Seven years on since the last devastating fires at the Port Hills, how will the landscape recover after being hit again? Newsable speaks to a fire ecologist.
The Australian MP who had her image photoshopped by a news outlet joins us for her first New Zealand media interview since the saga. Plus the rugby league season kicks off officially tonight with All Star Indigenous and Māori clashes and a bi-lingual Sky commentary and we hear about the escaping Kākāpō.

Can the Port Hills landscape recover ? Photoshopped Australia MP talks about the impact, League season kicks off, the escaping Kākāpō

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It’s one of the most intriguing and harrowing unsolved mysteries in New Zealand’s modern history.
In 2015, 11 year-old Mike Zhao-Beckenridge and his stepfather, John Beckenridge, disappeared in a remote part of Southland, leaving Mike’s mother and John’s former partner desperate for answers.
John’s car was found two months later, having plunged into the ocean from an 80-metre cliff, but there was no sign of John or Mike. 
Now a coroner is being asked to decide whether the pair are dead.
To give you a sample of this new true crime podcast from Stuff Audio and The Press Newspaper, here’s episode one of The Lost Boy. If you like it, you can find the rest of this series at https://listen.stuff.co.nz/thelostboy

Introducing: The Lost Boy - The disappearance of Mike Zhao-Beckenridge

The verdict is in.
Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial in New York, becoming the first American president to be declared a felon.
Stuff Audio's senior journalist Aaron Dahmen hosts this Newsable breaking news update.

Breaking: Guilty - Donald Trump becomes first US President to be convicted of a felony

The tax cuts announced in Budget 2024 will have had people flocking to the online tax calculator to see how much extra they will get each week.
But was it as much as expected, where else has money been allocated and has anyone missed out?
Newsable speaks to Labour leader Chris Hipkins, The Post's Political and Economics editor Luke Malpass, Economist Bard Olsen and the Wellington City Missioner, Murray Edridge.

How did we all do? - Budget 2024

Politicians, economists, officials and journalists have spent the last few hours behind closed doors in the Beehive, trawling through pages of typically big-money promises from the Government.
Here with all the details from the 2024 Budget, as they break, is Stuff Audio’s senior journalist Aaron Dahmen.

2024 Budget Day special: What's in? What's out? And what about those tax cuts?

Provincial Unions have rejected New Zealand Rugby's governance change proposal that would have seen the organisation led by more corporate experts.
The scene has now been set for greater divisions as the Player's Association, which represents the All Blacks among others, has threatened to break away if there was no change.
We talk to Senior Stuff Sports Reporter, Paul Cully

Can the Port Hills landscape recover ? Photoshopped Australia MP talks about the impact, League season kicks off, the escaping Kākāpō

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