Here Now
By RNZ
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Here Now is about the journeys people make to New Zealand, their identities and perspectives, all of which shape their life here.
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Beyond surface level - Francesca Contaldo's exploration of Daunian tattoo
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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Beyond surface level - Buntheun's exploration of Khmer tattooing
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Jun 14, 2026 |
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Being Big Buddy
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Jun 07, 2026 |
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Seeking a sense of collective wellbeing - diaspora Africans and mental health
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May 24, 2026 |
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"A humble kai rooted in tradition" - Kai Rotorua's annual kumara harvest
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May 17, 2026 |
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A tactile type - Sydney Shep on letterpress and bookmaking
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May 10, 2026 |
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A love for letterpress - Kerry Ann Lee
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May 03, 2026 |
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Music therapy - a journey into sound and mental health
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Cuba - unending embargo
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Roots that run deep - capris from the Cuccurullos
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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Shehan Karunatilaka - a full circle back to New Zealand
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Starting from ground up
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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"Sovereignty at stake" - Iran war
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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Ballet's comeback queen - Mayu Tanigaito
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Back to Basics - Esmail Fathi
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Back to Basics - Gold Tooth
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Back to Basics - Henrique Morales
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Back to Basics - Ch!nonso
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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2025 Wrapped
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Ankur Bassi - "A good person makes a good player"
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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"A hundred years cures everything" - a tale of Dalmatians in Auckland
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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The Afghanistan Aotearoa Marathon
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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To each, their own outlet
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Darfuri diaspora - grief and hope from afar
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Changing careers, continents and cheese for Nelson
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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"A sonic embodiment of cooperation" - 30 years of Gamelan
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Fertility and her future - Shamin Yazdani's deep dive
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Share Kai - towards closer communities in Christchurch
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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More wiggle room - Home-based care and new migrant mums
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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Will sanctions work?
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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A matter of Afghan pride - Breaking Bread: Part 4
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Breaking Bread with pide - "Nothing like woodfire"
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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"No Injera, no life" - an ode to the Ethiopian staple
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Breaking Bread with Meinolf Kraeling: "Old bread is not hard, having no bread is."
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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Of grains and gods - Yuki Fukuda's trials with rice
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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A square at a time - moving pieces from Argentina to the South Island
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Beyond goldfields - documenting the history of early Chinese settlers
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Keeping it crisp - NZ apples to the world
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Studio Sessions with Back to Basics
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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Zimbabwe to Auckland - Back to Basics with Jay Moyo
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Holding on to hope after the 12 Day War - Iranians in New Zealand
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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Beyond Bhangra and Bollywood - Back to Basics with Manjit Singh and Kooshna Gupta
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Back to Basics - the sounds of Brazil with Leandro Vasques
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Health span versus life span -Dr Sharad Paul on 'biohacking our genes'
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May 25, 2025 |
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Pepa Torre - Digging into definitions of self
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May 18, 2025 |
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Accidental Comics - Sameena Zehra and Eddy Rodriguez
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May 11, 2025 |
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Accidental Comics - David Stuart
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May 04, 2025 |
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Accidental Comics - Annie Guo and Summer Xia
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Accidental Comics - Edd Rivera
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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Javier Murcia's sculpture - a question of matter and time
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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Protoje - Keeping an even keel
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Trinidad to Taranaki - Queen Omega's humble heights
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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A space for connection - centre in Queenstown built on community
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Looking back at a year - Women's Day
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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"We need a solution soon" - conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Nadia Freeman's "The Girmit"
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Exploring Solidarity through CARE (Part 2)
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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Exploring Solidarity through CARE (Part 1)
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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A Mixtape for Maladies
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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Tech is where it's at - the NZ India bilateral link
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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"The diaspora is political" - Reflections on 2024
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Forging Futures on Foreign Soil
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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The price for polished tips
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Valle - reflections on Papua New Guinea, barbering and songwriting
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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Changing period care for good
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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COP16 - an urgent call to invest resources in nature conservation
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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Canterbury's early Polish settlers
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Mother Tongue
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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"A starting point for other conversations" - marking the Dawn Raids
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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Arts in the capital this month
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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What's it like to finally become a New Zealand citizen?
