The Women’s Collective is a group which focuses on fostering conversations around global issues that affect our community.
Their most recent event ‘Lead like a girl’ focused on the issues of entrenched biases and damaging expressions such as the term “like a girl”.
A panel of 6 female leaders who are currently part of the Global Woman Breakthrough Leadership programme discussed these issues and how they ‘lead like a girl'.
95bFM reporter Olivia Mortimer-Eade attended the event.
Yesterday was Waitangi Day, the day we commemorate the signing of New Zealand's founding document the Treaty of Waitangi. Things were relatively quiet this year, although there was the issue of the media being banned from the lower Te Tii Marae, and the Prime Minister Bill English not showing up to Waitangi on the day. On Sunday, Vice New Zealand held a special panel discussion on Waitangi Day. Reporter Sam Smith went along and filed this report.
This week Pearl hosts a Mt Albert by-election panel with Labour's Jacinda Ardern, Green's Julie Anne Genter and Geoff Simmons from the Opportunity party, as well as taking a look at a self defence course for women and struggles in the job market. Andrew Little and Jason Leopold also make a return for their weekly chat.
This week on the Green Desk Lilly brings us a special plastic discussion panel w/ Colinda Rowe (Grey Lynn Transition Town/Head of Waste Away) Kristy Lorson (Zero Waste NZ).
Following their partnership with the One Pacific Party, the Māori Party are proposing a new visa category for climate change refugees from the Pacific.
The Māori Party announced the policy last week, alongside an one-off amnesty for Pacific overstayers.
The new refugee status stands alongside the party’s other climate change policies of planting 100,000 hectares of forest over 10 years and subsidising solar panels in the regions and poorer communities.
Co-leader Marama Fox told reporter Mack Smith the threat of climate change was no longer on the horizon.
On The Wire for Monday the 9th of October, Joel Thomas is joined with Producers Sam, Jack, and Leonard.
Jack Marshal had a chat to Astro-Biologist Petra Shweta about her studies on bringing bacteria onto spacecrafts as well as other planets. Instead of James Shaw we chatted to the newest Green Party member Golriz Ghahraman. We are had a wee panel about the recent article Duncan Garner made where he complaining about immigration and Kmart lines. We also had a report on the dropping rates in tertiary enrolments where we spoke to the general public as well as Jonathan Gee from the NZUSA.
Joel and Producer Sam host The Wire for Monday the 4th of December in which:
Sam talks to Rebecca Hobbs from Save Our Unique Landscape about their Hikoi on Karangahape Road this Saturday.
Joel talked to AUT’s Merja Myllylahti about the New Zealand annual media ownership report that she released.
Leonard Powell talked to Barter Barber Sam Dowdall who’s travelling around the country giving men haircuts and using that as an opportunity to get them to open up for mental health.
We held a panel on the use of Te Reo Maori in the media and discuss the outrage on display from all sides.
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