The Wire with Joel

Stella speaks to Chris Wilson, Senior Lecturer of  Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland about his recently published work in which his colleague James Halpin infiltrated Action Zelandia, a far-right extremist group in Aotearoa. Tuva’a has his weekly catch-up with Labour’s Andrew Little and Frances brings us Greendesk, speaking to PhD candidate from the university of Otago Nick Foster about his work in pest eradication. Finally Stella speaks to Shrutika  Gunanayagam from Able, a media access trust, about Global Literacy Day (today!), and how kids who watch captioned content are more literate.

On Tuesday, Boris Johnson visited the Queen at her Balmoral estate to hand over his formal resignation, after former foreign secretary Liz Truss was elected by members of the Conservative Party to replace him as the next Prime Minister of the UK.

To find out who Liz Truss is and what Britons think about her appointment, Emilia spoke to Neal Curtis from the University of Auckland.

Nationwide demand for plasma donations now exceeds that for blood. Yesterday Sky Tower lit up gold to highlight the urgent need for plasma donors nationwide, with the New Zealand Blood Service urging Kiwis to give up an hour and a half of their time to give some of this life-saving "liquid gold" and save lives. 

Emily spoke to the National Communications and Marketing Manager at New Zealand Blood Service, Asuka Burge, about the agency's new plasma campaign and how you can get involved.

This weekend's Sunday programme on TVNZ exposed damning allegations of sub-standard living conditions and intimidating behaviour from emergency housing providers on Rotorua's Fenton Street, which is home to several motels used for this purpose. National joined Te Pāti Māori yesterday in demanding an independent investigation into the millions of dollars the government has poured into emergency housing.

Christina spoke to Rotorua Mayor Steve Chadwick for a local perspective on the crisis.