With the election done and uncertainty about who gets the job, Chris Fowlie joins Jonny and Big Hungry to discuss the implications for marijuana law reform. Positive news about hemp from a recent working group in Wellington with all signs glowing green, everyone's keen. Also, Green MP Julie Ann Genter's bill is past its first reading and looks set to go out for public consulation in 2018 :)
Delaney answers your questions on the topics of New Zealand made cheeses, cheese laws (definitely an actual thing, honest), and how to not p*ss off your partner's parents at the bistro.
Today in Neighbourhood Watch with Nicole Wedding from Radio Adelaide we chat about a new Australian law that could see 10 year olds held without charge for up to two weeks if they are suspects of terrorism. We also discuss the potential for 50 degree days in our generation with internationally increasing climates, and 30,000 guns that were handed in during Australia's second firearm amnesty.
On today's Wire we have journalist Rod Oram talking about the new ministerial line-up, as well as former MP Te Ururoa Flavell on Maori representation in parliament.
Lachlan speaks to Dr Jane Kelsey, from the University of Auckland's Law Faculty, about the future of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, and we have our regular State of the States feature with Nick Sawhney.
Finally we have This Day in History, which takes us back to 1955 and the creation of the Republic of Vietnam.
Producer Conor caught up with Professor Jane Kelsey from the University of Auckland Law Department. Kelsey updated us on the recent developments in negotiations of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, and discussed possible motivations for states to pursue or reject the deal.
On today's Wire we have Otago University Law Professor, Andrew Geddis, to talk about Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman's work for United Nations tribunals.
We've also got Labour Party MP Andrew Little to talk about recent revelations surrounding the GSCB, and there's also ACT MP David Seymour to talk about the government's changes to the Overseas Investment Office.
Finally there's This Day in History, for the second part of an earlier piece on the Arab-Israeli conflict. This week it's 1947 and the start of a civil war in Mandatory Palestine.
What's all this 'Speargun' business then? What does the new government think of mass surveillance? And now that Andrew Little's Healthy Homes Bill has passed in to law, what changes can we expect?
Cannabis law reform: so close and yet so far away? With a fair dose of MP flip flopping and an ex-bFMer at the helm, just what happened in parliament when weedy things were recently tabled?
Joel Thomas hosts The Wire with Mary-Margaret Slack, and Sam Smith this Monday in which:
Lillian Hanly talks to Auckland Uni law professor Andrew Eruiti about the royal commission into the treatment of children in state care.
Joel talks to Green Party co-leader James Shaw about his time in Waitangi and the inclusion of gender identity and sexual orientation on the 2023 census.
Sam Smith runs through his findings of the newly released housing stocktake report ordered by the Government.
And Mary-Margaret Slack talks to tax consultant Terry Baucher about the taxing of cryptocurrencies.
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