The Wire with Caeden

Welcome to the Tuesday Wire with Milly and producer Beth!

This week:

• Milly and Beth talk all things Fungi with Joel Rindelaub for Dear Science
• Milly has her weekly catch-up with Shane Reti and speaks to him about both healthcare workers and teachers who are struggling in their sectors 
• Beth speaks to Hera Lindsay Bird about a new advice column in the Spinoff.
• Milly speaks to Professor Alister Woodward from the University of Auckland regarding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• And Milly also spoke to Bianca Ranson from Forest and Bird about the closure of the Scallop fishery in the Hauraki Gulf. 

Aotearoa poet and writer Hera Lindsay Bird, author of infamous self-titled poetry book Hera Lindsay Bird, has begun an advice column in online magazine The Spinoff dubbed Help Me Hera.

Beth spoke to Hera about her new column and how it connects to her poetry and her previous works. They also spoke about her creative outlets and pursuits and even dug up some old tweets. Sweet. You can ask for Hera's advice at helpme@thespinoff.co.nz.

For their weekly catch up, Hanna spoke to Takutai Kemp, Te Pāti Māori's candidate for Tāmaki Makaurau, about climate adaptation. They discussed the ongoing impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle, Te Pāti Māori's proposals for a Māori adaptation fund and collaboration between the Crown and whānau, hapū and iwi, and insights to be gleamed from tikanga when designing policy.

Last week, a boy was run over by a car on his scooter in Christchurch, leaving him critically injured. 

This is just one of the hundreds of road accidents in Aotearoa this year that have seriously injured pedestrians or micro-mobility users. 

Per capita, Aotearoa has one of the highest rates of driveway and road accidents in the world. 

Alex Bonham spoke to urban advocate and former Christchurch councillor Mike Davidson about how we can make our cities safer for tamariki.