The Wire with Manny

For over a decade, the rules regulating diagnoses and treatment options available for those with ADHD have been demanding with high costs and requiring access to specialists with long waitlists.

New changes will now see GPs able to diagnose and prescribe medication to those 18 and up.

To understand what these changes will mean, I spoke to Professor of General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Auckland Dr Bruce Arroll.

Colonisation continues to deeply affect the Pacific, with the production of health inequities tied closely to the unequal power dynamics still inflicted on Pacific nations by external high-income countries.

A recent article by a group of women academics and health professionals based in Fiji, Tonga, Sāmoa, and Aotearoa New Zealand has called for a reimagining in how global health is approached in the Pacific.

This proposed shift would see greater sovereignty exercised by Pacific nations in research and health, and a pluralistic worldview reflecting Indigenous Pacific knowledge systems.

To understand the state of global health in the Pacific, the reimagining her group has proposed, and the role that Aotearoa New Zealand can play, Producer Theo spoke to Public Health Medicine Specialist Dr Sainimere Boladuadua.

Following the US official withdrawal from the World Health Organisation, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has called into question New Zealand’s membership in the organisation.

With Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warning of a “rupture” in the world order, political leaders in New Zealand are holding sharper focus on how we conduct ourselves internationally, especially with the United States.

This week, Wire Host Sara spoke to National MP Ryan Hamilton about New Zealand’s relationship with the US, and our position on the global stage.

We are now more than a year into Donald Trump’s second term as president. Over the past twelve months, we’ve seen the United States flex its military muscles both within the Western Hemisphere and beyond, launching a military operation in Venezuela and capturing president Nicolas Maduro, making further threats to take over Greenland, and provoking Iran by sending a fleet of warships to the Persian Gulf.

Last year, President Trump even signed an executive order, renaming the ‘Department of Defence’ to the ‘Department of War’ on the basis that the former name was too “woke.”

This morning, Producer Toby spoke with University of Auckland professor Chris Ogden about the assertion of hard power in American diplomacy, and how this can be understood through the theory of ‘political realism.