The Monday Wire with Will Pollard

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1215: Green Party MP Gareth Hughes on his ‘Warm Healthy Rental Bill’
For the next month or so, Green Party MP Gareth Hughes is heading to universities all around the country to talk about his new member’s bill, the Warm Healthy Rental Bill, which is aimed at ensuring that all rental homes meet basic standards of warmth and insulation by 2018. Currently, Hughes says that the majority of rental homes in New Zealand do not reach the World Health Organisation’s recommended guide lines for adequate internal temperature. He says he expects landlords to have some support when it comes to paying for the changes needed to insulation and heating systems – but could the bill still mean rises in rents for tenants? This morning, on the first day of his tour, Hughes was at Auckland University, and came up to the studio. I’ll play the interview I did with him this morning at around 12.15

1225: Mike Smith, Director of Caritas Aotearoa NZ, on government funding for overseas aid projects
The government is currently in the process of changing the way it manages funding for overseas aid through development NGOs. But Mike Smith, Director of Caritas Aoteara New Zealand, says the government keeps shifting its goalposts with no consultation or consideration. He says that after receiving no feedback on the comments they made to the government’s earlier draft, Caritas and similar organisations have now been presented with a final framework only 5 weeks away from the deadline for the start of new funding rounds. He warns that this uncertainty about funding is leading to concerns about the viability of the projects agencies like Caritas are involved in. But what exactly will be the impact of the government’s changes on the important work done by development agencies, and what seems to have gone wrong with the consultation process? To find out more we will be speaking to Mike Smith at around 12.25

1235: Peter Hardstaff, WWF-New Zealand Climate Change Campaigner, giving his thoughts on the government’s draft energy strategy
The World Wildlife Foundation in New Zealand is not impressed with the draft energy strategies released by the government towards the end of last week. They’re not the only ones – both Labour and the Greens have criticised the discussion documents for largely retaining the goals established by Labour when they were in power, but at the same time removing details on just how those goals might be met. Peter Hardstaff is the Climate Change Campaigner for WWF in NZ, and he has described the strategies as ‘riddled with holes and dangerously biased towards mineral extraction’. Hardstaff will be on the line at around 12.35 to give us his take on the strategy outlined by the government – and perhaps suggest what could be plugging the holes that he sees in their plans.

1250: Glenis Philip-Barbara, CEO of Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori the Maori Language Commission, discussing Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, Maori Language Week (this week!)

Then lastly, on the first day of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori / Maori Language Week we will be talking with Glenis Philip-Barbara, the Chief Executive of the Maori Language Comission / Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori. The goal of this year’s week is to get more people actually using Te Reo. The latest research suggests more than half of Maori say they can understand the language, but only 7% really use it. So how do we go about moving those numbers? And just what is planned around the country this week? That interview will be up at around 12.50 today.

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