This week reporter Mack Smith chats to the Green Desk's regular host Lilly Peacocke who's been visitng Greece on a reseach expedition. Lilly tells us about her dolphin experiences on the Greek islands and how the aquatic mammals are faring on the busy mediterranean sea.
On the lead up to the election, we are focusing on different issues each week and this week we are focusing on healthcare. Joel spoke to Green Party leader James Shaw about the Green Party's view on our health and mental health systems. They also chatted about drug use and whether it's a health issue, and the rebranding of the Green's campaign image.
On the lead up to the election we are focusing on livability, so we’re focusing on issues such as homelessness, poverty, and housing. This is timely considering the Green Party’s renting and insulation policy announced yesterday. Joel talked to Marama Davidson about this policy and how livable she thinks New Zealand is right now.
This week we meet the Green party's newest MP Golriz Gharaman. Golriz is a former human rights lawyer and will become New Zealand's first refugee MP after she fled Iran in 1990 with her family.
On the Green desk, Conor Mercer speaks to Nick Beveridge, from Forest and Bird, about the council vote taking place today on how to handle the spread of Kauri Dieback disease in the Waitakere Ranges.
Green Desk connoisseur Conor Mercer caught up with freshwater advocate for Forest and Bird Annabeth Cohen. They discussed the threat water drainage pumps are creating for our native eel population, as well as some interesting facts about how the slippery creatures breed.
Reuben McLaren has a chat to the new Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson about what her leadership will mean for the party, how the Greens will hold the government to account and what is to be made from Immigration New Zealand’s alleged racial profiling.
This week on the Green Desk, Jack has a chat to Karen Schumacher from the East Taranaki Environment Trust about two native kokako finally being able to be released in Taranaki following successful pest control efforts. We started off my asking Schumacher how this all started out
Green Party co-leader James Shaw is back on the Wire this week. He spoke to Jemima about the party's priorities, the Global Climate Action Summit and the Productivity Commission's report on electricty generation in a low emission economy.
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