Panel discussions from Otago University

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• Safe food or a saved environment? A panel explores the packaging dilemma

  science

  20 Oct 2019

  

  Kim Hill discusses the complexities of packaging and waste with four experts - Sharon Humphreys, Mike Sammons, Prof. Juliet Gerrard, and Assoc. Prof. Xiaomeng Wu.  Audio

• A disordered food system has created an obesogenic world which engineers overconsumption

  food

  13 Oct 2019

  

  Kim Hill explores the true cost of abundant cheap, fatty and sugary food with Dr Sally Mackay, Dr Matire Harwood, Deborah Manning and Prof. Hugh Campbell. Audio

• Saving our coasts from climate change means not building pointless and expensive seawalls

  environment

  29 Sep 2019

  

  Guyon Espiner talks with a panel of University of Otago experts: Associate Professor Janet Stephenson, Dr Ben France-Hudson. Dr Caroline Orchiston and Professor Lisa Ellis. Audio

• Uber eats or judges as cuckoo clocks? Three experts discuss how to make access to the civil justice system cheaper and fairer

  law

  6 Oct 2019

  Guyon Espiner talks at Parliament with Dr Bridgette Toy-Cronin, Justice Forrest Miller and Leo Watson. Recorded in July 2019 in association with the University of Otago. Audio

• North Korea and China stronger together, and having a bit of a laugh at America

  history

  26 Aug 2018

  

  Our nation's place in the world is explored by four experts in international relations: Professor Tony Ballantyne, Dr Marcelle Dawson and Professor Robert Patman from Otago University; along with… Audio

• What do young people want? In the ‘60s it was free love, but today it’s free media

  media

  25 Nov 2018

  

  Guyon Espiner explores the changing relationship between the media and the advertising industry which has previously bankrolled it with a panel of experts. Audio

• What’s the best way of tackling diet-related disease – food labelling or sugar taxes?

  food health

  30 Dec 2018

  

  Kim Hill explores the  tackling diet-related disease with Prof Cliona Ni Mhurchu, Megan Tunks and Simon Kenny. Audio

• On the road to driverless cars

  technology transport

  24 Sep 2017

  

  A high-powered panel discusses the changes autonomous vehicles will make on our driving, our roads and our world in front of a Dunedin audience. Audio

• The Cost of Sugar

  food

  14 Apr 2017

  

  Professor Jim Mann, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth and Professor Tony Blakely talk to Kim Hill about why free sugar is so bad, whether diet soft drinks are good, and sugar versus fat.  Audio