1Corrections Minister Judith Collins is expected to announce a ban on tobacco in prisons that will take effect from the middle of next year. Is such a ban a legitimate public health move or a knee-jerk reaction that will spark unrest among inmates? Celia Lashlie, former women's prison governor, and Dr Simon Adamson, Clinical Psychologist at the National Addiction Centre, discuss the issue.
2The rabbit population in the South Island High Country is creeping back to numbers close to what they were before the rabbit calicivirus was introduced in 1997, and the controversial poison 1080 may be the only viable solution. E-Can's Southern biosecurity team leader Brent Clentworth, McKenzie District farmer Philip Mackay, and Charles Eason, professor of Wildlife Management at Lincoln University, talk about rabbit population control.
3News from the Middle East, including: the forthcoming Israeli inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid; partial lifting of the Gaza blockade;
4Feature guest: New Zealand-raised Richard O'Brien, creator of the 1975 cult classic film 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'.
5Politics with Andrew Campbell and Matthew Hooton, including: the Auckland mayoralty race, Len Brown's accountability for mayoral credit card spending and John Banks' use of the 'dark arts' of politics; Stephen Tindall and greenwashing; the national standards boycott; lessons for New Zealand from the leadership coup in Australia;