The Wire with Caeden

This week on The Wire for Rāhina Monday!

Joe speaks to Emma Brodie, a Campaign's Officer from SAFE for Animals, about animals continuing to suffer amidst calls from agri-business to delay winter grazing regulations. He also chats with Katherine Ellis from the University of Canterbury, about women with endometriosis experiencing long delays and dismissive doctors before a diagnosis. Finally, Joe speaks to Sarah Helm, the NZ Drug Foundation’s Executive Director, about the recent report to overhaul Aotearoa’s approach to methamphetamine treatment  

For this weeks regular fortnightly segment, Tomorrow's World!  Isla and Stella explore a new combination of methodologies that means we can extract DNA from shells. They speak to Kerry Walton from the University of Otago on the matter.

That's us for the Monday Wire!

Workers at the Opal Kiwi Packaging plant in Auckland are currently on strike.

They want a fair wage so they don’t have to work excess amounts of overtime to just get by.

David spoke to E tu organiser Alvy Tata, while she was on the picket line, about the strike.

Antarctica New Zealand has recently deployed new underwater robots to document the bottom of the ross sea. 

The new robots conduct “speed-sampling” , a new style of sampling allowing quick capturing of areas regular divers cannot receive. 

These robots are being deployed in efforts to understand as much of the ross sea as possible, before the changing climate makes that task impossible. 

Liam had a kōrero with MIles Lamar, an investigator on the Antarctica New Zealand programme, about the robot and the climate.

145 workers at the Kawerau factory that manufactures Purex toilet paper have been locked out for three weeks after their strike and rejection of a three percent pay rise. Today, Stella spoke to John Crocker, secretary of Unite Union, about the dynamics of lockouts, and the unusual aspects of this particular case.