Otago University is looking to cut around 200 jobs. Producer Jack Marshall spoke to Tertiary Education Union organiser Shaun Scott talking about the proposed staff cuts at Otago University and how this might effect the students and staff.
Bridge's voice made a disappearance the weekend before Laneway, so in order to continue on with a beauti chat with TOKiMONSTA, he became 'Tracy USA' via a text-to-speech website.
They talk through her new album Lune Rouge, her comeback after contracting moyamoya, remixes, and her favourite L.A. homecoming meal.
The University of Auckland's Dr. Peng Du won the $200,000 Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize (wow) for his work on the human gut. Dr. Du talks about iIrritable bowel disease being a catch-all descriptor of a number of gut conditions, and he might have the hard-drive look-a-like technology to help this.
After five years it is the final anniversary albums episode!! Geneva is off to become a Mum and so the Sam/Geneva partnership must come to an end after 200 albums or so.
This week, we bow out with Public Enemy's "Apocalypse 91...The Enemy Strikes Back" from 1991.
Thanks for tuning in all these years and supporting the segment!! Glad you enjoyed it.
Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Shane Reti, is on the line and today he and Zoë speak on the alert level 4 COVID-19 lockdown, and the National Party's vote against the banning of conversion therapy in Aotearoa. Whakarongo mai!
Correction for last section of interview: 200 hours of community services was the harshest penalty awarded in the first 5 years of the anti-smacking law, not 2.
Books of Mana is a new book edited by Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa, Ngāti Ranginui), Angela Wanhalla (Kāi Tahu) and Jeanette Wikaira (Ngāti Pukenga, Ngāti Tamaterā, Ngāpuhi) which released earlier this week.
It is the first of its kind in the world to celebrate non-fiction indigenous writing – exploring 200 years of Māori print legacies. In examining the ways 180 selected books have enriched lives and helped to foster understanding of the Māori experience, both at home in Aotearoa and internationally, the book is a clear vision of influence, excellence and diversity of Māori writing.
Sofia spoke with co-editor and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Otago, Jacinta Ruru, about Books of Mana.
Last week United States Senator Cory Booker gave a marathon 25-hour speech, or “filibuster”, in the Senate.
Booker’s speech included a broad range of criticisms of President Donald Trump, including his widespread cuts with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and his threat to annex Greenland and Canada.
Booker had over 1,000 pages of prepared material, including stories from 200 Americans who had written to Booker about Trump’s actions.
Wire Host Caeden spoke to Charles Hunt from Boise State University in Idaho about Booker’s speech, its historical basis, and its impact on a growing anti-Trump movement in the United States.
They started by asking if he could explain what a filibuster is.