The Wire with Caeden

Researchers are predicting waves will get higher on New Zealand’s west coast, and lower on the east as a result of climate change.

Modelling at the University of Auckland also indicated shifts in wave direction, with implications for coastal erosion as waves hit the shore at altered angles.

Joe spoke to one of the researchers, Dr João Albuquerque, a PhD graduate from School of Environment at the University of Auckland about his findings.

Our segment with OurActionStation is back! This week Joe spoke to Project Gender about their campaign on pulling TV Show F-Boy Island. They say our public broadcasters need to do better. In an open letter to TVNZ, Project Gender demanded the network pull the FBoy Island NZ show immediately. This is because it normalises and champions predatory and dangerous sexual behaviour that harms people, particularly our rangatahi.

Joe spoke to the Director at Project Gender Angela Meyer about the research surrounding this campaign and the importance of promoting safe sexual practices.

On The Wire for Rāhina Monday!

Joe speaks to Dr Nic Rawlence, from the Paleogenetics Lab at the University of Otago about the ethics of fossil collecting. He also speaks to Dr João Albuquerque, a PhD graduate from School of Environment at the University of Auckland about his research looking at how climate change is altering the heights of waves in New Zealand.

Our segment with OurActionStation is back this week! Joe speaks to Angela Meyer, Director at Project Gender, about the open letter to TVNZ in regards to f-boy island.  

Spike is speaking to Brin Ryder from KnowYourStuff about summer festival drug testing, along with Sarah Helm from the NZ Drug Foundation, about a rise in New Zealand overdose deaths and the wider availability of Naloxone, aka Narcan.

That's us for the Monday Wire!

The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly known as COP27 is soon set to take place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. 

This is the first COP27 to take place since Russia invaded Ukraine, which has brought world tensions to their brink and seen focus on climate legislation delayed. 

That being said, action on the climate crisis remains important - in Europe alone the temperature is rising at .5 degrees celsius per decade according to the World Meteorological Organisation. 

To learn more about what this conference will look like, Liam spoke to Bronwyn Hayward, a political science professor at the University of Canterbury.