Una Cunninham, UC

Jin Kim, UC

Anya Filippochkina, CLANZ and Russian Cultural Centre

Jawad Arefi, Farsi School

Guests discuss the personal, professional and social benefits of encouraging bi- and multilingualism in New Zealand.

Chief Human Rights Commissioner David Rutherford talks us through the impacts of the red zoning on people still residing in these areas, followed by a panel discussion on the future use of the land with Simon Markham (Waimakariri District Council), Rob Kerr (Regenerate Christchurch) and Evan Smith (AvON)

Brian Storey (Gateway Antarctica), Karen Scott (UC Law) and Dan Price (Pole to Paris), discuss the importance of the southernmost continent - ice melt, scientific research and the Antarctic Treaty to name a few issues.

We consider youth engagement in the 2016 Christchurch local body elections and work done by the Christchurch Youth Council and Youth Voice Canterbury to try and increase youth interest. We also compare the low voter turnout for our local elections with widespread social media engagement around the US Presidential elections just a weeks later, before discussing how this engagement might be replicated for New Zealand's upcoming national elections.

We talk with Robin Palmer, David Kilgour and Jaya Mangalam Gibson about organ harvesting, emphasising the differences between the practice in China and elsewhere in the world and stressing the role that New Zealand can play in combating this human rights violation. Each of the guests has a long involvement with the issue, including in terms of research, prosecution of illegal operations and advocacy

Guests - Brian Poole, Crohn's and Colitis NZ; Olivia Clark, UC Law graduate; Anne Nicholson, Qtopia; Lisel O'Dwyer, Flinders Univeristy in Adelaide - We discuss the human rights implications of people not being able to access a bathroom or a bathroom appropriate to their needs, with a specific focus on bathrooms for transgender people, people with health conditions and people with restrictions placed on their bathroom usage by their workplaces

Is the COP process an effective means of combating climate change?

The Conference of the Parties (COP) has produced some landmark global climate change documents including the Kyoto Protocol and the 2015 Paris Agreement. in the lead-up to COP-22 (2016), guests Jeff Willis (University of Canterbury), Hamish Laing, (COP-21 New Zealand Youth Delegation) and Pubudu Senanayake, (Generation Zer0) discuss climate change and reflect on the effectiveness of COP in theorising and actualising steps towards combatting it.

The Festival of Transitional Architecture (FESTA) encourages people to think differently about their city. Sally speaks with festival founder Jessica Halliday, as well as Juliet Arnott from Rekindle and Jos de Krieger of Superuse Studios in Rotterdam, about (re)using human and material resources available in our urban environments and the benefits which this (re)use can engender

Sally discusses urban orchards, farming and foraging within the overarching concept of 'food justice' with guests Chloe Waretini, Bailey Peryman and Peter Langlands

Sally talks with Dr Jackie Blue, Erin Ebborn and Angela McLeod about the Women's Empowerment Principles, pay equity, quotas and more!