Philippa TolleyPhilippa Tolley

Philippa Tolley is executive editor, Insight, RNZ

The NZ residency ballot: A better life for Pacific Islanders, or empty promises?

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Thousands of Pacific Islanders – including a quarter of Samoa’s population – are hoping for a new life through the annual visa lotteries. They are ready to wrench themselves from home for a New Zealand residence visa. But is the better life the ballot promises a reality? Philippa Tolley reports in this piece originally published … Read more

100 years ago, NZ was in the depths of deadly pandemic. Are we ready for the next one?

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November was the peak month of the 1918 pandemic that killed 9,000 New Zealanders. A century, will we be able to deal with another outbreak? Philippa Tolley reports for RNZ’s Insight The memories captured from the days and weeks the pandemic took hold in 1918 are tragic. Decades later, in a 1967 interview, a Wellington shop … Read more