The Wire with Max

Chris Hipkins, the minister responsible for State Services, announced the scrapping of performance pay for public sector CEOs. Up until now, they were eligible for 15% discretionary performance pay bonus for exceptional performance. Hipkins says the move will save about 4 million dollars over the next 4 years. Lachlan spoke with National secretary of the Public Sector Association, Glenn Barclay, about performance pay in the public sector.

Pubs and clubs all the way from Bluff to Kaitaia will be pausing their poker machines for an hour to coincide with Gambling Harm Awareness Week. The "pause the pokies" initiative takes place this year from third to ninth September, to raise public awareness about the harm of gambling. Over seventy venues throughout New Zealand have signed up take part in this initiative, to encourage gamblers to connect with their whanau and think about the harm of their gambling.

To find out a more about this, Darashpreet spoke to Andree Froude from Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand.

Ella spoke with James Harris, community engagement manager with World Vision, about the campaign they recently lauched, #kidsofnauru. The campaign aims to pressure Jacinda Ardern to secure the settlement of 119 refugee children and their families who have been stuck on the small micronesian island for years. 

Essure, a contraceptive device designed in the early 2000s, has caused irreversible damage for thousands of women in more recent years. The metal coil is inserted into fallopian tubes, a distinctly more invasive technique than an iud or rod. As we will soon see, the contraceptive poses very high risks. Mary-Margaret spoke to Sue Claridge of the Auckland Women’s Health Council about kiwi and Australian women whose lives have been hurt by the lack of information available about the devices. She started by explaining what the Essure device is.