Philippa Tolley
Friction grows over public access to public land
After years of relative calm about access to the great outdoors, advocates say new pressures could lead to heated disputes. Audio
Late Edition for 10 December 2015
New Zealand's government announces a new internet security strategy and agency, CERT; Bill English outs the at-risk areas where young adults live; Nine to Noon goes for baroque, and; Dateline Pacific… Audio
Top Stories for Thursday 10 December 2015
A crucial new draft is delivered at the Paris climate change summit. Could Serco win back the contract to run Mt Eden? Work hard, take abuse from everyone and get paid 'F all'.. A job description… Audio
Insight for 22 November 2015 - What More Can be Done for Children?
It's been two decades since New Zealand signed up to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Philippa Tolley asks how well the country is living up to its commitments. Audio
New Zealand accused of failing children
More than 20 years after signing up to the UN convention on the Rights of the Child, New Zealand is being accused of letting its children down. Audio
Top Stories for Friday 6 November 2015
The text of the TransPacific Partnership deal is finally released... our economics correspondent Patrick O'Meara will try and unravel the details for us. Claims money meant for a children's charity… Audio
Top Stories for Thursday 5 November 2015
Immigration officials give up trying to deport a a 95-year-old widow. Chris Cairns faces tough cross examination in his trial in London and what's the Government doing to turn around the growing… Audio
TPP details could be weeks away
After five years of drawn-out and tense negotiations - 12 Pacific Rim nations have finally agreed on the contentious Trans-Pacfic Partnership - the question now is will it be ratified? Economics… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 5 October 2015
Still optimism in Atlanta as the TPP trade talks drag on into the night. The rescue helicopter pilot in trouble for saving the life of a hunter when he shouldn't have been flying and still hundreds of… Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 1 October 2015
Multiple failures that let murderer and child sex criminal Phillip Smith escape to Brazil and high profile maori women backing a visit by the American singer Chris Brown. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Wednesday 30 September 2015
Australia moves to deport young children of New Zealand mothers. The engineer who racked up a 23 thousand dollar bill on his company phone and who is stealing beehives in Northland? Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Monday 28 September 2015
CYF is sending girls south because it hasn't got enough secure beds. A prison psychologist misuses computers to check on her lover and a walk on the beach ends in quicksand. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Friday 25 September 2015
It's revealed 196 New Zealanders are being detained in Australia awaiting deportation. More than 700 pilgrims crushed to death outside the holy city of Mecca and grilling a koala. Audio
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 24 September 2015
Putting children first in the overhaul of Child Youth and Family and Fonterra's boosted payout is expected to inject a billion dollars into the economy. Audio
Top Stories for Tuesday 22 September 2015
A trust helping poor Northland families into their own homes has its plans stymied by the government. A Kiribati community leader heads to Parliament today to ask the government not to deport a family… Audio
Tackling tax in the digital age
Philippa Tolley asks if it is possible to tax online purchases effectively. Audio
Planned tax on online sales could be undermined by avoidance
The government's plans to extend GST to goods and services including downloads from overseas could quickly run into trouble. Audio
Top Stories for Friday 28 August 2015
The Principal Youth Court Judge, Andrew Becroft, tells us too many children in state care end up in his court. Dozens of migrants bodies are found in the back of a truck in Austria and Opposition MPs… Audio
Australians become coy over state housing transfer
Philippa Tolley travels to Queensland to find out how housing providers interested in NZ operate at home Video, Audio
Another Aust housing provider interested in NZ state homes
A second Australian community housing organisation wants to buy or lease state housing in New Zealand. Audio