The National Party was amongst their caucus meeting to decide whether there would be a change of leadership at the time of this Wire. Former Politician, Peter Dunne, and Associate Professor in Politics, Grant Duncan joined Laura Kvigstad to discuss the leadership challenges for the National Party and what this could mean for our political landscape with an election on the horizon
Today on the Wire, Lyric Waiwiri-Smith interviews Maher Nazal from the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa, about how New Zealanders can support Palestine.
What’s the Buzz? - our weekly catch up with the New Zealand Drug Foundation - makes a new home on the Tuesday Wire. Aneeka Moheed talks to Brin and Jai from Students for Sensible Drug Policy about the organisation and their goals for drug advocacy in Aotearoa.
With the government set to complete their roll out of free period products in schools shortly, Jemima Huston speaks to Sarah Pritchard, Sector Project Manager at WasteMINZ. They discuss the environmental impact of disposable period products and how periods can be managed more sustainably.
Finally, Lyric speaks to Mary-Margaret Slack from Bike Auckland about their call for Waka Kotahi to liberate one of the lanes of the harbour bridge for three months this summer, to allow for cyclists to use the bridge.
Over the weekend the US, Uk and France launched an air strike in Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack in the town of Douma.
The attack targeted three facilities that researched, stored and produced chemical weapons. There were no reported casulties but the attack is said to have set the chemical weapons programme back years.
Trump declared it a sucess tweeting "Mission Acomplished" while Theresa May claimed there was "no practical alternative."
Lucy Austin spoke with indeligence and defence analyst Paul Buchanan about the recent event and its consequences.
On todays Dear Science with AUT's Allan Blackman, we discuss the discovery of organic molecules found on Mars, a device that can pull water from desert air and the admission of Professor Margaret Brimble to the Royal Society of London.
Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, spoke to Rachel this week about her stellar 2019 album 'Titanic Rising' ahead of her perfomance at the Auckland Arts Festival in March. Touching on everything from movies, to Greta Thunberg, Climate Crisis and the "hubris of man" - whakarongo mai nei to hear more about her album before she performs alongside Aldous Harding and Purple Pilgrims!
Berlin-based composer and electronic musician Holly Herndon spoke with Rachel ahead of her spectacular set at Laneway Festival about her 2019 album PROTO. For the project Herndon created an "AI baby" called Spawn, that worked with her choral ensemble of human singers to create a body of work which explores the human-technology relationship and our place in the grander scheme of things. Phew! Whakarongo mai nei!
Associate Professor Peter Lineham joins Jonny & Bridge to discuss the debate surrounding the selection of religious represtentatives at Donald Trump's upcoming presidential inauguration.
Associate Professor Peter Lineham joins Big Hungry & Bridge to discuss the late Bishop Eddie Long. A principle leader amongst the black Pentecostal scene; and how he's connected to Brian Tamaki.
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