The Wire with Manny

The whole Tuesday Wire is in studio today! Woohoo! 

Noah looks into the Climate Change Commission’s achievable and affordable roadmap for meeting Aotearoa's emission reduction targets. He speaks to the Electricity Networks Association about how the electricity industry will be impacted by climate action. Noah also speaks to National Party Climate Change Spokesperson Stuart Smith about what climate action the government should be taking. 

Hanna speaks to Dr Sander Paul Zwanenberg from the Information Science Department at the University of Otago about the private ownership of social media platforms and the issues of power that surround this. 

Monday Wire Host Zoë Larsen-Cumming speaks to Green Party co-leader James Shaw about the conditions and abuses of human rights at Waikeria Prison as well as the latest government action on the climate crisis.

Zoë also speaks to PhD Student Scott Claessens who, with his prominent female colleagues, has researched why human females are the one primates who do not show physiological signs of ovulation. 

Human females are one primates species who don't show physiological signs of ovulation. Since the 70s and 80s scientists believed this was to optimise male to female interaction, however recent research suggests it is actually to reduce competition with other human females. To find out more, Zoë Larsen Cumming spoke to PhD student Scott Claessens who, alongside his prominent female colleagues, participated in this research.

Producer Lyric Waiwiri-Smith brings us a report from home about the pacific slave trade and when and where it appears in our history.

Currently on Cooks Beach officials are having to capture red eared slider turtles in an effort to control their numbers. The species are not antive and are in the top 100 most invasive species in the world. To understand more about the issue, James talks to Donna Moot from turtle rescue in Christchurch.