Best Auckland Conversations Podcasts (2024)

The new book Secret History: State Surveillance in New Zealand, 1900-1956 by Richard S Hill and Steven Loveridge (Auckland University Press, 2023) opens up the ‘secret world’ of security intelligence during a period in which counter-espionage and counter-subversion duties were primarily handled by the New Zealand Police Force. This is the first of …

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Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand’: Jared Davidson 43:49

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Forced labour haunts the streets we walk today and the spaces we take for granted. From 1814 onwards, the unfree work of prisoners was used to forge roads, ports, buildings, harbour defences and other public works across New Zealand and its Pacific empire. Prisoners planted forests, cleared land and laboured on dairy farms. Their work was crucial t…

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Transporting Us To A Cooler Future 1:56:23

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Transporting Us To A Cooler Future by Auckland CouncilBy Auckland Council

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Adoption: From severance and secrecy to connection and openness 1:27:43

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In this month's Public History Talk, the authors of two recently published books discussed the profound impact of closed stranger adoption in New Zealand and the drive for change. Closed stranger adoption under the 1955 Adoption Act, still in force today, has deeply affected thousands of New Zealanders. In their recent book Adopted: Loss, love, fam…

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An (In)Equitable Transition: Where To From Here? 1:54:59

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An (In)Equitable Transition: Where To From Here? by Auckland CouncilBy Auckland Council

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Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay 59:17

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Paul Diamond's book, Downfall: The destruction of Charles Mackay, examines the startling ‘Whanganui Affair’ of 1920, when the mayor Charles Mackay, shot a young gay man, D'Arcy Cresswell. The affair and subsequent events reveal the perilous existence of homosexual men at that time and how society conspired to control and punish them. In 1920 New Ze…

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Te Motunui Epa – making history from the underground 1:07:48

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For more than 150 years, five carved panels that once formed the back wall of a pātaka, slept in a small swamp just north of Waitara. The carvings, which uri of Taranaki now call the Motunui Epa, emerged from their long sleep in 1971 setting off an extraordinary chain of events that would take them around the world and back again. In this talk, Dr …

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‘An overview of New Zealand’s radical right tradition’: Matthew Cunningham 42:57

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In seeking to understand the terrorist attacks of March 2019, several commentators observed the similarities with the murder of an elderly Chinese man named Joe Kum Yung by Lionel Terry in 1905. It is tempting to draw a direct causal line between the two attacks, both as a concise way of framing an uncomfortable subject and as an emotional salve ag…

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Archives in Place: Deep Histories in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 41:12

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In this podcast, Dr Lucy Mackintosh discusses aspects of her recently published book, Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland (Bridget Williams Books, 2021), which explores the layered histories embedded in three landscapes in the city. Starting with rocks, lava flows, a grassy paddock, the remains of a garden, the site of a co…

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Katherine Mansfield’s Europe: Station to Station: Redmer Yska and Cherie Jacobson in conversation 54:50

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Katherine Mansfield was a New Zealand author of international renown. Her short stories and poetry have been translated into more than 25 languages and her work continues to have an impact one hundred years after her death in France in 1923. Mansfield spent most of her adult life in Europe, working as a writer, editor, and critic, and living in var…

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Musicians, Myths and Manifestos 43:26

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What can popular music tell us about a country and its culture? As the 2023 Lilburn Research Fellow, Nick Bollinger is looking at ways in which pop music in Aotearoa New Zealand has reflected, contradicted, and contributed to our national stories. In this talk he will offer a progress report on a few of his discoveries. These monthly Public History…

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Solidarity and the Right to Strike 48:02

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Cybèle Locke’s recently published biography of Bill Andersen, Comrade, examines labour activism, communism and social change, from the 1930s until the turn of the twenty-first century. This talk offers possibilities for how Bill Andersen’s Communist, working-class life might speak to us in the current moment. These monthly Public History Talks are …

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Building A Wellbeing Economy From The City Up 1:25:21

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Building A Wellbeing Economy From The City Up by Auckland CouncilBy Auckland Council

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Making Space: A history of New Zealand women in architecture 44:44

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Brilliant, hardworking and creative, women architects have made many significant contributions to the built environment, creativity and community of Aotearoa New Zealand. A ground-breaking new book, Making Space, tells the story of women making space for themselves in a male-dominated profession while designing architectural, landscape and urban sp…

