The Wire with Max

This week, Jogai and Jess catch up with Claire Hart from Tearfund to learn more about ethical fashion in New Zealand, and bFM reporter Katie Doyle speaks to Mike King about the People's Mental Health Report. Jogai chats to one of the editors and founders of the online magazine e-Tangata, following a profile by the Newsroom highlighting the need to elevate Maori and Pasifika voices in mainstream media. Producer Jess has a report on the Big Dog Walk coming up this weekend with organiser Alice McKinley, and Labour Leader Andrew Little is back for our weekly chat, discussing concerns in the mental health sector and a new plan to cut back on immigration. All this and more on the Thursday Wire - check out the full podcast here. 

The garment industry has high rates of exploitation, child labour and forced labour. Tearfund has released an ethical fashion guide which rates brands on their worker exploitation. The report includes 12 New Zealand brands and ranks companies from A to F based on a number of criteria including what they pay their staff and how supply chain workers are treated. bFM reporter Jess Smith speaks to Claire Hart from Tearfund to find out more about the guide.

A recent publication titled The Best of e-Tangata has sparked a discussion regarding the lack of Maori and Pasifika voices in mainstream media. 95bFM's Jogai Bhatt caught up with one of the editors and founders of e-Tangata, Gary Wilson, to learn more about the magazine's mission to change just that. 

In a referendum in the weekend, Turkey chose to grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers. The country’s long-standing parliamentary system has been abolished in favour of an executive presidency, which will merge the roles of the president and the prime minister and could potentially keep Erdogan in office until 2029. Ximena speaks to Stephen Hoadley from the University of Auckland’s political studies department about the significance and meaning of the move.