The Thursday Wire: April 16, 2020

We have our updates from the Epidemic Response Committee meeting today where the committee is hearing from the Reserve Bank, trade Ministers and the Council of Trade Unions

Hanna speaks to Campbell Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland and a researcher at the thinktank Economic and Social Research Aotearoa, about how ‘unskilled’ work has become ‘essential services’ under lockdown.

We will hear from Labour’s Andrew Little once again, this week Mary-Margaret asked about the tertiary package and the claims of the group calling for a ‘Plan B’.

Rachel brings us an update on the State of the States.

And Mary-Margaret also catches up with Radio Adelaide’s Zoe Kounadis about their Chief Medical Officer’s comments at our own Epidemic Response Committee, and a new DC character who is an Aboriginal woman from Pilbara.