Community or Chaos

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...

Farming in the Roger Douglas Era - Looking at Settler farming through the eyes of Alan Wiseman a settler in the Te Anau. The experience of farming in an Era of social economic transformation. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Financial advice on Climate Change retreat - Jonathan Boston was a member of the Expert Working Group on Managed Retreat Chaired bye sir Terrence Arnold. We will discuss why the coalition government junked The Expert Working Group Report on Managed Retreat and authorised a new Report. (The Report of the Independent Reference Group on Climate Adaptation) which absolves the government from any finan...

Homeless a product of NeoLiberal Economics - I will be talking with Dunedin city Counselor Maria La Faso about homelessness in Dunedin and New Zealand and avoidable systematic social catastrophe. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Dunedin - Interview with Mayor Jules Radich on regular re-occurring floods and sewage in South Dunedin over the last 30 years or so due tp Lack of proper flight control infrastructure such as the proper size stormwater pipes in large enough pumping stations. We will also discuss other infrastructure needs and discuss financing local bodies .Should we look at other sources of revenue besides rates?...

Mike Summerfield - University Chaplain. Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz

Dr. Reuwer is a retired doctor and a veteran of Unarmed Civilian Protection teams in Palestine/Israel, Ukraine, South Sudan, Haiti, Colombia, and Central America, as Reuwer share sWBW’s vision for alternative security. His goal is to learn what in the New Zealand record of peacemaking (such as New Zealand’s declaration of a nuclear-free zone) complements and how we can best focus our work for the...

Peace Poetry Forgiveness - Pádraig Ó Tuama is leader of the Corrymeela Community, a poet, theologian and mediator. He has worked in conflict resolution in Ireland, Africa and the Middle East. From 2014-2019, Ó Tuama was the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization, which works with over 10,000 people a year to transform division through human encou...