Stella speaks with Dr Jagadish Thaker, a senior lecturer from the University of Auckland about a new study from the University of Cambridge that offers a strategy for combating misinformation online using inoculation theory.

145 workers at the Kawerau factory that manufactures Purex toilet paper have been locked out for three weeks after their strike and rejection of a three percent pay rise. Today, Stella spoke to John Crocker, secretary of Unite Union, about the dynamics of lockouts, and the unusual aspects of this particular case. 

Welcome back to the Thursday Wire!

Stella speaks to John Crocker, the secretary of Unite Union, about the lockout of union workers in the Kawerau Purex factory.

Tuva’a has his regular catch-up with Labour's Andrew Little.

Stella spoke to Dr Jagadish Thaker, senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, about a recent paper published by the University of Cambridge regarding how we can battle misinformation.

Denzel takes over the late morning hours to liven up your Thursdays with an eclectic set of tunes accompanied by some stellar chat and good nostalgic vibrations as he delves into video game soundtrack history to bring everyone’s favorite radio spot ‘video game soundtrack gems.' 

It's the last day of Winter! So we celebrate with some chill tunes and good vibes. The listeners let me know what they're going to spend their cost of living payment on and we round off the show with a The Cure and Jay Z mash-up.

In this week's chat with the ACT party Deputy Leader,  Alex chatted with Brooke van Velden about the new NZI report into Ministry of Health policies as well as youth crime statistics.

The impacts of transport challenges on disabled people’s lives can be devastating, a recently published research report shows.

The research was a collaboration between the Disabled Person’s Assembly and transport consultants, and sought to illustrate the impact that a lack of access to reliable transport, if any transport at all, has on Aotearoa’s disabled community.

To get some insight into the report, Emilia spoke to the DPA’s policy advisor Paul Brown about the report.

This week on The Wire for Rāapa Wednesday...

Alex speaks to Brooke van Velden in his weekly chat with the ACT Party deputy leader.

Emilia chats to Newsroom co-editor Tim Murphy about the Auckland Mayoral elections.

She chats to associate Professor Katherine Ravenswood from AUT about the report into the wellbeing of support workers.

She also speaks with Paul Brown from the Disabled Persons Assembly about the challenges that disabled people face in accessing transport

And she speaks to Cliona Ni Mhurchu from the University of Auckland about her research into added sugar labeling on grocery items.

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

Labeling grocery products with the amount of added sugar they contain may not make much of a difference to consumer’s shopping habits.

This is according to new research from Australia in collaboration with Cliona Ni Mhurchu from the University of Auckland. 

Emilia spoke to Cliona this morning about her research.