Conversations With Wāhine

Harita, Lily and Tracey interview the Australian Ambassador for Gender Equality - Stephanie Copus Campbell, while on her recent trip to New Zealand 26/6/2023 Ms Copus Campbell has extensive experience working across the public, private, philanthropic and community sectors in Australia and the Indo Pacific. She has served as head of Australia's bilateral aid programs with Papua New Guinea, Fij...

Harita chats to 3 of the Invisible Narratives exhibition artists from Kshetra Collective- Mandy Rupa-Reid, Mandrika Rupa, and Tiffany Singh,  The exhibition explores Indian migration to New Zealand and the various social constructs involved.   The exhibition is on at the Portraits Gallery in Wellington CBD until November 12th. This was recorded via Zoom. Audio quality will be affected.

Join Tracey Lee Hopfler and Natasha J. Carrasco Stillman for a zoom chat with New Zealand Labour Party MP Shanan Halbert- MP for Northcote . They covered education, Māori tertiary institutions, The Treaty Settlement Bill for Te Whakatōhea, and more!  21/08/2023 This was recorded over zoom - Audio quality will be affected. Before he was elected to Parliament Shanan spent 15 years in education leade...

Join your hosts Aimee Tang, and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap as they chat to New Zealand National Party MP Emma Chatterton for Remutaka about education, gender issues, social change, her Remutaka electorate, and much more. See our 21/09/2023 zoom call on: https://youtu.be/Xst0EoqvWU0 Emma Chatterton has been selected as National’s candidate in Remutaka for the 2023 General Election. Ms Chatterton is curr...

Join Haley Rachel Rolls, Jenna Clark-Hannah, Harita Gandhi-Kashyap , and our humorous guest, New Zealand Labour Party 's Sarah Pallett - MP for Ilam , for conversations about the health system, free prescriptions, ethics, politics, family, and more. 28/09/2023 See our zoom call on https://youtu.be/TUrIQQb_4jI Sarah Pallett - MP for Ilam Currently, Sarah sits on the Health Select Committee, th...

Join Harita Gandhi-Kashyap and guest Celia Wade-Brown . Previously Wellington, New Zealand 's Mayor, she's a candidate for Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the upcoming elections. See their zoom call on: https://youtu.be/R9UGV4sXlhQ 05/09/2023 Elected as Councillor and then Mayor of te Whanganui-a-Tara, she led Wellington towards being a truly Green capital. Previously, she was a t...

Listen in while your hosts Haley Rachel Rolls Harita Gandhi-Kashyap, and Aimee Tang chat to New Zealand National Party MP,  Louise Upston MP about child support, tourism, employment, "back room bureaucracy," cost of living, and more. 20/09/2023 Louise is the Member of Parliament for #taupō, a seat she has held since the General Election of 2008.  In December 2016, Louise became a Cabinet...

Join your hosts, Haley Rachel Rolls and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap as we chat to New Zealand National Party MP's Penny Simmonds MP and Chris Penk MP about Education, Youth Crime, Māori Representation, Ram Raids, Boot Camps, and more. 11/09/2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkyqI_kSyJQ&ab_channel=ConversationsWithW%C4%81hine-NCWNZRadio Penny Simmonds MP is the Member of Parliament for Inverc...

Listen in while your hosts Haley Rachel Rolls and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap chat to New Zealand Labour Party MP Camilla Belich MP about parental leave, 90 day trials, fair pay agreements, unions, emissions reductions targets, dental care, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDX7EuRyCtk... 7/09/2023 Camilla Belich MP has worked as an employment lawyer and has been standing up for others since she...

Listen in while your hosts, Aimee and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap are joined by Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand 's MP, Ricardo Menéndez March MP , to talk political engagement within youth, improving the political system, the culture within parliament, the climate, and our international responsibilities, migrant exploitation, rental rights, dental policies, and more. 25/09/2023 https://www.yout...

Join your hosts Haley Rachel Rolls, Harita Gandhi-Kashyap , Jenna Clark-Hannah, and our special guest, New Zealand National Party 's Tama Potaka for Hamilton West . We cover a range of different topics, from supermarket chains, cost of living, growing your own vegetables, education, school attendance, housing, building infrastructure for productivity, youth crime, ramraids, bootcamps, to scho...

Join your hosts, Aimee, and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap as they chat to New Zealand Labour Party MP's Jenny Salesa MP , and Terisa Ngobi - MP for Ōtaki about housing, ethnic communities, unemployment, crime, gangs, public transport, lowering the voting age, increasing the seats in parliament, and more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RCZ3Huqvik... 25/09/2023 Hon Jenny Salesa MP is MP for the #panm...

