95bFM: The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady

95bFM: The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady

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1220 - Minister of Energy and Resources Gerry Brownlee on Mining

At the top of the show around 1220 (above) will be calling the studio to talk MINING! He says the last government neglected the potential earning power to be had from mineral deposits currently sitting in the ground. His government wants to change that. They're keen to open up conservation land to mining, and to change the rules around reclassifyingparks and reserves. At the moment, public notification comes first - before Crown Minerals (the government's mining department) can take a look at opportunity costs, or how much money there might be under the ground.Brownlee wants this changed so DOC land reclassifications are referred to Crown Minerals PRIOR to public notification. The Green Party says this effectively gives the mining industry a veto on new parks, and keeps the public, who OWN this land, in the dark. Hear what he has to say at 1220.

1240 - Obama's Afghanistan decision - Dr Najibullah Lafraie, Otago University Politics Dept.

At 1240 I'll be talking about the pending Afghanistan strategy decision from the White House. The Vice President wants to scale back operations and focus on drone strikes of terrorist cells. The commander of US and NATO forces has warned the country might become "Chaos-stan" and wants thousands more troops and a change in tactics. The Defence Secretary says this will be the most important decision Obama makes in his presidency, and wants everyone to shut up until a decision's been made. I'll be talking to (above), who's bio makes for VERY interesting reading:

Najibullah was the Minister of Information in the Interim Government of Afghanistan in 1989 and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the Islamic State of Afghanistan after the downfall of the communist regime in 1992. He served in that position until Taliban captured the Kabul City in September 1996. Dr. Lafraie and his family moved to New Zealand in September 2000.

1300 - Ardi - Dr Alison Campbell, Waikato Uni

This morning I spoke with (above) a lecturer in Biology at Waikato University with a keen interest in human evolution. We were talking about what many are saying is the most important scientific discovery of recent times - Ardi, a 4.4 million year old fossil, and the oldest known human ancestor. So what makes Ardi so special? And why does Alison hate it when people use the term "missing link"? Tune in at one...

1320 - Counterclockwise

Spike's back for counterclockwise at twenty past one today. He'll be getting stuck into NZ's role in Afghanistan - why the PM was forced to admit that the SAS ARE in Kabul, and why he may change the secrecy rules around their deployment. Also, what's this about a written agreement we have with Afghan government?

1340 - Book She Read

And Sally returns with another edition of Book She Read today at 1340. She'll be talking NZ Book Month, Booker Prize madness, andposthumous sequels. Nice.

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