For their weekly catch-up, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins speak to Green Party Co-Leader James Shaw about violence against political candidates and farming in a climate-crisis world.
She also spoke to PhD candidate in New Zealand Politics at the University of Otago Michael Swanson about the MMP system 30 years on.
Arno spoke to researcher in public health at the University of Otago, Dr Anja Mizdrak about research modelling alcohol advertising.
He also spoke to general Manager of Economic and Environmental Insights and Statistics at Stats NZ, Jason Attewell about record high temperatures in New Zealand.
And he spoke to optometrist Andrew Yu about people foregoing eye health checks due to costs.
For their weekly catch-up, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Green Party Co-leader James Shaw about recent reports of attacks against political candidates and how the Green party believes we can advance the interests of farming in a climate-crisis world.
This election year marks 30 years since Aotearioa changed to a mixed member proportional system or MMP.
News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to PhD candidate in New Zealand Politics at the University of Otago Michael Swanson about what impact this change has had on politics in Aotearoa.
She started off the interview asking about what MMP is and how it differs from our previous electoral system, First Past the Post.
Thanks for tuning in! Rosetta is playng some of her fave new releases from the past couple of weeks, with a couple of oldies in there too :) Happy Tuesday!
Two weeks ago, finance minister Grant Robertson said New Zealand was never in recession and we experienced strong growth in the June quarter. But Aotearoa is still in the thick of a cost of living crisis, and banks have been experiencing record profits through all of this.
The trade union First Union has started a campaign called “stop bankflation” in response.
Josh spoke to their Researcher and Policy Analyst, Edward Miller to find out more.
The pricing of New Zealand produced food has been put into the spotlight as there have been reports of New Zealand products being sold for less money overseas.
A new Grocery Commisioner has been appointed to look into matters regading the supply and retailing of Food in New Zealand.
Nicholas spoke to Emeritus professor of nutrion at AUT Elaine Rush about New Zealand’s Import and export of food.
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