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Company at top of dumping breach list takes on big new contract
25 Feb 2021A tanning company with a history of dumping contaminants down the drain is taking on a large new contract, RNZ understands.
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Maker of epilepsy drug warned over quality control
23 Feb 2021The drug at the centre of an inquest into six epilepsy deaths was made at a plant in India that was investigated for significant quality control issues in 2017.
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Treatment at Auckland Women's Prison 'degrading' and 'inhumane' - judge
22 Feb 2021Auckland Women's Prison treated inmates in a "degrading," "cruel" and "inhumane" manner in a "concerted effort to break their spirit," according to a stinging ruling from a district court judge.
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Dumping contaminants: Council slated for staying 'sweet' with businesses
11 Feb 2021A public pool, a water treatment plant and a landfill owned by Hamilton City Council are among the 99 organisations caught dumping contaminants down the drain.
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Drinking water nitrate limit 11 times higher than it should be - health expert
9 Feb 2021New Zealand should reduce drinking water nitrate limits from 11.3mg/L to 1mg/L to curb bowel cancer, the country's second-highest cause of cancer death, a specialist says.
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Fonterra discharging nitrogen-heavy water onto 'ghost farms'
13 Feb 2021Fonterra cleared the cows from 16 farms and is using the land to dispose of wastewater, which could be leaching a colourless, tasteless and odourless pollutant into private drinking water supplies.
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Revealed: The companies dumping contaminants down the drain
9 Feb 2021Talleys, Ernest Adams and Yoplait are among hundreds of manufacturers and brands dumping contaminants into New Zealand's drains and getting away with it.
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Lack of South Auckland abortion services ‘unacceptable’
21 Dec 2020Repeated calls for abortion services to be provided in South Auckland have been ignored for more than a decade.
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Prisoner sues to stop pepper spray bombs that 'make grown men cry'
10 Dec 2020An asthmatic woman who was bombed with pepper spray in her Auckland prison cell is going to court to stop Corrections using the gas, which is marketed as 'making grown men cry since 1975'. Video
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Revealed: SIS failed to report 'NZ’s Fritzl' Ronald Van Der Plaat
21 Dec 2020The SIS broke into a house and found evidence a man was raping his daughter, but didn't inform police. She was abused for two more years before she finally escaped.
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The companies who breached their trade waste consents respond
25 Jan 2021At least 267 companies have dumped contaminants into New Zealand's drains in the past year. Here we give them the opportunity to comment.
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GPs tell inquest they were unaware Pharmac changed their patients' epilepsy drugs
30 Nov 2020Two GPs caring for patients who died after switching brands of an epilepsy drug say they were not aware of the Pharmac brand switch when they prescribed the drug for their patients.
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Drug change not ruled out as factor in epilepsy death, neurologist's report says
30 Nov 2020The first official recognition that changing brands of epilepsy drugs may have been a factor in at least one of six deaths has come to light as a Chief Coroner's inquest into the brand switch opens…
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High costs and long waits: Trans healthcare barriers remain in some regions
26 Nov 2020Access to gender affirming healthcare is relatively easy in some parts of the country, while in others it's out of reach.
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Trans healthcare a harmful 'postcode lottery'
28 Nov 2020Access to gender affirming medical services differs from region to region. Healthcare professionals say it's harming trans and gender diverse New Zealanders.
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Gassed in their cells, 'begging' for food at Auckland Women's prison
24 Nov 2020An asthmatic woman is repeatedly pepper sprayed and has to show her used sanitary products to male guards, while her seriously depressed girlfriend is left in isolation until she attempts suicide…
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'My phone never explodes more than during pride month'
23 Nov 2020HERE WE ARE - Te Manahou Mackay on tokenism in the modeling industry and being trans in te ao Māori.
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Who cares? The fight over Funded Family Care
4 Dec 2020For decades, parents have fought to be paid for the care they provide their severely disabled grown-up children. Two months ago the existing scheme was scrapped, but families say the real issues…
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'Defining my own masculinity and what it means to me'
19 Nov 2020HERE WE ARE - Nikolai Talamahina, aka Brown Boy Magik, talks about what it's like when you're suddenly expected to be "one of the boys".
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'Some women are born into womanhood and some women have to fight for it'
18 Nov 2020Here We Are - Poet, dancer and student Stellar Angafili Makarita Pritchard talks about finding herself and her community.
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Why 1 in 5 transgender people end up homeless
17 Nov 2020Angelo was kicked out of home at 14. He's one of many New Zealanders who have been made homeless for being transgender. Susan Strongman and Murphy explore the country's grim statistics.
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Woman evicted with 3 hours' notice after being called 'offensive' by landlord
16 Nov 2020Kristine Ablinger says she was kicked out of her flat because she is transgender. The Human Rights Commission says her landlord acted within the law.
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Getting away with murder: Freedom deal for men in Stone-Maney case
11 Nov 2020Two men were granted immunity for murder and rape in exchange for a story that sent Gail Maney to prison for life. Should they have been? Guyon Espiner investigates.
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The poets, the spies, the vodka and the magpies
2 Nov 2020The SIS spied on literary great Denis Glover, newly released files show. Guyon Espiner reports.
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