The Wire with Laura: 13th of March, 2020

On The Friday Wire This Week...

This week National's Denise Lee joins Laura Kvigstad to discuss Simon Bridges plans to cut the red tape, deregulating industries in order to stimulate the economy. Then they chat about the pay equity amendment bill and why it's stalled on it's second reading. Finally, they chat about National advocating for coalition government to stall the minimum wage increase set to begin on April 1st, 2020.  

Then, Sam Denne speaks to Chloe Ann King, an advocate for hospitality workers and a research assistant at AUT.

Next, Laura speak with Amnesty International’s Policy and Advocacy Manager, Annaliese Johnston about the upcoming review by the United Nations into the Rights of Children in Aotearoa.

Finally, Louis Laws speaks to Samuel Vye from Environment Conversation Technologies about predator-control drones.