The Wire with Joel

This week on the Tuesday Wire with Casper Dr Allan Blackman came into the studio to talk science news for our Dear Science segment.

Casper spoke to Dr Shane Reti from the National party, as he does each week, this time discussing the government dropping the traffic light framework, as well as political responses to the death of Queen Elizabeth II

He also had a chat with Labour MP Rachel Boyack about her Plain Language member’s bill which is now going before parliament.

Over the course of this week 95bFM is airing a number of interviews Casper conducted with several of Auckland’s mayoral candidates, and this show's interview was with Ted Johnston.

This week on The Wire for Rāhina Monday!

Joe spoke to Alex James from University of Canterbury about their new research into gender pay equity within universities, and how it explores interventions that will improve the representation of women at higher levels of academia.

This week’s Wire shows will contain a series of interviews with Auckland’s mayoral candidates, which bFM has been putting together to provide our listeners with relevant information on the candidates and their policies. Today, Casper speaks to Auckland Mayoral Candidate Viv Beck.  

Our regular fortnightly segment with OurActionStation is back! Trishil speaks to Protect Putiki about their recent petition calling for the Auckland Council to instigate a review of the resource consent for the marina at Putiki Bay.

Joe also speaks to Andreea Calude, a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at University of Waikato about the Plain Language Bill and why it’s important.

That's us for the Monday Wire!

This is the full version of Casper’s interview with Auckland mayoral candidate Viv Beck, of which an abbreviated segment was played on the Monday Wire.

Viv Beck is currently the chief executive of Heart of the City, a business advocacy group for Auckland’s city centre, and has been endorsed by the National-Party aligned Communities and Residents organisation.

New research into gender pay equity in Aotearoa New Zealand universities from the University of Canterbury explores interventions that will improve representation of women at higher levels of academia and therefore address pay equity. This research builds on the authors’ previous work published in 2020 which found that over her career, a woman employed on academic staff at a New Zealand university can expect to earn about $400,000 less than a man.

Joe had the opportunity to speak to Professor Alex James, from the University of Canterbury, who co-authored the study.