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27 AUG 2021 · In her new short documentary Fifty Percent, Lillian Hanly grapples with an agonising decision: should she get tested for Huntington's disease? Her grandfather, New Zealand artist and printmaker Pat Hanly, had the neurodegenerative disease, and her biological mother also has Huntington's - as do other members of her family.

12 FEB 2021 · A new documentary with accompanying podcast casts fresh light on a campaign in the New Zealand Wars. NZ Wars: Stories of Tainui is the third part of a series produced for RNZ by Great Southern Television and looks at the events surrounding the invasion of the Waikato by soldiers of the Crown in 1863. The action preserved the power of what is now one of Aotearoa's oldest political institutions- the Kingitanga- and paved the way for land confiscations that remain the subject of discussion (and Treaty settlements) to this day. We speak to the show's host and creator Mihingarangi Forbes, and to Waikato Tribal Historian Rahui Papa.

18 DEC 2020 · Acclaimed war photographer Bruce Connew has turned his lens on to our country's colonial memorials to document "a vocabulary of colonisation". His exhibition A Vocabulary at Te Uru Gallery in Titirangi, Auckland features 79 images of memorials and gravestones dating from 1863 through to 2015, and runs until February 14th. The exhibition also acts as a preview for a book of the same name due out in February featuring many more photographs.

12 DEC 2020 · During the 1940s and 50s the US detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands as part of its Cold War nuclear testing programme. The Marshall Islands are two chains of 29 coral atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between Papua New Guinea and Hawaii. At the time, whole islands ceased to exist, hundreds of native Marshallese had to be relocated off their home islands and many were affected by fallout from the testing. The Marshallese continue to campaign for adequate compensation from the U.S. Runit Dome, on Enewetak Atoll, houses 88,000 square metres of contaminated soil and debris, and has recently received media attention due to cracking and the threat from rising sea levels. Giff Johnson is the editor of The Marshall Islands Journal, correspondent for Radio New Zealand and runs the facebook page "Marshall Islands Nuclear News". He's experienced the unfolding legacy of US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands first hand. His wife Darlene Keju, an outspoken advocate for test victims and nuclear survivors, herself died of cancer in 1996. Johnson has written a book about her called Don't Ever Whisper

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27 NOV 2020 · 26 year old Francesca Goodman-Smith is on a mission to tackle New Zealand's food waste problem. Working for Foodstuffs, one of the country's biggest supermarket chains, she's designed an award-winning waste minimisation programme across 130 stores.

13 NOV 2020 · Kathy Baughman McLeod is Director and Senior Vice President of the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center at the international affairs think tank, The Atlantic Council. Working on the intersection between business and future environmental risk, her old job at Bank of America involved planning the investment of US$125 billion into eco friendly projects by 2025. She also led a team at the Nature Conservancy using natural infrastructure (and tailored insurance policies) to reduce storm and flood risk in low lying economies through Latin America, Australia, Asia, the US, and the Caribbean. An author and documentary producer, Baughman McLeod now wants us to start naming heat waves like hurricanes to highlight the impact of the world's changing climate