95bFM: The Thursday Wire with Joe Nunweek

95bFM: The Thursday Wire with Joe Nunweek

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12.20: Dr Ganesh Nana on Taskforce 2025

True to their word, the 2025 Taskforce demanded as a coalition promise by the Act Party have set out a range of measures this week they say will be painful but necessary if New Zealand is able to catch up with Australia in the next couple of decades. The responses of Don Brash and his colleagues have also been true to their ideological form, attracting the ire of opponents and even being largely dismissed by the government. More damningly, some economists and policymakers are beginning to suggest that the Taskforce missed the point entirely by neglecting monetary reform and the importance of NZ's exporting sector. I talk to Dr Ganesh Nana from Berl Economists about his take.

12.45: Paul Goldsmith, Citizens And Ratepayers Auckland City Councillor on disciplining the city's streets.

A private army cleansing Auckland streets of the homeless? That's how the Herald first framed the Auckland City Council's new initiative to boost numbers of security guards ensuring public order in our CBD. But Paul Goldsmith says both the press and City Vision councillors have the situation all wrong.

1.00: John Marshall QC, President, NZLS on embattled Manukau lawyers

At first they welcomed the Bazley Report on Legal Aid, but after meeting lawyers at the Manukau District Court and following Simon Power's quick moves to close the Legal Services Agency, the New Zealand Law Society is hitting back at some of the more outrageous allegations. I talk to their president about what accusations are fair, and unfair, just after 1.

12.20: LATE4 Preview with Finlay McDonald

In the first instalment of a monthly feature, Finlay McDonald, Panel Moderator at the Late At The Museum event, gives people a taste of what's ahead for the event. Lively discussion, music, special guests - and more...

12.40: Pennie Papercuts

Magazine Reviewer Pennie Papercuts leaps into the Thursday Wire fray once again with a fearless take on the rather thick and glossy Monocle, a publication concerning economics, business, lifestyle and design. Can the former make the latter intellectual and erudite? Can the latter make the former remotely fun? She'll be the judge...

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