The Wire with Joel

On this Wednesday's Wire, Stella spoke with Elise Whitson, shift supervisor of 0800 What’s Up about the state of our youth’s mental health as we transition out of the pandemic

Stella also spoke with Dr Trevor Gee, PhD researcher at UoA about how AI is being used to bring renewable energy to isolated communities in Aotearoa, and the trends of AI use in research.

Frances spoke with Cameron Mulgan on Eurovision, where they discuss the situation in Ukriaine and Putin's Victory Day Speech, the EU oil embargo, elections in Northern Ireland, the Swiss referendum on funding Frontex (the EU's border patrol) and EU tech regulations in the Digital Services Act.

Finally, Stella spoke with Fay Selby-Law, general manager of the National SUDI prevention coordination service about recent recent uncovering new information about sudden infant death.

This week on The Tuesday Wire, Christina and AUT Professor Allan Blackman spoke about magnets being used to treat cancer, Tasmania achieving carbon-negative status, and Canada's attempt to stamp out crime on the Moon.

Christina also spoke to Gemma Rasmussen, head of Campaigns and Communications at Consumer NZ, about New Zealand's supermarket duopoly and the organisation's petition urging the government to lower the price of groceries.

Aneeka had her regular catch up with the National Party's Dr. Shane Reti. This week, they spoke about the emissions budget, truancy in NZ schools, and the unemployment rate.

And Trishil spoke to Dr. Alison Eddy from the New Zealand College of Midwives about the state of post-natal care in New Zealand. This was Trishil's last producing shift for the Tuesday Wire but you can catch him over on the Monday Wire from next week!

Aneeka caught up with National’s Dr Shane Reti for their regular segment. This week, they spoke about the emissions budget, truancy in NZ schools, and the unemployment rate.

From today Public Service Association members involved in the health sector will take industrial action for the next two weeks, in response to a lack of response by the DHB. Will Matthes from PSA spoke with Charlie about the action, and why it needs to be taken seriously.