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Family wealth and geography are major factors determining childhood vaccination rates around New Zealand, according to new research. University of Canterbury GeoHealth Laboratory Post-Doctoral Fellow Lukas Marek has investigated immunisation trends around the country from 2006 to 2017 using millions of records from the National Immunisation Register (NIR) and census data.

A new type of support to help New Zealanders healing from an eating disorder feel comforted and empowered to take positive steps towards full recovery has launched. Canopy Eating Disorders Support Services (Canopy) is New Zealand's first eating disorder specific peer-to-peer support, both online and in person, community-centric service. We talk to founder Christine Deacon.

We talk to Dr Amy L. Fletcher, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Canterbury about the recent Supreme Court Vacancy in the US. How likely is it that the vacancy will be filled before the upcoming election and what power might a Republican-heavy Supreme Court be able to wield in the event of any contested election result?

Tonight's sportscaster is Shannon Byrne from ABC Sport in Darwin, where the the NTFL (Aussie Rules) season starts in 2 weeks and there are a lot of players In mandatory quarantine just to play and the latest from the Supercars.

Isabella Cawthorn, blogger and consultant who specialises in urban design and transport joins us to talk about World Car Free Day happening tomorrow.

We get the latest from the Indian Subcontinent from Shoba Naryan in Bangalore.

Colm Healy, MacDiarmid Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Canterbury gives us his scientific take on Harry Potter's Invisibility Cloak.

Teina Moetara is is back with another Maori Arts korero. - and as it's Te Wiki o te Reo Maori, it'll no doubt have a reo kaupapa.

We talk to Professor Sir Martin Hairer, from Imperial College London - the winner of the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his work in stochastic partial differential equations.

We're talking to Paulie Stewart long-standing Australian punk act The Painters And Dockers. When he's not playing with the band he work with a group of Catholic sisters the Alma Nuns who tend to disabled and abandoned children in East Timor, Papua and Indonesia. He reckons ``they are the real punks.''