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Coverage of the outcry sparked by the sudden change to legislation for pay equity claims - and how one rude word in one newspaper column derailed the debate. Also - AI at the BBC: how the world's biggest broadcaster is using AI in news and programmes. Read more about this episode of Mediawatch on the RNZ websiteThe sudden change to legislation for pay equity claims sparked a huge political outcry pumped up when one columnist used one very rude word in one newspaper column. How did the media sift the facts from all the political friction?Also: this week the BBC's top boss said social media platforms and disinformation endanger democracy – but the world's biggest broadcaster could help reverse this.Cutting-edge AI technology will be blended with BBC journalism for “a healthy core of fact-based news” that could benefit the world.The BBC boss tasked with looking into the future of technology tell us how the BBC already puts AI into news and documentaries in ways you might not expect.In this episode:01:10 – Hayden Donnell on coverage of pay equity legislation sidetracked by the party political spin.12:17 – Colin Peacock on the so-called c-bomb in the Sunday Star Times also derailing the debate. 20:00 – Laura Ellis tells us how the BBC is deploying AI for news and programmes.Learn more:Mediawatch: Political rows and newspaper column blur focus on pay equity | RNZ NewsMediawatch: AI and the BBC | RNZ NewsGuests:Laura Ellis - BBC head of technology forecastingIf you have any thoughts for us - or ideas for us to follow up - get in touch. E-mail mediawatch@rnz.co.nz. You'll also find us @MediawatchNZ on X.Follow Mediawatch and listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or any podcast app to make sure you never miss an episode.Find more RNZ Podcasts at the new section of the RNZ website at rnz.co.nz/podcastsGo to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

The Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden has dropped the c-bomb in Parliament in protest over the slur being directed at her and other female ministers in a newspaper column. It's thought to be the first time the word has been recorded in the debating chamber. It comes after a Sunday Star-Times opinion piece used the word in connection to female ministers overhauling the pay equity scheme.

Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden dropped the c-bomb in Parliament on Wednesday, the use of the word was in protest to the word being directed at her and other female ministers in a newspaper column by journalist Andrea Vance in the Sunday Star Times. University of Canterbury senior law lecturer Cassandra Mudgway spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

