Q + A, Marae Investigates and Sunday this week

21st July 2011

Q + A, Marae Investigates And Sunday this week

9am Sundays on TV ONE

Q+A has an American special to mark John Key's visit.

Guyon Espiner is in the United States, and will be conducting three interviews. He will start by speaking with the Prime Minister on the continuing NZ-USA trade talks, as well as this week's allegations of Israeli spying in NZ.

Then Guyon will talk with US Congressman Rick Larsen; to get the American perspective on NZ-US relations and trade - are the Americans prepared to relax their agricultural tariffs, will they play hardball on reducing or even eliminating the role of Pharmac?

And finally we get an update on the current situation in US politics with ABC News' Senior Political Correspondent Jonathan Karl.

Paul Holmes will be moderating the panel live in Auckland and be joined by Dr Jon Johansson and Fran O'Sullivan.

Q+A, 9-10am Sundays on TV ONE. Repeats at 9.10pm Sundays, 10.10am and 2.10pm Mondays on TVNZ 7

On Marae Investigates

10am Sundays on TV ONE

What's really in the watercress we're eating? Marae Investigates finds naturally gathered watercress maybe contaminated with arsenic and looks at a Maori initiative to provide safer supplies.

The panel this week includes economist Dr Ganesh Nana and Maori business leader James Wheeler to discuss the growing Maori economy as the asset base hits $36.9 billion.

And the Maori teenager who's made it to the big time in a multi million dollar US sport. Marae Investigates checks out the potential opportunities for Kiwis in baseball.

On Sunday

7:30pm Sundays on TV ONE

AGONY OF CHOICE

It's a choice we're all faced with as parents, when the baby comes along do we vaccinate or do we not vaccinate? How can we make a rational decision? We are bombarded with highly charged arguments from both sides of the vaccination spectrum. Health authorities are saying they want 95% of our kids immunised in this country. But are we being fully informed before taking our kids for the jab? Are the authorities, doctors and pharmaceutical companies telling us everything we need to know so we can consider what is best for our kids? Do the benefits outweigh the pitfalls? How rational is the argument from anti-vaccine lobby?

The debate that won't go away.

THE DARK ARTS

Top cops have resigned, journalists have been jailed, a newspaper closed down and now the death of the whistleblower... just some of the fallout from the Rupert Murdoch News International affair. This week on SUNDAY, the Panorama team stitches together the hacking scandals and other malpractices that threatened to bring down one of the of the world's biggest and most powerful media companies.

They call it the DARK ARTS in the industry - doing anything, legal or illegal, to get the story and to sell the newspaper. But when they hacked into the dead schoolgirl's phone ... it was one step too far.

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