The Wire with Joel

For our weekly catch-up with the Green Party, News, and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Golriz Ghahraman about their calls to double the Best Start payment, grant amnesty for people who have 'overstayed', their visas, and hold international powers to account for human rights abuses.

Nicholas spoke to the Epsom candidate for The Opportunities Party Dr Nina Su about the party's housing and foreign policy.

Arno interviewed Sense Partners economist Dr Kirdan Lees and barrister and columnist Dave Ananth about how rising immigration numbers may impact Aotearoa's economy. 

And Kaze spoke to Mark Roach from the Anti-AUKUS coalition about the possibility of New Zealand joining the alliance.

This week for Milly's final Wire, Allan Blackman joins us for Dear Science where we discuss the Nobel Prize award winners.

Milly has her weekly catchup with the National Party's Dr Shane Reti about the party's policies on foreign affairs.

Milly also speaks to Christopher Coker from the Aotearoa Legalise Canabis Party about why they believe their single-issue party is needed to push for the legalisation of cannabis. 

This week's election coverage is focused on foreign affairs. 

Rawan had our weekly catch up with the ACT Party's Simon Court to speak about some of the party's immigration policies.

Rawan also spoke to Manase Lua from the Aotearoa Tongan Response Group about how migrant exploitation is being tackled during election season.

Rosetta spoke to Ananish Chaudhuri, Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland, about his view on introducing an independent body to review economic policy.

Rosetta also spoke to Nick Goodall, Head of Research at CoreLogic about their analysis of the National Party's foreign buyers policy.

Finally, Rosetta spoke to Kathleen Ryan, the activist who organised the largest women's march in Aotearoa's history 40 years ago.

The national party is claiming that under their foreign buyers policy, 740 million dollars will be raised each year. This is under the framework of 2000 homes being bought above 2 million dollars, with a tax of 15 %. The accuracy of these numbers have been questioned by many, and CoreLogic is just one of the research entities investigating these. Rosetta spoke to Nick Goodall, head of research at Core Logic, about his report which points out large fiscal holes in National’s foreign buyers plan.