The Workplace Relations Minister's defending saying the C-word in Parliament, while lashing out over an opinion piece opposing her pay equity policy. In the Sunday Star Times, Andrea Vance referred to senior Cabinet ministers as girl-bosses and a hype squad, and said the policy used 'girl math'. Quoting it in Parliament, Brooke van Velden herself used the extreme swear-word - saying she's standing up for MPs. Newstalk ZB political editor Jason Walls unpacked the whole saga - and explained how it backfired on the opposition. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Well, what a to-do. The image of Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters slumped in the House, head in his hands, summed it up really. Brooke van Velden dropped the C-bomb in the house, quoting a Stuff article whose author used the word in criticising the government's decision to amend the pay equity legislation. The coalition's female MPs are angry that Labour MPs, particularly the female MPs, have not condemned the journalist's use of the word, which was used as a derogatory in the article. Judith Collins, head of the Privileges Committee, was on with Mike Hosking this morning, ostensibly to talk about the suspension of three Te Pati Māori MPs for their haka in the House, but during the chat she deplored the decline of standards in the House. “There's a lack of civility now and it's not acceptable, and I feel that the comments of the print journalist in the Sunday Star Times this last Sunday was one of the lowest points I think I've seen in 23 years. That and what happened on the 14th of November in Parliament. It's just the sort of behaviour towards each other that is despicable. So I'd say to Brooke, you know I wouldn't use the word myself, but I did feel that she at least stood up for herself and for all the rest of us, and I am waiting for someone of the left persuasion in our Parliament, one MP, just one, to come out and say it's not okay to attack people just because you don't agree with what they do.” I think she'll be waiting a while. Karen Chhour has been consistently attacked by Labour MPs and Te Pati Māori MPs, really for just for being a Māori woman who has the temerity to be an ACT Party MP. And to be fair, when Jacinda Ardern and her preschool daughter were receiving violent threats —violent sexual threats, some of them very real and credible threats— there wasn't a universal condemnation of the abuse from National and ACT. Certainly Judith Collins, when she was the opposition leader, said she did not want to see Jacinda Ardern threatened when she visited Auckland in 2021 after the three-month lockdown. She said I don't want to see anything happen to the Prime Minister or have her threatened in any way. I think it's not good for our democracy and also it is not right for people to do that to each other, which is true, and good on her for saying that. But at the same time, it's hardly a universal, strident condemnation of the threats that the Prime Minister of the time was getting. We were discussing this before the show, one of our colleagues said politicians need to be better otherwise people will just give up. They'll look at the carry on, they'll read the stories and think I'm not going to vote. I argued that there are House of Representatives – they are us, to borrow a phrase. Abuse of MPs on every level increased in 2022, 98% of them reported receiving some kind of harassment. Women were considerably more likely to face abuse on most counts than male politicians. Abuse increased across 11 of the 12 different mediums, with social media overtaking emails, faxes and letters as the most prominent. That came from us. That's men and women, normally erstwhile, law-abiding, God-fearing people who suddenly became more strident. It was a result of societal factors, of lockdowns, of decisions made that had an enormous impact on people's lives and livelihoods and families. And there will be people who will never forget what happened. It can't be undone. But that all resulted in extremes, in the use of language and the vehemence of our opinions and our tribalism. I had a public Facebook page for years. I think in the in the seven or eight years I had it before Covid, I blocked two people. Once Covid started, I just got rid of it because it's why would you be a sitting duck? When I first heard about the death threats against Jacinda Ardern, I thought, well, who hasn't had them? You know that is not normal. That's not a normal response. The days of Socratic discourse are long gone. So does that mean we have to give up, my colleague asked, that we have no expectations of our MPs? No. But I think before we ask anything of our MPs, we look at ourselves. I was thinking about that this morning. Can I call out the Principles Federation representative and say before you start looking at the government, how about you call out the poor parents who send their kids to school unable to hold a pen and not toilet trained? Whose fault is that? That is the parents. Can I say that? Absolutely I can. Should I mimic her voice while I'm saying that? No, I shouldn't. Talkback's a robust forum. It's a bit like Parliament, people get heat up. We're allowed to have opinions. We should have differing opinions, but before I'm going to ask anything of our MPs, before I ask anything of my fellow journalists, I'll have a look in the mirror and check myself out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Huddle, Trish Sherson from Sherson Willis PR and Josie Pagani from Child Fund joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! Andrea Vance's piece in the Sunday Star Times calling female Government MPs the c-word and accusing Nicola Willis of 'girl math' has copped some backlash. What did we think when we read that? Erica Stanford has been brought on board to figure out how to ban under-16s from social media - what do we make of this? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are a lot of remarkable things about that C-word column yesterday, and one of them is that it is still up online, and apparently no one is sorry for this. If you haven't seen this column, let me get you up to speed on this: Yesterday, Sunday Star Times columnist Andrea Vance did something that I would venture no other mainstream columnist has ever done in this country - she called a minister of the Crown a c-word in the newspaper. She didn't write the c-word out, she wrote it as c....The subject of it was the gender pay equity revamp, the minister was Nicola Willis and Andrea wrote - "turns out you can have it all, so long as you're prepared to be a C...." Now, I don't even know how to start explaining to you how wild it is that that happened yesterday, that Andrea dropped the C-bomb in the Sunday Star Times. That word is the 2nd most banned word on radio. We are not allowed to say it - and if we do, go to town on us and complain because somebody is going to get in a huge amount of trouble, and we will be saying sorry. But at least on the radio, to some extent, I think we have the defence of being able to say - Hey, look, it was the heat of the moment and the words slipped out of my mouth. That is not what happens in newspapers. Words don't just slip out onto the paper, you write it down, you consider it, you rewrite it, you reread it. You make sure that every single word is exactly what you mean to say. Nothing about that is in the heat of the moment. And then you send it to your editors, and your editors read it, and they look at it and they go - yep, that's okay, they can go in the newspaper. And that it what happened. Now, I'm not a prude. I am not offended by swearing, I swear myself, and I have also done exactly what Andrea has done. I have said things about ministers that I shouldn't have said, and I've regretted and I've apologized for it. But this is out of hand, what has happened here. There has to be some decorum. I mean, we can hardly complain about anonymous trolls on social media attacking our female politicians when our very own columnists do it in print with their names attached to it. And reverse this, by the way, if you're not offended by it: Imagine it was Jacinda. Imagine that a columnist had written this about Jacinda, how much outrage that would have caused, how cancelled that person would have been. There were other c-words we weren't allowed to say about Jacinda. Cindy was one of them, communist was another. And if you said either of them, people would flip out. Well, imagine how people would have flipped out if we'd said the c-word. It is very hard to respect an argument about how Nicola Willis isn't a real feminist in a column that attacks her in the most un-feminist way, right? It uses the most gendered putdown that you can think of. It uses terms like girl math to basically suggest that she can't balance the country's books because she's a woman. Now for the record, I think Andrea Vance is a fantastic journalist and an incredibly incisive opinion writer, and I think that her editor Tracy Watkins is the best at what she does, but this was a mistake and it lets everyone down when we drag the tone down that badly. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This weekend Sunday Star-Times published a think piece on why Christopher Luxon is not popular. And he's not. Monday's polls showed that Christopher Luxon and his National Party is not as popular as maybe they should be. Interviewing university professors and their typewriters, the article came up with answers like no-one likes anyone who demands to be called Christopher and one professor even speculated on New Zealand's attitude toward baldness. Apparently we don't like them, which will be news to Monty Betham. It came in response to the latest poll which showed Chris Hipkins and Labour keeping up with Christopher Luxon and National, despite Labour changing nothing. While the Sunday Star-Times plucked at straws, I'd like to say it's the economy, stupid. These are tough times and we always blame the sitting Government, no matter what they inherited. But I would like to say that Mr Luxon has not made it easy for himself. When he inherited our damaged economy the Reserve Bank was already acting on inflation through interest rate hikes. The National led coalition then kept on with their cost of living crisis solution which was tax cuts and government spending crackdowns and lay offs. So the country had a two pronged attack with none of the solutions making life better in the short term. In fact it's made everything worse. So all the people who are collateral damage believe the government are monsters. All the people not affected who can see how the austerity overkill will be good for the economy and the country in the medium and long term, will be thinking Mr Luxon and his team are heroes. The Government will be hoping that by the time the only poll that count comes around in 2026, more voters will view them as heroes and not monsters. The last time we tried that was in the 90s as Don Brash raised interest rates at the Reserve Bank while Ruth Richardson gave us the Mother of all Budgets. She lasted less than 3 years after that and is not remembered fondly despite the good the austerity did. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brannavan Gnanalingam is one of the first South Asian writers to be published in New Zealand. His eighth novel, a political satire is The Life and Opinions of Kartik Popat. Think Veep, or Yes Minister - set in the Beehive. It's also a book about ideas, about fitting in. Brannavan Gnanalingam is an award-winning novelist and film reviewer, and former columnist for the Sunday-Star Times.

