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The Greens want the government to pay wages for thousands of unemployed young people to get them into jobs. The party has laid out its Youth Jobs Guarantee policy, promising every 16- to 24-year-old who's been unemployed for six months, a pathway into paid work. Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

Manufacturers of crop and animal medicine products feel encouraged by recent regulation reviews, meanwhile lots of young cattle at sale yards around the country at the moment. Rural News on Morning Report with Gianina Schwanecke.

An early morning sports news update.

It's been a weekend filled with frantic campaigning, handshakes, and new policies from the politicians. Political reporter Russell Palmer covers off the latest announcements.

Catch up with the latest headlines from around the world with RNZ's Alice Wilkins.

With the election now less than a month away, the seven Maori electorate are riveting contests. Dr Lara Greaves, Ngapuhi, Pakeha, Tarara, is an associate professor in politics at Victoria University of Wellington. She spoke to John Campbell.

The latest RNZ Pacific news and sport.

More than 90,000 international students were enrolled with a New Zealand education provider last year, with the sector contributing more than $4.52 billion annually to our economy. When international students face problems in the workplace, it can be difficult to speak up due to conerns over their visa status. Reporter Ke-Xin Li spoke to one student about her long wait for justice.

Shaun Robinson, CEO of the Mental Health Foundation, spoke to First Up about this year's theme of "Belonging Matters".

Glenn Forsyth, First Up's Minister of Fruit and Veg, recommends potatoes for the week ahead and takes First Up to a famous Auckland produce shop.

Correspondent Katherine Firkin brings First Up the latest from the United States.

There's a prickly brain-teaser, Codi teaches us how to say "I'm out of breath" in te reo Maori, and kids just like you sing their favourite songs.

40 years ago, the reforms of Rogernomics blindsided many businesses in South Otago as the New Zealand economy transitioned from one where local businesses were protected to one where 'the free market' decided who were the winners and the losers. Shamubeel finds that sometimes the losers and the winners in Balclutha are exactly the same people - but he also discovers a growing conflict between loca...

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New Zealand's aid contributions outside of the Pacific aren't massive but they're still significant - and the money saves lives

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When Roberta Flack died, Zoe Moon felt like she'd lost a teacher. Flack was the singer who helped Zoe find her own voice, away from the sonic expectations she felt as a Black woman. Real Black for Me weaves Flack's speaking voice from interviews through the songs, with a string quartet and original arrangements by Seth Boy. After its first outing last year, the show is now part of Wellington Jazz...

Auckland-born, Melbourne-based dancer and choreographer Rebecca Jensen brings two works to Tempo Dance Festival, and both are about threes. Natural Basic is a trio built on the waltz step, with layers of choreography stacked on top until the body becomes a kind of barometer for chaotic times. Marking Out, at Tapac in Henderson, puts professional wrestlers and dancers in the same space for three ho...

The New Zealand Film Commission is ending its Core Funding Programme, which gives just over $1 million to 10 screen organisations and guilds, including Equity, the Directors Guild, SPADA and Pacific Islands Screen Artists. The funding has existed in various forms for more than 20 years, and the current contract ends next June. The Film Commission says the programme is no longer the most effective...

Kate Rodger reviews Tenzing, The Social Reckoning, Unabomber.

Kate Rodger reviews three new releases: Verity, The Social Reckoning and the Netflix documentary Unabomber.

In 2000, Tom Eslinger became the first global creative director of digital at any agency network, at Saatchi & Saatchi, in a role that had no job description. It started in 1989, when a mentor in Minneapolis sent him a teaching job ad for New Zealand. Before long he and his colleagues were making ads on weekends and sending them to Saatchi, which led to work and then a job. These days he's an arti...

Ten of the 120 artists at this year's Lyon Biennale are from Aotearoa, after curator Katherine Nichols was told to return to where she's from. Taarati Taiaroa was at the opening. In the main venue, a former locomotive workshop in the south of the city, visitors walk past a sound installation of a woman's karanga followed by synchronised gunshots, then a 61-metre line of white pine trunk sections i...

After two years of major upgrades and earthquake strengthening, City Gallery Wellington is open again. The work covered the internal masonry walls, the roof, heating and ventilation in the gallery spaces, new display walls, reading room skylights and accessible toilets. The gallery has reopened with a major exhibition of Cornelia Parker's work, which runs until March 2027. Director Charlotte Davy...