95bFM: The Tuesday Wire with Kim Choe

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95bFM Tuesday Wire with Kim Choe
18th August 2009

12:00 bNews, Weather and Surf

12:15 Physios feel the squeeze
ACC has announced that it will cut physiotherapy funding by one third from 16th November, citing a cost blowout that has seen $139 million being shelled out for treatment - up from a mere $9 million five years ago. The cut means patients will have to bear the costs themselves, something which the New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists says is dangerous for public health. Kim talks to society president John Warren.

12:40 Taking the pseudoephedrine out of ‘P’
The government’s chief science advisor Peter Gluckman has been investigating ways to bring New Zealand ’s high level of methamphetamine use under control. One solution being mooted is the banning of over-the-counter sales of cold medicines containing ‘P’ precursor pseudoephedrine. You know the ones: Codral, Sudafed…the first things we reach when our sinuses begin to ache. But the New Zealand Self-Medication Industry says such a ban won’t solve our problem. Kim talks to NZSMI Executive Director Tim Roper.

1:20 Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Google?
Dunedin-based author Lynley Hood talks to Kim about her stand against Google Books, arguing the internet giant has stolen authors’ intellectual property through its scanning of in-copyright books. She says an out-of-court settlement reached with the U.S. Authors’ Guild (currently awaiting final approval from a New York Federal Court) offers no protection for New Zealand authors, and wants the government to step in.

1:40 The Green Desk
With the Copenhagen Climate Summit nearly upon us, social justice and environmental activists in NZ have identified their own 'climate targets' - the governments and big businesses that created the problem in the first place. Simon Miller talks to Gary Cranston of Climate Camp Aotearoa about the upcoming Climate Camp, Dec 16 - 21 and what they're hoping to achieve.

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