First up Olivia Holdsworth talks to the Interim Retirement Commissioner Peter Cordtz about a ‘care credit’ to address equity issues when women arrive at retirement.
Next, Laura Kvigstad speaks to Mayoral Candidate Ted Johnston as part of our local election coverage
After that, on Green Desk, Mitch Fuller speaks to Shark Scientist Riley Elliot about the declining number of sharks occurring globally.
And finally Rachel Simpson talks to the Executive Officer of Child Poverty Action Group Georgie Craw about how the benefits system has failed New Zealand mothers.
2019 marks the 250th anniversary of when Captain James Cook arrived in Aotearoa. Tuia 250, is commemorating the first onshore meetings between Māori – the tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand – and Pākehā in 1769–70. The commerations have been met with mixed responses, taking place at the arrival of the Endeavour yesterday. Tuwhenuaroa spoke to Owen Lloyd, Chairman of the Tairawhiti District Māori Council, who has a deep connection to te Tairawhiti on both his Pakeha and Maori side. He has very different views to those expressed by many maori in the mainstream media, so I began the interview by asking him about his own personal take on the Tuia 250 commemorations, and about the response of protestors like his colleague Marise Lant.
Lillian reports on the UN housing rights report released about Aotearoa; Mary-Margaret asks Z Energy about their app’s new carbon offsetting option, and then asks Generation Zero about their criticism that this puts an onus on consumers; Sam speaks to Associate Professor Yoram Barak about research concerning suicide rates among older generations in Aotearoa; and Mary-Margaret catches up with Justice Minister Andrew Little about right to silence laws and what reaching a settlement with Moriori means for the future
Data released this week showed that there has been no significant change in child poverty and material hardship since 2017 - Mary-Margaret speaks to Children’s Commisioner Andrew Becroft first about his response, followed by Jackie Clark of The Aunties; Sam talks to Andrea Black from the Council of Trade Unions about the significance of wage increases in this issue; Lillian speaks to Otago University researchers about CRISPR technology & genetic engineering; and we catch up with Zoe Kounadis for another week in Neighbourhood Watch
Oscar Perress was able to talk to Samuel Miller McDonald, a journalist, writer and student currently based in the UK for his studies at Oxford. Though talking for over an hour, their discussion around Covid-19 can be understood as a discussion on a need for systems change. The interview play on The Wire in three separate parts over a number of weeks, but here are those parts in full.
The National Party's workplace relations and safety spokesperson Dan Bidios has made a call that 90 Day Trials should be fully reinstated to give employers more confidence in hiring following the economic fall out of Covid-19. Jemima speaks to Dan Bidois and E Tū Union's National Industrial Officer, Paul Tolich, about 90 Day Trials and whether a full reinstatement of the scheme is in the best interests of the employer and the employee.
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