After two decades of never on, never off conflict, neighboring countries Ethiopia and Eritrea have taken a historic step towards long-lasting peace. Initiated by recently appointed Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed, the peace would bring economic relief and social stability to both sides.
Our producer Lisa Boudet delves into the roots of the conflict, and what the future holds for both parties.
This week, New Zealand celebrated the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage, the date when women got the right to vote in our country. But, however much things have improved over those 125 years, they still aren’t perfect yet.
Ahead of the anniversary, Stewart Sowman-Lund spoke with former Prime Minister and UNDP administrator, Helen Clark, about her new book and what it means to be a woman in power - and started by asking her why we still need to commemorate suffrage in 2018.
Today on the Southern Cross, Jemima talks to AUT Pacific Media Centre's reporter Rahul Bhattarai. Topics include, the iconic, internationally acclaimed human rights film on Paga Hill that was banned from a Papua New Guinea festival and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, responds to backlash against his purchase of 40 Maseratis.
This week on the Monday Wire, Jemima talks with Green-Party co-leader James Shaw about rising fuel prices and legalising drug testing. Our regular segment, the Southern Cross, covers the internationally acclaimed human rights film on Paga Hill that was banned from a Papua New Guinea festival and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister, Peter O'Neill, response to backlash against his purchase of 40 Maseratis. Justin reports on the Government's plan to bring teachers from overseas to solve the country's teacher shortage and asks Michael Calbral-Tarry from the NZ Post Primary Teachers' Association about this issue. Damian follows up on the Green Party's call for legal drug testing with Nathan Brown from the New Zealand Drug Foundation. Finally, Damian speaks with campaigner, Sophie Schroder, about Greenpeace launching a series of training workshops to prepare for the arrival of oil giant, OMV.
This day in history looks at the 2007 Karsaz bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, which targeted People's Party leader Benazir Bhutto. Although it failed to kill Bhutto, the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan would be assassinated later that year.
Conor reports on the international repercussions of the murder of a Saudi journalist. The Aoteroa Tech Union has been established very recently, and Mary-Margaret speaks to one of their co-founders about the organisation’s purpose. Ben speaks to SAFE about rodeo cruelty and the threat it poses to young calves this summer. In international news, Justin takes us to Malaysia, where a former deputy prime minister has returned to politics. And finally, for the Green Desk this week, Jack talks with a professor of computer science at transforming cities to cut down our commute time.
Radio Adelaide’s, Samantha Smith catches us up on all the latest Australian news in Neighbourhood Watch. She tells Laura Kvigstad about the rhetoric around terrorism that has sparked in Australia following the arrest of three alleged terrorists and Prime Minister, Scott Morissons recent inflamatory remarks around the muslim community. Then they speak on migration in Australia and Morisson's recent emphasis on reducing permanent migration in order to combat congestion. Finally, they talk about an Australian convicted drug smuggler, who has served her sentence in Indonesia and the media coverage surround her return to Australia.
Worry Week this week is about ethical journalism and one of those hot phrases you’d be fortunate to come across if ever took a paper in news media is agenda setting. Agenda Setting is essentially a news agency setting up a framework for what stories we cover and what is outside of scope. At Bfm we have an agenda setting and that is why you don’t hear about the Kardasian and live up to date scores of the Ashes series. Agenda setting has been blamed for bias media with prime examples being in America such FOX News with agenda favouring Republicans whilst others outlets such as The Huffington Post favouring Democrats but I wanted to have a yarn about agenda setting in our own backyard. So I did just that, I had a yarn that spiraled out of topic with AUT’s senior lecturer Greg Treadwell, firstly asking does New Zealand have a problem with bias media.
Recommendations were released yesterday by the Fair Pay Agreement Working Group, a representative group chaired by former New Zealand prime minister James Bolger. The recommendations into pay disputes include a comprehensive and inclusive list on the matter, with an informative design behind that of a Fair Pay Agreement system. The government will now take some time to consider this report & its conditions moving forward. I had a chance to interview the minister of workplace relations & safety, the Iain Lees-Galloway, about his thoughts on the report...
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