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Listener weekly quiz: June 11
Test your general knowledge with the Listener’s weekly quiz.
Ko Witi tōku ingoa: Esteemed NZ author’s te reo immersion
At 80, one of our most celebrated authors decided it was time to learn his language.
Justice with heart: Steve Braunias spends a day at NZ’s court for the mentally ill
Our one specialist court assessing whether a defendant is mentally fit to enter plea.
Out, damned text: Why it’s time to retire Shakespeare from NZ schools
Single-minded and monocular focus on Shakespeare limits ideas of what great literature.
Powerless progress: Turbines or mining? Taranaki energy plans collide
Offshore wind turbines could power much of the future, but the government isn't on board.
Powerless progress: NZ energy woes continue as winter starts to bite
NZ doesn't have electricity to burn - and it's hurting households as well as industry.
Eyewitness doubts continue to haunt Scott Watson case 25 years after conviction
Eyewitnesses to solve crimes is a standard policing procedure, but how reliable are they?
Feats of clay: New book pays tribute to a supreme collector and the items he gifted Te Papa
The collection of Walter Cook reflects the evolution of design from 1880 to the 1970s.
No DNA, no CCTV, no chance: The 50-year hunt for what really happened to Mona Blades
Reassessing evidence in the Mona Blades case and the orange Datsun that led NZ astray.
Still hustling: Student volunteer army commander Sam Johnson’s next chapter
Warning! Sitting next to Sam Johnson may inspire volunteering
Pacific Rally sailors turn citizen scientists to help save the sea
Race across the Pacific doubles as mission to protect marine biodiversity.
Our secret beliefs: 35 years of election data reveals NZers' surprising views & values
A study tracking NZ's political pulse uncovers the quiet, complex views shaping politics.
Why hundreds of NZ women and children could be the unwitting victims of sex offenders
The increasing sophistication of hidden spy cameras means spy cam sex crimes are rising.
Ruff justice: Revisiting the Dog Tax War in the Hokianga
An 1898 tax remains today as dog registration fees collected by councils.
Our longfin eels are endangered, so why are they being commercially fished?
Journey of longfin eels to spawn grows more difficult due to pollution and human barriers.
His, her, heresy: The bitter debate over who can claim to be female
Academic theories, biology and politics: Their role in the clash over gender definitions.
Russell Brown: Marlon Williams’ music and doco provide comfort in a time of grief
"In the dark, no one can see you cry. Besides, everyone else is crying, too."
B416: The high-profile group backing a social media ban for under-16s
Behind-the-scenes with those battling to keep kids safe from online harm.
Book of the day: The Compulsion in Us by Tina Makereti
The dualities, paradoxes and sadness at the heart of a Māori-Pākehā writer’s life exposed.
Whare into the future: The émigré architect who championed Māori housing
A rediscovered box of papers has thrown light on the work of émigré Gerhard Rosenberg.
From Aitutaki to algebra: Teaching maths through culture — now without government help
Educators on why a Pacific-focused maths programme is losing funds, but not support.
NZ Music Month: Music-loving Gen Z/Millennials pick their top Kiwi songs
NZers have always been great songsmiths, something shared across generations.
NZ Music Month: Why these are the country’s best songs
From Now Is The Hour to What Was That, the songs that speak to our national identity.
Listener weekly quiz: April 30
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How FOMO played a part in motivating Treaty Principles Bill submissions
Submitters who killed Act’s Treaty Principles Bill deployed tactics shoppers know well.
Duncan Garner: When did our teens stop working and whose fault is it?
Thousands of young Kiwis are drifting -- and not in a good direction.
The Bigger Picture: They also served
Some 550 Kiwi nurses served overseas in World War I.
Anzac Day 2025: The concrete book, a POW’s legacy and a family’s surprising discovery
A diary kept by a serviceman in a German prison camp was discovered only after his death.
Anzac Day 2025: Grief cast in stone
NZ remembers its war dead with monuments that seem to bury the sadness in dates and names.