Midday Report

Midday Report Essentials for Tuesday 27 October

Midday Report

Show Notes

Sarah Dalton on Waitakere Hospital's empty ICU; Study finds 24.9 percent gender pay gap in property; Jasmine Vojdani on an AI agent pitching her story ideas.

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