The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady

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1207 - Vollie Report

We begin with today's report from the hardworking team on the bFM news desks. Today Gabrielle O'Boyle takes a look at the tax-y surprises waiting for us in tomorrow's budget.

1210 - Leaky homes, Roger Levie - Homeowners and Buyers Assoc. of NZ

Straight after that, (above) will be on the line to talk through the solution which has been offered by the government to once and for all deal with the leaky homes crisis. Announced earlier this week, the package boils down thusly: The government (or taxpayers) will pay a quarter of the cost of repairs, local councils (or ratepayers) another quarter, and the owner will pay the rest. The owners will also be given access to bank loans to help pay the costs - many of them having struggled to get such a loan because their main asset is literally rotten.

In dealing with over 3000 owners from throughout the country HOBANZ are very much at the "coal face" in providing advice and guidance around every aspect of the remedial and claims projects these owners face. So what do they make of the package? And what about those 3000 leaky home owners?

1225 - Cellphones give you cancer. No they don't: Interphone study with Dr David Black

At 1225 I'm hoping to make sense of conflicting headlines around the link between cell-phones and brain cancer. Following up on a massive world-wide study on the radiation emitted from cell-phones, media have either reported there's no link between the two, or there is a link between the two. Huh? To my mind it looks like the former - no link. So is TV3, who's headline reads "Heavy Cell Phone Use Linked to Brain Cancer" not only being misleading but also fairly irresponsible? This morning I spoke with (above) a senior lecturer in environmental medicine at Auckland University, who specialises in electromagnetic safety. I wonder if he watches LOST...

1235 - Counterclockwise

Counterclockwise at 1235 - Lyndon Hood joining us from scoop's leaky building with a preview of tomorrow's oddly publicised budget. For a document with a strict embargo on it, it's fairly peculiar just how much we already know, is it not?

1245 - Sir Peter Gluckman, youngsters inquiry

And then at 1245 we'll hear from the Prime Minister's chief scientific advisor Sir Peter Gluckman. He announced yesterday that the office of the PM will put together a briefing paper called "Improving the transition: Reducing social and psychological morbidity during adolescence". The paper comes in the wake of the deaths of 3 King's College students - one from alcohol poisoning, another from a fall off a motorway overpass - deaths which Sir Peter quite rightly says are extremely upsetting for families and communities. The paper will try to put adolescent behaviour in a scientific context, and look for possible solutions in what Sir Peter calls a new biological reality.

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