This week on the show, Ximena and Adam celebrate International Women’s Day with guests Carol Beaumont from the National Council for Women and Prue Kapua from the Māori Women’s Welfare League. They also debunk several science myths with AUT’s Allan Blackman for Dear Science, and also chat to investigative reporter Ian Urbina about his work reporting on crime at sea.
This week, Ximena & Adam cover the historic pay increase for aged care workers, examine the recent re-election of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the sweeping new powers being granted to him; took a closer look at the newly released People’s Mental Health Review and spoke to a key organiser for the March for Science; a movement aiming to celebrate science as pillar of human freedom and prosperity in a world of anti-science politics. They are also joined by AUT's Allan Blackman for Dear Science; talking through controversial topics such as fluoride and alternative medicine.
Our weekly Thursday feature State of the States has returned! Jason Leopold has finished up with us, but we have some exciting new correspondents we'll be working with from WNYU News, which is the news department of New York University's radio station. This week, we hear from their news director Jacob Goldfisher, who spoke to our news director Ximena earlier today.
This week on the show, Adam, Harry and Reuben explore the recently passed bill which would see housing development around Point England; look into reports surrounding a new wide-scale cyber attack and see if the world is on the verge of a global water crisis. They also chat with Andrew Little regarding the Labour intern scandle and their newly announced employee relations bill.
On today's show we speak with Dr Douglas Wilson, an engineering lecturer at the University of Auckland on Roads. We also speak with ACT leader David Seymour, Labour campaign chairperson Phil Twyford and Minister of Transport Simon Bridges on this weeks election focused coverage on transport/liveability.
On today's Wire we have journalist Rod Oram talking about the new ministerial line-up, as well as former MP Te Ururoa Flavell on Maori representation in parliament.
Lachlan speaks to Dr Jane Kelsey, from the University of Auckland's Law Faculty, about the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, and we have our regular State of the States feature with Nick Sawhney.
Finally we have This Day in History, which takes us back to 1955 and the creation of the Republic of Vietnam.
On this week's Wire, Harry talks to Labour MP Louisa Wall about the Australian Marriage Equality referendum.
Lachlan talks to National MP Michael Woodhouse about the new government's Healthy Homes Bill.
Lachland also has a piece on a report into New Zealand's compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, talking to Children's Comissioner Andrew Beecroft, Jeni Cartwright from Child Poverty Action Group and the Human Rights Comission's David Rutherford.
Finally we have This Day in History, which takes us back to 1989, and the end of the Seperate Amenities Act in Aparthied South Africa.
On today's Wire we have Otago University Law Professor, Andrew Geddis, to talk about Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman's work for United Nations tribunals.
We've also got Labour Party MP Andrew Little to talk about recent revelations surrounding the GSCB, and there's also ACT MP David Seymour to talk about the government's changes to the Overseas Investment Office.
Finally there's This Day in History, for the second part of an earlier piece on the Arab-Israeli conflict. This week it's 1947 and the start of a civil war in Mandatory Palestine.
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