Our beloved Viewmaster is back and this week he chats about the second season of Hunters, which has apparently gone "balls to the wall"! Whakarongo mai nei!
First up on today’s Wire, Oscar speaks with Max Tweedie from the young greens about his petition to ban gay conversion therapy in New Zealand. Neutral corner returns, looking at the Trump Putin meeting. Lachlan speaks with Andrew Little, discussing the human rights commissioners appointment panel and youth being remanded to police cells. Finally, this day in history looks at the assassination of Aung San.
This week on the Monday Wire for our regular Green Party segment Jemima speaks to co-leader Marama Davidson about the success of COP24, the #wastefreeholidays campaign and what the Green Party has in store for 2019. Lillian spoke to Malvindar Singh-Bains, a research fellow at the University of Auckland centre for Brain Research, about Huntington's disease. We play a short extract from the Big Q's panel on climate change last year. Finally I speak to Wendy Allison from Know Your Stuff about safe drug testing over the festival season.
Mediaworks, the owners of TV Three, confirmed yesterday they’ve cancelled Guy Williams’ new comedy show New Zealand Today, and made major cutbacks to long-running panel show 7 Days. It’s also expected we’ve seen the end of Married at First Sight - meaning there’s not a lot of new programming expected for Three in the new year. So what happens now? Stewart Sowman-Lund spoke to journalist Philip Matthews, co-author of the book Funny As, and started by asking him if these cutbacks were a surprise.
On Dear Science with Marcus Jones we talk about mysterious blood clots, artificial chloroplasts, and solar panels sucking water from air to cool them down.
Lillian looks into the Covid19 Public Health Response Act that was debated urgently in parliament this morning.
Felix checks in with the various sectors that have been impacted by Covid.
We have our regular Epidemic Response Committee notes and today we hear discussions about finance and the economy, very pertinent with the Budget announcement coming tomorrow.
Felix spoke to the Green Party co-leader James Shaw on Covid-19 support, poverty in Pasifika communities, bottom trawling and, since it’s international women's day, what the Green Party is focusing on this year in regards to women's rights.
Jess interviewed Sir Peter Gluckman, the President-elect of the International Science Council, about a new international panel that is mapping future Covid-19 scenarios.
Jess also talked to Dr Melanie Kah and Dr Emma Sharp about the Soilsafe Aotearoa research programme.
Lastly, Felix spoke to Jan Tinetti, Minister for Women, about international women's day and her focus as minister.
Ilena interviewed James Renwick, head of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University and co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report that was released in the last few days and paints a horrifying picture of the state of the global climate emergency.
James spelled out the most important take-aways from the lengthy report and what role New Zealand has to play in all of this.
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