The Wire with Max

For our week looking at education policy, India speaks to Virginia Oakley, NZEI's spokesperson for Early Childhood Education, who highlights a seven-year freeze in funding as the key issue facing the sector.

To look at primary school education, Mack spoke with NZEI National Executive Vice President Rikki Sheterline, who says there’s three core issues facing students, parents and teachers right now.

It is no secret that the National party has had many run ins with music copyright concerning their campaign music, most famously of course with Eminem during the last election. Reporter Sam Smith takes a look back at these episodes, the latest which concerns their new campaign song. 

The first show in our election coverage focusing on education. This week Joel, Sam, and Jack, got an overview of New Zealand's current education system by talking to the general population on the streets, Derek Wenmoth from Core Education, and Cathy Wylie from the NZ Council of Education Research. Joel also spoke to the Green Party's Education Spokesperson Catherine Delahunty about education policy. On top of this we had the Southern Cross segment with the latest in Pacific news, and Sam did a report on the National Party's campaign music.

The chair of the Blue Greens Committee, Andrew Bayly, wraps up our week of election coverage interviews on the environmental issues facing New Zealand. Kelly asked Andrew about the freshwater policies National has announced to make a wider amount of New Zealand rivers and lakes swimmable again. They also chatted about climate change and National's commitment to the Paris agreement.