We've had guests speak about growing up in a controlling religious sect before, but for this episode we are getting a close up look at what it was like to grow up in one of these groups, while also being gay.Craig Hoyle grew up in Invercargill, NZ in the restrictive Exclusive Brethren Christian sect, which banned television, radio, pets, and social contact with outsiders. He was excommunicated from the Brethren in 2009 after coming out as gay as a teenager. Today he is chief news director for the Sunday Star-Times, one of New Zealand's national newspapers. His book Excommunicated is a multigenerational memoir telling the story of his family's journey with the Exclusive Brethren sect over 200 years. In this episode he shares: - HIs early experience with the exclusive brethren- What he wasn't allowed to do as a kid- How the brethren tried to change his sexuality- What it was like being gay in the brethren- What made him first want to run away from the brethren- What it was like being kicked out of the brethren- How his family reacting to him being gay- The people who helped him and how the world helped him Key Quotes “The brethren were very, very good at keeping tabs on you and very good at finding out where you were” “I was going round to a local priests house and we would spend hours while I tried to confess.” More about Craig Find him on linkedin and find his book on amazon. You can get involved with the podcast online On facebook in our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/challengesthatchangeusOr on Instagram: @challengesthatchangeusIf you want to contact the podcast, email us here: support@challengesthatchangeus.comOr check out our website: www.Challengesthatchangeus.com If you want to find out more about what Ali does, check out her business via the website:http://www.trialtitudeperformance.com.au For her other business you can find it through the websites:www.altitudefitnessarmidale.com.au@trialtitudeperformance Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's taken over two months and seven different phases but the more than six hundred and forty million votes have been counted in the Indian general election. Assistant editor at the Sunday Star Times and The Post Kelly Dennett speaks to Emile Donovan.

Takeaway points: -Fundamentals of Wealth Creation -Choosing your best Investment Strategy -How does your wealth strategy differ from your business strategy   Lisa began investing when she was just 16 years old and today is one of New Zealand's leading voices in financial advice. A director and shareholder of Saturn Advice's parent company since 2008, Lisa brings unrivalled passion and enthusiasm to her role. She loves nothing more than helping people grow their wealth through the identification of financial goals and astute, informed decision-making.   Lisa draws on her experience as an investor, author, entrepreneur, and professional speaker to provide pragmatic and meaningful advice to clients. In addition to her role as Director of Saturn Advice, Lisa also provides financial advice through her other business Acumen.   Her wealth of expertise means Lisa is often called upon by media to comment on financial issues. She has written articles for the New Zealand Herald, Sunday Star Times, Women's Day and NZ Property and has appeared on The AM Show, Breakfast, Good Morning, 60 Minutes and TV3 News. She is a regular on Newstalk ZB and currently writes a regular column for the NZ Listener.   Lisa is also a best-selling author, with a number of titles under her belt. These include ‘The Complete Guide to Residential Property Investment in New Zealand', ‘Money & You', ‘Winning the Money War', ‘Get Your Head out of the Sand', ‘Create Wealth', ‘The New Zealand Property Guide', ‘The New Zealand Money Guide' and her latest book ‘Good with Money'.   In her spare time Lisa is an avid traveler, having been to over 70 countries, and enjoys yoga, tennis and the gym. ___ Get Your Free Ebook Copy Of Mike Handcock and Landi Jac's Entrepreneur X Factor: www.exfbook.com www.worldwidebusinessintelligence.com We bring you worldwide business intelligence with heart, purpose and one goal. Your increased Prosperity, with greater Freedom and significant purpose.

Philip Matthews is a senior journalist, reviewer and editorial writer whose work has appeared in the NZ Listener, Metro, Sunday Star-Times, Landfall, The Press, The Wire, The Spinoff and a host of other publications during his 25 years in the business. For more than 10 years he was an award-winning film reviewer for the NZ Listener, with two stints as the magazine's arts and books editor.Damien interviewed Philip Mattews about his book, The Quiet Hero: Andrew Bagshaw. Genetic scientist Andrew Bagshaw put his life on hold to help the people of Ukraine. His selfless actions would save some 500 lives, but cost him his life.Tune in as controversial writer and podcast host, Damien Grant, interviews a wide selection of interesting and entertaining individuals, authors, business people, politicians and anyone else actually willing to talk to him.For more information, or to get in touch, visit the Different Matters Website. 

Some highlights of the last year or so Tracey Barnett has been a contributing commentator and columnist for The New Zealand Herald, The Sunday Star Times, TV3, TVNZ, Newstalk ZB, bFM and Radio Live, among many others. Tracey is passionate about women's issues, data dignity and the current trainwreck of US politics.

Excommunicated from the Exclusive Brethren Church, Craig Hoyle has carved out a future in the media after leaving the church 14 years ago. Craig Hoyle's memoir, Excommunicated catalogues his life as part of a multigenerational Exclusive Brethren family, essentially separated from society.

They took photos, asked personal questions, and looked in every nook and cranny of this journalist's home. As part of their qualitative research for the new Ikea mega store coming in late 2025, Ikea's interior designers are checking out NZ homes for what storage solutions we may want and need. This story was made possible by subscribers to The Post and was first featured in this week's edition of the Sunday Star-Times. If you want to support more beautifully-told New Zealand stories go to thepost.co.nz Need more great podcasts? Check out Stuff's full catalogue here. GET IN TOUCH Feedback? We're listening! Email us at thelongread@stuff.co.nz  CREDITS Written and read by Aimee Shaw Produced by Jen Black Audio editing: John Ropiha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Newsable talks to Craig Hoyle who has written a book about his painful story of being excommunicated from the Exclusive Brethren for being gay. Editor of the Sunday Star Times and The Post, Tracey Watkins, talks about how the negotiations to form a government might be going. Plus worries about the Pacific's commitment to being nuclear free and which is the real headline - it's time for "Is it Cake?"