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New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A History 1:13:22

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFAT) is a remarkable organisation that has represented New Zealand for more than 75 years. A new book, New Zealand’s Foreign Service: A History examines how MFAT (and its predecessors) responded to ever-evolving political and military allegiances, trade globalisation, economic threats, natural disasters and militar…

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A Vision for Auckland: Designing with future generations in mind 1:21:08

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A Vision for Auckland: Designing with future generations in mind by Auckland CouncilBy Auckland Council

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Radical Collaboration - Accelerating Climate Action Together 1:40:15

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Radical Collaboration - Accelerating Climate Action Together by Auckland CouncilBy Auckland Council

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A Biography of Lake Tūtira 46:03

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This talk sketches Lake Tūtira’s history from formation to today. Historian Jonathan West will follow in the traces of Herbert Guthrie Smith, whose obsessive records of the changes witnessed while farming by the lake made him the founder of environmental history here. He will take his cue from Guthrie Smith’s first book’s opening lines: ‘The lake o…

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Women Will Rise! Recalling the Working Women’s Charter 49:39

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It's over 40 years since the Working Women's Charter was adopted as policy by the New Zealand Federation of Labour. The 16-clause Charter demanded rights for women in all aspects of life and work, including equal pay; ending discrimination; education and health rights; improved working conditions; quality child care; family and parental leave, and …

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Can Auckland count on your vote? Why every vote counts 1:19:26

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Can Auckland count on your vote? Why every vote counts by Auckland CouncilBy Auckland Council

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Mahuru Māori: Māni Dunlop and Jamie Tahana 56:04

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Māni Dunlop (Ngāpuhi) and Jamie Tahana (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Makino, Te Arawa) are journalists and national broadcasters who actively champion te reo Māori me nga tikanga Māori through their work. Māni was the first Māori journalist at RNZ to host a weekday show, while Jamie is one of RNZ’s youngest Māori News Directors. They began their careers as …

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Shifting perspectives about colonial conflict: The Wairau Affray and the Battle of Boulcott’s Farm 49:44

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Liana MacDonald (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Koata) is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Victoria University of Wellington. She is interested in how racism, whiteness, and settler colonialism manifest in national institutions. In this talk, Liana focusses on two significant conflicts between mana whenua and British and settler milit…

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With the Boys Overseas: radio listening during World War II and New Zealand’s first broadcast war correspondents 51:32

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In the 1940s radio played a central role in the life of the New Zealand household as a source of news and entertainment. Sound historian Sarah Johnston is researching radio during this era, particularly the role of our first radio war correspondents, who travelled with the New Zealand forces in North Africa, the Middle East, Italy and in the Pacifi…

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Learning in and from primary schools: Teaching Aotearoa New Zealand’s histories at Years 1 to 6 50:16

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In September 2019, Hon Chris Hipkins announced Aotearoa New Zealand's histories would be taught in all schools and kura from 2022 (later extended to 2023). In this talk Dr Genaro Oliveira shared findings from a comprehensive survey of primary school teachers across the Manawatū region about history teaching at Years 1 to 6. Answers from the ten loc…

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‘There was no honour in it’: Two aspects of New Zealand’s military history 45:51

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Please note: This talk contains material that may be distressing to some listeners, including the discussions of war crimes. If you wish to skip this discussion, it runs from 9:19 through to 16:36. Please take care of yourself, and if you don't think this talk is for you, no worries, and we hope you'll listen again soon. In this talk, military hist…

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Welcome to Monday - 4th April 2022 19:17

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On this Episode of Welcome to Monday Tim discusses his new job at Niu FM and his journey towards the ultimate goal We talk about Will Smith and Chris Rock and why violence aint it Sonic 2 review as well as Jim Carrey vs Adam SandlerBy TimProvise

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Welcome Back to Mondays - 28 March 2022 19:17

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We are back!! With a full run down of what ive been up to and whats about to go down!By TimProvise

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The Platform: the radical legacy of the Polynesian Panthers 55:13

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In this talk, Melani Anae, Associate Professor in Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland discusses aspects of her recent book, The Platform: the radical legacy of the Polynesian Panthers. In the book she writes, ‘Fifty years ago the Polynesian Panther Party began to shine a light on racism and oppressive systems, and we made small changes. B…

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