Listen back to features and interviews from 95bFM's daily news & current affairs show, The Wire. Your hosts Felix Walton, Jemima Huston, James Tapp, Justin Wong and Ayana Piper-Healion focus on the issues of Tāmaki Makaurau and elsewhere, in independent-thinking bFM style. Weekdays 12-1pm on 95bFM.
This week Minister for Education and Public Service, Chris Hipkins, announced Early Childhood Centre teachers would receive a wage increase to match kindergarten teachers. Noah Ferguson-Dudding spoke to Hipkins about the announcement, as well as the goverment's recent move to freeze many public sector wages.
Ayana explores the challenges of activism with Associate Professor of Sociology at Otago University, Marcelle Dawson.
Last month the March Against Sexual Violence failed to go ahead several times, Ayana finds out the story behind it with one of the organisers Lily Chen.
And Lourdes Vano speaks out about her experience and challenges within School Strike 4 Climate in 2019.
Waitākere Councillor Shane Henderson speaks to Ayana about streets for people and the Queen Street upgrade, the Maungawhau by-election, what he thinks should happen with local government review, and if Auckland Council will consider following in the Governments footsteps with a wage freeze.
Noah talks to National MP Christopher Luxon about international trade and the He Puapua report.
Ayana delves deep into the challenges around activism with Associate Professor of Sociology at Otago, Marcelle Dawson, and gets the insider scoop on why the March Against Sexual Violence didn't go ahead with Lily Chen. Lourdes Vano also speaks up about the challenges she faced in the School Strike 4 Climate group in 2019.
Councillor Shane Henderson speaks to Ayana on our regular segment with Auckland Council about streets for people, Maungawhau by-election, local council review and if council would consider a wage freeze.
Finally Noah spoke to Education Minister Chris Hipkins about pay equity for ECE and Kindergarden teachers.
The government said it is planning to reduce merchant service fees for small businesses, which is a fee that banks charge for every transaction made on contactless debit and credit cards.
Auckland-based energy company Lodestone is planning to build five solar farms across the North Island and generate enough power for 55,000 households while conducting dairy farming on the side. The company's Director for Development Daniel Cunningham spoke to reporter James Tapp.
Canterbury environementalist are protesting today in front of Envrionment Canterbury's offices to protest the agency's decision to grant a ten year extension to an environmental consent of a highly controversial irrigation scheme. The spokesperson of one of the groups, Aotearoa Water Action, spoke to Justin.
A new report by the Otago University in Wellington discovered that five per cent of houses in New Zealand are lacking basic amenities including drinkable tap water, electricity or a toilet. The report's lead author Helen Vickers is a Research Fellow at Otago University in Wellington's He Kāinga Oranga programme. She spoke to Justin about the report.
This week on 'What's the Buzz?' with the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Aneeka talks to Fiona Patten who is a politician from Victoria, Australia. Fiona is in the country for the Drug Symposium in Parliament and talks to Aneeka about drug policy in Victoria, particularly around marijuana and medically supervised injection centres.
Recently the National Party has accused the government of pursuing a "separatist" agenda as they promote policies such as a separate Māori Health Authority. Other parties, including the Māori Party and the Greens, have criticised National's claims for racial rhetoric. Noah Ferguson-Dudding spoke to National MP Christopher Luxon about the controversy, as well as the Treaty of Waitangi more generally.
They also discussed New Zealand's upcoming trade delegations with Australia and the United Kingdom.
This week on 'What's the Buzz?' with the New Zealand Drug Foundation, Aneeka talks to Fiona Patten who is a politician from Victoria, Australia. Fiona is in the country for the Drug Symposium in Parliament and talks to Aneeka about drug policy in Victoria, particularly around marijuana and medically supervised injection centres.
This week James and Brooke talk about a range of topics, starting off with the new laws to be introduced under Labour ot combat gangs.
The new laws allow for guns to be seized if they owner is high risk, which cuts through paper work. An act is also be revised to allow more seizures of gang owned assets.
James also touches on Brooke's motion in parliament which was revised, as the use of the word 'genocide' was vetoed.
Their chat finishes up on unionism, and ACT"s opposition to compulsory unionism.
This week on Tomorrow's World, Isla and Stella investigate the science side of video sharing app TikTok. They discuss whether TikTok is a trustworthy information source, debunk some mistruths and approve some actually accurate science videos.
Earlier this week, parliament passed a motion declaring China is committing human rights abuses aganst the Uyghur people. Noah Ferguson-Dudding spoke to National MP Christopher Luxon about the declaration, as part of their weekly interview. They also discussed the government's new 10-year plan to improve the national railway system.
Justin spoke to Health Minister Andrew Little about Pharmac reportedly stopping blanket funding drugs for kid's cancer, comments made by National leader Judith Collins on health sector reforms, and Labour insisting changing a motion condemning 'genocide' in China's Xinjiang province to 'human rights abuse'.
This week on Neighbourhood Watch, a legal challenge is launched against the Federal government's ban in returning citizens from India, a family could be released from the detention centre on Christmas Island, and a giant moth is discovered in Queensland.
International Desk reports on the developments in Chad after President Idriss Deby was killed and the country is ruled by a military transitional council. Justin was joined by SOAS University PHD student Moudwe Daga to talk about what caused the conflict and the future for the Central African country.
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