This week Jemima hosts the Monday Wire, while Jessica and Louis produce the show from home.
First up, Jessica Hopkins speaks to Amnesty International Community Manager, Margaret Taylor about their petitions against the death penalty in Iran.
Louis Macalister had several interviews for todays show. First he talked to Dr Jin Russell from the University of Auckland about poverty and child development research. Then to Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft about the recent approval for 12-15 year olds to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. The Auckland City Mission's Deb Ward shares what it has been like for the Mission during the latest lockdown. And lastly, Independent Journalist Neha Wadekar speaks on the Cabo Delgado conflict in Mozambique.
On their weekly chat, Justin Wong and Health Minister Andrew Little talked about Parliament sitting under high alert levels, surgery backlogs, and vaccinations.
Auckland businesses say they need more government support to stay afloat during the lockdown - Producer Conor Head-McCarthy talked to Heart of the City's Viv Beck.
Justin also chatted with journalist Lillian Hanly about about the inherited neurodegenerative condition Huntingdon's Disease.
Conor spoke to the University of Auckland's David Noone on New Zealand's potential actions on climate change.
Today, Ilena spoke to Professor Howard Fallowfield, from all the way over at Flinders University in Adelaide. They talked about research that he has co-led that looks into creating a sustainable wastewater recycling program that can harvest material to use in biofuels, a renewable fuel alternative to fossil fuels.
They spoke about the advantages of this method of harvesting material for biofuel, and whether the findings of this research could be extrapolated to places like NZ and bigger cities to help reach carbon neutral targets.
International Desk reports on Tunisian President Kais Saied dismissing the government and dissolved parliament after anti-government protests against Covid-19 handling, economic depression, and poverty.
Mariam Ben Slama is a masters student from the Paris Institute of Political Science. She spoke to Justin from the city of Sousse.
Yesterday, Te Pāti Māori launched a petition to change the official name of New Zealand to Aotearoa.
The petition is asking Parliament to change New Zealand to Aotearoa and begin the of, alongside whānau, hapū and iwi identifying and officially restoring the original te reo Māori names for all towns, cities and places right across the country by the year 2026.
This week, Zazi talks to Māori Party's co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer about the petition to change New Zealand’s name to Aotearoa, as she helped launch the petition, and is encouraging people to support such a change.
The ACT Party's Brooke van Velden also spoke to Zazi about this petition in today's Wednesday Wire show. If you would like to listen to that interview as well, click the link here.
Today on the Wire, Jemima Huston speaks to Dr Dianne Sika-Paotonu from the University of Otago Wellington and Professor Michael Plank from the University of Canterbury about for a catch up about the Government’s three-step roadmap to get Auckland out of Level 3.
Joe Wickins talks to Sandra Gray, the National Secretary from Te Hautu Kahurangi, the Tertiary Education Union, on their most recent report about the increasing stress tertiary institutions are facing during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Jemima talks to Jamie Freeman, Branch President of Hospitality New Zealand Auckland, about what the uncertainty surrounding the future of the Auckland hospitality sector and what your local venues could look like once the city is out of lockdown.
Joe also explores intrusive thoughts and how they impact mental health with Liesje Donkin, a Clinical Psychologist from AUT.
The Auckland hospitality sector is seeking support from the government to get through the latest lockdown. Over the weekend, 300 members of the sector decided, during an online emergency meeting, that they need the wage subsidy at Level 2 and resurgence payments to get them through lockdown. However, this decision came before the government's three-step roadmap announcement and the assurance that Auckland will remain in Level 3 for the foreseeable future.
Jamie Freeman, the President of the Auckland Branch of Hospitality New Zealand, says that the future feels uncertain with the government providing no clear plan to support the industry through the latest lockdown. News and Editorial Director Jemima Huston speaks to Jamie about what happened at the meeting, the sector's response to the three-step plan and what the Auckland hospitality industry could look like once the city is out of lockdown.
After months of deliberation and discussion, the Government has decided not to move forward with the cycle bridge that was planning to go across Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour, in light of many Aucklanders not feeling like their city is cycle friendly.
The cycleway bridge project came about after many years of protesting, including Bike Auckland’s Liberate the Lane protest earlier this year, a campaign calling for a 3 month trial this summer to convert a lane of the Harbour Bridge for cycling.
This morning Zazi spoke with Communications Manager for Bike Auckland, Mary-Margaret Slack, to hear her view on this decision, and see whether Bike Auckland is upset with the change or have other alternatives that could solve this goal of wanting to connect these parts of Auckland.
Miss Dom spins some of the original artists whose music was sampled in the masterful 'The Low End Theory' by A Tribe Called Quest. The album celebrated its 30th anniversary on September 24th and was hailed a milestone of the genre, bridging the gap between jazz and hip hop. And the second hour, Dr 'Funky' Mark Baynes brings Afrocuban and East African jams as well as a special lockdown collab from Kim Paterson and Matt Gruebner.
Dom's playlist:
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Chant for Bu
Grant Green - Down Here on the ground
Minnie Riperton - Baby, This Love I Have
A Tribe called Quest - Check the Rhime
Average White Band - Love Your Life
Grover Washington Jr. - Hydra
Lafayette Afro Rock Band - Hihache
The Last Poets - Black Is Time
Dr. Lonnie Smith - Spinning Wheel
A Tribe called Quest - Verses From The Abstract
Mark's playlist:
Sola Rosa and Josh Barry - You Don’t Know
Alsarah and the Nubatones - Habibi Taal
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Jack DeJohnette and Ron Carter - Lagrimas Negras
Kim Paterson and Matt Gruebner - Alone Together
Brad Mehldau - I Didn’t Know What Time It Was
Cubop City Big Band - Arsenio Medley
Ahmad Jamal - One
Funkadelic - Mommy, What’s a Funkadelic
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