The Wire with Sara

Producer Conor speaks with Jon Johanson, senior lecturer in the politics department at Victoria University. They discuss the implications of Winston Peter’s coalition decision and what change we can expect in the coming term. 

Jami-Lee Ross from the National Party joins us to chat about the coalition results that were announced yesterday, and what the future holds for the new opposition party.

This week on Neighbourhood Watch with Nicole Wedding from Radio Adelaide: The UN Human Rights Committee has criticised Australia's past record. Breakfast show host Lisa Wilkinson has left the Today show for another channel under speculation of sexism from the station, and the Greens are saying drug dogs are ineffective and expensive. 

Kelly spoke to renowned columnist David Slack about the prejudice Jacinda Ardern has been facing from some journalism personalities, and the role the media needs to take in the coming weeks.

Producer Laura Kvigstad, spoke with People Against Prison Aotearoa Political Parliamentary Advocacy Coordinator, Kate McIntyre on the recent petition to end solitary confinement in New Zealand.

Forest and Bird’s annual bird of the year competition has got heated this year with the Kea and the Kereru fighting it out for top spot. Harry spoke with David Mills from Kereru Brewing Company about how theyre getting behind the kereru campaign.

On today's Wire we talked with Chris Whelan from Universities NZ and Will Matthews from the AUSA about a vote to raise student fees.

Host Harry spoke to Labour MP Phil Twyford about the ongoing coalition negotiations.

We also had David Mills from the Kereru Brewing Company as well as Kim Collins from Forest and Bird to talk about who's going to win the Bird of the Year competition.

For our regular State of the States feature Harry spoke to Nick Sawhney about the latest Donald Trump controversy.

Finally, Lachlan talked to Julie Chapman from KidsCan about schoolchildren going hungry, and Ben takes us back to 1987 for This Day in History.

A new quarterly Consumer price index report has been released by Statistics New Zealand.

The consumer price index, or CPI,  measures the rate of price change of goods and services purchased by New Zealand households. For the September year housing and household utilities increased 3.0 percent. Food prices increased 2.8 percent and vegetables were up 9.0 percent.

In a press release, Council of Trade Unions Secretary, Sam Huggard said that "Prices are rising faster than wages, and some of the biggest price rises are basic necessities for the lowest paid."  He added that  "In the year to June, the average hourly wage rose only 1.6 percent and the Labour Cost Index rose only 1.7 percent"

Producer Reuben McLaren spoke to Sam earlier and asked him about the new CPI findings.