The Wire w/ Oto: 24 July, 2024

For their regular catch-up, Oto speak to the Green Party’s Ricardo Menéndez March about the party’s executive summary of the independent investigation into former MP Darleen Tana.

He spoke to Peter Reynolds, CEO of the New Zealand Disability Support Network to discuss staffing shortages in disability care in wake of the Disability Commissioners report on abuse in disabled care.

He spoke to Edward Elder, Professional Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland, to discuss the US general elections and the role of party branding in the potential outcome.

And he spoke to John Minto from Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa to discuss the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice on Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Sasha spoke to Gehan Gunasakera from the University of Auckland about last week’s Global IT outage and the data sovereignty implications that should be expected of tech companies.

And he spoke to Juressa Lee from Greenpeace about a recent study which confirms production of oxygen on the ocean floor from metallic nodules and the importance of ending sea mining.