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09-12-2025 - The USA's disruptive interference in South America - Alan McPherson( 0:57:14)
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I will be interviewing Prof. AllenL. McPherson an American historian specializing in US-Latin American relations., at Temple University Pennsylvania. We will be discussing America's relationship with its neighbours to the south from the Monroe doctrine of 1823 to the present time especially talking about their period from Eisenhower and the 1950s in Guatemala two the Reagan Administration in particularly in Nicaragua and El Salvador and how Trump's attack on Venezuela fit into this pattern of interference in sovereign American nations.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 9/12/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
02-12-2025 - Health and safety on the job - Simon Schofield( 0:56:30)
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Health and safety on the job - I will be talking with Simon Schofield is a Professional Teaching Fellow employment law University of Auckland Law School 2Dec2025 Cory Bourne CTU advisor on health and safety
About New Zealand's poor record on health and safety compared to Australia or UK and is the coalition government taking us back to pre-river mining catastrophe? We will also be talking about workplace harassment unfair dismissal and nondisclosure agreements.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 2/12/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
25-11-2025 - The Israeli Palestinian Conflict a festering sore on humanities conscious - Cole Martin( 0:55:37)
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The Israeli Palestinian Conflict a festering sore on humanities conscious - I will be talking with Cole Martin an N Z journalist based in the occupied West Bank.
We will discuss the long festering Conflict between the Palestinians and Israel I will ask what is it like to raise families and live for generations and what's been described as an open air of prison? How has this Conflict turned into ethnic cleansing or genocide,? How has the world let this happen .Why is New Zealand not taking a strong stand in the humanitarian tradition of our foreign policy?
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 25/11/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
The Politics of Greed or the courage to challenge a greedy system with Victor Billot( 0:52:7)
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I will be interviewing Victor Billot Communications Officer Maritime Union NZ and Alliance Party leader. We will be discussing the victory of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's in New York City, and the need for a NZ socialist political party with courage to take on a greedy economic system which has the last 30 years Red distributed wealth from the many to the very rich few. A party for the common good of the people and the environment.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 18/11/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
11-11-2025 - Surviving poverty in Aotearoa NZ - Andrew Henderson( 0:52:9)
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How are ordinary kiwis particularly those who don't own a home surviving combination of inflation and recession that this government has prolonged we were talking with Andrew Henderson of Budget Advice on coping with poverty.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 12/11/2025 8:00:00 a.m.
The Public Workers strike the nurses perspective with Anne Daniels( 0:52:13)
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I will be talking Anne Daniels president of the NZ Nurses organisation about why are public health service is in immediately and long-term crisis and what the nurses in the service have to tell us about the health crisis and why they went on strike
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 28/10/2025 1:00:00 p.m.
Climate crisis from an indigenous perspective with Nadine Hura( 0:56:25)
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Nadine Hura Author of “Slowing the Sun Over whelmed by the complexity of climate change, Nadine Hura sets out to find a language that connects more deeply with the environmental crisis. We will discuss her findings.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 21/10/2025 11:00:00 a.m.
14-10-2025 - Is the end of Civilization Nigh - Murray Grimwood( 0:51:59)
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Is the end of Civilization Nigh - Murray Grimwood is a Waitati commentator on environmental and other issues . We will be considering the crisis of this Civilization and talking about our current fundamentalist economic paradigm in relationship to the greatest environmental crisis our Civilization has seen since the advent of agriculture!
