Dr George Laking is a cancer specialist and director for the Centre for Cancer Research at the University of Auckland. He believes Australia’s prescription-only model for vaping is overkill and will be ineffective at reducing harms in New Zealand.
Arno started the interview by asking if he was glad that the legislation had not passed in parliament this term to restrict vaping further.
Bridget Abernathy is the CEO of the Energy Retailers Association. They have recently launched a campaign called Energymate that shows Kiwis how they can reduce power usage during the energy-intensive winter months.
Arno had a brief chat with her about some common energy-saving tips. Arno started the interview by asking what Kiwis could do to reduce their power consumption.
Check out energymate.nz for more tips and tricks on saving power this winter.
Last Monday Rocket Lab launched the first two of four satellites under the banner "Rocket Like a Hurricane" to improve the monitoring of tropical storms. Alex Bonham spoke to Morgan Bailey of Rocket Lab to find out how these satellites will make an impact, and to discover the reasons why they are putting so much money into developing the medium size reusable Neutron Rocket.
The most recent food price report from Stats NZ hints at tough future for Kiwi’s wallets. The report says that annual food prices have increased by twelve point five percent, the largest increase in food prices since September 1987, which shortly followed the introduction of GST in 1986.
Some of the key numbers from the report show that over the recent period:
grocery food prices increased by 14.0 percent
fruit and vegetables prices increased by 22.5 percent
restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food prices increased by 9.0 percent
meat, poultry, and fish prices increased by 9.5 percent
non-alcoholic beverage prices increased by 8.0 percent.
To learn more about what food items substantially increased in price, Andre Fa'aoso spoke to James Mitchell, manager for Consumer Price Delivery at Stats NZ.
Today we have a budget prediction spesh with Rod Oram on Political Commentary, as Rachel talks about tomorrow's big announcements in the political sphere. Andwahn comes up to the studio to talk about his EP out today, Support Spiral. Matthew Crawley and Lee Smith-Gibbons come into the studio to talk about the camp show Interviews With A Vampires, being held in a secretive vampy location in Tāmaki Makaurau to raise money for Muriwai's flood relief cause. Whakarongo mai nei!
Climate change, racism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism and lack of accessible support are some of the key concerns and issues highlighted in a youth wellbeing report. Ka Whakahuatau te Rangatahi mõ te Toiora or the Youth Wellbeing insights report has highlighted key issues affecting the mental health of young people throughout Aotearoa.
The report also outlines the disproportionate mental health struggles of minority communities including Māori, Pasifika and rainbow youth. The report emphasises that policymakers need to acknowledge the experiences of rangatahi within future mental health system reform and investment.
To speak more about the report, its findings and the reactions to it, Andre Fa'aoso spoke to Doctor Jessica Stubbing, research fellow in Koi Tū, The Centre for Informed Futures.
Our chat with James Shaw is back again on The Wire for Wednesday.
Emilia Sullivan chats to the Green Party co-leader about yesterday’s hostel fire in Wellington, the inquiry into forestry slash on the East Coast, and the Budget ahead of its release tomorrow.
On the Green Desk for this week, Jack Marshall speaks to the Department of Conservation's Chief Science Advisor Mike Bunce about the role that new and developing technologies have in solving Aotearoa’s biodiversity threats.
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