The Wire with Joel

Welcome to the Thursday Wire! Milly joins the show as a producer, chatting to Ellen Rykers from Forest and Bird about the Bird of the Year results. Frances speaks to Ben Green for The Green Desk about flooding in Gisborne. Tuva'a has his weekly catch-up with Andrew Little and Stella speaks to Penny Hulse about the Future of Local Government Report. Stella also talks to the Cuban ambassador to New Zealand, Mr Edgardo Valdés López and Annalucia from Auckland Cuba Friendship Society about sanctions against Cuba by the US and the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 

This week on The Wire for Rāapa Wednesday:

News and Editorial Director Jess Hopkins speaks to David Seymour in our weekly chat with the ACT Party, this week they chat about fair pay agreements and the government’s response to Iran. 

Emilia speaks to Dr Kelly Blincoe about the gender diversity crisis in software engineering

She also speaks to Walescka Pino-Ojeda from the New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies about the Brazilian presidential election.

Jess also chats to Massey University’s Dr James Hollings about a new study that found women now make up over half of Aotearoa’s journalism workforce, but have serious concerns about their safety on the job.

And Finally we also have Eurovision with our European correspondent Cameron Adams.

That's us for the Wednesday Wire this week! See you next week

He was barred from running in the 2018 Brazilian presidential election after being imprisoned for corruption and money laundering, however after his charges were nullified, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is back in the same office he occupied from 2003 to 2010.

Lula narrowly won the runoff election against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, whose time in office was defined by loosening environmental protections and his mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

To get some more insight into the election, Emilia spoke to Associate Professor Walescka Pino-Ojeda, Director of the New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies.

Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk has finally acquired Twitter after months of legal threats to go through with the deal. It’s only been a few days, but there are big changes already, he’s axed a number of executives and dissolved the board of directors.

Christina spoke to Dr Ethan Plaut, a communications lecturer at the University of Auckland, for his thoughts on the platform’s new owner.