He had a long career at the Sunday Star-Times, running the sports pages when they dominated the national conversation. Then the internet happened, and Michael Donaldson felt the light go out. He turned a taste for craft beer into the Pursuit of Hoppiness, a print publication and Substack which exemplifies the power of niche media. He joins Duncan Greive on The Spinoff to talk about his long, circuitous career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Should Hedgehogs be treated as pests or pets? To some, they're seen as pests and even worse than rats to our native species but to others, they are much loved, protected, and a cute surprise in the garden. This story first appeared in print in The Sunday Star Times. To avoid missing any of our great reads, subscribe at www.thepost.co.nz/subscribe. Need more great podcasts? Check out Stuff's full catalogue here. GET IN TOUCH Feedback? We're listening! Email us at thelongread@stuff.co.nz  CREDITS Written and read by Craig Hoyle Produced by Jen Black Audio editing by John Ropiha Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tracey Barnett has been a contributing commentator and columnist for The New Zealand Herald, The Sunday Star Times, TV3, TVNZ, Newstalk ZB, bFM and Radio Live, among many others. Tracey is passionate about women's issues, data dignity and the current train wreck of US politics. Moana Maniapoto confronts David Seymour about his dog whistling and use of language that is inflammatory and inaccurate all while not being able to articulate why his policy decisions are valid for NZ society Waka Kotahi has floated the idea of reducing the speed limit on 400kms of our State Highways...good idea/bad idea? We'll look at it tonight

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Heeeeee's back! Donald Trump announces his bid today to get back into the White House in Jan 2025...it was as mad as you would think, and we'll have a look at it tonight Christopher Luxon's had to u-turn today as he forgot his policy in an AM Show interview then revealed his what he actually meant to say was already a u-turn on previous statement. Luxon has also had to backtrack significantly this afternoon as he appears to be blaming principals for truancy at their school leading to speculation about what National would implement when it comes to rewarding 'good' school and what metric they would use to measure that Tracey Barnett has been a contributing commentator and columnist for The New Zealand Herald, The Sunday Star Times, TV3, TVNZ, Newstalk ZB, bFM and Radio Live, among many others. Tracey is passionate about women's issues, data dignity and the current trainwreck of US politics. Twice as good as Elon, come join our $8 a month Patreon and we'll give you TWO CHECK MARKS so you can be twice as validated https://www.patreon.com/BigHairyNews

Sunday Star Times Editor Tracy Watkins in her column yesterday summed up what many people were thinking following the dramatic Black Ferns World Cup victory. “With a new and growing fan base the Ferns have captured hearts and revitalised interest and passion in the national game in a way that a string of wins by their male counterparts wouldn't,” she wrote.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Tomorrow on Newshub Nation: Chief Medical Adviser to President Joe Biden Dr Anthony Fauci on the future of the pandemic, New Zealand's response and how we can all ‘make science boring again'. Benefit raises kicked in this week but is it too little too late for those most in need? An extended interview with Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark provides a global perspective on how New Zealand has handled the pandemic and where we go from here. And it ain't easy being blue-green, so what's the National Party's plan to tackle climate change? Climate spokesperson Scott Simpson speaks with senior reporter Conor Whitten. Then dissecting the news of the week on our panel: Newshub national correspondent Paddy Gower and Sunday Star-Times editor Tracy Watkins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL DISCOVER:What exactly is burnout and what are the three red flags that tell us that someone may be suffering from burnout? What are the causes of burnout (some may surprise you) What are the four strategies that can be applied at an organisational, leadership and individual level to spot burnout, stop it and stamp it out?  BE IN TO WIN!Comment below with one thing you got out of this interview and be in to WIN a copy of Suzi's book "Beyond Burnout" *Open to all NZ residents. Draw closes Friday 22nd October 2021. Feel free to share this episode with your friends, family and colleagues.ABOUT SUZI MCALPINESuzi is an Executive Coach, self-confessed leadership geek, and author of the best-selling book Beyond Burnout and the award-winning leadership blog, The Leader's Digest.   Suzi has been featured in Forbes Magazine, RNZ, Sunday programme, The New Zealand Herald, Next Magazine and The Sunday Star Times and is a regular keynote speaker on topics of leadership. CONNECT WITH SUZI You can find out more about Suzi by checking out her website suzimcalpine.com 

Sometimes I wonder how we have become the architects of so many bad administrative decisions. This is the story of British GP Ann Solomon which featured in the Sunday Star Times this weekend At the beginning of the pandemic New Zealand made some border exemptions to fill critical worker shortages Ann Solomon responded and has been living and working in New Zealand with her family since last August. But the temporary visa is running out and Ann Solomon's family's future hangs in the air. One of her children is just about to leave school and without the permanent residency will not be able to legally work here. Ann Solomon is not just a doctor, she's also a woman and she's living in Foxton. As a female rural GP she is in very high demand and is a very rare breed. She is not someone we can afford to lose. She's not alone; there are 1129 other similar cases, many dating back to the Key Government. People who have made the effort, brought skills to the country, settled themselves and now facing an immigration reset that says thank you very much but there's no place for you here. They're in limbo because of the immigration reset and the very real chance that their application for permanent residency will be turned down. This is madness. These people are here, happy, housed and already vital to our economy.  Just let them stay.  Ann Solomon's case was in the paper yesterday. If I was the Immigration Minister, I would have come into the office today and said ‘get that woman a visa and get it now'. In fact I'd probably offer an amnesty for all since we can't do without them and we're not accepting any new immigrants in the near future.Immigration Minister Kris Faafoi received advice about this in April. It's nearly August and nothing. I wonder if Kris has too many portfolios to get anything meaningful done. It's also not good enough to claim its covid's fault, because it's not. With no immigrants since last March there must be plenty of hands available to do the work. But also remember this is a government that came into power 4 years ago promising a wholesale cut in immigration so they might just be bloody mindedly committed to a short sighted policy This is analysis paralysis and a lack of direction and politically correct posturing. Give it up and give these new, New Zealanders some respect. 

