The Wire with Max

Today on the Tuesday Wire, Lyric Waiwiri-Smith talks to Dame Catherine Healy from the New Zealand Prostitute Collective about sex worker rights and stigmatisation.

Jemima Huston speaks to NZEI Te Riu Roa National Secretary Paul Goulter about the union and employer’s call for early childhood eductators to see increased funding in the 2021 government budget. 

Jade Lewis looked into the Anti-Asian Hate Rally held in Auckland over the weekend. She talks to event organiser Steph Tan about racism against Asian communities in Aotearoa. Jade also talked to two Asian-American activists, Christian Oh and Nicholas Lepham, who have taken part in the Anti-Asian Hate movement in the United States following the racially charged shooting in Atlanta that led to the death of six Asian women. 

NZEI Te Riu Roa and early childhood employers are calling for increased funding in the early childhood education sector under the government's 2021 budget. News and Editorial Director Jemima Huston speaks to Paul Goulter, NZEI Te Riu Roa’s National Secretary, about the sector is poorly funded and what mechanisms need to be put in place to change this. 

Felix spoke to SAFE CEO Debra Ashton about the risks faced by live animal exports due to the blockage of the Suez Canal.

Yesterday, Labour MP Ginny Andersen's Bereavement Leave for Miscarriage bill passed its third and final reading unanimously in Parliament. The law will amend the Holidays Act and covers miscarriage and still birth. Both the mother and their partner can access up to 3 days leave under the law. 

News and Editorial Director Jemima Huston speaks to Ginny Andersen about the law change and why it is important that miscarriage is seen as a loss rather than a sickness.