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Focus on Politics: Conversion therapy
6:38 PM.Legislation banning gay conversion therapy, a practice described as monstrous and traumatising, is making its way through Parliament but not everyone is on board. Read more Audio
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Education system grapples with te reo Māori, tikanga and systemic racism
10:00 AM.In today's Focus on Politics podcast, Māori News Journalist Jamie Tahana and Education Correspondent John Gerritsen look at a suite of new initiatives being brought in to improve Māori achievement… Read more Audio
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Hate speech debate gets mired in politics
10:00 AM.In today's Focus on Politics podcast, Political Reporter Anneke Smith explores how the conversation on hate speech shifted - from an effort to curb terrorism to a political bunfight - and what the… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: NZ’s not-so-healthy homes
6:38 PM.The Government is feeling the heat from those left in the cold. RNZ political reporter Charlie Dreaver takes stock of New Zealand's not-so-healthy homes and the standards meant to improve them. Audio
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Focus on Politics: OT back under-fire
6:38 PM.Leaked footage of a young person being manhandled at an Oranga Tamariki care and protection unit has put the agency back under the microscope. RNZ political reporter Katie Scotcher examines the events… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Goodbye Muller
6:38 PM. The National Party is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with revelations former leader Todd Muller was pressured to retire after being dobbed in for anonymously criticising a… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Defence under Labour
6:38 PM.In Focus on Politics, RNZ political editor Jane Patterson digs into Labour's plan for the Defence Force, now it is unshackled from last term's coalition constraints. Audio
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Focus on Politics: Stage Four
6:40 PM.This week brought some more clarity to the country's Covid-19 vaccine programme as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealed the first details of the wider roll-out to the general population. RNZ deputy… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Nurse Strike
6:35 PM.About 30,000 nurses, midwives and other health workers have been on a seven-hour strike after nurses voted to go ahead with a strike having rejected a revised pay offer from district health boards. Audio
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Focus on Politics: ScoMo in Town
6:35 PM.Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison made use of the Trans-Tasman travel bubble, flying into Queenstown for a sit-down meeting with NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern - one of her first since the… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Samoa in Turmoil
6:38 PM.Samoa is in the grips of a constitutional crisis: a bitter power struggle between two competing governments and two political heavyweights. Both sides are claiming power and accusing the other of a… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Budget 2021
6:40 PM.Beneficiaries will reap the rewards of this year's Budget with a welfare boost billed as the "biggest in a generation". Audio
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Focus on Politics: Race Relations
6:40 PM.Race relations have been a flash point for conflict and reconciliation in NZ politics over the years. National leader Judith Collins reignited the fire this week with her speech to party faithful. RNZ… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: The China Question
6:30 PM.RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson asks: how is New Zealand's relationship with China? Audio
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Focus on Politics: Emergency Housing
6:30 PM.RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson takes a deep look into the state of emergency housing across the country. Audio
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Focus on Politics: DHBs on the Scrap Heap
6:30 PM.Health Minister Andrew Little this week announced an extraordinary overhaul of the health system, scrapping all 20 DHBs and putting a new entity in their place. RNZ health correspondent Rowan Quinn… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: The Bubble and the Border
6:38 PM.The Government has placed a temporary ban on all travel from India, leaving Kiwis there stranded, unable to come home. In the same week, it has begun to ease border measures elsewhere, announcing it… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: The Housing Solution?
6:40 PM.The Government has announced a raft of measures to try and tackle the housing affordability crisis to tilt the market towards first home buyers and increase supply. But, as RNZ political reporter… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Trans Tasman Tensions
6:40 PM.RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson asks: what's behind the latest Trans-Tasman tensions? And what do they mean for ongoing relations? Audio
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Focus on Politics: The Vaccine Rollout
6:35 PM.RNZ political reporter Yvette McCullough looks into the details of the government's Covid-19 vaccine rollout plan. Audio
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Focus on Politics: Covid rule-breakers
6:38 PM.RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson asks: Is the Government being too soft on Covid-19 rule-breakers? Audio
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Focus on Politics: An Immigration Rethink
4:10 PM.RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson takes a look at what immigration might look like in a post-Covid New Zealand. Audio
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Focus on Politics: Locked Down Again
6:35 PM.Three new cases of Covid-19 in the community forced Auckland back into lockdown for 72 hours this week, but should New Zealand's largest city have stayed in level three longer? Or were the… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Repeal & Replace the RMA
6:35 PM.The Government is taking on one of the most complex pieces of law in New Zealand - the RMA. It will be replaced with three new laws, with the Environment Minister describing it as a once in a… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: The Political Road to Waitangi
5:05 PM.RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson looks at the political lead up to the official Waitangi commemorations. Audio