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The Plain Language bill, which is currently before parliament, is seeking to make New Zealand’s political communication easier to understand.

In charge of the bill is Labour MP Rachel Boyack, who considers plain language to be a basic democratic right.

Casper spoke to Rachel Boyack about the bill, the problems it aims address, and what plain language actually means.

This week on Dear Science Allan chatted with Casper about detecting Parkinson's disease by smell, a plastic that destroys viruses, and the purple on Alahambra's ceiling.

Union legend Justine is here to answer all your questions ranging from job interview advice, how to work for a union, working from home, and clompy shoes. Whakarongo mai nei!

Film maker, photographer, and producer Julie Zhu comes into the studio for a kōrero about her latest project that she has co-directed, a one-hour bilingual documentary, Meng, which follows Aotearoa's Race Relations Commissioner, Meng Foon. It premieres tonight on Whakaata Māori. Whakarongo mai nei. 

Rachel's back from holiday and she and Zoë kick off the week with the usual good Monday stuff. There's some Fashun with Penelope Noir, a kōrero with Julie Zhu about her new documentary, Meng, Loose Reads with Jenna, Red Dead Redemption with Justine, and plenty of tunes to get ready for the week to. Whakarongo mai nei! 

This week on The Wire for Rāhina Monday!

Joe spoke to Alex James from University of Canterbury about their new research into gender pay equity within universities, and how it explores interventions that will improve the representation of women at higher levels of academia.

This week’s Wire shows will contain a series of interviews with Auckland’s mayoral candidates, which bFM has been putting together to provide our listeners with relevant information on the candidates and their policies. Today, Casper speaks to Auckland Mayoral Candidate Viv Beck.  

Our regular fortnightly segment with OurActionStation is back! Trishil speaks to Protect Putiki about their recent petition calling for the Auckland Council to instigate a review of the resource consent for the marina at Putiki Bay.

Joe also speaks to Andreea Calude, a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at University of Waikato about the Plain Language Bill and why it’s important.

That's us for the Monday Wire!

This week’s Wire shows will contain a series of interviews with Auckland’s mayoral candidates, which bFM has been putting together to provide our listeners with relevant information on the candidates and their policies.

Today, Casper speaks with Viv Beck, who is currently the chief executive of Heart of the City, a business advocacy group for Auckland’s city centre, and has been endorsed by the National-Party aligned Communities and Residents organisation.

New research into gender pay equity in Aotearoa New Zealand universities from the University of Canterbury explores interventions that will improve representation of women at higher levels of academia and therefore address pay equity. This research builds on the authors’ previous work published in 2020 which found that over her career, a woman employed on academic staff at a New Zealand university can expect to earn about $400,000 less than a man.

Joe had the opportunity to speak to Professor Alex James, from the University of Canterbury, who co-authored the study.

Our regular fortnightly segment with OurActionStation is back! Trishil speaks to Protect Pūtiki about their recent petition calling for the Auckland Council to instigate a review of the resource consent for the marina at Pūtiki Bay.