Heavy rain last week caused flooding across Auckland, as well as a build-up in sediment at the Ardmore Water Treatment Plant. This led to call by Watercare for Aucklanders to cut back by 20 litres a day or else face untreated water in the grid. Producer Ben Goldson speaks to Watercare Chief Executive Raveem Jaduram.
Tess speaks to National MP Jami-Lee Ross about the 2017 budget which was announced yesterday. They discuss healthcare funding, for mental health, and the critical responses to the budget. We also talk about whether the tax cuts target the higher earning income bracket and ignore lower income brackets.
This week with Māori Party co-leader Marama Fox we talk about immigration in light of the Labour Party's promise to cut intake by up to 30,000 each year.
It’s been revealed New Zealand sent over $200,000 towards North Korea aid until it was cut off last year. We talk to the Taxpayers Union, the group behind the revelations, about their claims that this was a waste of expenditure.
Labour's Andrew Little is back for our weekly chat. This week, Jogai discusses the polarising response to the Party's new immigration policy, which aims to cut immigrant numbers by 20,000 to 30,000, as well as Andrew's response to the UK's General Election results, which saw Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn launch a successful campaign against all odds.
Joel talks to National's Andrew Bayly about his thoughts on Labour's recently announced Family Package which removes National's proposed tax cuts and puts the money towards social wellfare programs.
As the face of journalism changes, media mergers cut jobs and more news organisations maximize clicks, science journalism which can be costly both in time and funds is suffering. In this report Producer Jack Marshall speaks with Dr Doug Ashwell, Associate Head of School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, and Peter Griffin the Director of the Science Media Centre. We also delve deeper into the future of New Zealand's science journalism.
This Monday on The Wire, producer Jack Marshall speaks with Tertiary Education Union organiser Shaun Scott about the recently proposed staff cuts at Otago University. Amanda chats to Green Party co-leader James Shaw about the Party's AGM and families package announcement. Pacific Media Centre's Kendall Hutt gives us an update on the Papua New Guinea elections for Southern Cross. And Jack talks to Dr Simon Pollard about education, bugs, and junk science.
Dana talks to Mikey about companies sharing their secrets. While larger companies can afford a better breed of research and development, smaller companies are far more flexible to remain cutting edge. But can they work together to mutual gain or will the competitive nature of business thwart any possible rewards?
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