Green Party co-leader James Shaw joins Wire host Amanda Jane Robinson to talk about Labour's immigration policy and whether the Greens are becoming too centrist.
With the death toll from the Grenfell tower fire expected to rise further, representatives of the building industry are voicing concern about whether quality control standards in NZ are fit for purpose.
Producer Ben talks to a spokesperson for the Specialist Trade Contractors Federation, Graham Burke.
New Auckland University research has looked into the dangers of wearing headphones as a pedestrian and the link to pedestrian deaths. The research from the School of Population Health has shown that pedestrians who listen to music through earphones are significantly impaired in their ability to localise warning signals above the noise of traffic and trains around them. The research was co-authored by Associate Professor Grant Searchfield. Reporter Sam Smith spoke to him about the research.
Check out the full podcast for this week's Tuesday show, where we speak to Marama Fox about the Ture Whenua bill's setback, the Australian West Papua Association about their call to the Australian government following the arrests of 150 Papuan protestors, an expert in New Zealand aid policy about Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee's talk of removing the word aid, an Auckland University associate professor about new research into the dangers of pedestrians wearing headphones, and more.
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.
Medical Students are finding it increasingly difficult to finish their degrees if the government doesn't lift the EFTS cap. Postgraduate students can spend up to eight years completeing their degree, with many unable to find the money to pay their fees once their EFTS have run out. Spokesperson for the 'Let us Finish Campaign' Kera May spoke to Lachlan about the group's petition and wider goals.
The first show in our election coverage focusing on education. This week Joel, Sam, and Jack, got an overview of New Zealand's current education system by talking to the general population on the streets, Derek Wenmoth from Core Education, and Cathy Wylie from the NZ Council of Education Research. Joel also spoke to the Green Party's Education Spokesperson Catherine Delahunty about education policy. On top of this we had the Southern Cross segment with the latest in Pacific news, and Sam did a report on the National Party's campaign music.
bFM news director Lillian Hanly talks to Nathan Judd, one of the musicians who created the song 'The Kingmaker'. Nathan talks us through his thought process and artistic goals in the creation of the song.
If you are interested in the music video you can find it here.
On today's wire we hear about the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Alan Blackman joins us again and explains thermonuclear bombs, gene editing, and the possible correlation between sex and weed smoking.
NZ First's Tracey Martin talks to us for the last time in the forseeable future about the new coalition government and some of the new policies that have been announced.
Finally we hear from Amnesty International who are on the Manus Island detention centre that was closed yesterday.
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