Auckland is in Level 3, the rest of Aotearoa is in Level 2 and the News Team is working remotely again! News and Editorial Director Jemima Huston hosts the Monday Wire while Zoë Larsen Cumming, Jessica Hopkins and Aneeka Moheed produce the show from the safety of their homes. 

Zoë speaks to Green Party co-leader James Shaw about the Covid-19 alert level changes, honouring Te Tiriti, prioritising Aotearoa’s Rainbow Community this parliamentary term and the crucial global climate talks in December.

Aneeka brings us an international report on the go ahead for the controversial Leeds-Bradford Airport expansion in the United Kingdom. 

Zoë talks to academic General Practitioner and Associate Professor Nikki Turner on the UK variant and what it means for our response to Covid-19 this time around. Turner is also the Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre at the University of Auckland.

Jess wraps the show up with an interview with Dr Melinda Webber (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu) about the Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity programme and what this could mean for Māori communities.