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Insight

A weekly investigative documentary exploring what is happening in New Zealand and to New Zealanders here and overseas. Best Factual Weekly Programme at the 2020 NZ Radio Awards

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Why prisons should help inmates to be good dads

Why prisons should help inmates to be good dads

Insight - Teresa Cowie heads inside prison to find how a focus on fatherhood could be channelled reducing reoffending

30 Jan 2020

28mins

Ranked #2

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The Keto Diet - Trend or Treatment?

The Keto Diet - Trend or Treatment?

Insight - Touted as a cure for diabetes, epilepsy and doomed New Year's resolutions to lose weight, the Keto diet is tak... Read more

7 Dec 2019

27mins

Ranked #3

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Horse racing shake-up: Selling tracks and outsourcing the TAB

Horse racing shake-up: Selling tracks and outsourcing the TAB

Forcing racing clubs to close their tracks and outsourcing the TAB could revitalise the horse racing industry, but as Ma... Read more

19 Oct 2019

28mins

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How NZ would fare during a world catastrophe

How NZ would fare during a world catastrophe

Is New Zealand ready to cope in a global catastrophe? John Gerritsen investigates

4 Feb 2020

27mins

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How schools will try to work around the donation-ban plan

How schools will try to work around the donation-ban plan

Insight - The government's school donation scheme has not even started and schools are already looking for ways to push ... Read more

23 Nov 2019

28mins

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Forever home - Why immigrants chose New Zealand

Forever home - Why immigrants chose New Zealand

Migration is shaping New Zealand as we head towards a population of five million. But why are people choosing to come he... Read more

16 Nov 2019

28mins

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Adrian Orr: The Reserve Bank governor taking on the Aussie banks

Adrian Orr: The Reserve Bank governor taking on the Aussie banks

The Reserve Bank's Governor thinks the big 4 Australian banks are making too much money in NZ. Guyon Espiner investigate... Read more

3 Oct 2019

28mins

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The New Zealanders involved in the exploitation of Filipinos

The New Zealanders involved in the exploitation of Filipinos

New Zealand is a dream destination for many Filipinos. But many are exploited and New Zealanders are increasingly  becom... Read more

26 Sep 2019

26mins

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Getting tough: How New Zealand could stop domestic violence

Getting tough: How New Zealand could stop domestic violence

New Zealand has one of the highest reported rates of domestic violence in the developed world. The government has just p... Read more

19 Sep 2019

26mins

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Closed until further notice - a life on hold after the mosque attacks

Closed until further notice - a life on hold after the mosque attacks

Six months on from the mosque attacks in Christchurch, Ahmed Jahangir is still in pain after being shot, his restaurant ... Read more

14 Sep 2019

28mins

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Solo mums on benefits having to decide between food and fuel

Solo mums on benefits having to decide between food and fuel

Solo mums say benefits just aren't enough to raise a family and food banks say they're seeing unprecedented demand from ... Read more

7 Sep 2019

27mins

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Written off: The true cost of road deaths

Written off: The true cost of road deaths

At least one person is dying every day on our roads on average, and it's costing the country more than $5bn a year. Give... Read more

29 Aug 2019

28mins

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Babies in Oranga Tamariki care - safe or seized?

Babies in Oranga Tamariki care - safe or seized?

Are too many Māori babies being taken into care? Māori news correspondent, Leigh Marama McLachlan  investigates whether ... Read more

20 Jul 2019

27mins

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How closed adoption robbed Māori children of their identity

How closed adoption robbed Māori children of their identity

Under the 1955 Adoption Act,  thousands of Māori babies were adopted into Pākehā families. Te Aniwa Hurihanganui investi... Read more

13 Jul 2019

28mins

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Insight: Christchurch Attacks - Are intelligence agencies watching the right people?

Insight: Christchurch Attacks - Are intelligence agencies watching the right people?

The Christchurch mosque attacks have prompted claims the security agencies have wielded their powers in skewed and unfai... Read more

15 Jun 2019

28mins

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Insight: Chris Finlayson and Janet Reitman

Insight: Chris Finlayson and Janet Reitman

Exnteded interviews with Chris Finlayson and Janet Reitman

6 Jun 2019

11mins

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Beyond gas and oil: Can alternative energy save Taranaki?

Beyond gas and oil: Can alternative energy save Taranaki?

Taranaki is wrestling with it's economic future after the government banned new offshore oil exploration. Robin Martin a... Read more

1 Jun 2019

27mins

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New alt-right political groups hiding in plain sight - investigation

New alt-right political groups hiding in plain sight - investigation

Insight - As the government looks to build international action to counter hate speech and extremism on  social media, f... Read more

27 Apr 2019

27mins

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Cramped, rotting and risky - the scale of the hospital fix-up revealed

Cramped, rotting and risky - the scale of the hospital fix-up revealed

Insight - The state of many of the country's public hospital buildings is compromising medical care. For the first time ... Read more

21 Mar 2020

28mins

Ranked #20

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Free speech vs hate speech: The government’s dilemma

Free speech vs hate speech: The government’s dilemma

Free speech crusaders say the sacred right to freedom of expression is under threat. But minority communities say a law ... Read more

22 Feb 2020

27mins

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