Breakfast

Health campaigners have told MPs the Government needs to make cigarettes illegal. Hapai Te Hauora says there’s no way NZ will be smoke-free by 2025 with the government’s current approach, and politicians need to ban cigarettes in a few years.

German police are waiting at the aiport looking for truant families. Children are legally required to regularly attend school. So is taking them out of class for a holiday legal?

Is it OK to put a spare room in your rental property on Airbnb without your landlord's permission?

What's the secret to a perfect dessert pie? One pastry chef gave Jack Tame the answers this morning. Hint: make your own pastry!

Otago Uni staff threw out hundreds of copies of this week's student magazine because the cover showed a women menstruating. Should they have done this?

A Māori academic has condemned the motives behind Kiwi life coach Sally Anderson's moko, labelling it a mixture of "business branding" and "cultural appropriation" encouraged by a culture of "white privlidge". "She's a Pakeha woman who doesn't have any genealogical ties herself to Māori, so how do you wear something that represents your genealogy, when that's not your genealogy," Dr Lee-Penehira said.

Hayley confessed her childhood crush on Martin Henderson post-interview... little did she know he was still listening. 😂