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 14/10/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
07-10-2025 - Systematic evil from a spiritual perspective - Mark Chamberlain( 0:50:19)
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Systematic evil from a spiritual perspective - Mark Chamberlain the priest at Holy Name Catholic Church will discuss recognising Systematic evil from Political lying to genocide and how it affects our view of humanity and the Divine. We will draw on the work of Hannah Arendt” Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil “And The Origins of Totalitarianism””With The growing authoritarianism of President Trump and gGenocide of Palestinians in Gaza by Israel have returned these issues to the surface of concerns we must deal with.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 7/10/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
23-09-2025 - Public and Environmental Health - Prof Alexander Macmillan( 0:55:34)
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Public and Environmental Health - "I will be talking with Prof Alexander Macmillan, Professor of Environmental Health, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine University Otago Med School. We will be discussing public and environmental health as a local issue.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 23/09/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
16-09-2025 - Panic over Water and Finance - Jim O'Malley( 0:51:2)
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Panic over Water and Finance - I will be talking with DCC Counselor Jim O'Malley about water services and infrastructure nationally and locally and why there is a perceived crisis and upkeep and finance of water services.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 16/09/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 19-08-2025 - Homeless crisis in Dunedin - Gill Brown( 0:51:38)
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Homeless crisis in Dunedin - I will be talking with Gill Brown principal housing advisor for the Dunedin city Council about the seriousness of homelessness in Dunedin that seem to have gotten more severe.
I'll also ask what happened to the $20million The council committed to spending on more community housing as part of its 10-year plan to 2031,
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 19/08/2025 4:55:43 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 12-08-2025 - Journalism and Democracy in crisis - Peter Thompson( 0:55:19)
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Journalism and Democracy in crisis - Peter Thompson - Chair The Better Public Media Trust. Peter is a senior lecturer on the media studies programme at Victoria University of Wellington where his principal research interest is political economy and media policy. He has published extensively on public broadcasting issues in New Zealand. Peter Thompson and I will be discussing link between the crisis in journalism and the crisis in Democracy and how exposing corrupt patterns of influence is as an important in New Zealand as it is Overseas!
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 12/08/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 29-07-2025 - Financial advice on Climate Change retreat - Jonathan Boston( 0:52:30)
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Financial advice on Climate Change retreat - Jonathan Boston was a member of the Expert Working Group on Managed Retreat Chaired bye sir Terrence Arnold. We will discuss why the coalition government junked The Expert Working Group Report on Managed Retreat and authorised a new Report. (The Report of the Independent Reference Group on Climate Adaptation) which absolves the government from any financial or economic responsibility to property owners who are adversely affected by managed retreat or other effects of natural disasters The Report of the Independent Reference Group on Climate.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 29/07/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 15-07-2025 - Dunedin - Mayor Jules Radich( 0:52:1)
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Dunedin - Interview with Mayor Jules Radich on regular re-occurring floods and sewage in South Dunedin over the last 30 years or so due tp Lack of proper flight control infrastructure such as the proper size stormwater pipes in large enough pumping stations. We will also discuss other infrastructure needs and discuss financing local bodies .Should we look at other sources of revenue besides rates?
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 15/07/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 08-07-2025 - Global warming crisis - Kay Harrison New Zealands Former Climate Change Ambassador( 0:51:10)
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Global warming crisis - Kay Harrison New Zealands Climate Change Ambassador - What is Aotearoa New Zealand ethical and practical responsibility when it comes to Climate Change mitigation and the Paris agreement in our general human responsibility for The future going forward! Kay Harrison is Former Climate Change Ambassador, Ford New Zealand (2019 -2024)Master of Arts (History); Master of Public Policy, Victoria University of Wellington; Harkness Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 8/07/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 01-07-2025 - The unsettlement of the world - Gray Southon( 0:45:52)
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The unsettlement of the world - Gray Southon’s career was in medical physics explored international trends in health reform, which combined with his fascination with how organisations worked. When he retired in 2002 he developed these interests by forming a United Nations Association in Tauranga. H. He developed a special interest in climate change,
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 1/07/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 24-06-2025 - Quakers and Nonviolent Civil Disobedience - Tim Gee( 0:53:8)
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Tim Gee Gen. Sec.24th of June 2025 Friends World Committee for Consultation
Tim has taken part in nonviolence civil disobedience around Climate Change and economic justice He is the author of three books Counterpower: “You Can't Evict an Idea: What Can We Learn From Occupy “”Why I am a Pacifist, we will discuss Quakerism and the spiritual foundation for nonviolent Action for social economic justice and Climate Change mitigation."
