This week, Oscar talks to Professor Robert Patman about China and the USA's potential expansions in to the Pacific and how our current global trading patterns may perhaps limit a recurrence of military colonisation in the Pacific.
This weeks topic for Worry Week is Ideologies and this podcast focusses on how we label political ideologies. Political spectrums are often used as a way of classifying different political ideologies on a scale marked left to right, hence why we hear terminology such as left and right wing politics. Producer Damian Rowe spoke to Massey University Associate Professor, Grant Duncan about labelling and measuring political ideology, firstly asking what do we mean when we label things left-wing and right-wing politics?
The invasion of Parihaka, to many New Zealanders, is a piece of history lost in the mists of obscurity. The invasion and subsequent occupation of the Maori land and people is not taught in mainstream schools, and is therefore not known to many people. Tuwhenuaroa spoke to Maata Wharehoka, a Wahine toa and strong advocate for the people of Parihaka, about the history of the community, the peaceful protests that encouraged the invasion, and the future of Parihaka and the lessons she hopes will be learned.
We are sure you would have seen, to some extent, the media coverage of the Royals visit over the last couple of weeks. You wouldn’t have heard it here on b but we’ve decided this week to revisit for a particular reason. Why exactly do people get royally excited over the royals?? Why does the media take the opportunity to put out multiple stories every day on the royals? Why do we still care? Why was there no formal acknowledgment of day in which the Declaration of Independence was signed here in 1835? Why did they not go up to Waitangi for a visit?
We’re also looking at anti-govt movements this week for Worry Week, and while that term itself is a little limiting Lillian's instructed the Wire team to think broadly about this, as usual. So in this case Lillian wanted to see whether there was also a threat to democracy at hand when everyone is so distracted by the royals. What does that mean for society engaging with its government? And how detrimental could that be...
Neal Curtis is the head of Media and Communication here at the University of Auckland. He is also an immigrant from Britain who has now been here for 7 years. Lillian wanted to see his thoughts on the media attention the royals received, but started by asking what his relationship to the monarchy was as a British New Zealander.
This weeks "Worry Week" is about anti-establishment movements. That is movements that go against the status quo of power. The 5th of November also marks the aniversary of the invasion of Parihaka which has come to be recognised as a symbol of peaceful resistance to an acting government. Producer Damian Rowe recalls the events of the Parihaka invasion.
For wire worry week we focus on cultural appropriation. The haka party incident in 1979 saw conflict come to a head with protestors confronting University of Auckland engineering students over their practice of donning grass skirts, brown face and performing fake Haka as part of capping day celebrations. The confrontation is seen as a pinnacle moment of activism causing change in our country's history but is a story not often told from the activists experience. Hone Harawira was part of the protest that day, Jenn spoke to him on the incident, what lead to it and the challenges New Zealand still faces today.
This week it was discovered a Belgian brewery brewed a beer in 2015 called Māori tears. Our Wire Worry Week looks at cultural appropriation, and I spoke with Karaitiana Taiuru about this beer, and the use of Maori knowledge and culture by businesses more generally
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