The Wire with Joel

Welcome to the Tuesday Wire! This week on the show: 

• The comedy special of Dear Science with Joel Rindelaub
• Beth Speaks to Kimberly O'Sullivan on the Consumer Care Guidelines 
• Milly has her weekly catch up with Dr Shane Reti where they talk about the upcoming budget announcement
• Tyler Baikie and Corey Fuimaono from bFM Drive spoke with Mark Adams, Senior Vice President of VICE Media, on where the innovation in technology and marketing is going where young people ought to be cautious and keep a level head.

All this and more on the Tuesday Wire!

The 2013 Rana Plaza collapse forced fashion companies to answer questions about the conditions in which their clothes are made. 

The spotlight may have landed on global fashion giants, but those same questions were still applicable to our own fashion brands.

Launched last year, Oxfam’s “What She Makes Campaign” aimed to get answers about the conditions in which New Zealand’s biggest clothing brand’s merchandise is produced.

Most recently the campaign released scores in relation to the transparency of the brands, with Hallensteins and Glassons recieving scores of two out of five. Nicholas spoke to spokesperson Shalomi Daniel about the results of their transparency report and the future steps In the "What She Makes Campaign"

Caeden Tipler spoke to Te Pati Māori’s Takutai Kemp about National ruling out a coalition with them and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer’s bills that would ban seabed mining and commercial water bottling.

News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to ACT’s Karen Chhour about last week’s extreme weather event in Tāmaki Makaurau and whether they would also rule out working with Te Pati Māori.

Caeden spoke to the Disinformation Project’s Kate Hannah on their recent report on Transphobia.

Nicholas Lindstrom spoke to Shalomi Daniel from Oxfam about their findings from their “What She Makes” campaign that looks into labour conditions and pay in the factories that produce clothes for New Zealand clothing brands.

And Caeden spoke to Māori Studies Professor and Te Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu chair Margaret Mutu on National’s false statement that Māori get more votes than Pākehā.

Last Wednesday National ruled out working with Te Paati Māori in any kind of coalition agreement.

National leader Christopher Luxon cited broad ideological differences, but some have raised concerns about his tweet where he implied Māori get more than one vote under MMP.

The final line of this tweet was “We believe New Zealand is one country with one standard of citizenship, meaning one person, one vote.”

In actual fact Māori do not get more votes than anyone else, Caeden looked into why this myth exists, where it came from, and the impacts it has on Māori.

They spoke to Māori Studies Professor and Te Rūnanga-ā-iwi o Ngāti Kahu chair Margaret Mutu.