Friday, 24 October 2014, 4:00 pm Press Release: The Nation
On The Nation this weekend
This weekend on The
Nation… with dairy prices falling, China growing its
agriculture sector, and the environmental costs piling up,
we ask the Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings if New
Zealand is too dependent on milk powder and if we’ve
almost reached ‘peak cow’.
Then, with the latest round
of Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations taking place in
Australia, our reporter Torben Akel takes a look at the pros
and cons of the agreement for New Zealand and the likelihood
of striking a deal at all.
And Tribal Huk gang president
Jamie Pink runs a sandwiches in schools programme and thinks
everyone should get involved in helping hungry children.
We’ll ask him what drove him to start the programme and
what he thinks the government should do about child
poverty.
We’ll discuss all this and more with our panel:
Hive News founder Bernard Hickey, Council of Trade Unions
president Helen Kelly and former Act MP and Medicines New
Zealand chair Heather
Roy.
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