What’s On On Radio Waatea

Listen today to Paakiwaha, an exciting weekly current affairs programme with a Maori perspective. Paakiwaha is hosted this week by Willie Jackson and is broadcasted by Radio Waatea with funding from New Zealand on Air.

This week on Paakiwaha, we reflect upon the Foreshores Hikoi that demonstrated the strength of Maori concerns about the Foreshores Bill. During the hikoi, Willie talked to Dr John Mitchell, Dover Samuels, Rod Donald and Mark Solomon. Those discussions are presented together with live interviews with Nanaia Mahuta, Gregory Fortein and Tame Iti.

Our Arts Feature guest this week is multi skilled artist extraordinaire, Don Selwyn. Sports commentator Ken Laban gives his weekly sports roundup and political reporter Duncan Garner tells us his predictions for the week. So tune into yet another lively, thought provoking and debate packed programme!

On Radio Waatea (603AM) in Auckland, Mondays 10am-12pm & Saturdays 1pm-3pm and Te Upoko o Te Ika (1161AM) in Wellington, Mondays 4-6pm Or click on http://www.waatea603am.co.nz at the above times

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>