Tāmaki Makauraru multi-instrumentalist Emmanuelle comes into the studio to have a chat about their extremely cool new album Daystar. Whakarongo mai nei, and head along to hear it live at Soap this Friday! Details on Emmanuelle's instagram. 

The ACT party are renewing calls to reduce the mandated isolation period for those who test positive for COVID-19.

Previously they've called for a reduction down to 72 hours of isolation in line with Singapore's requirements but their latest push has been to match Australia's recent scrapping of the mandated isolation period altogether.

For his weekly catchup with the ACT party, Casper questioned David Seymour about his stance on isolation periods as well as a recently announced Ukraine aid fundraising event that the party will be hosting in a couple of weeks' time.

Staff from all 8 of Aotearoa’s universities have voted to strike tomorrow, demanding a pay rise of 8 per cent to match inflation. 

87 per cent of Tertiary Education Union members voted in favour of the strike action, which comes just weeks before students are set to begin exams, citing difficulties keeping up with the cost of living, and "unmanageable workloads" caused by persistent cost cutting and underinvestment in staff.

Emilia spoke to Dr Sean Sturm, a University of Auckland lecturer who is a bargaining team representative at the Tertiary Education Union

Tāmaki Makurau's rail network is undergoing a major rebuild, which will see rail lines across the city temporarily close over the coming years. 

These services are expected to be replaced by buses. 

Three regional transport agencies, including Auckland Transport are calling on immigration minister Michael Wood to urgently review immigration settings to address the country's bus driver shortage. 

News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Louisa Jones from First Union who is concerned that failure to address existing conditions for bus drivers could discourage people from using public transport.

This week on The Wire for Rāapa Wednesday:

Casper speaks to David Seymour in our weekly chat with the ACT Party, this week, they chat about the ACT party's calls to reduce or scrap mandatory covid isolation periods, as well as their party fundraiser for Ukraine.

Emilia chats to Dr Sean Sturm from the Tertiary Education Union about their decision to strike for better pay.

She also chats with our European correspondent Cameron Adams in this week's installation of Eurovision 

And News & Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins speaks to Louisa Jones from First Union about bus driver shortages across Aotearoa. 

That's us for the Wednesday Wire! See you next week.

On this week’s installation of Eurovision, I chat with our European Correspondent Cameron Adams from Berlin about Ukraine, elections in Bosnia, and more.

Boozy ol' Word Salad. 

HahahahhaAHAHahahah heeehehehehehehehh hahahah. Oh, and here's the video we were all talking about, enjoy. 

The Mayor phones up for his final chat on the Breakfast Show. Today he touches on the poor voter turnout in the local election, reflections on his time as Mayor, and hopes for the future of Tāmaki Makaurau. Whakarongo mai nei. 

With the Nobel Prizes being handed out this week, Dr Joel Rindelaub dropped into the studio for Dear Science to discuss historic Nobel Prize snubs through the years with a common theme - they were all women. Joel and Christina had a kōrero about Rosalind Franklin, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Chien-Shiung Wu, Lise Meitner and Donna DeEtte Elbert about the work they did in their fields and the men who took credit for it.