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Coming up on Tagata o te Moana: World leaders meet in Fiji and Tuvalu for PRECOP31; The Pacific's first independent fact-checking website is launched; We ask what does independence look like for French Polynesia? And New Zealand celebrates Fiji Language Week. All that and more stories from the week at RNZ Pacific.

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Levi Armstrong is a co-founder of the Meke Foundation in Hawkes Bay which strives to improve people's health and wellbeing. He helped to create portable fitness pods from shipping containers to improve access to fitness facilities, especially for people in more remote areas. Now he's teamed up with City Fitness which is the country’s largest gym chain. It has funded two $65,000 Hawke’s Bay pods wh...

A major new report released this week called Te Pūrongo Whakaweawe o te Mahi Taiohi, Telling the Story of Youth Work through Social Return on Investment finds that each year youth work creates one-point-seven billion dollars of social value for young people in Aotearoa. Georgia Richards was one of the report's writers and explains they compared what’s invested with the estimated value of the chang...

Last week the Electoral Commission said that just 62-percent of 18 to 24-year-olds were enrolled to vote, while only around half of eligible young Maori were enrolled. Now a major new report released this week called Te Purongo Whakaweawe o te Mahi Taiohi, finds there is a massive upside around working with young people that might grab the attention of our nation's leaders. The peak body for youth...

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Biologist Wayne Linklater on tracking the wild horses of the Kaimanawa Ranges

Is it really worth putting all your money into property or is there another way to protect your investments? Accountant and "Keep the Change" podcaster Luke Kemeys is on a mission to make Kiwis rethink their attitude to money and will take our listeners questions on financial literacy.

Matty Blomfield, CEO at Hectre knows all about the hard yards of start-ups having led his agritech company to being a globally recognised business that uses AI to identify the best apples among many other things. He popped in to tell us how he did it.

The Lizzie Borden story gripped the world and has haunted folklore since as a kind of grisly pre-cursor of the worldwide fascination with true crime. The story is back in the spotlight with Netflix's Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, a fictional retelling of events that's been accused of sensationalism and playing fast and loose with what really happened. To do a bit of a fact check, we've got his...

The latest update to the Oxford English Dictionary adds a suite of words commonly used in New Zealand - including both unique colloquialisms and words from Te Reo Maori. World English editor Danica Salazar joins Kate to talk about the changing face of Kiwi English, and the colonial mechanisms behind how our languages grow.

The Cornell 7 case has sparked anger at the justice system, privilege and fraternity culture. It's also prompting a deeper conversation about boys and young men. How are attitudes towards women formed? What role do parents play? And how do we raise boys who won't stay silent when others cross the line? A psychologist joins us to discuss the lessons parents and society should be taking from this tr...

Australian-based demographer Simon Kuestenmacher makes an art out of tracking the demographic shifts of the world, and he's been taking a detailed look at what the workplace of the near-future will look like as four generations share the open-plan office and have to find a way to communicate.

On the morning of the first Bledisloe Cup bout of 2026, we're talking to sports commentator Scotty Stevenson about the history of the All Blacks and Springboks rivalry and the annual competition that's been running for nearly a century.

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Kia Orana kotou katoatoa, this is Pacific Waves from RNZ Pacific, with Tiana Haxton On the show today: Pacific media appreciate access to climate conversations at PRECOP, a Samoan-Maori rapper channels Pacific identity in new music, and find out how your little ones can celebrate Fijian language week.

Pacific media appreciate access to climate conversations at PRECOP.

Samoan-Maori rapper channels Pacific identity in new music.

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Heres how your little ones can celebrate Fijian language week.