The Wire with Sara

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 the Tuesday Wire, Christina spoke to Viviana Becker from the University of Auckland about the rejection of the Chilean constitutional reforms and what it means politically and for the people of Chile.

For a legal view of the referendum and what comes next, Emilia chatted to Victoria University's Joel Colon-Rios in Santiago.

This weekend's Sunday programme on TVNZ exposed damning allegations of sub-standard living conditions and intimidating behaviour from emergency housing providers on Rotorua's Fenton Street, which is home to several motels used for this purpose. National joined Te Pāti Māori yesterday in demanding an independent investigation into the millions of dollars the government has poured into emergency housing.

Christina spoke to Rotorua Mayor Steve Chadwick for a local perspective on the crisis.