1Insight looks at the latest suicide statistics amid calls for greater openness over the problem. On average 10-lives are lost to suicide in New Zealand each week. Suicide kills 50%-more people than the road. Suicide prevention initiatives are as simple as setting up links in the community. Most prevention programmes concentrate on young people but the rates for men over 70-are much higher than for the young. How media can best report on suicide is also under consideration at present to develop new guidelines agreed by all media.
1Dr Evelin Lindner is the founding president of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Network, which aims to end violence and advance human dignity on all levels � from the personal to the political. She tells Chris that all of humanity is one family on a tiny planet, and we need to co-operate with each other. Violations of human dignity are at the base of most areas of conflict.
1The first, involving a young Rotorua man described an internet made connection he made with a 'sexcapade' , and criminal charges, which had been reported by the Dominion Post before he died, and the second involving sports broadcaster Martin Devlin and incidences of him behaving badly. Devlin took a complaint to the press council about the type of reporting, which was up held.
2Mediawatch tracks down an intrepid New Zealand journalist who hit the headlines recently when he was beaten up in Egypt's uprising�� and later locked up in Yemen. Is he still committed to covering the world�s most risky regions?
3Mediawatch also looks at whether your TV could really be killing you, as some headlines would have you believe, like those who watch 6-hours of Television a day on average can expect to live six-years less than those who watch no TV at all. BUT what about the influence of exercise, or people who read books!
4Rugby World cup boycott by Australian media because of the restrictions on the papers imposed by the International Rugby Board saying they decide what is news not the rugby board.
2Ian Boisvert, a renewable energy attorney from San Francisco, has been based at the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority (EECA), researching policy for the management of NZ�s ocean renewable energy resources � wave power, tidal currents and offshore wind. He�s advocating a new system he calls Tradable Occupation Rights for all users of the marine environment, to reduce conflict and allow New Zealand to more easily realise its offshore energy potential.
1If there�s one thing that most economists agree on it�s that entrepreneurs are a key ingredient of economic growth. But how do you grow entrepreneurism?