NEWS

Foreign Minister Winston Peters is in Washington to discuss aid to the Pacific, while PM Christopher Luxon met Narendra Modi in India for trade talks. ACT leader David Seymour targets local councils and the free speech debate comes to Christchurch with US speaker James Lindsay. 

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ANALYSIS

In interviews with Paul Brennan, Councillor Glen Crowther discusses his call for an independent inquiry into the Tauranga City Council Commission, which ran the city in 2021-2024, while Alistair Boyce of Better Wellington highlights the city’s ratepayer funding of online sex ed courses for transgenders.

THE SIGNPOST

Coming up on RCR today: Paul Brennan chats with Alastair Boyce from Better Wellington about the City Council’s controversial online sex education course for transgender people. Ian Wishart joins Paul to discuss misleading climate change coverage from Radio New Zealand, and in Monday’s Mailbag, Paul responds to listener feedback.

Rodney Hide sits down with Don Brash from Hobson’s Pledge to talk about Three Waters, co-governance, and local elections and in Rodney’s Reflections, he questions why schools are asking 13-year-olds about their sexual history. Plus, if you missed it, his webinar with Dr Sarah Farrant, Health Outside The System, is packed with great tips for staying healthy.

In the Wilms Report, Tim Wilms covers Cyclone Alfred’s impact on Australia’s national election, an anti-Semitic caravan explosives hoax, and more.

And in this week’s Rural Report, Don Nicolson and Jaspreet Boparai dive into topics from climate change books for babies to a farmer forced to sell up over land-use restrictions.

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