The Wire with Caeden

A new initiative by Koi Tū, The Centre for Informed Futures, highlights the importance of play in the cognitive, physical, and mental wellbeing of children. Koi Tū are calling for the government to ease the burden of raising children and to make it easier for children to have access to play.

Not only is play important in honing motor skills, it also helps expand the brain and prepare it for things such as numeracy and literacy. 

Arno spoke with Dr Felicia Low, a research fellow at Koi Tū, to find out more about the importance of children’s play. Arno started the interview by asking how the initiative came about.

This week on the Tuesday Wire, Milly, Beth and Rosetta join Allan Blackman to discuss all things science. This week features topic from opiods to Nobel Prize winners with award worthy names!

On The Wire for Rāhina Monday this week:

- Spike speaks to ACT MP Simon Court about ACT's opposition to the Let's Get Wellington Moving project

- Hanna speaks to Te Pati Maori candidate Takutai Kemp about the party's new 20 year old candidate for Hauraki-Waikato, and the new Ombudsman report on Aotearoa prisons 

- Nicholas talks to Maritime Union national organiser Craig Harrison about the potential repercussions of a privatised Port of Auckland  

- Jessica Hopkins speaks to sarcoma cancer survivor and member of a sarcoma advisory group Sara Chung for Sarcoma Awareness Month, about the group's recomendations for improving sarcoma patient outcomes

The Entrust dividend payment is a payout of Entrust’s dividends in Vector Limited, and is paid out to beneficiaries throughout Tamaki Makaurau who reside within the Entrust district. During the current cost of living crisis, the dividend payment is expected to be a welcome relief for Aucklanders eligible to receive it. 

Last year Entrust paid out more than three-hundred dollars each to more than three-hundred-and-fifty-thousand Entrust beneficiaries throughout Auckland. To learn more about the Entrust Dividend payment, where the money comes from, and how many Aucklanders can expect to receive the payment this year, Andre Fa’aoso spoke to Denise Lee, Entrust’s Dividend Sub-Committee spokesperson and started off by asking her how much the 2023 dividend payment will be. 

To learn more about Entrust’s operations, Andre asked Denise how Entrust operates, and also asked about a tax-reform campaign Entrust is fronting that aims to secure fourteen million dollars extra in dividends for Aucklanders.