The Wire with Caeden

Too few New Zealanders have a sound understanding of what brought the Crown and Māori together in the 1840 Treaty, or of how the relationship played out over the following decades. That’s what the New Zealand History Teachers' Association think. They’ve launched a petition calling for the House of Representatives to pass legislation that would make compulsory the coherent teaching of our own past across appropriate year levels in our schools. Stewart Sowman-Lund spoke with the Assocation’s Chair, Graeme Ball, and started by asking him to explain his petition.

The cost of GP visits can lock people out of accessing the first point of healthcare. An editorial by Professor Robin Gauld and others offers alternative methods of funding GP visits for a more equitable health system. Lachlan spoke with Robin about it.
 

This week on the Monday Wire Jemima speaks to Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson about Waitangi Day. Jemima also speaks to Chloe Ann King and Jessica Buchanan abour sexual harassment in the hospitality industry for the series Putting it on a Plate. Lachlan speaks to Professor Robin Gauld about whether different funding models should be sought out for GP visits. Jemima talks to Leroy Beckett from Generation Zero about the RNZ article, White Noise, and the voices shaping the future of Auckland. 

Recommendations were released yesterday by the Fair Pay Agreement Working Group, a representative group chaired by former New Zealand prime minister James Bolger. The recommendations into pay disputes include a comprehensive and inclusive list on the matter, with an informative design behind that of a Fair Pay Agreement system. The government will now take some time to consider this report & its conditions moving forward. I had a chance to interview the minister of workplace relations & safety, the Iain Lees-Galloway, about his thoughts on the report...