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Women Caring for Women
7:00 AM.In this episode of Voices; a depressed Punjabi mother turns her life around to help others. Produced by Sara Vui-Talitu. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Love in a Cold(er) Climate
7:00 AM.In this episode of Voices; a long distance love story finds a happy ever after here in New Zealand. Produced by Sara Vui-Talitu. Read more Audio
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Extra Muscle at the Mussel Factory
7:00 AM.As one aquaculture business turns to Tonga to recruit labour for its south Auckland mussel processing plant, how do the women coming to New Zealand feel about their new jobs? Read more Audio
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From stunts to the director’s chair: Willie Ying and The Final Blade
7:00 AM.In this episode of Voices, Amelia Langford talks to Chinese New Zealand film director Willie Ying, who is netting international awards with his action-comedy feature film The Final Blade. Read more Audio
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Sam Gao's Middle Earth, Wandering Earth and WETA
8:00 AM.From Beijing with no English, to working as WETA's Art Director's and China Business Development Manager, Sam Gao is taking Wellywood to China - and a sneak preview into China's first major science… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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From Myanmar refugee to Wellington chef: A rough road
8:00 AM.Former refugees are being given opportunities to shine in their chosen professions thanks to the Red Cross Pathways to Employment programme - but it's a rough road to success with many barriers. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Voices: Indians in New Zealand since 1769
8:00 AM.The first Indian to set foot on Aotearoa arrived in 1769. A new publication throws light on the buried history of the Indian diaspora to New Zealand. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Hongi moves former refugees: the Tikanga Māori project
8:00 AM.Over 450 former refugee student learners are celebrating what they've learned through a Tikanga Māori pilot project that only lasted a year. There are calls from the refugees and organisations behind… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Ground-breaking: first NZ beauty contestant in hijab
7:00 AM.Malaysian New Zealander Nurul Shamsul is the first Muslim woman to wear hijab and to become a finalist in Miss Universe New Zealand 2018. Lynda Chanwai-Earle is in Hamilton to meet a trailblazer. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Nothing 'unconscious' about racial profiling
7:00 AM.Recently a high profile diplomat experienced what she describes as racial profiling in her local supermarket and there are still concerns about African youth being targeted by police in this country… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Disowned, displaced and discovered: NZ's Japanese War Brides
8:00 AM.Love and loss from Hiroshima to Hastings. Little is known about the Japanese war brides who married New Zealand soldiers stationed in Japan with the occupying force after World War II. One of the last… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Empowering refugee youth from her own pocket
8:00 AM.Empower is a charity established in 2017 by former Kurdish refugee and Young New Zealander of the Year Rez Gardi. It enables higher education for refugee youth here and Rez is prepared to spend… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Diversity of public sector boards in the spotlight
7:00 AM.Ethnic Communities Minister Jenny Salesa has ordered a stocktake of ethnic diversity on public sector boards, because at the moment the government doesn’t know the ethnic make-up of its own boards… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Russians Down Under
3:30 PM.Russia is once again the West's bogeyman. But what does this renewed hostility mean for Russians here in New Zealand? Produced by Lisa Thompson. Read more Audio
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New children's book celebrates Czech-New Zealand connection
8:00 AM.Teachers from Czech schools around the country have produced the bilingual book Annie and Johnny’s Diary: A Year in New Zealand to help Czech-Kiwi kids connect to their European heritage. Read more Audio, Gallery
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The Fruits of Our Labours
8:00 AM.Since the 1880s hard-working Chinese have been at the heart of the fruit and vege business in New Zealand. That history has been captured in a new book, including the story of 80-year-old Nancy Young… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Protest Music! Deep connections for Māori and Caribbean NZers
8:00 AM.New Zealand's first steelband festival is the backdrop for the rich cultural and spiritual links between Māori and Caribbean Islanders, they're celebrating their ties through their protest music… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Gunning for Hollywood and #TimesUp for NZ
3:35 PM.Following #MeToo and #TimesUp, the NZ film industry is feeling the impact of change and now twenty global female directors have been selected for the Alice Initiative for prestigious studio directing… Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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The Indian women paying for a NZ education with their freedom
7:00 AM.Indian families are marrying their drug-addicted sons to young women and then paying for the women's study in New Zealand as a pathway to residency for their sons. Fearing for her life, one woman… Read more Audio
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A Life Like This
8:00 AM.A Life Like This: Critically acclaimed, Cambodian Filmmaker Isiah Tour's animation about his father surviving the Khmer Rouge, extraordinarily, will go back to Cambodia. Read more Video, Audio, Gallery
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Combating a mono-linguistic New Zealand
8:00 AM.Why do we need a second language in our lives? New Zealand is still lagging behind on the international stage, as far as second language learning in school goes. That could be about to change. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Dragons' blood, turmeric and light: Tiffany Singh's healing art
3:35 PM.Award winning Indian-Samoan artist Tiffany Singh installs two massive and ground-breaking art works for the launch of Te Papa's new Toi Art Gallery. She uses the arts as a vehicle for health and… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Open Road transforming lives for refugees
8:00 AM.Lynda Chanwai-Earle is in the back seat to learn how the Open Road Driver training programme for people from former refugee backgrounds is transforming lives. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Grumblings on the grape vine: are seasonal workers treated well in NZ?
3:30 PM.Seasonal workers from Vanuatu are the grunt force of New Zealand's growing wine industry, but questions linger over the treatment of workers. Johnny Blades went to Blenheim to learn more. Read more Audio
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Solomon women empowered
3:30 PM.For the first time we hear from women working under the RSE scheme supporting their families back home in the Solomon Islands. Read more Audio, Gallery