95bFM: The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady

95bFM: The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady

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1220 - Associate Professor of Sociology at Canterbury University Greg Newbold

In a few week's time New Zealand will reach a pretty sad milestone. The highest prison population in our nation's history is set to be passed, and increasingly, it appears the government has run out of ideas. Corrections Minister Judith Collin's press release yesterday was full of recrimination for the previous government, and proposals to house the increasing number of inmates. What it was notably absent on however, were any proposals for actually trying to reduce our prison population. At 1220 I'll be speaking with (above) about the approach our government is taking, and whether we should accept a prison population right up there with the highest in the world.

1240 - Ditching MMP, Graeme Hunt

At 1240 I'll be joined on the line by writer, commentator and historian Graeme Hunt. Today this man of many hats will be wearing his anti-MMP hat. See, a UMR poll that he commissioned earlier this year just returned some interesting results. Only 41% of the 750 surveyed liked MMP, while 40% want a return to FPP. Fuel for Graeme's fire? Perhaps so, and with the National Party promising a binding referendum on the issue in 2011, something we all might have to really start thinking about...

1300 - Copyright round 2 - Keith Davidson Executive Director at Internet NZ

At one we wade into the murky waters of internet copyright infringement. The government released a discussion document yesterday aimed at bringing together groups from the artistic community, copyright holder advocates and internet service providers to hammer out a workable system of dealing with file sharing and illegal internet downloads. I'll be talking to (above) about some of the more interesting proposals, and asking why his organisation sees the latest move by the government as a mixed bag.

1320 - Counterclockwise - Lyndon Hood - Section 92a

At 1320 Lyndon Hood from the mighty team at scoop will join us for counterclockwise. Today he'll be taking a look at the perfect storm of internet/copyright/free-speech issues. There's the Orange election man - shoulda.com has a take-down notice from electoral commission! There are contempt of court issues springing up over facebook groups and blogs about the Clayton Weatherston trial, and there's the quiet introduction of an internet filtering scheme to save us all from web-nasties.

1340 - Waikato Nazi's Return, Josh Drummond

Then at the end of the show around 1340 we head to the mighty Waikato where allegations of racism, anti-semitism and even the odd Neo-Nazi are cropping up at Waikato Univeristy. I'll be speaking with (above), the editor of their student magazine Nexus, about an excellent article he's written concerning the controversy surrounding a thesis called "Dreamers of the Dark: Kerry Bolton and the Order of the Left Hand Path, a Case-study of a Satanic Neo-Nazi Synthesis". The thesis was pulled from the University library without a word, then put back, and the whole affair is a very dense mess that does not reflect well on the academic establishment AT ALL.

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