The Wire with Alex

Members The New Zealand Resident Doctors’ Association have voted to strike for a fifth time this year. The four day strike that will occur in mid April is in response to a hardening of the DHBs hardening position in negotiations. Both parites are to meet on the 5th of April for mediation in an attempt to solve the dispute. Lachlan spoke with NZRDA Senior Advocate David Munro about the strike action, first asking why the union voted for a fifth round of strikes.

Last week the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, released a climate change report suggesting a major change in the way New Zealand tackles climate change through the Emissions Trading Scheme.

OraTaiao: New Zealand Climate and Health Council says that although the report makes some useful points it fails to hold the agricultural sector accountable for its harm to both the environment and human health. OraTaiao is a group of health professionals calling for urgent and fair climate action with real health benefits for New Zealanders now and in the future. Rhys (Reece) Jones, a Public Health Physician and Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, and Co-convenor of OraTaiao, spoke to Jemima about the report.

Media commentator Duncan Grieve wrote an opinion piece this week, labelling Facebook Live unsafe - and untouchable. He says the platform needs serious work, after it broadcast the Christchurch mosque attacks to millions of people around the world. Today, 13 days on from the attacks, Facebook has said they will be ban white nationalism on their platform - but is it a little too late? Stewart Sowman-Lund asked Duncan if he believes Facebook will really eradicate white supremacy from their networks.