The Wire with Sara

Lucy investigates how well we actually understand our political system and is joined by political commentator David Slack to discuss the ins and outs of MMP.

“Goodbye twitter haters,” claimed Reporter Duncan Garner. This was in response to the backlash he faced after releasing an article for Stuff. In his article he complained about a "human snake" of a line at Kmart, saying he could have been anywhere in South-East Asia. He went on to use this as evidence to reduce immigration, saying he wants to have a discussion around infrastructure in regards to growing immigration numbers. This sparked controversy on social media which caused him to delete his Twitter account. 

A panel discussion was held on these events by host Joel Thomas, producer Sam Smith, News Director Lillian Hanly, Aaryn Marsh Niuapu of Racial Equity Aotearoa, and University of Auckland Film Television and Media Professor Neal Curtis.

On The Wire for Monday the 9th of October, Joel Thomas is joined with Producers Sam, Jack, and Leonard.
Jack Marshal had a chat to Astro-Biologist Petra Shweta about her studies on bringing bacteria onto spacecrafts as well as other planets. Instead of James Shaw we chatted to the newest Green Party member Golriz Ghahraman. We are had a wee panel about the recent article Duncan Garner made where he complaining about immigration and Kmart lines. We also had a report on the dropping rates in tertiary enrolments where we spoke to the general public as well as Jonathan Gee from the NZUSA.

After a rather drawn out couple of weeks, NZFirst Leader Winston Peters finally begun coalition talks with National and Labour yesterday. National Leader Bill English was up first in the morning, with Jacinda Ardern and her team meeting the negotiators in the afternoon. Kelly talked with political professor from Massey University, Grant Duncan about what these discussions may entail and some of the more polarising policies that will most likely take further negotiation.