The Wire with Caeden

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.

The guilty verdict for Dr Tony Hanne, who was prescribing drugs for ADHD without going through the full official process, is drawing attention to difficulties in getting diagnoses and crucial medication for New Zealanders with the disorder.

To get a sense of what these obstacles look like and how they’re posing such a problem that an expert in the field found himself undercutting the system to get people medication that they need, Casper spoke to Darrin Bull, chairperson of ADHD New Zealand.

The National party is drawing attention to declining pass rates for NCEA students taking literacy and numeracy tests, with only sixty-four percent passing for reading skills, fifty-six percent in numeracy tests and only thirty-four for writing.

For their weekly catch-up Casper discussed this issue with National party MP Shane Reti, as well as the possibility of reform to alcohol laws that the government has recently signalled.