The Wire with Joel

A new report has looked at how climate change issues affect the mental health of New Zealanders. Looking at the wellbeing of Kiwis over a year has shown the detrimental affect of climate change and how it can cause anxiety. Noah Ferguson-Dudding spoke to the author of the report, Sarah McBride from Victoria University of Wellington about her findings.

This morning, Ilena spoke with Saunoamaali'i Dr Karanina Sumeo, the EEO Commissioner for the Human Rights Commission, on a report on the harmful treatment and subsequent breaches of human rights of women in segregated housing in prisons across Aotearoa.

In addition to the disproportionate use of unreasonable force against women in comparison to men, the report found that Māori and Pacific women face prolonged segregation, with as many as 93% of those segregated in prison for 15 days or longer being Māori or Pacific women. 

The report was authored by Dr. Sharon Shalev from the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford, and commissioned directly by Dr. Karanina Sumeo to look into the use of such punitive practices and provide recommendations for Corrections to improve these conditions.

Justin spoke to Climate Change Minister James Shaw on New Zealand joining an international pledge to reduce methane emissions.

International Desk also reports on COP26, with India pledging to become net zero by 2070.

Justin spoke to Dr Kyle Eggleton of Auckland University of Covid-19 in rural Northland.

He also talked to the University of Auckland's Dr Andrew Chen on Facebook shutting down its facial recognition technology.

The top of Northland remains at Alert Level 3 after fears that Covid-19 is spreading undetected in Northland.

In the same time, an Otago University research into Covid-19 vaccination rates found that numbers are significantly lower in rural areas than in urban areas.

Dr Kyle Eggleton is the Associate Dean of Rural Health from the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care at the University of Auckland.  He is also a Northland GP with a Maori health provider.  He spoke to Justin Wong.