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RNZ Concert listeners poll open
RNZ Concert's Settling the Score poll is back. This annual survey asks listeners to select their favourite pieces of classical music, culminating in a top 30 published by RNZ. It's open from now until… Audio
Vote Hamilton West: increasing demand for budgeting services
Early voting in the Hamilton West by-election begins today.
It follows Dr Gaurav Sharma's resignation, after he made allegations against Labour's political leadership for which he was kicked out of… Audio
Survey: New Zealanders want parliamentary term increased
The latest survey from Research NZ shows that New Zealanders like the idea of the parliamentary term increasing from three to four years, while a whopping 90 percent of us have full trust and… Audio
New Zealanders' support for legalising cannabis is increasing
The latest Research NZ poll set out to gauge how Kiwis plan to vote in the upcoming Cannabis referendum. The results showed that almost half of those polled (46%) now say they will vote in favour of… Audio
New Zealanders in favour of euthanasia legislation
The latest survey from Research NZ shows that Kiwis continue to be heavily in favour of euthanasia legislation, while the cannabis question remains finely balanced. Emanuel Kalafatelis joins the show… Audio
Child poverty targets come one step closer
A proposed law to measure child poverty in New Zealand has been progressed, passing its penultimate reading in Parliament with near-unanimous support.
Education bill passing signals end of 'privatisation and deregulation'
National standards and charter schools are one step closer to being dropped after the Education Amendment Bill passed its third reading today.
The Useful Woman
Episode Two of Beyond Kate explores politics, the reality of women at the polling booths, and Victorian attitudes that kept women in the home. Audio
Unwrapping the Suffrage Petition
Gaining the vote was a battle hard won for New Zealand women. Episode one of Beyond Kate visits the petition, hears about the woman whose name sits atop it & looks at the lives of rural women then and… Audio
Votes counted in California primary election
Votes are being counted in the US State of California - one of the most important states for the Democrats in their drive to claim majority in Congress. In Washington DC is The Hill's Brent Budowsky.
…Ireland to vote on loosening abortion laws
Ireland votes on Saturday on whether to remove a single sentence which enshrines a near-total ban on abortion in the constitution, even in cases of rape and fatal foetal abnormality. The eighth… Audio
Sound Archives: Suffrage Day
National Prohibition of alcohol and rowdiness at the polling booths were some of the predictions about what would happen once New Zealand women got the vote for the first time in 1893. In today's… Audio, Gallery
Bill to repeal and replace Obamacare to be voted on
The Hill's Brent Budowski says a group of Republicans will be huddled at the back hoping they don't have to vote yes - but he's still expecting the bill to pass, albeit narrowly. Audio