The Wire w/ Liam: October 14th, 2022

E whai ake nei, coming up on The Wire today:

Liam had their regular chat with city councillor Shane Henderson, chatting about his re-election to the Waitakere Ward seat, the local elections and his goals for this term of council. 

We also have a report from David Liwei Shi, covering last week's tertiary education union strike. 

They’ve also spoken to Caroline Mareko from NZCTU about the pacific pay gap inquiry and what needs to change about wealth inequality in Aotearoa.

We also have a kōrero with the green parties Ricardo Menedez March, on the government's re-opening of the migrant worker and parent visas, and some of the issues they’ve identified within it.

And lastly Liam spoke to Michael Plank from the University of Canterbury about the risk of new Covid-19 Subvariants.