Opposition Leader Judith Collins on bad reviews, bad polls and bad behaviour - can she keep the National Party show on the road? She joins us live.Tourism Minister Stuart Nash outlined his vision for the industry in Queenstown this week - we ask tourism operator Matt Wong how it was received on the ground. The business of babies is booming but are desperate couples paying thousands for optional extras not backed by science? A special report from Anna Bracewell-Worrall. On The Pitch we give National's Immigration spokesperson Erica Standford five minutes to tell us why she'd make a better Immigration Minister than Kris Faafoi. Conor Whitten discovers that New Zealand's former chief mines inspector believes expanding the recovery mission at Pike River is both feasible and safe. And we are joined by our panel - NBR Senior Journalist Dita De Boni, Auckland University Politics Lecturer Dr Lara Greaves and Sunday Star Times editor, Tracy Watkins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

An in-depth conversation with Dunedin-based poet and essayist Talia Marshall. We talk about social media (Twitter in particular) and books. Reading. Writers. Writing. We talk about her development as an essayist through work for The Spinoff and Pantograph Punch to North & South and now a regular column in the Sunday Star Times. A deep chat. Lots in here.

An in-depth conversation with Dunedin-based poet and essayist Talia Marshall. We talk about social media (Twitter in particular) and books. Reading. Writers. Writing. We talk about her development as an essayist through work for The Spinoff and Pantograph Punch to North & South and now a regular column in the Sunday Star Times. A deep chat. Lots in here. Get full access to Sounds Good! at simonsweetman.substack.com/subscribe

I think we have reason to feel fairly buoyed by the official response to the Northland Covid case. The contact tracing, the testing, the technology: all that stuff that we were all pushing the government to improve last year is clearly working well. Obviously they are still in the very early days of getting hold of everyone with whom the woman may have been in contact and who stayed at the hotel, and so the picture may yet change a bit, but so far there seems little to panic over, especially seeing that neither the woman's husband and hairdresser have tested positive - which suggests the woman may not be a big spreader of the virus. But I think there is something we need to keep an eye on and that is what improvements to MIQ are made to prevent this happening again. I am a little bit worried about what has been dubbed a ‘sluggish' response to adapting to changes. This popped up in an article in the Sunday Star Times over the weekend.  To make it into Sunday's paper, it had to have been written and submitted by Saturday at the latest, which is to say it was written before we knew of this outbreak. And in the article, Michael Baker says changes need to be made to MIQ so that the more contagious UK and South African Covid variants don't leak out into New Zealand. And look what happened the very day that article went to print.  We got news the South African variant had leaked out. And this despite the fact that Baker and others have been urging health authorities for months now to adapt and warning them that we are in possibly our most high risk period right now. He says the authorities are “sluggish” - his word - in adapting to the new level risk.  If you look back you see plenty of examples of them ignoring Baker's advice for months before they inevitably are forced to do exactly what he said. He suggested face masks on planes for months.  The Ministry of Health poo-pooed that idea until they adopted that idea. He suggested everyone get a negative test before they jump on a plane to New Zealand.  Even Jacinda Ardern said no it wouldn't necessarily work until her government made it a rule last week.So I've been watching and listening to the government interviews and press conferences today with that mind.  How much of what they are poo pooing right now will they just end up doing in a few months? And the main things are what Baker is recommending in order for us to be able to deal with these new, more contagious variations: Stop people mixing in MIQ, especially in smoking areas Take MIQ facilities out of main centres Turn down the tap on people arriving from those parts of the world where these contagious strains are prevalent.  That last point is not crazy. Australia has done it.   Baker's been proven right.  This variant is contagious enough to make it past MIQ.  How much of what he's recommending right now could prevent that happening again?  How long before the Ministry of Health actually makes the necessary changes to stop it?  

Dr Hinemoa Elder has lived on Waiheke Island for more than 20 years. She has been a child and adolescent psychiatrist for more than 10 years and has worked in Starship Hospital's Child and Family, and Mother, Baby Units and various community clinics. She also provides youth forensic court reports and neuropsychiatric assessment and treatment of traumatic brain injury in private practice. Hinemoa is a deputy psychiatry member of the New Zealand Mental Health Review Tribunal. She is also the Maori Strategic Leader for the Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) for the Ageing Brain. Hinemoa has been involved with the media for many years – a former children's TV presenter for 3.45 Live, a daily live show in the early 1990s, and then of the Bugs Bunny Show. She has had a weekly newspaper column in the Sunday Star-Times, and is often interviewed on national television and current affairs programmes about her work in mental health. "Really learn to love yourself. You're going to face all sorts of commentary and judgment from other people. Know who you are and where you're from. For me as a Māori woman, really being clear about where I am in this line of whakapapa and being connected to my roots is a major part of me accepting who I am and caring for myself. No matter what you end up doing in your career, that makes it much easier to make the right decisions for yourself."

