E whai ake nei, coming up on the Friday Wire, Liam had a chat with Christina Ammunson from Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori about the goal of having one million basic speakers of Te Reo in Aotearoa by 2040.
Casper continued his chats with mayoral Candidates, today, he spoke to Gary Brown.
Liam also spoke to Shane Henderson about the City Rail Link and the 2022 Mayoral Conservation awards for City Counselling.
David Liwei Shi had a chat with Green Party MP Teanau Tuiono about how a lack of mask mandates put vulnerable communities at risk.
And finally, Liam spoke with Felicia Low from the University of Auckland about perinatal mental distress.
Welcome to the Thursday Wire! This week on the show...
Stella speaks to Sabrina Manu from Amnesty International and one of the winners of the Gary Ware Legacy Award about their work on a documentary about human trafficking in Aotearoa.Tuva’a has his weekly catch up with Labour’s Andrew Little, and Stella speaks to Juressa Lee from greenpeace Aotearoa about their calls for the UN to drop sponsors like Coca Cola from COP27 climate change talks. On Greendesk this week, Joel Armstrong speaks to Professor Craig Stevens from NIWA and University of Auckland about the state of Aotearoa's Marine environment. Finally, Stella speaks to Ariel Macaiah Heswall about her research into light pollution’s effects on seabirds.
Host Jessica Hopkins speak to Brooke van Velden for our weekly chat with the ACT Party.
A PhD student from the University of Auckland calls on Universities in Aotearoa to do more to condemn human rights abuses in Iran.
Chief Executive of the Environmental Defence Society, Gary Taylor, discusses the new bills meant to replace and simplify the Resource Management Act; the Natural and Built Environments Bill and Spatial Planning Bill.
And Theatre Director Barnie Duncan and Producer Ruby Reihana-Wilson have a kōrero about their project Siblings, which is exploring sibling relationships where one person has a disability.
This week, on Casper's final Tuesday Wire show, Joel Rindelaub chatted about animals that do drugs for Dear Science. Casper talked to National’s Shane Reti about infrastructure resilience and Gary Taylor from the Environmental Defence Society about managed retreat.
Milly spoke with Toby Williams from the Federated Farmers regarding the issue of forestry slash. She also talked to Tony Mitchell from Bike Auckland about Auckland cycleway plans.
Campbell Ngata is at the controls this week with his signature selections mining a vein in soulful tunes including Disco, Boogie, Hip-Hop Jazz, Hous, Broken Beat, New Jack Swing and Dub. Dig in!
For their weekly catch-up, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Green Party Co-Leader James Shaw about New Zealand’s response to recent Israel and Hamas attacks and the importance of voting.
She also spoke to Amnesty International Community Manager, Margie Taylor, and award participant Katja Neef about the The Gary Ware Legacy Award for human rights.
Arno speaks to New Zealand Nurses Organisation Chief Executive Paul Goulter about recent healthcare worker strikes.
And they speak to the organiser of the Climate Strike Rally which happened over the weekend in Tamaki Makaurau Sephora Grace.
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