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Crazy Rich
It’s simple maths - ten years ago, if you’d bought one bitcoin for one dollar and kept it, it would now be worth NZ$75,000. Not a bad return on investment. While, a decade ago, highly speculative cryptocurrencies were an enormous gamble, it seems that’s no longer the case. Huge financial institutions like Visa and Mastercard, and the likes of Elon Musk, are now on board, giving legitimacy to this new investment sector. That’s encouraging the tech-boffins to invent even more “out there” ways to make a buck.
Take the Plunge
Ben Logan was a professional triathlete who moved south to train in the mountains near Queenstown. At the peak of his career he was unexpectedly struck down by a life-changing condition. In the harsh alpine environment, he found strength, built resilience, and healed from his trauma. Now Ben helps others face their challenges in sometimes confronting ways.
Town or Country
Food. We love it, we need it, we grow it. But what happens when we lose our most fertile soils to the insatiable demand for housing? We meet farmers sounding the alarm and reveal new research showing how much land has already been eaten up by development.
Influential Blokes
It’s been the era of social media and influencers – where follows and shares really matter. But it seems people are beginning to tire of heavily filtered attention-seekers, subtly trying to sell something. Instead, there’s a growing anti-influencer movement – people whose sway – and appeal to multinational brands – increases the less they care about what others think of them. One famous duo - The Inspired Unemployed – are two proudly ordinary Aussie blokes, turning their humour into big business.
The Ideas Man
Our kids are born with the essence of creative genius, but by the time they’re teens, their creativity is largely lost. To prepare for an uncertain future, they need the skills to think differently, be innovative. But are we preparing them properly? Meet the man on a mission to keep creativity in the classroom
Our Young Carers
Amber, Zak and Annabelle are all young teens at school. They’re also part of an invisible, unpaid and isolated group of caregivers looking after whanau who can’t look after themselves. They’re known as ‘young carers’ but most of them are actually children who provide a significant level of care for someone else. But while they look after others why aren’t we looking after them? An international expert says New Zealand should be ashamed of its poor record of identifying and supporting our young carers and that can lead to serious mental health issues later in life.
Inside Starship
They work with life and death, with children and their whanau, and through 24/7 shifts. Every day, specialist staff treat, nurse, and hold the hands of our critically-ill tamariki. In a rare and exclusive look, we’re inside PICU, Starship Hospital’s paediatric intensive care unit. We meet Rehua, Harry, Toutai and their families, and we meet those working on the wards, with stretched resources, as the hospital looks to expand.
Faking it
When it comes to elaborate scams and stealing millions from unsuspecting victims - Anna Sorokin is a mastermind. This 30-year-old convinced New York’s rich and famous she was a German heiress about to inherit a US$60 million fortune, and then used her lies to live the high life on their money. She served three years in prison for the fraud, but, in an extraordinary interview, Sorokin is totally unrepentant. She boldly believes there’s nothing wrong with making it by faking it.
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