The Wire with Caeden

The White Lady food truck has recently had it’s licence extended by twelve months by the Auckland Council. 

This came after weeks of tension, due to a complaint against the white lady being made by a store that operates nearby it. 

The store complained about rubbish being left on the street, and of drunk customers loitering nearby.

This led to The White Lady having it’s licence restricted, which saw major backlash to the council for punishing struggling local businesses.

Liam had a chat with Auckland City Councillor Pippa Coom about the licence renewal, as well as various other efforts to revitalise the city centre.

Stella speaks to Chris Wilson, Senior Lecturer of  Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland about his recently published work in which his colleague James Halpin infiltrated Action Zelandia, a far-right extremist group in Aotearoa. Tuva’a has his weekly catch-up with Labour’s Andrew Little and Frances brings us Greendesk, speaking to PhD candidate from the university of Otago Nick Foster about his work in pest eradication. Finally Stella speaks to Shrutika  Gunanayagam from Able, a media access trust, about Global Literacy Day (today!), and how kids who watch captioned content are more literate.

On this week's installation of Eurovision, Emilia spoke to our European correspondent Cameron Adams about the war in Ukraine, oil and gas supplies, and dinosaur bones.

Chile recently held a referendum to implement a new constitution that was overwhelmingly rejected, 62% to 38%. The constitution, proposed by left-wing president Gabriel Boric, was described as progressive and feminist, but faced strong opposition from right-wing Chileans.

Christina spoke to Viviana Becker, a University of Auckland student and Chilean national, about what this vote means for the country.