For our weekly catch-up with the Labour Party, Wire Host Caeden spoke to Deputy Leader Carmel Sepuloni about the scrapping of NCEA, the opening of an FBI Office in Wellington, and the latest unemployment rate. 

For International Desk, they spoke to Assistant Professor in Journalism at Mount Royal University, Gabriela Perdomo Páez, about Canadian news coverage of Gaza.

For City Counselling this week, Producer Sanat spoke with Councillor Shane Henderson about the state of Local Democracy and a new funding mechanism for councils called regional deals.

He also spoke to Forest and Bird’s General Policy Manager Richard Capie about the Government’s new proposals around conservation land that could see a significant amount of conservation land carved out for commercial use. 

And he spoke to Professor Meihana Durie about the World Indigenous People’s Conference on Education, an exciting international event happening this November at the AUT campus about the international global indigenous education movement.