Oscar Kightley has brought his writing and performing talents to stage, television and the big screen. Along the way he has been a key player in bringing Pasifika stories into New Zealand's mainstream.Born in the Samoan capital, Apia, as Vai To'elau Osa Isa'ako Mase, Kightley emigrated to Aotearoa at age four, after the death of his father. He grew up with an aunt and uncle, one of eight children in the West Auckland suburb of Te Atatu.At primary school, Kightley was "one of the shy kids", a keen reader who "had a rep as a smart-arse, kind of wise-cracking class clown. But I was never one of the performing kids". By age 15 Kightley he knew he wanted to be involved in comedy. Early influences included Eddie Murphy and John Clarke, "the first New Zealander that cracked me up".As a reporter at The Auckland Star, Kightley was encouraged to change his name from Osa to Oscar. His four years at the Star and The Sunday Star-Times provided  "a university education on what Kiwis are like". After short stints in radio and as a TV3 publicist, he headed down to Christchurch in his 1969 Valiant, to start his first ongoing television gig: co-presenting teen magazine show Life in The Fridge. A trip back to Samoa in this period proved potent — it reminded him that Samoans could be doctors and lawyers, as opposed to the Samoan cleaners he knew back in New Zealand.Theatre was also entering the picture: he got "invaluable comedy training" acting as part of Christchurch-based Pasifika group Pacific Underground. Much of their material was issues based; but the group ensemble discovered that "the shortest distance between two people is laughter".Through the rest of the 90s, Kightley's career continued to combine stage and television. On TV, he was developing his writing and performing talents on Gibson Group sketch shows Skitz, Telly Laughs and Newsflash. Kightley was invited to write for Skitz after producer Dave Gibson saw one of his plays; Kightley soon began writing himself into sketches.In-between TV gigs, "the master of self-deprecating immigrant humour" (as Diana Wichtel called him) was honing his storytelling skills on a series of plays that explored Pacific Island characters, usually as they adjusted to life in New Zealand. His first play, 1993's Fresh off the Boat (co-written with Simon Small, and starring David Fane) was performed in Australia and Samoa. In the same period Kightley wrote and directed family tale Dawn Raids (not to be confused with documentary Dawn Raids), and won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award.That same year Kightley launched The Naked Samoans, with original members David Fane, Mario Gaoa and Shimpal Lelisi. The group of New Zealand-raised Pacific Islanders mined comedy from their experiences of growing up brown and misunderstood, in the world's largest Polynesian city. Kightley argues that they had a devil may care, "kamikaze approach. We weren't the polite Polynesian group". Extended excerpts from the group's live shows (plus interviews) feature in this Tagata Pasifika episode, while this Living Room episode catches them at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 1999 Kightley was invited to work as a storyliner on Shortland Street, an experience that proved helpful when animated series bro'Town began, five years later. Shortland Street "gave me the discipline of writing stories and helped so much in the mechanics of writing 30-minute episodes. There are no schools that teach you those skills."After watching many Naked Samoan shows, Kightley's ex Auckland Star colleague Elizabeth Mitchell decided that the group's portrayal of polynesian teens might work as an animated TV series. bro'Town's portrait of un-PC Pasifika and Māori kids proved a major hit, spawning five seasons. Kightley played Vale Pepelo, brother to Shimpal Lelisi's character, and the most studious member of the five. Kightley shared the script table (and the recording booth) with Mitchell and fellow Naked Samoans Lelisi, Fane and Gaoa. Kightley calls Mitchell the show's "forgotten hero", who kept the team motivated and the machinery of an animated show on track. He talks in detail about bro'Town (and the complications of being expected to represent a minority) in this extended interview, shot for 2019 TV series Funny As. Midway through their bro'Town adventure, The Naked Samoans ventured onto the big screen with 2006 hit Sione's Wedding. Centred around four 30-something males with an urgent deadline to find a girlfriend, Sione was another breakthrough for Pasifika characters on screen; Kightley remembers appreciative audiences ranging from a Polish film festival, to a Pākehā student from a high decile Christchurch school. Sione's Wedding quickly became the most commercially-successful Kiwi comedy released on home soil (at least until the 2010 rise of Taika Waititi's Boy).Aside from being asked to co-write Sione with James Griffin, Kightley appeared on-screen as the bumbling but sensible Albert. "Oscar didn't want to be anyone, and had to be kind of slapped around a bit before he fell into Albert," says Griffin. "He was always destined to be Albert in my mind." According to Kightley, the character's naiveté means that he needs everything explained to him "in triplicate, with memos ... including which girl likes him, and which girl he likes ... if I knew I would be playing him I would have made Albert much cooler. I would definitely have given him better clothes." Sione's 2 - Unfinished Businessbecame a rare Kiwi sequel when it was released in January 2012.Kightley followed it by starring in gritty 2013 police drama Harry, which he co-wrote with director Chris Dudman and real life detective Neil Grimstone. Kightley plays a troubled Samoan-Kiwi detective dealing with a meth-fuelled crimewave, while raising a teenage daughter. To those questioning why he'd taken on such a serious role, Kightley maintained that he "got work in comedy because that was the work I was offered, but I'm quite a serious person generally". Calling the show great, gritty and grimy, The NZ Herald's Paul Casserly praised its lead actor. "Kightley is believable ... You buy him."After co-directing a video ('Just Roll') for hip-hop musician PNC in 2006, Kightley went on to helm video 'Walk Right Up', for rising talent Ladi6. In 2013 he wrote and directed short film Tom's Diary, which follows a Bob Marley-mad Samoan teenager in 80s-era West Auckland. It was nominated for four Moa awards, including Best Film, Script and Actor (for Mac Kaisuva). A movie version is in development. Kightley directed the second season of Madeleine Sami comedy Super City. In 2019 it was announced that he would direct feature-length documentary Dawn Raid, about the Otara-born, Polynesian music label of the same name.As a presenter, Kightley has fronted up for Elizabeth Mitchell directed Rooster Rooster Dragon Rat - Oscar's Guide to the Chinese Zodiac, in which he interviewed defenders and attackers of the zodiac. In 2019 he toured New Zealand in the path of American author Mark Twain, for TV series Following Twain. Other broadcasting gigs include TV3 rugby coverage, playing an old lady on comedy show Radiradirah, and breakfast presenting on Nui FM. Kightley has also been a frequent partner in crime to ex-Ice TV presenter Nathan Rarere. The two co-presented DNA-tracing documentary Made in Taiwan (which he talks about in this interview), sports show Sportzah, and quiz show Snatch Our Booty.In 2016 movie hit Hunt for the Wilderpeople, he won laughs as a bumbling policeman. He was part of the voice cast of Aroha Bridge in its second season, before joining the cast of 2020 Taika Waititi movie Next Goal Wins. A 2006 Arts Foundation Laureate Award winner and Qantas Award-winning journalist, Kightley was made a member of the NZ Order of Merit in 2009 for services to theatre and television, and a Senior Pacific Artist at the 2016 Arts Pasifika Awards. In early 2020 he began a three month Fullbright-Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer's Residency in Hawai'i.

