parts of Papua New Guinea, providing work for families and helping families send children to school. Gabe Davidson, James Bushell and Clare Christian of the… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Gemma Hartley - Fed Up
10:45 AM.When did emotional labour become a 'thing' and who does it? Gemma Hartley asked for her bathroom to be deep cleaned for Mother's Day. It wasn't about the cleaning; it was about the process of finding… Read more Audio
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Steph Matuku - Not one debut novel, but two
10:38 AM.New Plymouth writer Steph Matuku has done something pretty special - she has published not one but two debut novels for young readers: Flight of the Fantail, and Whetu Toa and the Magician. Read more Audio
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Nick Paumgarten - The art of long form writing
10:06 AM.Nick has been writing features for the New Yorker for 18 years. He tells Megan Whelan how he manages to keep readers engaged in long form writing and his approach to some of his recent work, a kayak… Read more Audio
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Project Baseline
9:50 AM.What's on the seafloor in Wellington harbour? Project Baseline is part of an international network of divers who monitor sites around the world for rubbish and restore them to their original state to… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The Future of Work
9:10 AM.How will artificial intelligence and the gig economy change work as we know it? Megan Whelan talks to demographer Professor Tahu Kukutai from Waikato University, Tech Futures Lab and The Mind Lab… Read more Video, Audio
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Sue Williamson - the meaning of merit
8:40 AM.Unconscious bias has been a buzzword for a few years now, and many employers claim they are aware of their biases and simply want to employ people based on merit, not gender, team fit or ethnicity… Read more Audio
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Cynthia Morahan - Settling the Score
8:39 AM.From today, our RNZ Concert collegues will be counting down NZ's top-voted classical music in Settling the Score. Concert's Cynthia Morahan tells us where the polling is at. Audio
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Kate Hannah - Invisible Women in Science
8:28 AM.Cultural historian Kate Hannah has made it her mission to find out what role New Zealand's women scientists have played, and what's kept them from scaling the same lofty heights as their better-known… Read more Audio
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Bus strikes for Auckland, Waikato and Wellington on Tues
8:20 AM.People who usually take the bus to work in three main centres will need to find another way to work tomorrow. Jared Abbott of First Union explains why action is being taken. Audio
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Pressure on Saudi Arabia increases over Khashoggi killing
8:15 AM.A war of information is stepping up, as pressure increases on Saudi Arabia to prove exactly what led to the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul three weeks… Read more Audio
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Chris Herwig's Soviet bus stops - a journey and an obsession
12:00 PM.Canadian photographer Chris Herwig's books, Soviet Bus Stops 1 & 2, reveal the stunning and unexpected architecture of the bus stops peppering the Soviet landscape from Latvia to Russia. A snap… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Syd Barrett - Pink Floyd's forgotten founder
11:20 AM.Dozens of tribute bands make a living playing Pink Floyd's top-selling tunes, but only one is dedicated to the music of the man who founded the band - but then floundered when drugs and mental illness… Read more Video, Audio
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Gardening on Labour Weekend
11:05 AM.The long weekend is a great opportunity to get out in the garden and tidy up ahead of warmer days spent in the outdoors. The talented garden expert, Lynda Hallinan takes us through how to approach… Read more Audio
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Raising an introverted child to become a resilient adult
10:38 AM.Colin talks to Debbie Teale and her daughter Waveney about the experience of raising an introverted child and their triumph through the struggles of mental health. The pair left New Zealand behind and… Read more Audio
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Good reads for the long weekend
10:10 AM.Nikki McDonald and Mike White took over Featured.org.nz from Nelson-based freelance writer, Naomi Arnold. They find outstanding feature articles from New Zealand and around the world and email them to… Read more Audio
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A look at the year so far with comic James Nokise
9:40 AM.James Nokise is a giant of New Zealand comedy. Colin and James look at the response to the Harvey Weinstein story, a year of Twitter craziness from the US President, day one of the new Government and… Read more Audio
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Building peace by pushing back poverty
9:05 AM.The former US platoon commander who resigned his commission and took himself back to school to set up a non-profit to end extreme poverty in war-torn countries. Jake Harriman set up Nuru International… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Paul Mason: a post-capitalist world
8:40 AM.Economics journalist Paul Mason says globalisation has created a whole new class of working people and the world is on the verge of a post-capitalism where work is being reinvented. Read more Audio
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Bringing capitalism back from the brink
8:10 AM.The face of British business, former UK Minister for Trade - Lord Digby Jones, explains how business and capitalism needs to be fixed to benefit everyone. Audio