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The 95bFM Tuesday Wire Hosted By Kim Choe
29th September 2009

12:00 bNews, Weather, Surf

12:15 Bye Bye Bradford
It came as a surprise to many when Green MP Sue Bradford announced her resignation on Friday. She decided it was time to go after being passed over for the party’s co-leadership earlier this year. She’s been hugely polarising during her decade in parliament, but despite what you think of her politics, there is no denying that she is hugely respected in the hallowed halls. Bradford talks to Kim Choe about her reasons for resigning, and her intended return to the grassroots.

12:40 Gaddafi: Class Clown or Cultural Caricature?
In his first address to the United Nations in 40 years, Libyan leader and African Union president Muammar al-Gaddafi has accused major powers on the Security Council of betraying the principles of the UN charter. Gaddafi's speech, dress and rumoured accommodation choices had him portrayed by the media as the comic relief character of the 64th General Assembly. Is this a legitimate portrayal of a nutty world leader? Or is it a caricature of cultural racism to cover an opponent of conventional wisdom who delivers some uncomfortable truths? NZ Herald columnist and Unite Union secretary Matt McCarten thinks the latter, and tells Kim Choe why.

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1:20 Hot Wok: News from Asia
The Tuesday Wire’s Asia Correspondent Marc Checkley gets out of bed an hour earlier (thanks to daylight saving) to give us a rundown of things happening in the region. Today: China turns 60 and claims it’s going green(er), and Singapore devises a typically new-fangled way to help its elderly pedestrians cross busy roads.

1:40 The Green Desk
Simon Miller speaks to marketing consultant Kath Dewar, who is running an upcoming short course at the University of Auckland. Called 'How to Market Sustainability', its particular focus is ‘greenwash’. What is it, and how do we avoid it?


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