Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau and Hamilton Deputy Mayor Angela O'Leary have both been targeted by disinformation and gendered online abuse in their roles from within their own Councils. In this week's Interview they join us to discuss the way these can impact their roles, the ways they'd like to see central government help fix the issues Councils face and much more.

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Join Me and Blake Forbes in this week's episode where we catch up on this week's news and discuss leadership and challenges with Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau and Hamilton Deputy Mayor Angela O'Leary.

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In the last local body elections the media and others worked hard to make sure voters knew which candidates were linked to disinformation groups. But lately media hasn’t mentioned those links when reporting on the ones attempting to make the country ungovernable. And that’s a real concern.

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We pay a single person the equivalent of four full time new nurses to work part time and not get his job done - all in the name of “fiscal responsibility” while people suffer under the current health system. But hey, at least landlords got their tax cuts…

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The Government wants us to believe it’s tough on crime with increased punitive responses to crime, but the really tough way to tackle crime is to deal with the drivers of criminal behaviour. Which is the opposite of what the government is doing. 

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There is a logical reason why Jack Tame hasn’t had an interview with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in a year - and it’s not just that he’s seemingly off raising vibes overseas. He’s not great with media pushback and Jack always, in the words of one of the PMs cringy tik toes, leaves no crumbs.

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Professor Robert Patman from Otago University is one of the country's pre-eminent experts in international relations. He joined me this week to discuss the US Election, the ramifications for Aotearoa of the winner, breaking up by text and the Prime Ministers globe trotting raising the energy tour - and much more!

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The full audio recording of last night's episode of Behind the Walls where we nerded out with MP and Egyptologist Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan and talked American elections and breaking up by text with Prof Robert Patman!

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Dr Lawrence Xu-Nan is the Green Party's spokesperson on Education, Migrant Issues and so much more - wearing about half a dozen hats - none of which are a leather fedora that comes with a whip which apparently is not something you get when you become an expert in Egyptology...

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False consciousness is an old marxist term about believing detrimental disinformation from those in authority that we borrow in media to explain the problem with both siding an argument where it’s not really accurate representation. And we have the perfect example of it happening in this country right now.

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