Rebecca Macfie

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Home / The Listener / New ZealandBy Rebecca MacfieContributing writer·New Zealand Listener·10 Mar, 2025 04:00 PM18 mins to readSubscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen. Already a subscriber?  Sign in hereListening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech. ‌SaveShare this articleReminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read.

Feb 17, 2025 | thekaka.substack.com | Bernard Hickey |Rebecca Macfie

Long stories short, the top six things in Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Tuesday, February 18 are: A NZ Herald investigation published yesterday into the performance of EDs has found almost a third of a million patients were not seen within the recommended times in the first half of last year; ED doctor Gary Payinda pointed in his substack post yesterday at international research showing overcrowding and ‘bed blocking’ resulted in the deaths of one in...

Feb 15, 2025 | e-tangata.co.nz | Rebecca Macfie

When award-winning journalist and author Rebecca Macfie began a new project to explore poverty in Aotearoa, she first had to ask herself some hard questions. In my 30-plus years as a journalist, it was always a given that you didn’t bring yourself into the story. You were just an observer, a questioner getting answers. Who you are didn’t matter. Now, spending time in communities, on marae, in schools, with whānau, grassroots leaders and NGOs, I’ve had to profoundly rethink that.

Dec 27, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Rebecca Macfie |Sarah Catherall |Paul Little |Peter Griffin

Given the cost-of-living crisis, it’s possibly no surprise that personal finance and business articles were popular with Listener online readers. Photo / Supplied Giving others a hand up rather than a hand-out, the perils of giving money to your kids and the highs and lows of our national airline: Here are our top four picks of stories that have helped readers consider how to spend, save and learn from others.

Oct 1, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Rebecca Macfie

Eminent New Zealand social scientist Professor Richie Poulton, who has died aged 61, was director of the world-famous Dunedin Study for more than 20 years. In this story, first published in the Listener in January 2008, Rebecca Macfie spent time with Poulton, study founder Professor Phil Silva and the team who, by closely monitoring key aspects of the lives of 1000 people from birth, discovered empirical evidence on how early childhood experience shapes the adults we become.