The Wire with Jemima: February 16, 2021

On the Tuesday Wire today Jemima Huston speaks to Frances Arns, the Executive Director of Rainbow Youth, about the government’s new mental health funding for Rainbow young people. They also touch on the Green Party’s petition to ban conversion therapy in Aotearoa. 

Noah Ferguson-Dudding talks to Raise the Bar founder Chloe Ann-King about the importance of employers and the government taking responsibility for workers during the third lockdown.

Jemima looks into the call for constitutional transformation and the work of Matike Mai Aotearoa, the Independent Working Group on Constitutional Transformation. She interviews Professor Margaret Mutu (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whātua) about what constitutional transformation is and how it can be achieved in Aotearoa. 

Noah wraps up the show with an interview with the Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation, Shaun Robinson, about the importance of increasing funding to mental health, and the potential long-term impacts of the pandemic.