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Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand is calling on the New Zealand Government to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14 years old. This is one of the many changes needed to improve Aotearoa New Zealand’s youth justice system.

Lisa Woods, Campaigns Director for Amnesty International Aotearoa New Zealand, mentions, "When a child does something seriously wrong, it is often because they have been seriously let down by society. What we then risk is using the criminal justice system to respond to issues caused by, for example, trauma and a lack of health and mental health support. This means that instead of solving problems caused by a lack of resources and services, our current laws are funnelling children into a system that can trap them for the rest of their lives. This does irrevocable damage to the child, their whānau, and to the rest of society."

Joe spoke to Lisa Woods on the matter

This week on The Wire for Rāhina Monday!

Joe speaks to Lisa Woods, the Campaigns Director for Amnesty International about raising the age for criminal responsibility. Joe also speaks to Dr Nic Rawlence from the Paleogenetics Lab at The University of Otago about new research surrounding the evolution of the Wattlebird.

Trishil speaks to Professor Geoff Chase about his Research into AI driven emotional regulation training that will work to assist those with high-functioning autism with social blindness.

Finally, Isla and Stella look at Hormonal Birth Control and the Brain w/ Dr Rachel Sumner for this weeks Tomorrow's World.

That's us for the Monday Wire!

Attention, those with uteruses; if you’re taking a hormonal contraceptive pill, you’ll want to tune in to this. Stella and Isla speak to Dr Rachel Sumner from the University of Auckland about her research into hormonal birth control’s impacts on the brain, and the mind. They also include a quick explainer about  how it works. 

Yet another stacked show on this Fridays Wire:

Liam spoke to Shane Henderson on our regular city counselling segment about the Transporrt Emissions Reduction Pathway.

Liam also had a chat about the Human Rights Commission about their new conversion practices support services with the programmes manager,  Andre Afamasaga.

Liam also spoke to Kellie Addison from Kea New Zealand, as well as Act MP James McDowall, about human capital flight and where the debate of the brain drain is coming from. 

David has has a chat with Victoria Chen from Victoria University of Wellington on linguistics locating the beginnings of the Austronesian expansion.

As well as Stephen Judd from Fact Aotearoa on candidates bringing conspiracy theories into local elections.