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Today on the Wire with Zoë Larsen Cumming: 

Zoë has her weekly chat with the Green Party co-leader James Shaw on the Greens' commitment to push for meaningful progress for Aotearoa's trans and non binary whanau, a deep sea conservation petition, and the housing crisis (again). 

Then, Aneeka talks to Glenis Philip-Barbara, the assistant Māori Commissioner, on a proposed by Māori, for Māori approach to the care and protection for pēpi Māori. 

Next, Jess speaks to an expert on the intersection of technology and society, Matt Bartlett, about what factors have contributed to the increase in misleading political advertising online and whether New Zealand has an adequate system to combat misinformation.

After that, Aneeka speaks to Green MP and spokesperson for defence Golriz Gharaman on Australia's alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. 

Finally, Zoë interviews For the Love of the Bees' Sarah Smuts-Kennedy on the effect of the bee decline on climate change and local approaches to helping out our little bees. 

The Advertising Standards Authority recently ruled that an advertisement posted by the National Party claiming a retired couple would have to pay $140 a week in taxes under the Green Party's proposed wealth tax was untrue. 

The Authority recieved 101 complaints of misleading political advertising this year, compared to just 16 during the 2017 election.

Jess talked to Matt Bartlett, an expert on the intersection of technology and society about what factors contributed to this increase and whether New Zealand has an adequate system to combat political misinformation online.

Zoë Larsen Cumming interviewed Sarah Smuts-Kennedy from the local city-bee collaboration team For the Love of Bees on the effect of the bee decline on climate change and local approaches to helping our little bees. She began by asking her what For the Love of Bees is all about.

Earlier this week Willow-Jean prime and Rino Tirikatene were made the co chairs of the Labour Māori caucus, which is the largest Māori caucus the party has ever had. With a range of areas and issues to deal with in relation to Māori, Prime and Tirikatene hold importance. To hear more about these roles, James talked to Willow-Jean Prime about her position and started by asking what it entails.