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    From inmate to influencer - Dave Letele Snr is turning lives around

    10/04/2026 | 22 mins.
    It's a second chance for criminals, which Letele says is really their first chance, given the life many of them were born into 
    A new documentary shines a light on the Grace Foundation's bold rehab model for high-risk offenders and addicts, fuelled by the loss and lived experience of a former gang criminal
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    What Artemis has done for the future of human life in space

    09/04/2026 | 25 mins.
    A 'permanent presence' on the moon is only a few years away, and Mars maybe a decade behind that - but that doesn't mean it's time to sell your house and make plans to relocate

    Space scientists expect a 'permanent presence' on the moon by 2028, and say now is the time to lay the groundwork for international rules for lasting peace in space
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    No baby boom, just doom and gloom

    08/04/2026 | 22 mins.
    Birth rates are falling globally, inspiring pro-natalist movements and government schemes to incentivise procreation - but it's not working 
    Countries around the world are trying everything from financial incentives to law changes to reverse declining birth rates. None of it is working.
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    A carbon Catch-22

    07/04/2026 | 23 mins.
    Little cellulose balls could be a big answer to burying carbon emissions - if there's proof they work. Getting that is proving difficult.

    A company that says it has a startling solution to carbon storage wants New Zealand to make rule changes so it can forge ahead

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    When the numbers don't add up

    06/04/2026 | 24 mins.
    Statistics are a vitally important tool to plan and inform government policy - but when they're wrong or misleading, trust is at risk

    A former government statistician is sounding alarms about our ditching of the five-yearly census, saying we risk losing a rich seam of information

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