The Wire with Liam

The official terrorisiim risk of New Zealand has recently been moved down to low. 

The level, desginated the risk of a terror attack at any givn time, now states that a terror attack isn't likely, but possible. 

Aotearoa has been at a medium level since the Christchurch Terror Attacks, which caused the country to go into high for a month. 

To learn more, I spoke to Richard Jackson from the University of Otago about what this represents. 

Today on the wire: 

Tuva’a has his regular chat with health minister Andrew Little chatting about pain parity and a new emergency department for Whangarei Hospital

Liam spoke to Willow Heron about the campaign to reform name change laws for youth in Aotearoa,

Stella’s had a chat with Micheal Gilchrist about the E Tu Unions strike of Stuff Media members

Liam also had a chat with Richard Jackson from the University of Otago about New Zealands terror risk shifting to low,

Hanna spoke to Narissa Harding from the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions

And Liam to european correspondent Cameron Adams on Eurovision.

New research has revealed that levels of distress, depression, stress, and suicidal thoughts are alarmingly high for all New Zealanders, especially those aged 18-34. Today, Te Hiringa Mahara | Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission released their Access and Choice programme report, which gave insight into the progress and challenges for the primary care and mental health and addiction sectors in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Joe spoke to Karen Osbourne, the Chief Executive of Te Hiringa Mahara | Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission on this matter.

Today on Dear Science Milly spoke to Joel regarding strategy board game fun with AI, Homo Erectus cooking fish earlier than thought and all things floating feces.