Listen in while your hosts Haley Rachel Rolls and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap chat to New Zealand Labour Party MP's Greg O'Connor , and Jan Tinetti MP about crime, gangs, ram raids, poverty, equality, education, and more. 02/10/2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0-xCjlcpF4... Greg is the Member of Parliament for Ōhāriu , a local Wellington, New Zealand electorate. He had a unique journey to...

Join in on a sweet interview with your hosts Haley Rachel Rolls , Harita Gandhi-Kashyap , and guests, New Zealand Labour Party MP's Tamati Coffey and Ingrid Leary MP for conversations featuring surrogacy, journalism, media framing, our fertility rates, adoption, the economy, a wealth tax, our recession, (or lack thereof.) and . . . . Tamati's dodgy internet connection. https://www.youtub...

The team were glad to have New Zealand National Party 's MP Judith Collins back after technical issues resulted in our previous studio shoot recording being lost! But . . . this time, your hosts Haley Rachel Rolls and Tracey Lee , have fresh questions about politics, gene technology, cancer treatment, AI, biotech, asparagopsis seaweed, her role as Science Innovation and Technology Spokesperso...

Join Haley Rachel Rolls and Tracey Lee for a conversation with New Zealand Labour Party MP's Arena Williams MP , and Ibrahim Omer MP . We touch on education, Victoria University, Health, education, refugees, migrant workers, exploitation, and more. 10/08/2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYHRMlbnhZQ... Ibrahim Omer List MP and Candidate for Central Wellington, became an MP to represent com...

Haley Rachel Rolls and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap are joined by New Zealand National Party's Nicola Willis MP for a quick chat about journalism, politics, her tax plan, a wealth tax, the emissions trading scheme, and more. 11/09/2023 https://youtu.be/SsqhwF3gZXI?si=Jrf9v7b_CB5b2jCO Nicola Willis is a List MP based in Wellington, New Zealand, having entered Parliament in April 2018. She is National...

Join Haley Rachel Rolls and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap as we chat to New Zealand Labour Party MP's Rachel Brooking , and Dan Rosewarne about the Hauraki Gulf, Māui dolphins, our environment, the military, Russia/Ukraine and more. 14/09/2023 https://youtu.be/xdtcnBIWoA0 Rachel Brooking is a Labour List MP based in Dunedin, New Zealand and Otago . Degrees in science and law from Otago University, tw...

Join Harita Gandhi-Kashyap and Haley Rachel Rolls for a conversation with New Zealand Labour Party MP's Steph Lewis MP for Whanganui and Dr Anae Neru Leavasa MP about the medical system, Covid 19, our grocery duopoly, ethnicity considerations within healthcare, and more.   07/09/2023 Watch our zoom video over on https://youtu.be/82v0DCYLhx8 Steph Lewis is our Labour candidate for #whanganui. ...

Tune in to listen to your hosts Haley Rachel Rolls and Tracey from Conversations With Wāhine interview Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand MP for Rongotai, Julie Anne Genter MP   13/09/2023 Julie Anne is working for sustainable and just communities, advocating for infrastructure that prioritizes people and climate. She joined Parliament in 2011, addressing issues like climate change, health, and h...

Join Haley Rachel Rolls and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap with our guest, New Zealand National Party MP, Barbara Kuriger . Listen in while we discuss the dairy industry, legal aid, farming and emissions, water quality, scientific developments, and more. 30/08/2023 Now in her third term, Barbara brings experience, enthusiasm, drive and direction to her role as MP for Taranaki-King Country. She splits her t...

Tune in to hear Haley Rachel Rolls and Harita Gandhi-Kashyap interview Soraya Peke-Mason MP Labour MP for Rangitikei  28/08/2023 Soraya has her roots planted in the Rangitīkei electorate. It has been her home for over two decades after working in Australia during the 1990s where she established businesses in construction, tourism and hospitality. She is uri o Te Awa Tupua o Whanganui, has iwi conn...

Tune in to hear your hosts, Haley and Aimee interview Labour MP Glen Bennett for New Plymouth and his Mother, Judith Bennett. 14/08/2023 Glen has worked across social and business enterprise, restorative justice, community development and youth support, among a host of other accomplishments, and Judith, an avid motorcycling enthusiast, has been a long serving member of the Salvation Army, and the...

Haley and Harita chat to Golriz Ghahraman (Greens MP) and Gina Dao-McLay. Listen in while we talk about the defense force, wealth tax, lowering the voting age, and more. 16/08/2023 Golriz Ghah-raman is an Iranian-Kiwi refugee and made history as the first ever refugee to be sworn in as an MP, having arrived in Aotearoa as a child asylum seeker with her family from Iran.     Her studies at Oxford,...

Aisling and Harita interview Dr Ang Jury- CEO of Wellington Women's Refuge