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Wellington's Hidden Chinatown
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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"Some genius thought it up, some thrifty genius"
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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"Plants don't know borders" - a tropical obsession from Canterbury
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Capoeira - taking the art beyond Brazil
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Making a home away from Myanmar - Rohingya in Auckland
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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"I am because of my people" - BIPOC women in New Zealand (Part 4)
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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"The personal is political" - BIPOC women in New Zealand (Part 3)
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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"Words have power" - BIPOC women on their careers in New Zealand (Part 2)
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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"A hard-won love" - BIPOC women on their careers in New Zealand (Part 1)
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Nalini Singh -"A stillness and depth in reading"
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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African Film Festival returns to New Zealand for the ninth year
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Persian Zurkhaneh alive and kicking in Canterbury
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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"I had to find a way" - Naeem Hashemi
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Jun 24, 2024 |
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From a brutal Balkan conflict to the Pacific - Kosovar refugees mark 25 years
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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"Nothing harder" - Refugee resettlement
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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“Iceland: Same, Same, Different”
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May 26, 2024 |
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Sudan - a year on and 8 million displaced
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May 19, 2024 |
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"Only the best for our birds" - rescue centre's credo
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May 12, 2024 |
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"It's like the hype around rugby" - Kabaddi's loyal following
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May 05, 2024 |
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'A key foundation' - memories of football in Gaza
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Cushioning the culture shock
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Leaning into virtuosity with Sam Low
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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"For a small country, it packs a punch" - Dave Phillips on Jamaica
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Sharing Common Ground at WOMAD
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Tarik Rahim - Making the Mount home for a while
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Yānum - Fragments of Femininity
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Reflections from Anakiwa - Outward Bound
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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The Magic of Masks - Live podcast from Q Theatre
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Shy Boy - Izzy Abdallah mixing it up
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Tacos, mariachi and other tropes - Mexico
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Cartels, clichés and salsa - Colombians on their cultural stereotypes
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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"Stereotypes are my toolkit" - diaspora creatives on cultural tropes
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Going beyond Afrobeats in Auckland with Dj Banty and Orikol
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Being 'woke' and how it became a catchall phrase
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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The Little Clay Cart and NZ's first Afro-Kiwi Xmas concert
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Making films from South India to the South Island
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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"Everthing's gone, except the band members"
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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The best of two worlds
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Thousands across NZ continue to rally calling for a ceasefire in Gaza
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Space technology for climate change
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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"It would be a foolish move" - Community organizations speak up against closing ministries
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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"A way of making people move" - Coaxing veggie gardens in Christchurch
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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'Is this your Grandfather?' A quest to join the dots
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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A design to the rescue - lifejackets for use in India
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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How to get salmon out of hot water
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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"It opens people's eyes to what's possible" - Takaka cohousing
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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'This is not the image we want to put out' - claims of exploitation by migrant workers on Accredited Employers Work Visa scheme
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Home for a bit - RSE workers in Matapihi
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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World Press Photo Exhibition returns to NZ
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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'You have to experience it live' - Steven Logan on the APO
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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'Sport needs to have an existential conversation with itself' - Sheila Nguyen
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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The Elephant in the Yoga Studio - Part 2
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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The Elephant in the Yoga Studio - Part 1
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Marking five decades of Mexico-New Zealand relations
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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Finding comic relief - Jess Karamjeet
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Critical spaces - green areas and urban planning
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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"We got there in the end" - Vukan Cavor on life in Montenegro
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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'It's all just static' - Uyghurs and Kazakhs detained in Xinjiang
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May 28, 2023 |
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'Aotearoa and Bharat' - new manuscript on historical Indian-Maori links
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May 21, 2023 |
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Reconciling worlds - vocalist Briar Prastiti
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May 14, 2023 |
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'Into it to win it' - Ibrahim Omer MP on the Wellington Central seat
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May 07, 2023 |
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'It's just beyond description' - NZ diaspora desperate to evacuate family members from Sudan conflict
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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NZ on Air leads 'a cultural shift' with new music fund for Pan-Asian artists
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Race Unity Speech Awards marks 21 years
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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"To live within the dissonance of yourself" - Hweiling Ow
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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'There is no logic' - former Afghan refugee on ban on women's education
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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"We all dream of going to Banaba" - Phosphate plunders from the Pacific and a forgotten community
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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"We're just doing this out of our own hearts" - Hawkes Bay relief volunteers
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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'A social science perspective is needed'- Bruce Glavovic on climate change
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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"It began with wanting to know how things work"- Kartikay Lal on curiosity, and robots
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Loan words and linguistics - "Children are drivers of change"
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Celebrating seabirds - from the Mediterranean to the Pacific
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Decolonising design as a practice of care
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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'Design is political' - looking beyond Frida Kahlo's pop icon status
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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'No estamos solas' - Latin feminists in Auckland
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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It's not something we think of - 'where do you fit in?'
