Today is our Best of Semester One 2021 show! The 95bFM News Team works hard to bring you important and interesting news stories every week for our news bulletins and the Wire. As we are a student newsroom, our timetabling runs on a university schedule. So, in celebration of completing semester one, we thought we'd play you some of the best pieces that were created for Wire in Semester One 2021.
Ayana Piper-Healion explored the challenges of activism with Associate Professor of Sociology Marcelle Dawson and March Against Sexual Violence organiser Lily Chen.
James Tapp spoke to ACT Party deputy leader Brooke van Velden about ACT's opposition to the He Puapua and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
This semester Felix Walton created Stranger Than Fact, where he turned a journalistic eye to the world's most mysterious stories. He investigated the Dancing Plague of 1518, an event that got a whole town on their feet... before they couldn't get back down.
News and Editorial Director Jemima Huston talked to New Zealand education experts about whether politics has a place in New Zealand classrooms. This story was in response to Australia’s New South Wales Government condemning a local school whose students created Black Lives Matter and anti-police protest posters.
Noah Ferguson-Dudding asked National MP Christopher Luxon about his fellow MP Paul Goldsmith's remarks about colonisation and Luxon’s own knowledge of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Finally, International Desk reported on Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily closing operations after its chief editor and five media executives were arrested on national security charges. Justin Wong chatted to Hong Kong journalist Stephen Vines about it.
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