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Five years on from the country's biggest local body merger, the Auckland Council is being marked down for failing to tackle social inequality in the city. Auckland Correspondent Todd Niall has more. Audio

Artist Ai Wei Wei calls Xu Zhiyuan the most important Chinese intellectual of his generation. In Xu's book, Paper Tiger - Inside the Real China, he writes about the strangeness and complexity of… Audio

Warren Lindberg joins Wallace to talk about the challenges facing Maori in the health system today. Audio

John Thwaites is chair of ClimateWorks Australia and the Monash Sustainability Institute. He is the former Deputy Premier (Labour) of Victoria, Australia and was in New Zealand this week to talk about… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Kate De Goldi about children's books Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson, Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson, and The War That Saved My Life by… Audio

Jim Mora talks to the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Adelaide, whose research interests include population dynamics, extinction… Audio

Alternative Education providers deal with the country's most difficult students, many of whom have been repeatedly excluded from school, but they receive 10-15 percent less government funding per… Audio

Larry Stillman from Monash on a project to empower Bangladeshi women, particularly those working in rural communities, with mobile phone technology. Audio

The casting of Scarlet Johansson as a Japanese character has been branded as Hollywood white-washing. Audio

Trudeaumania was the phrase coined in the 1960s to capture the excitement generated during the early days of Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau premiership. Now it's his son Justin who has the world's… Audio

Toby Manhire interviews James Crow, the founder of Gimme Shelter, who has launched a campaign to set up the Homeless and Rough Sleeper Health survey, to capture data on the homeless and drive better… Audio

Toby Manhire interviews Matthew Desmond, co-director of the Justice and Poverty Project at Harvard University, and author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Audio