1/200 PodcastS

Branko & Philip talk with Derek Davison (Foreign Exchanges & American Prestige) about developments in Afghanistan, the Taliban, AUKUS, nuclear weapons, American Exceptionalism & run out of time to talk about China.

Mikey and Ross join the cast to discuss Auckland’s Lockdown changes, the parallel experiences of the pandemic and ‘lockdown fatigue’ - whatever that is!

Aotearoa has had an excellent response to Covid compared to most countries, but it's not beyond scrutiny. In fact there continue to be serious problems with Government action and strategy on the response.

We talk about NZ’s current COVID response and the attack in Auckland mall late last week. We’re then joined by Luke Savage to talk about the current electoral situation in Canada where Justin Trudeau and the ruling Liberal Party have just called a snap election - 2 years early

We have Mark Rickerby, David Hood and Andrew Chen on the cast to talk information, data and the communication of that to a variety of audiences during NZ’s Covid response.

Ross and James join the cast to talk NZ’s latest COVID outbreak of the Delta variety. We talk about the response so far, and the hesitancy of Labour to take action beyond the health response.

1/200 is joined by Paris Marx to talk tech, media and political economy. How should we analyse and critique the growth of tech-capitalism and what action can we take?

Philip & Justine talk to Aimee Simpson & Leon Salter from the Tertiary Education Action Group Aotearoa (TEAGA).

Branko and Kyle talk NZ’s housing market, recent COVID and Immigration/MIQ news and briefly touch on the current situation with Cuba.

We talk with Byron Clark about the groups involved with last week’s “Farmers’” protests organised by Groundswell NZ.

We speak with Ross and Mikey about Mental Health Services in NZ, Government rhetoric and systemic issues over the preceding decades.

We speak with David Slack about alternate media platforms like Substack, the inertia of current established media, and the challenges for independent journalists and content creators.