The Wire with Joel

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.

This week News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to ACT’s Karen Chhour about the extreme weather event in Tāmaki Makaurau last week and if they would also rule out working with Te Pāti Māori in a potential coalition government. 

She started off their interview by asking Chhour about the response from the Auckland Council and Auckland Emergency Management. 

Yesterday in parliament a bill was proposed to ban seabed mining. The bill was voted down by National, ACT and Labour, and Environment Minister David Parker announced last week that a select committee inquiry to investigate seabed mining. Kiwis against Seabed Mining spokesperson Cindy Baxter was in parliament yesterday for the reading of the bill and she spoke about what happened.