How long can our economy survive lockdown yo-yo? Finance Minister Grant Robertson joins us live. Dr Shane Reti defends National’s new border policy from claims it shows a complete disregard for New Zealanders overseas. Our US Correspondent Ameshia Cross joins us to discuss a Democratic National Convention unlike any we’ve seen before. Senior clinical psychologist Dr Ainsleigh Cribb-Su’a on the psychology of conspiracy theories, racism in health and surviving lockdown anxiety. In The House: a week in the halls of power that we never expected to see. Plus, analysis from our political panel - Newshub Investigations Reporter Michael Morrah, and Editor of the Sunday Star-Times, Tracy Watkins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With a state of emergency declared and Parliament shutting down, hosts Adam Dudding and Eugene Bingham speak with Sunday Star-Times editor Tracy Watkins (assisted by her dog Murphy) about the constitutional implications. National correspondent Carmen Parahi joins the show to discuss how Māori communities are responding to the crisis – for Māori, by Māori. Meanwhile, Adam and Eugene listen to Italian mayors losing their … minds.

With a state of emergency declared and Parliament shutting down, hosts Adam Dudding and Eugene Bingham speak with Sunday Star-Times editor Tracy Watkins (assisted by her dog Murphy) about the constitutional implications. National correspondent Carmen Parahi joins the show to discuss how Māori communities are responding to the crisis – for Māori, by Māori. Meanwhile, Adam and Eugene listen to Italian mayors losing their … minds.

Taxpayers' Union member and Sunday Star-Times contributor Damien Grant doesn't like the economic package recommendation published by the Taxpayers' Union earlier in the week. He sits down with Jordan Williams and Joe Ascoft to discuss.Support the show (http://www.taxpayers.org.nz/donate)

On Newshub Nation:On a stunning week in US politics, we speak to US Ambassador Scott Brown, just back from facilitating the meeting between Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and US President Donald Trump.Then, the head of our National Cyber Policy Office, Paul Ash, takes us behind the scenes of the Christchurch Call.And in Backstory, we meet the MP who acted in a drama club with Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi.Then, on The Pitch, National Party transport spokesperson Chris Bishop has five minutes to convince you he’d make a better Transport Minister than Phil Twyford.And as always we are joined by our panel: Sunday Star Times editor Tracy Watkins, Thomas Pryor from Sherson Willis, and Political commentator David Slack.

In a cruel twist of fate, this week Grace is in London - to attend an event with Kate and Wills - and Izzy is in LA - eating tacos. This week comes complete with an unexpected erotica recommendation (guess who from), the latest of Izzy's LA escapades (Pamela Anderson makes an appearance) and why you should never watch Fleabag with your Dad. Plus, we do a deep dive on failure: In an era where women's successes are more celebrated than ever, have we lost reverence for the importance of failure? And do we have an obligation to be more open about our own failures?Follow us on Instagram at @afterworkdrinkspodcast and join our private Facebook group, 'After Work Drinks Podcast.'Recommendations:Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie BrownsteinLittle Birds by Anais NinWhy I'm Not Playing it Straight - Andrew Scott interview in the Sunday Star TimesCrashing - NetflixA Passionate Breakdown of Justin Bieber's Style Phases by Eliza Dumais for Man Repeller https://www.manrepeller.com/2019/06/bieber-style.htmlSmashing the Wellness Industry by Jessica Knoll for the NY Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/opinion/sunday/women-dieting-wellnessHow to fail - Elizabeth day (book and podcast) Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On Newshub Nation this weekend: Mental health was the jewel in the crown of this week's wellbeing budget. But will it curb our escalating problem? We ask Mental Health Foundation’s Shaun Robinson and Te Rau Ora CEO Dr Maria Baker what difference the money will make.Then we put their questions to Health Minister David Clark, as well as our own: what's the evidence behind his big plans?Finance Minister Grant Robertson joins us to discuss whether his wellbeing budget was really transformational - and whether its surprise leak overshadowed it altogether.And John Michael-Swannix looks at the everyday changes you’ll need to make in your household to adapt to a changing climate.Then we are joined by our panel, Tracy Watkins, editor of the Sunday Star-Times, Bernard Hickey, Managing Editor of Newsroom Pro, and Phil O'Reilly CEO of Iron Duke Partners.

