The Wire with Caeden

The 2022 Ethical Fashion Report by Tearfund has been released and shows low standards overall in labour practices and sustainable production.

Footwear companies scored particularly poorly, with the Ngahuia group, which trades as Hannahs and Number One Shoes getting a zero on the report. This morning, they put out a press release blaming the challenges of covid for their refusal to take part.

Casper and Christina reported on these new numbers on The Wire, speaking to Morgan Theakston, advocacy specialist at Tearfund, and Lisa McEwan, a fashion and sustainability lecturer from AUT.

Although recent morning’s CPI numbers show that inflation may have peaked, the cost of food continues to be disproportionately high.

Statistics New Zealand is telling us that the increase to food prices is the highest it’s been in 13 years at 8.3 percent.

For Casper's weekly catchup with the National Party’s Dr. Shane Reti, they spoke about the issue of food inflation as well as last week’s He Waka Eke Noa announcement.

The new role of Creative Director of Auckland Pride has recently received unfortunate news following Creative New Zealand Arts Grants funding round. The person in this role - Nathan Joe, award-winning playwright, actor, performance poet, producer and arts administrator, said in an open letter that "It is an astonishingly difficult thing to step into a role and realise there is no infrastructural support from your main arts funding body."

Joe speaks to Nathan Joe about this loss of funding, what it means for those in Arts and Culture community, and the importance of supporting local artists.

As Aotearoa holds one of the highest rates of family violence in the world, with an act of family violence reported every four minutes to the police, community workers are in urgent need for extra support out in the field.

Papakura marae in south Auckland is taking a frontline, ground-up approach to tackle this nationwide issue, trialling a ground-breaking family violence support and prevention programme.

 Marae Chief Executive, Tony Kake, has enlisted the support of Sir Ray Avery, Founder of the charity Help@Hand trust, to trial a domestic violence support programme to protect his frontline social workers as they go about their work in the community, giving them instant access to help if they need it and ensuring all his frontline staff are safe from harm.

Joe speaks to Sir Ray Avery on this matter.