95bFM's Thursday Wire with Hamish Fletcher 15/04/2010

Coming up on the show:

1215 - Bevan Hanlon, National Secretary of the Corrections Association
The Government has announced that New Zealand’s first privately built, managed and operated prison will be up and running in 5 years in South Auckland. According to Bill English this will mean a saving of 10 to 20 percent on the total running cost of the facility. However, there are those concerned about the plan and one such critic is Bevan Hanlon, the National Secretary of the Corrections Association, and he joins me at the top of the show to discuss the issues surrounding public-private prisons.

1235 – Maryan Street, Labour List MP
Staying with Government critics, I joined on the Wire by Labour MP Maryan St who believes National’s scheduled 4 million dollar aerial mineral survey of New Zealand is a shambles and illustrates a lack of planning. I’ll ask her to go over the survey plans in more detail, and enquire how they might antagonize the conservation movement.

1315 – Bunny McDiarmid, Green Peace Executive Director
Then on the show I’ve got Bunny McDiarmid to discuss a Greenpeace rally coming up on May 1, protesting Government plans to mine conservation land. Stay tuned to find out more details on how you can let your voice be heard on this important issue.

1330 – Dear Science, Peter Griffin Science Media Centre
In bFM’s weekly look at science and technology Peter will take us through an announcement due to come out the Environmental Risk Authority at 1pm today on whether Agresearch can proceed with GM research on sheep, goats and other farm animals. Peter’s also noticed Telecom’s trading freeze, which he says indicates an announcement from them could be on the way, which hopefully will come out by the time we run the feature. As well as this we’ll discuss plans by the South Korean Government to set limits on the amount of time children can spend gaming online.

1340 – Papercuts, Pennie Black (thanks to MagNation)
Papercuts is a feature on the Wire where Pennie Black takes you through the world of magazines and other serial publications. This week, Pennie reviews ‘Qompendium’ and we’ll play an interview she did with Qompendium’s editor and founder, Kimberly Lloyd.

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