Community or Chaos

Dunedin Hospital Rebuild Crisis - Pete Hodgson Former MP and former overseer of the construction of the new Dunedin hospital. We will asking if the is the hospital rebuild is in serious danger of cuts that may affect it's capacity to meet Otago's healthcare needs in the future and may also impact on the medical school and the hospital as a teaching facility. Should we reignite the campaign against the cuts?

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Mike Summerfield - University Chaplain.

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Free market profit driven Power Crisis - Prof Stephen Poletti’s expertise is in energy economics & industrial organisation.

We will discuss allowing the free-market to control our energy development and distribution to be driven by profit motive policy encourage the drive for profits over the need for secure non-carbon energy.

And have electricity user particularly householders but also manufactures and industrial users such as forest products and Wood product mills been protected from energy profiteering by power generators who have quadrupled their profits and enormously increased their dividends recently.

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American Political Landscape - Stephen Zunes.

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Chinese Relationship with New Zealand - Kevin Clements and Bruce Munro.

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Civilisation and Democracy in Crisis - Jonathan Boston, Professor of Policy Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Government.

He is the Author of a report prepared for the environmental Defence society on Managed Retreat and was the author of Transforming the Welfare State and Moving Towards a New Social Contract.

In August he will be giving a lecture In Wellington On The Future Of Democracy!

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Remembering Hiroshima - Kevin Clements is the former director and Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies center at the University of Otago, and Secr Gen.f the International Peace Research Association. Kevin Clements, is t now Director of Toda Peace Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research) Japan> we will be discussing the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and what we can learn from that and how we can use the memories to promote Peace and nuclear disarmament.

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NZ infrastructure crash Local effects - Jim O'Malley Dunedin city counsellor Jim O'Malley Chair of the Infrastructure Services Committee. &the DCC representative of the Otago-Southland Regional Transport Committee.

How Dunedin can deal with critical infrastructure crisis nationwide with a government governing as though for the mid 20th century?

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The Politics of Europe - Prof Robert Patman is a leading New Zealand University Otago academic in the field of international relations. Robert Patman on his recent accolade; the 2024 Critic and Conscience of Society Award, given by Universities New Zealand’s Gama Foundation. We will discuss the surge of right-wing populism in Europe and the Response to that crisis.

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No Ferrys for the South Island - Victor Billot, Maritime Union. Communication and media spokesperson on the grounding of the Aratee Cook Street ferry shortly after the government cancellation of the order for two large roll on rolloff capable ferrys. Is the present government going back to the 20th century do we have a retrograde government when it comes to policy decisions or lack of?

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