The Wire with Caeden

Family for Every Child, VOYCE - Whakarongo Mai and Grandparents Raising Grandchildren have come together to collaborate with Tick 4 Kids, a movement designed to stimulate conversation around what must be done to improve the lives of children and young people in Aotearoa.

Today on the Wire Beth spoke to Christina Howe from Grandparents Raising Grandchildren about Tick 4 Kids’ scorecard, a survey that Family, VOYCE and GRG contributed to, that asks political parties which policy solutions surrounding care and protection they will implement if elected.

Other scorecards have been developed across other liveable incomes including housing, health, education, belonging, climate action and youth justice.

For their weekly catch-up, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins speak to Green Party Co-Leader James Shaw about violence against political candidates and farming in a climate-crisis world.

She also spoke to PhD candidate in New Zealand Politics at the University of Otago Michael Swanson about the MMP system 30 years on. 

Arno spoke to researcher in public health at the University of Otago, Dr Anja Mizdrak about research modelling alcohol advertising.

He also spoke to general Manager of Economic and Environmental Insights and Statistics at Stats NZ, Jason Attewell about record high temperatures in New Zealand.

And he spoke to optometrist Andrew Yu about people foregoing eye health checks due to costs.

Newly released data has shown eight of ten of the warmest years in recorded NZ history have been in the last decade. Among other freak weather events this year, concerns are raising about climate change and the effect we are having on our environment. 

To find out more, Arno spoke to Jason Attewell, General Manager of Economic and Environmental Insights and Statistics at Stats NZ. 

Arno started our interview by asking how long climate data has been recorded for.

On the show this week,

Davide Mercadante joins the show for Dear Science to discuss a breakthrough in the commercial production of synthesised Spider silk.

Nicholas spoke to Auckland Central Candidates Oscar Sims from the Labour Party and ACT Party candidate Felix Poole about Housing security and affordability, Public Transport policy, Working relationships with Auckland Council and Climate resilience.

Producer Josh Black spoke to First Union Researcher and Policy Analyst, Edward Miller. About their latest campaign to stop "Bankflation"

Nicholas also spoke to Emeritus Professor of Nutrion at AUT Elaine Rush about New Zealand's Food Imports and Exports.