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 24/06/2025 2:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 17-06-2025 - Trump genocide and the future of Democracy - Prof. Stephen Zunes( 0:53:21)
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Trump genocide and the future of Democracy - Stephen Zunes Prof. of international relations at the University of San Francisco specializing in the Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, and strategic nonviolent action. Stephen Zunes is a scholar and advocate of nonviolent people power movements.
We will discuss Palestine Israel genocide and the future of Palestine and Israel then we will talk about Trump and the Fritz too Democracy in America and around the world and the need for commitment to the common good.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 17/06/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 03-06-2025 - When policy in a storm of uncertainty( 0:52:35)
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Prof Robert Patman is a leading New Zealand University Otago academic in the field of international relations. Robert Patman Recently Recently received an accolade; from the 2024 Critic and Conscience of Society Award, given by Universities New Zealand’s Gama Foundation. We will talk about New Zealand's for and trade policy in uncertain times.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 3/06/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 27-05-2025 - Christianity from the perspective of the Anthropocene or human domination of the Earth( 0:55:20)
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Prof. Brad Gregory 27 May2025 is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA.He is Burns Lecturer 2025 – Christians, Consumption, and Climate Change: Christianity between the Last Ice Age and the Anthropocene
We will be discussing world history fromThe perspective of Earth entering the Anthropocene eraAnd the history of ancient Israel and Christianity and their life in Empire Christianity especially the reformations Part in pushing us toward the Anthropocene Were human actions dominate the shape of the earths environment and life.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 27/05/2025 12:30:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 20-05-2025 - South Dunedin flooding and flood control - Neil Johnstone( 0:52:33)
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South Dunedin flooding and flood control - Neil Johnstone is a semi-retired professional flood control and river management engineer, spent most 50-odd years working life in Otago, including lengthy periods as Investigations Engineer with the Otago Catchment Board then Otago Regional Council and - for more than 2 decades – running a small consultancy, Flood Sense Limited.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 20/05/2025 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 27-02-2024 - World Beyond War - Dr John Reuwer( 0:47:53)
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Dr. Reuwer is a retired doctor and a veteran of Unarmed Civilian Protection teams in Palestine/Israel, Ukraine, South Sudan, Haiti, Colombia, and Central America, as Reuwer share sWBW’s vision for alternative security. His goal is to learn what in the New Zealand record of peacemaking (such as New Zealand’s declaration of a nuclear-free zone) complements and how we can best focus our work for the abolition of war.
The tour is supported by the Religious Society of Friends of Aotearoa and by World BEYOND War Aotearoa.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 27/02/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
Community or Chaos - 02-11-2021 - Archibald Baxter Memorial - Prof Kevin Clements( 0:44:41)
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Archibald Baxter Memorial - Prof Kevin Clements - The Archibald Baxter memorial to conscientious objector's.Diplomatic and Non-violent Alternatives to war to war.
Kevin Clements 23 Feb 2021 is the former director and was the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies, Founding Director of the New Zealand National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS)
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin https://oar.org.nz/
Published: 2/11/2021 10:29:51 a.m.
Community or Chaos - 17-03-2020 - Peace Poetry Forgiveness - Padraig O Tuama( 0:47:39)
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Peace Poetry Forgiveness - Pádraig Ó Tuama is leader of the Corrymeela Community, a poet, theologian and mediator. He has worked in conflict resolution in Ireland, Africa and the Middle East.
From 2014-2019, Ó Tuama was the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization, which works with over 10,000 people a year to transform division through human encounters, with focuses on sectarianism, marginalization, public theology and the legacies of conflict. Ó Tuama lives in Ireland.
Broadcast on OAR 105.4FM Dunedin www.oar.org.nz
Published: 17/03/2020 6:05:24 p.m.