RNZ: Sunday Morning

Meal breaks, collective bargaining, 90 day trials and more besides are to change in a bill going through Parliament.   

Bills to limit state sector CEO salaries, close the Families Commission, and criminalise cartels have their first readings before the House while major education changes move to select committee.

Listerners' feedback about the show from Sunday Morning with Wallace Chapman.

Anne Applebaum's book "Red Famine, Stalin's War on Ukraine" is about a famine not caused by drought or floods - but a political famine caused by Joseph Stalin's brutal policy of farm collectivisation and repression. It killed around 5 million people.

Syn City: NZ's Synthetics Drug Crisis is a confronting short documentary by youth media outlet VICE about the deadly dangers of synthetic drugs.

Former Green MP Catherine Delahunty has teamed up with her theatrical sister Sarah Delahunty, to bring Question Time Blues to the Auckland Fringe Festival.

Brendan O'Carroll has played Agnes Brown from Mrs Brown's Boys on our TV screens since 2011 - years after she was initially created for a short radio play. O'Carroll tells Wallace Chapman, he only became Mrs Brown through the luck of the Irish.

Hugh Kininmonth has been at the coalface of community health for many years as chief executive of one of the Hauraki PHO. He talks about the challenges faced by the health system.

Imelda Staunton is one of the most celebrated English actresses, and her role in Mike Leigh's Vera Drake won a Bafta and an Oscar nomination. Her latest starring role is in Finding Your Feet with Timothy Spall.  

Social media rebounds on politicians; claims of dirty politics in MPs Snapchat story; free speech vs. hate speech in the media.

Dr Carla Meledandri was awarded $200,000 in the Prime Minister's science prizes this week and became the MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist. One of her projects is looking at nanoparticles to combat tooth decay.

Kiwi Sue Gardiner is one of Tonga's 107,000 residents - she has lived there for 18 years. She talks about the impact of Cyclone Gita on the locals and the attributes that will get them through. 

Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election has charged 13 Russians and three organisations with interfering in the US election to help Donald Trump. Feature Story's Nina-Maria Potts has the latest.

You ask a question. You get an answer. You’d think Question Time would be easy. But MPs constantly get it wrong, and often on purpose. The House gets a tutorial from Parliament’s quiz masters.

There are still many legal hurdles to overcome before Brexit becomes a reality. Professor Jurgen Basedow from the Max Planck institute in Hamburg is an expert in European economic law - and says Kiwi businesses operating in the UK and Europe need to be thinking about the ramifications now.