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Saturday Morning

Presented by Susie Ferguson and Mihingarangi Forbes. In-depth feature interviews, current affairs and news across a broad range of topics on RNZ National and online.

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00:04:56

Tauranga drone company wins big at tech awards

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/23

Tauranga based drone manufacturer Syos Aerospace won the top prize at the Hi-Tech Awards last night in Wellington. The company makes uncrewed vehicles for land, sea and air and recently won a big UK defence contract. CEO and founder Samuel Vye talks to Susie.

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00:07:16

Increasing tensions between international community...

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/23

International pressure has ramped up this week on Israel - to end its aid blockade on Gaza - and stop its military offensive. Rory Challands is an international news correspondent based in London and talks to Mihi.

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00:04:14

Pay equity claims binned to make numbers work?

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/23

The government has been accused of taking money out of women's pockets - to make its Budget work. The Prime Minister has previously disputed this suggestion, saying changes to pay equity is about having legislation that is workable and not complex. Paula O'Kane is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Otago and speaks to Mihi.

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00:10:38

Breaking down the Budget with Max Rashbrooke

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/23

This week the budget dominated the news with Finance Minister Nicola Willis promising no frills after cutting new spending nearly in half. Max Rashbrooke is a senior research fellow in the School of Government at Victoria University, he has written extensively on inequality and talks to Susie.

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00:07:10

Kiwis on the move to Nelson

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

Tomorrow a new batch of Kiwi will be moved from Kapiti Island to their new home at the Brook Waimarama Sancutary in Nelson.

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00:22:13

Altruism: How a simple hot chocolate can change your...

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

What is altruism? And is there a particular personality type that naturally delivers acts of kindness to others? Award-winning health and science journalist Nicole Karlis looks at the type of people who are more than happy to help.

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00:24:20

Catherine Chidgey: The Book of Guilt

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

Catherine Chidgey is one of New Zealand's best known and internationally critically acclaimed novelists. She has won pretty much every prize going. Her ninth novel The Book of Guilt is just out.

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00:18:31

Diana Prazac: Going pound for pound with the doubters

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

Retired Australian professional boxer Diana Prazak stepped into a boxing ring for the first time age 27, having been told she'd never make it, and to forget boxing as a career.

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00:30:33

Prime Minister's Science Prize Winners

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

Dr Linda Johnson and her team from AgResearch have been awarded Te Puiaki Putaiao Matua a Te Pirimia, the Prime Minister's Science Prize.

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00:12:35

Tama Toki: Bringing the energy to Great Barrier Island

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

Entrepreneur Tama Toki's new venture Aotea Energy is solar energy project for rural communities on Aotea/Great Barrier Island.

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00:09:36

Couple's journey from 'disaster' hemp to...

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

A next-generation living soil developed by a husband and wife in their Taranaki backyard has been named Germany's Garden Product of the Year.

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00:27:37

Campbell Walker aka Struthless

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

Illustrator, best-selling author and mental health advocate Campbell Walker, better known as Struthless, has amassed over 50 million video views where he discusses mental health and creativity - and how the two go hand in hand.

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00:24:48

Sorrow for the Sámi: Elin Anna Labba

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

Elin Anna Labba's nonfiction book The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow, the forced displacement of the Northern Sámi blends history, memoir, poetry and images to depict a hard life and give voice to long-held grief.

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00:21:20

Motorbikes and towers: Elspeth Beard

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

Back in 1982, the broken-hearted 23-year-old Elspeth Beard set out on the solo adventure of a lifetime - clocking up 35,000 miles and becoming the first British woman to circumnavigate the globe on a motorcycle.

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00:06:56

Taking a look at taonga

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

It is New Zealand Archeology Week this week and Tuhura - Otago Museum has a Treasure of Tiwai event on.

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00:05:54

Banning social media for under 16s

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

This week National introduced a members' bill to ban social media for people under the age of 16.

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00:12:39

The ethical issues for donor conceived people

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

A fertility industry conference held in Singapore last weekend has considered some of the ethical issues for donor conceived people.

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00:06:52

Fighting for pay equity

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

Hundreds of people from Dunedin to Auckland took to the streets this week to protest the government's new Pay Equity Amendment Bill. It was pushed through parliament this week under urgency.

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00:05:15

Escalating conflict between India and Pakistan

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

We've seen the worst outbreak of violence in Pakistan and India in 30 years this week and Reuters is reporting that 48 people have been killed so far in the latest escalation of conflict.

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00:12:07

The Waitangi Tribunal review

Saturday Morning ·

2025/05/09

The government says it will launch a review into the Waitangi Tribunal to refocus the "scope, purpose and nature" of the Tribunal's inquiries back to its "original intent".

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