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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'Rumba is the soul of Cuban music' - Vivio Ramos
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Misko Cubrinovski - Right time, right place for quake research
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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"If you're not seen, you're missed" - Wellington charity EKTA
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Bringing Pacific values into New Zealand classrooms
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Po' Boys and Oysters - a hearty serving of Afro-queer in Aotearoa
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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'You need a hundred eyes to see it' - International winner WOW 2022
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Afghan rugby team - "The sport has always been there for us"
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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Breaking the stigma - South Asians and mental health
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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A Type of Font Fascination - celebrating 'Kaishu'
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Food to fix the world
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Return of international students marks new era for sector
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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"We have a lot to learn and the world has a lot to learn from us"- marine ecologist Deanna Clement
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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Reading into Margaret Mahy's writings
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Unpacking The Mysteries of English Grammar
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Ulumate - revitalizing a Fijian tradition
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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In the Driver's Seat
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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"The goal is still the same" - Ali Mashal
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Tuning into their beat - Nelson scientist's research on paua
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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Krishnan's Dairy - 'It was a simpler time'
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Shifting the narrative - One conversation at a time
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Threads that bind - Kayan weavers 12 years on
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Taking flight with Takraw
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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APO concertmaster Andrew Beer to premiere major New Zealand work
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May 29, 2022 |
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Getting into the game - Oasis AR
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May 22, 2022 |
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Girls That Invest - on friendships and finance
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May 15, 2022 |
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Chasing stormwater from Ireland to New Zealand
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May 08, 2022 |
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Behind the mask - Pedro Ilgenfritz on his growing collection
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May 01, 2022 |
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Healing wounds - Hussam Razzaq on his time in Iraq to working with bioplastics in Canterbury
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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In the spirit of hope
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Tackling 'isms' and intra-ethnic prejudice
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Esther's Expo: "You eat with your eyes first"
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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The Griot's Path - Thabani Gapara on telling stories through jazz
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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"It's ironic, not inclusive" - Footballers on the foreign-player regulation
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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'Several countries could benefit from our research here'- Emmanuel Chakwizira
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Building resilience - a former refugee on using architecture to change lives
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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An eye for detail - Yumiko Baba
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Third time lucky - Kamasutra Chronicles
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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2021 wrapped
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Te Taunga - a hub at Auckland Museum
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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Bringing Africa to Aotearoa, a film at a time - AFFNZ 2021
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Muroki - on moving to Auckland, lessons learnt on tour and more
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Ben Fernandez - The Music Never Stopped
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Looking back at Levuka
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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"There's no going back now": NZ diaspora on moving toward democracy in Sudan
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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New refugee sponsorship programme soon to be rolled out
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Reflecting cultures through film
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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What lies on the road ahead for New Zealand's ethnic communities?
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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The government 'has ignored us': Those excluded from residency fast-track speak out
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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"It's worse in the provinces" - Writer on workplace bullying
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Restoring a link
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Are Women's Rights Unravelling in Afghanistan?
