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This week Zoë Larsen Cumming speaks to James Shaw about the Climate Emergency declaration set to be announced by the government this week, along with the Green's stance on the Five Eyes Intelligence Network regarding recent statements by the Chinese government. 

Today on the Wire with Zoë Larsen Cumming: 

Zoë speaks to the Green party co-leader about the Climate Emergency declaration and the Five Eyes Intelligence Network. 

Jess Hopkins speaks to Dr Julie MacArthur, a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and Public Policy at the University of Auckland about environmental governance and policy in New Zealand.

Zoë speaks to the CEO and founder of KidsCan, Julie Chapman, on child poverty in Aotearoa.

Aneeka Moheed speaks to Caitlin Neuwelt-Kearns from the Child Poverty Action Group about the government’s inadequately slow progress on welfare reform.

Finally,  Zoë speaks to PhD Candidate Briar Meads, Ngāi Tahu on te Tiriti o Waitangi as opposed to the Treaty of Waitangi. 

Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a both a highly influential and highly misunderstood and contested document. Zöe Larsen Cumming spoke to PhD Candidate Briar Meads of Ngāi Tahu, about what it means when someone refers to The Treaty as opposed to Te Tiriti in media, business or politics. 

The interview began by asking how while most people are aware that there are some very important differences between the english Treaty of Waitangi and the Te Reo Te Tiriti o Waitangi, but can outline what these key translation differences are?

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, national governments have shown distinctly different approaches with different levels of success. But it appears that nations lead by women have a better record than their male counterparts. Doug Becker speaks with four experts about the popular media narrative that countries led by women are performing better with COVID.

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