This week Tomorrow's World toes the line of the social sciences, investigating the explosion of reality TV content. From fourth wall breaks, to why it's so consumed, to performative femininity, to whether societal values are actually reflected in formats and duty of care for participants of reality shows. Stella and Isla speak to Rebecca Trelease, who's winding up her PhD at AUT on the subject.
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!
In this weeks episode of Life Hacks with Jade, we discuss all things organisation! I see you, uni students out there. Start your week and center yourself around all things health, wellness and becoming a more functional human bean.
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.
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