Sue Berman picks up a conversation with curators Jacqueline Snee and Dena Jacob on their contribution to Wāhine Take Action. They discuss the case content reflecting the themes Mana Wāhine - Mana Reo - Mana Whēnua. Mana wāhine mana whēnua Mā te wāhine, mā te whēnua, ka ngaro te tāngata Humanity would be lost without women and land From Papatūānuku (the earth mother) came the first woman Hineahuone and from her came humankind. This hand coloured lithograph shows prominent land owner and wāhine rangatira Ngeungeu, the daughter of Tara Te Irirangi, the chief of Umupuia, Hauraki Gulf in the Bay of Islands (Ngai Tai) with her son James Maxwell. George French Angas The New Zealanders illustrated. London: Thomas M’lean, 1846. Mana wāhine : Mana reo Robyn Kahukiwa. Ngā Atua: Māori gods. Oratia: Oratia books, 2017. Dame Ngāneko Kaihau Minhinnick. Establishing Kaitiaki: a paper. 1989. From: Tanya Cumberland. Records. NZMS 1818. Concert party, Whiriwhiri, 1966. Valerie Muir, Footprints 07067. The New Suffragettes. From supplement ‘Sunday,’ Sunday Star Times, 27 May 2018. A prince and his people, Pakuranga, 1981. Stuff Limited, Footprints 00378. Gil Hanly. Hilda Halkyard-Harawira with her youngest daughter Anika, 1987. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Gil Hanly. Hilda Halkyard-Harawira, 1986. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Gil Hanly. Being arrested, Bastion Point March, 1982. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Mana wāhine : Mana tāngata Gil Hanly. Photographs. From: Broadsheet Collective. Records. NZMS 596. Left to right: Tenth Anniversary of occupation of Bastion Point. 1988. Takaparawha, Bastion Point. Date unknown. Waitangi Day, Waitangi. 1984. Merata Mita. Date unknown. Waitangi Day protest. 1986. Waitangi Day protest Wellington. 1986. Titiwhai Harawira, Atareta Pononga, and Hana Te Hemara at Takaparawha. 1988. At Bastion Point. 1988. Cloak (Kahu) with hukahuka and kiwi feathers. Mana wāhine : Mana whenua New Zealand Graphic and Ladies Journal. 9 February 1895. Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa. Wāhine toa: women of Māori myth. Auckland: Collins, 1984. Group of Māori men, women and children, Māngere. About 1905. Māngere Historical Society, Footprints 01084. Andrew Pettengell. Protest art on Ihumatao Quarry Road Mangere. 2017. Photo ref: 1458-120.

NZ country music star, Tami Neilson is taking her new album SASSAFRASS! out on tour having had positive reviews from such giants as Rolling Stone magazine she tells Jack after having some pretty full-on life experiences since the last one, including turning 40, she is now ready to go out and rock it, she also says she has a deeper well of life experiences to stoke her creative juices.LISTEN ABOVE AS TAMI NEILSON SPEAKS TO JACK TAMETami Neilson will release her new album SASSAFRASS! on June 1, ahead of a seven-date tour of New Zealand. Presented by Sunday Star Times and Under the Radar, the tour takes in some of the country’s most beautiful and iconic theatres, kicking off in Nelsonon July 26 and ending in Auckland on August 4. TAMI NEILSON – SASSAFRASS! NEW ZEALAND TOUR 2018Thursday 26 July - Theatre Royal, NELSONFriday 27 July - Isaac Theatre Royal, CHRISTCHURCHSaturday 28 July - Glenroy Auditorium, DUNEDINWednesday 1 August - Clarence Street, HAMILTONThursday 2 August - MTG Century Theatre, NAPIERFriday 3 August - Opera House, WELLINGTONSaturday 4 August - Town Hall, AUCKLAND

Danielle McLaughlin is an Author, Attorney, and Legal and Political Commentator. Danielle appears frequently on U.S. and international TV and radio (Including Fox, Fox Business, CNN, HLN, TV3 New Zealand and the Sean Hannity Radio Show) providing analysis and insight on important legal and political questions — throughout 2016, Danielle appeared frequently as a Hillary Clinton supporter and Democratic strategist. Danielle's legal scholarship is focused on important constitutional issues including the scope of the President's power, reproductive rights, immigration, LGBT rights, consumer rights, property rights and eminent domain, and the tension between international law and sovereignty. Danielle co-wrote The Federalist Society: How Conservatives took the Law Back from Liberals which was reviewed favorably by The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Washington Review of Books, and the L.A. Review of Books. Danielle's law practice concentrates on government investigations and commercial disputes. Danielle writes a weekly column on U.S. politics for New Zealand's largest Sunday Newspaper, the Sunday Star Times.  She also blogs frequently about issues touching on politics, policy and law, to further her mission to empower voters and enrich discourse within the U.S. electorate. Danielle holds a Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, from Suffolk University Law School in Boston where she was the Editor in Chief of the Journal of High Technology Law, and a degree in Engineering (Hons 2:2) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.  Danielle is a triathlete and runner, a fan of the All Blacks (obligatory as a native New Zealander), wife to Brendan, and mom to Olympia. For more information and complete bio, please visit: www.daniellemclaughlin.net --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/themichaelcalderinshow/message

John Summers' money obsession isn't with saving money, or making money, he doesn't have much interest in those things, it's with not spending money. Hear John talk about where this obsession came from, and how it impacts his life today.  John Summers is the author of the excellent book of personal essays, 'The Mermaid Boy', published by Hue & Cry Press in 2015. He won the non fiction award in the 2016 Sunday Star Times short story competition for his essay 'Missing' and was one of the recipients of the 2017 D'Arcy Writers Grants. 

Anabela Rea talks trends, landing a job in fashion and the importance of promoting cultural diversity and clothing that works for all types of women.

Jacob and Doug delve into the exciting Cannes 2015 programme with hopeful sights set towards NZIFF in July/August. They are joined by special guest and Sunday Star Times reviewer Sarah Watt who walks them through her own 2012 'Cannes experience'and fields film geek questions...add scotch to taste, and enjoy.

Kailey is on holiday and Simon is sick so Dan is joined by Sarah Watt from the Sunday Star-Times to discuss Naomi Watts in Diana, Danny Trejo as Machete in Machete Kills and Wahlberg and Washington in the comedy thriller 2 Guns.