The Wire with Max

Kate McIntyre is a spokesperson for Organise Aotearoa, a new party for liberation and socialism in Aotearoa. They have organised a March for Reproductive Rights that is happening today in Wellington as part of a demand for the choice based reform to abortion laws, as well as a wider conversation for women’s rights more generally. The current law is from 1977 where the Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Act allowed for abortions to be signed off by two GPs in instances where incest or foetal impairment was involved, or if continuing the pregnancy would significantly danger their health or mental health. Organise Aotearoa say the result of this is people having to lie and jump through hoops to receive an abortion. What the group wants is a choice-based model stating ‘Just as nobody should be denied the right to continue a pregnancy if they wish to, they also shouldn’t be pressured to continue a pregnancy against their will’. Lillian Hanly spoke to Kate to find out more about their demands and started by asking where this conversation came from for the group.

Ben speaks to Judy Chen from Tourism Export Council New Zealand about what can be done to make sure tourism fatigue does not become a threat to the country's tourism industry.

More stories have developed surrounding the issue of workplace treatment in Parliament after two investigative journalists at the Weekend Herald broke a story about National’s North Shore MP, Maggie Barry.

The Ministry of Health has just released a report of the inquiry into mental health services and Mary-Margaret is giving us a quick update on what has been released.  She also gives a report on more developments from parliament about bullying accusations.  For this week’s Worry Week, Justin spoke to Steven Ratuva on the history of the militarisation of the Pacific.  Ben discusses tourism fatigue and how we need to avoid it in NZ.  On Greendesk, Ella talks to Jon Sulivan about an app named iNaturalist New Zealand