Identity

New Zealand teenagers living in Australia who can't get a benefit are resorting to prostitution. Thirty-eight Australian community organisations have written to Jacinda Ardern calling on the New… Audio

Children as young as seven and eight years old are telling social workers they have thought of killing themselves because of the violence at home. New Zealand has high rates of domestic violence and… Audio

Love and loss from Hiroshima to Hastings. Little is known about the Japanese war brides who married New Zealand soldiers stationed in Japan with the occupying force after World War II. One of the last… Audio, Gallery

This patu paraoa (whalebone hand weapon) used during the New Zealand Wars offers a window or "little cobweb" into New Zealand's past. Audio

Empower is a charity established in 2017 by former Kurdish refugee and Young New Zealander of the Year Rez Gardi. It enables higher education for refugee youth here and Rez is prepared to spend… Audio, Gallery

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's partner, Clarke Gayford will be the primary caregiver of their first child. But what is known about stay-at-home fathers? And what's stopping more men from stepping… Video, Audio, Gallery

When Paula Stone Williams transitioned from male to female, she knew she would be treated differently. But what she didn't expect was the immediate assumption she was less intelligent. Audio

Awa Puna is an openly transgender 18 year old from the Kapiti Coast, north of Wellington. She talks about becoming her authentic self and the problems with getting gender reassignment surgery in New… Video, Audio

Women now make up 45 percent of those appointed to public boards. But if you ask the government how ethnically diverse those on boards are - no one knows. They haven't counted. Lynda Chanwai-Earle… Audio

Ethnic Communities Minister Jenny Salesa has ordered a stocktake of ethnic diversity on public sector boards, because at the moment the government doesn’t know the ethnic make-up of its own boards… Audio, Gallery

"I must use my involvement in my industry to fight for the portrayal of real women, for women by women. I must call myself out on my own internalised pressure - or put more plainly, vanity - and admit… Audio

William Strutt's painted depiction of the New Zealand Wars may be almost 160 years old but, amid recent claims of racism and propaganda, it's making headlines in 2018. Audio

The former GC star paddles around Aotearoa exploring waka culture past and present in the TVNZ series Waka Man. Audio

Another Australian survey has been released highlighting the pay gap between men and women in certain professions. There are still huge differences in salaries for female judges, actuaries and… Audio

Russia is once again the West's bogeyman. But what does this renewed hostility mean for Russians here in New Zealand? Produced by Lisa Thompson. Audio