The Wire with Manny

This week on The Wire for Rāmere Friday!

David brings us City Counselling with Mike Lee as they talk about Auckland Transport problems, and trying to create a marine reserve on Waiheke Island. He also spoke to Alexander Gillespie about Western nations donating tanks to the Ukrainian war effort, as well as Richard Easther from the University of Auckland about light pollution.

Joe looks at the New Zealand Government failing to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility. He speaks to Lisa Woods, the Campaigns Director for Amnesty International Aotearoa.

Daniel speaks to Shark Researcher Dr Samantha Sherman, a post-doctoral research fellow at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver about sharks that depend on coral reefs being driven to extinction. Daniel also chats with Chris Button about how we can improve water safety.

That's us for the Friday Wire!

E whai akei nei, on the Thursday Wire today:

Liam spoke to Robert MacCulloch from the University of Auckland about the recent reports on Aotearoa’s stagnant inflation. 

They also had a chat with Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington's Dr Mona Jeffreys about long covid and reports on how the pandemic has been managed over the past few years. 

We also heard from Troy Merry from UoA about a possible new life extending drug.

And lastly Liam spoke with Nicola Roos from UoO and the DOC about a research project utilising citizen science to track Kekeno AKA NZ fur seals. 

A project aiming to track the lives and mortality rates of Kekeno AKA NZ fur seals has recently been approved for extension. 

The Department of Conservation project was originally slated to take place from June to November of last year, getting citizens to become involved by submitting photographic sightings of the seals in various places across Aotearoa. 

To learn more about their next steps and how the extension will benefit the research, Liam spoke to Nicola Roos, a student at Otago Uni who’s assisting with the research.

Late last year, AUT announced 230 redundancies among a number of other cost-cutting measures, despite making a $12 million surplus in 2020 and 2021.

The Employment Court has now ruled in favour of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) in their legal action against AUT. 

AUT has been fined for breaching their collective agreement with staff, and will have to restart their redundancy process.

So what does this mean now for affected staff? News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to TEU Organiser Jill Jones.