The Thursday Wire With Hamish Fletcher

Thursday, 15 July 2010, 12:26 pm
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95bFM: The Thursday Wire With Hamish Fletcher

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12:00 News, weather and surf with Mikela
1207: Ellen Falconer takes a look at an ASH survey which suggests theres been a drastic drop the numbers of teens smoking.
1210: Warren Brookbanks from the University of Auckland Law School on claim of right defence.
Justice Minister Simon Power has announced a shake-up of the claim of right defence, saying its scope is too broad and out of line with other jurisdictions. This follows the acquittal of the Waihopai 3 earlier this year after the trio used the defence as justification for breaking into the Waihopai spy base and puncturing a satellite dome cover. Mr Power has tabled both repeal and reform of the defence as a possibility but we wont know exactly what he has planned until September. Today though, Ill be joined on the Wire by Warren Brookbanks, a criminal law expert from the University of Auckland Law School. Hell discuss the defence and his views on the proposed changes.
1220: Auckland University of Technology vice-chancellor Derek McCormack on tertiary funding
Yesterday, Tertiary Education Minister Stephen Joyce floated the idea that tertiary education funding could be set to students ability to find jobs once out of university. I spoke to Derek McCormack this morning who strongly disagreed with Mr Joyce and championed the Universitys role in creating citizens rather than workers. He said a consequence of Mr Joyces idea would be a move towards training rather than learning, with students receiving a narrow education rather than the broad skills needed for modern society.
1230: Dear Science with Peter Griffin from the Science Media Centre
Dear Science is your weekly look at science, technology and the world of the internet. Today, Peter will give his take on scrapping GST off healthy foods and explains the enigmatic flash cookies causing all sorts of internet browsing woes.
1240: Peter Esmonde, director of Trimpin: Sound of Invention documentary.
And last up, Ill play an interview I did with Peter Esmonde, the director of Trimpin, a documentary playing as part of the International Film Festival. The doco follows and records the creative process of the extra-ordinary sound sculptor Trimpin, a man who, surprisingly, has managed to continually practise his ground-breaking craft amidst a consumer-driven, commercially minded America. Trimpin: Sound of Invention plays tonight at Academy Cinemas at 6:00pm.

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