News & Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins speaks to Executive Director of The New Zealand Initiative, Dr Oliver Hartwich and Associate Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Auckland, Dr Neal Curtis about Liz Truss resigning after just six weeks as UK Prime Minister.
Victoria University student and disability advocate Alice Mander talks about the panel set to lead a review of Aotearoa’s electoral law.
And for our Bird of the Year special, Jessica interviewed Forest and Bird's Ellen Rykers and several campaign managers about the competition.
Happy Tuesday! On today's Wire with Christina and Casper. Allan Blackman joined the team live on air to talk Black Plague, mozzies and the DART mission for Dear Science.
Casper spoke to Dr Shane Reti from the National Party for their weekly segment about their proposed social investment fund. He also had a kōrero with Rosemary Penwarden from Restore Passenger Rail about their campaign and recent protest activity on Wellington highways.
Christina spoke to Dr Stephen Noakes, a senior politics lecturer from the University of Auckland, about the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th National Congress and Xi Jinping's continued grasp on power. She also reported on Rishi Sunak, who is set to become UK's next Prime Minister in the wake of Liz Truss' resignation last week.
The stage is set for a new UK prime minister after contenders one by one ruled themselves out of the race to become the next leader of the Conservative Party.
Rishi Sunak, the former chancellor, will lead the country in a time of political and economic turmoil in Britain, in the wake of Liz Truss after just 45 days as PM.
This week on the Tuesday Wire, Christina, for the last time, spoke to Joel Rindelaub on the phone for a rather apocalyptic Dear Science.
Casper talked to National MP Dr Shane Reti, this time discussing Adrian Orr’s reappointment as Reserve Bank governor.
Christina also spoke to political commentator and former National press secretary Ben Thomas about what to expect ahead of next year’s general election.
Casper also talked to UoA’s Stephen Hoadley about the Prime Minster’s visit to Vietnam.
And Milly, producing for the Tuesday Wire for the first time, spoke to Liam Rutherford from the New Zealand Educational Institute Te Riu Roa regarding smaller class sizes to increase school attendance.
David brings us City Counselling with Shane Henderson, they speak about freedom camping laws.
Daniel looks at The rise of online hate, misogyny and its effects on Jacinda Ardern’s resignation as the Prime Minister. He also speaks with Margaret Stanley about the human impact on wild native bird species in New Zealand and how we can support them.
Joe looks also looks into Jacinda Ardern’s effect on New Zealand’s international brand and progressive reputation. He also speaks to Barbara Galland from the University of Otago about later school starts helping teens with sleeping problems.
Following Jacinda Ardern's resignation as Prime Minister of Aotearoa, Joe speaks to Bodo Lang, Associate Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Auckland about Ardern’s effect on New Zealand’s international brand and progressive reputation.
With one of the most internationally famous NZ Prime Ministers leaving office, many are discussing her legacy - particular her legacy overseas.
Geoffrey Miller, international analyst for the Democracy Project, wrote about Jacinda Ardern’s outsized foreign policy legacy, and chatted about this with Casper.
News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins, and producer Troy Matich, bring you The Wire for Rāapa Wednesday.
Jessica speaks to Associate Professor of Māori and Pacific Studies Jemaima Tiatia and the Associate Dean Pacific of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Sir Collin Tukuitonga, about Carmel Sepuloni becoming Aotearoa’s first Pasifika deputy prime minister.
She talks to Tertiary Education Union Organiser Jill Jones about the union's legal action against redundancies at the Auckland University of Technology.
She also asks Academic GP Nikki Turner about Jacinda Ardern’s legacy on child poverty.
Troy interviews SAFE For Animals Head of Campaigns, Jess Chambers, about why battery-caged eggs were banned.
New data from Stats NZ has recently shown the rate of annual inflation in Aotearoa has remained stagnant at 7.2 percent.
Food, construction and airfare prices have gone up, however the dropping prices of fuel have led the mean to being balanced where it was.
The news came in conjunction with the swearing in of Chris Hipkins as the new prime minister, who has stated his biggest priority is the cost of living crisis for lower and middle income New Zealanders.
To learn more about what the numbers mean, Liam spoke to UoA economist Robert MaCulloch.
With the election coming up this year we’re starting to see the formation of concrete policy platforms with one major topic this election being the cost of living.
Prime Minister Hipkins calls their approach a focus on ‘bread and butter issues’ whereas National has come out with a 5-point plan to ‘get inflation under control’.
Casper discussed this plan with National's Shane Reti, beginning by asking him to explain the first point, a proposal to end the reserve bank’s dual mandate.
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