Although the Commerce Comission rejected a merger of insurance companies Tower and Vero, around 70% general insurance in New Zealand is still ultimately provided by two companies.
For more, producer Ben speaks with Interest.co.nz reporter Jenée Tibshraeny.
Illustrator Toby Morris discusses ethics in cartoons, following a controversy around two Fairfax pieces that have been labelled by some as ‘racist’ and unfair.
This Day in History takes us back to 1989, and the (figurative) fall of the Berlin Wall:
For more than two decades the Wall had divided Berlin, with movement between East and West virtually non-existant. Ostensibly built to protect East Berlin, it was denounced in the West as a totalitarian restriction on freedom of movement. It's fall would see the rapid entry of the former Soviet bloc into the world economy, with mixed results.
Producer Laura Kvigstad speaks with sociologist, Toni Bruce, on the subject of Laurel Hubbard, a transgendered female weight lifter after the controversy of her winning two silver metals. We then have a panel with some members of the 95bfm news team.
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