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Our best-selling books of 2025: Kiwi consumers are back to buying local books

Despite being in a cost-of-living crisis, book buying has been strong in 2025.

Listener weekly quiz: December 10

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Te Whatu Ora’s former chair Rob Campbell: Axing Māori health authority one of the greatest crimes against health services

A new way of delivering health services would have benefited Pākehā as well as Māori.

Down, not out: Māori health providers on the battle to stay afloat under ‘colour-blind’ system

Health inequities are estimated to cost NZ at least $1 billion a year.

Why is NZ losing its mind over Ikea? Because even in a recession, we need something to sit on

Cost-of-living crisis? Never mind—there’s a couch at the end of the motorway queue.

Steve Braunias: 'I loathe the Bird of the Year contest'

In 20 years, the contest has shown a very clear bias towards one type of bird.

Veteran NZ actor’s theatre of hope turns real-life pain into powerful stories of redemption

Theatre with therapeutic approach to stories of jail, addiction and abuse is touring NZ.

Listener weekly quiz: November 12

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