Well we're all back recording from home - The gang catchs up over the phone
We still do all our regular segments - This time at least we get sports to talk about (marble racing no longer), Emmerdale and our brand new - Four Thirsty w thanks to Cassels Brewing Co. - We taste the lager this week and it's yummy!
Hunter brings you new music from Kody Nielson, Cate Le Bon, Parquet Courts, Rubi Du & more! Plus, Aotearoa's Christoph El' Truento chat's to Jess about tracks from live from the cloudy subtropical, their latest album for Long Player, thanks to NZ On Air Music!
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This weeeeeeeeek is a more laidback show and I play some of the new releases I have been listening to this week. Thanks again to the Tuning Fork for bringing us Morning Glory every weekday - legends!
AUT Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie and Pacific Media Watch editor Jean Bell joins us in studio to discuss West Papua and the failure of visiting Indonesian President Joko Widodo to front up to the media while in New Zealand.
We also chat about the wave of protests sweeping Indonesia due to a new law that criminalises criticism of lawmakers and the Tonga Minister of Education, Penisimani Fifita moving to ban girls from rugby or boxing.
The Southern Cross has returned to the Monday Wire and this week AUT Pacific Media Centre's Rahul Bhattarai and Professor David Robie joined Jemima in studio. They discussed the Freedom Flotilla nearing Gaza with a New Zealander on board, an Air Vanuatu flight that made an emergency landing, Papua New Guinea land owners threating to close Komo airfield, New Caledonian independence from France and the Pacific Journalism Review on climate change and disasters.
This week on the Monday Wire, Jemima spoke with Green Party co-leader James Shaw in studio about the Zero Carbon Bill and the Pacific Climate Summit in Fiji. Southern Cross returned with AUT Pacific Media Centre's Rahul Bhattarai and Professor David Robie who discussed the Freedom Flotilla, an Air Vanuatu flight making an emergency landing, Papua New Guinea land owners threating to close Komo airfield, New Caledonian independence from France and the Pacific Journalism Review. Damian spoke with Dr John Chaplin, a head and neck surgeon, about head and neck cancer and it's correlation with HPV. Bailley wrapped up with an interview with Jennifer Frost from Don't be Silent, faculty restructuring at the University of Auckland.
Jemima is joined by AUT Pacific Media Centre Director Prof. David Robie and reporter Rahul Bhattarai about the centre's news stories and issues being covered. Topics include; the detention of a Bangladeshi phot-journalist, in an ongoing protest in Bangladesh, a controversial movie named Confucius was screened at AUT, ABC has cut back shortwave Radio Australia frequency, and Vanuatu seeks support for West Papua.