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Waiting in limbo for an evacuation from Afghanistan
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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'This is a humanitarian crisis. New Zealand has the capacity to accommodate more' - Afghans in Aotearoa
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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From poverty to helping trace Covid-19
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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'What's meant for you will come' - Hayellom Tesfay on kickboxing
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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We train like family - Vahid Unesi on his martial arts club
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Plotting the Palestinian timeline
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Windows of Opportunity - the Story of Sky
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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"They don't see an end to this" : Businesses on ongoing worker shortage
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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A refining moment: Seung Yul Oh on painting
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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Breaking the homogeneity of 'Asian': Report on inequities among students
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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Umar Zakaria and Fearless Music
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Asylum-seeker to refugee: Jose Tombe's journey
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Polynesian Panther Party of Aotearoa - 50 years on
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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Mass detention in Xinjiang: 'My brother's fault is just being Uighur'
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Claudia Kogachi - There’s No I in Team
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May 30, 2021 |
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This is not culture shock - it's more than this
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May 23, 2021 |
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We see a process of decolonisation in New Zealand - Behrouz Boochani
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May 16, 2021 |
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Keeping fasts, staying fast - Muslim women athletes and Ramadan
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May 09, 2021 |
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Border restrictions - Families kept apart
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May 02, 2021 |
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Getting here
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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The Most Dedicated - An Aotearoa Graffiti Story
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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Conflict in Tigray - despair downunder
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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Proud and out - Ives Rose
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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From top hat to Black Cap - Ajaz Patel
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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The rare treasures in Olive's Garden
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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Myanmar - a former child soldier looks back
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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Myanmar coup - a response from diaspora in New Zealand
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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Covid19 Curveball for Central Interceptor’s Italian Crew
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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To spray or not to spray - from cotton fields to codling moth
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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The One Lamington to Rule Them All
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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Planting for posterity
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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Dealing with a crunch - the fruit industry's labour shortage
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Dec 04, 2020 |
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Winning a title through transition
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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Au Revoir to Au Pairs
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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No shortcuts to success
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Hitting Covid-19 Out Of The Park
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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US elections - the view from afar
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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For the love of language
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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21 years of the 'Way of the Sword'
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Feeding the soul - all roads lead to ramen
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Creating NZ's First Asian Cabaret
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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Mali-born New Zealand resident reflects on recent coup d'etat
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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Making a choice - a New Zealand resident's journey with euthanasia in the Netherlands
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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Essential services - Sikh temple volunteers step up
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Acts of charity in the alert level 3 lockdown
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Preserving the past
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Sentencing: Christchurch Mosque Attacks - Seeking Closure with Sentencing
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Cooking up a change
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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Black Lives Matter - activism, mentorship and rallying together against racism
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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Responding to racism
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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'Dances with Death' - recounting a lifetime of reporting in the Middle East
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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A leap of faith
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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A different stroke - a calligrapher's journey
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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From Nepal to Nelson - a former refugee gets behind the wheel to change her life
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Switching up the game - celebrating inclusion through football
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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Covid-19 claims champion of Waikato's refugee community
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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From Russia with love
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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Growing food, growing community
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May 24, 2020 |
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Linking two worlds during lockdown
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May 17, 2020 |
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The legacy of the Girmit
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May 10, 2020 |
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Qawwali, ghazals and the lockdown
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May 03, 2020 |
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Lending a hand in lockdown
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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Remembering Rwanda
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Covid-19 - the lockdown and communities
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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Irish nun shares her two cents on becoming a centenarian
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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A bus ride to bust stereotypes around different faiths
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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Poetry and partnership sparked by Christchurch mosque attacks
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Conversations with My Immigrant Parents: We Can't Speak the Same Language
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Mission Mangareva: Saving an endangered language
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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Decoding the language of love
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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Paris Bake queen of the bowling green
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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Jack Lum's 50 fruitful years under threat from supermarkets
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Feb 02, 2020 |
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Deportation fiasco stops environmentalist emigration
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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New found freedom of refugee women drivers
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Jan 19, 2020 |