1Insight considers some of the suggestions to improve immunisation rates ahead of the government responding to Health Select Committee recommendations. New Zealand immunisation rates are low, especially for Measles, according to OECD standards, but some parents are reluctant to have their children immunised.
1After more major earthquakes in Christchurch this week, Bishop Victoria Matthews fears her clergy, and the people, are facing �exhaustion of spirit�. She says it's important to keep alive hope, and thanksgiving for all that we still have � even in the face of loss and crisis
1Mediawatch this weekend looks at the news media response to Canterbury�s latest quakes and how people are now leaving. But viewers really wanted to know what was happening over suburbs that would be abandoned. On the whole the media did a good job of presenting Christchurch's problems to New Zealand.
2News about media changes; Jason Paris has resigned from Mediaworks; Fairfax Media may sell Trade Me; Murdock's News Media may boycott the Rugby World Cup. Sports events are increasingly being sold as licensed events which restricts traditional news reporting.
3Plans for a new service to scrutinise statistics in the news. Rachel Cunliffe and partner Regan Cunliffe have set up an online forum for fans of TV (Throng.co.nz) which is now going international. There is also a statistics site called Statschat and a blog.
1One of the world�s most renowned documentary photographers, Tim Page, has been capturing conflicts and wars on film for more than 40 years. His images of the Vietnam War have been credited with helping to bring that war to a close.
1Jenny Hayward-Jones is head of the Myer Foundation Melanesian programme at the prestigious Australian think-tank, the Lowy Institute. She's a former diplomat who once shared her government's enthusiasm to use every means, short of withdrawing humanitarian assistance, to force restoration of democracy in Fiji. Now, she accepts that the tough love approach hasn�t worked and wants to see a new policy of engagement
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3Wolfram Aichele was nine years old when Hitler came to power. He was drafted in to fight for the regime and survived to tell the extraordinary tale to his son-in-law Giles Milton. Giles wanted to explore how ordinary people faced life in Hitler's Germany � the choices they made to survive and the horror of revelations which came with the end of the war.
1Last month 141 economists from around the globe launched the World Economics Association. In its first three weeks of existence more 4500 people from 120 countries joined its ranks. The association�s manifesto says it stands for a plurality of thought, method and philosophy, and a commitment to global democracy which will prevent one country or continent from dominating economic debate. Ideas talks to three of the association�s founding members.