It’s time for our panel segment Pae Korero, and on Thursdays we welcome Associate Professor in History at The University of Auckland, Caroline Daley... and The Spinoff’s editor at large, Toby Manhire. 

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Listening to the sit down interview with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky were two former New Zealand Defence Ministers who both have a deep interest and understanding of the impact of war continuing in Ukraine... We welcome Wayne Mapp and Ron Mark to the show.

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Megan Woods told Tova building more permanent transitional housing is a 'key priority and focus' for Labour.

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Unable to help permanently house people in transitional housing, wait times blowing out, and people still sleeping in their cars seeking help.

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Lawn Bowls extraordinaire Sue Curran is blind in one eye and limited sight in the other, competing with a sighted director to guide her around the green.

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Dry July may seem like a novelty to many, but aside from the fundraising the serious business of encouraging people to take a break from alcohol is also at the centre of this campaign.  

And we need it Aotearoa! Some of the stats behind the way we drink make for grim reading.

Otago University’s just released a survey which shows New Zealand suicides have a higher alcohol involvement that the rest of the world - 26% of suicide deaths involve acute alcohol use compared to the World Health Organization global estimate of 19%

Professor Doug Sellman, the director of the National Addiction Centre, has been tracking the country’s consumption for more than 2 decades. He joins us with more.

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Jerrie-Lee Ngareta Hill a mother of five, she has three degrees, she’s an author, an actress, a model and is now competing in the Ms Woman of the Universe NZ. 

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New Zealand’s trying to entice the best and brightest to plug calamitous workforce shortages like we have in nursing

But we’re competing with countries like Australia offering far more welcoming immigration policies and pay.

Migrant nurses here have told us they feel undervalued, and treated like second class citizens because of botched immigration settings.

And according to the Prime Minister, if they can’t put up with the two-year residency wait in New Zealand, they just don’t want it enough.

Immigration advisor Katy Armstrong  joins us with the latest.

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