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The Wednesday Wire Hosted By Paul Deady
1220 - The Kids Don't Stand A Chance
At 1220 the Minister for Social Development Paula Bennett will be on the line talking jobs for young people. Her
ministry has just announced a couple of measures aimed at dealing with unemployed youth who now number more than sixty
thousand. The ministry has announced an extra 2000 places on the Job Ops scheme, where employers receive $5000 for
employing a young person for six months. And they've also pledged around $1 million to help promote Student Job Search.
But will any of this actually make it easier for young people to find work?
1240 - What I Did In Iraq
At 1240 we hear from an old friend of the Wire, peace activist Harmeet Sooden. He's the guy who was detained and
expelled by Israeli forces last year, and the guy who was kidnapped by Iraqi terrorists four years ago. Well, he's just
returned from ANOTHER trip to Iraq, more specifically to the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in the north of the
country. He was there to focus public attention on the challenges people are facing, and to document the human rights
situation. He's back now, and will be in the studio at 1240 to tell us all about it.
1300 - An Excercise In Hypocrisy
Business, political and environmental commentator Rod Oram joins us at one today to discuss the Emissions Trading Scheme
- which incorporates all those 3 things! He wrote a pretty scathing piece over the weekend in the Sunday Star Times
which began thus: "The Government has made an utter mockery of the emissions trading scheme". Ouch. He'll be on the line
to discuss how he sees National have abused the country's political system and lumped future generations with an even
heavier burden.
1320 - Counterclockwise: Aue
Spike Mountjoy is on the line at 1320 for some political meandering in counterclockwise, brought to us by the good folks
at scoop. Today, a bit of a spotlight on the Maori Party. How have they found themselves wrapped up in an Emissions
Trading Scheme they rejected less than a year ago, how did they get a win on the whole flag flying thing, and why has
the prodigal son returned to the fold?
1340 - Transit of Venus & Nosferatu
And at the end of the show we talk to Kristie Addison, a multi-instrumentalist and composer who fronts a band called
Transit of Venus. They're doing something pretty special tomorrow night atTAPAC in Western Springs: a live accompaniment
of to F.W. Murnau's legendary silent vampire epic from the '20s, Nosferatu. Kristie will be in the studio at 1340 to
shed some light on this very dark undertaking.
Aucklanders can tune in at 95 on the FM dial.