Community or Chaos

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...

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...