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95bFM Monday Wire with Kim Choe

6th April 2009

12:00 bNews, Weather and Surf

12:15 Tightening the loop on migrants – Mike Treen, Global Peace and Justice
Advocates for migrant workers are worried about Government plans to slash migrant work permits. They are meeting tomorrow night to discuss a response to moves they say will foster racist sentiments, and breach the Employment Relations and Human Rights Acts.

12:40 North Korea flexes its muscle – Stephen Hoadley, University of Auckland Associate Professor of Politics
Yesterday North Korea finally made good on its promise (or threat, depending on which way you look at it) to launch a rocket. Hoadley says whether or not it actually was a satellite as claimed, is irrelevant. The launch is more indicative of the regime’s mindset. So what how big is the actual threat? And what options do the vociferously anti-North Korea world powers have now?

1:00 Notes from the Chief Censor, with Bill Hastings
Bill was in Auckland last week, and dropped in for a chat about The Classification Ofice’s work with high school students, and his desire to see parents reprimanded more strongly for allowing their children to play violent video games.

1:20 No. 2 returns to the stage – Madeleine Sami
Toa Fraser’s play is back, 10 years after it was first put on stage by a then-18 year old Madeleine Sami. Sami’s back for the current season, older and wiser and with the story having also been made into a feature film. It’s a demanding a solo show in which she plays 9 different characters of varying age and ethnicity.

1:40 The Green Desk – Green Desk Garden update
Simon Miller talk with our gardener Paul Thompson about bugs and beasties in the Green Desk Garden.