Community or Chaos

Nathan Surendran is Chairperson of the Wise Response Society. He specialises in biophysical economics, energy systems engineering, and resilience planning. we will be talking about the connection between ongoing Climate Change e.g. Global Heating and the goal of GGT economic growth PlusTrump's fuel crisis. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Illegal war and murder against the iran, fast tactics in USA - Prof Stephen Zunes 17Mar.2026 of international relations at the University of San Francisco specialising in the Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, and nonviolent movements. We will be discussing Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's illegal unwarranted war on Iran including the assassination of their head of state. We will also dis...

Homelessness Housing, Inspiring Communities and the relationship between government and local bodies local communities - I will be talking with Aaron Hawkins about local body issues including homelessness and Dunedin responsibility for housing, climate Change mitigation and resilience paying for infrastructure under rate caps and dealing with a government that is governing for the past and special...

Individual Greed or the Common Good - I'll be talking with Professor Nicholas Townsend about the Common Good And how commitment to the Common Good might save us from the individual greed which threatens to destroy our civilization and prevents us from mitigating Climate Change which If not mitigated will mean the death of most human beings within our great grandchildren's lifetime. Broadcast on OA...

Victor Billot I want Alliance a socialist party - Victor Billot leader of the Alliance Party talking about why we need a social party in New Zealand. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Quakers today - Tim Gee Gen. Sec. Quaker,Friends World Committee for Consultation Tim has taken part in nonviolence civil disobedience around Climate Change and economic justice He is the author of three books Counter-power: “You Can't Evict an Idea: What Can We Learn From Occupy Why I am a Pacifist, we will be talking about what Friends, Quakers may have to offer at a time of extreme social, poli...

Manage My Health data breach and cyber security risk - I will be discussing with Simon Sheffield Prof. of Employment Law, University of Auckland Law School. We will be discussing The manage My Health data breach and cyber security in NZ Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

I will be interviewing Prof. AllenL. McPherson an American historian specializing in US-Latin American relations., at Temple University Pennsylvania. We will be discussing America's relationship with its neighbours to the south from the Monroe doctrine of 1823 to the present time especially talking about their period from Eisenhower and the 1950s in Guatemala two the Reagan Administration in parti...

Health and safety on the job - I will be talking with Simon Schofield is a Professional Teaching Fellow employment law University of Auckland Law School 2Dec2025 Cory Bourne CTU advisor on health and safety About New Zealand's poor record on health and safety compared to Australia or UK and is the coalition government taking us back to pre-river mining catastrophe? We will also be talking about wo...

The Israeli Palestinian Conflict a festering sore on humanities conscious - I will be talking with Cole Martin an N Z journalist based in the occupied West Bank. We will discuss the long festering Conflict between the Palestinians and Israel I will ask what is it like to raise families and live for generations and what's been described as an open air of prison? How has this Conflict turned into et...

I will be interviewing Victor Billot Communications Officer Maritime Union  NZ and Alliance Party leader. We will be discussing the victory of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's in New York City, and the need for a NZ socialist political party with courage to take on a greedy economic system which has the last 30 years Red distributed wealth from the many to the very rich few. A party for the c...

How are ordinary kiwis particularly those who don't own a home surviving combination of inflation and recession that this government has prolonged we were talking with Andrew Henderson of Budget Advice on coping with poverty. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

I will be talking with Craig Renney CTU economist and policy advisor About taxation and the continuing growth of inequality in NZ. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

I will be talking Anne Daniels president of the NZ Nurses organisation about why are public health service is in immediately and long-term crisis and what the nurses in the service have to tell us about the health crisis and why they went on strike Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Nadine Hura Author of “Slowing the Sun Over whelmed by the complexity of climate change, Nadine Hura sets out to find a language that connects more deeply with the environmental crisis. We will discuss her findings. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Is the end of Civilization Nigh - Murray Grimwood is a Waitati commentator on environmental and other issues . We will be considering the crisis of this Civilization and talking about our current fundamentalist economic paradigm in relationship to the greatest environmental crisis our Civilization has seen since the advent of agriculture! Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Systematic evil from a spiritual perspective - Mark Chamberlain the priest at Holy Name Catholic Church will discuss recognising Systematic evil from Political lying to genocide and how it affects our view of humanity and the Divine. We will draw on the work of Hannah Arendt” Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil “And The Origins of Totalitarianism””With The growing authoritarian...

Public and Environmental Health - "I will be talking with Prof Alexander Macmillan, Professor of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine University Otago Med School. We will be discussing public and environmental health as a local issue. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Panic over Water and Finance - I will be talking with DCC Counselor Jim O'Malley about water services and infrastructure nationally and locally and why there is a perceived crisis and upkeep and finance of water services. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

New Zealand's basic infrastructure in crisis - Prof Timothy Welch, University of Auckland Architecture and Planning Faculty of Engineering and Design, Architecture and Planning, New Zealand. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Live Action live zoom interview anti-Trump rally Santa Cruz California - Stephen Zunes Prof. of international relations at the University of San Francisco I alongside Robert Patman will be interviewing Stephen Zunes while he is taking part in an anti-Trump protest at Santa Cruz California! Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Homeless crisis in Dunedin - I will be talking with Gill Brown principal housing advisor for the Dunedin city Council about the seriousness of homelessness in Dunedin that seem to have gotten more severe. I'll also ask what happened to the $20million The council committed to spending on more community housing as part of its 10-year plan to 2031, Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Journalism and Democracy in crisis - Peter Thompson - Chair The Better Public Media Trust.  Peter is a senior lecturer on the media studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington where his principal research interest is political economy and media policy. He has published extensively on public broadcasting issues in New Zealand. Peter Thompson and I will be discussing link between the cris...