95bFM: The Thursday Wire with Hamish Fletcher

95bFM: The Thursday Wire with Hamish Fletcher

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Coming up on the show:

12:07 – News Report on divorce rates
First up we’ve got one our daily news report from the wonderful team of news volunteers up here at bFM. Today, Ellen Falconer goes over reports and statistics suggesting the divorce rate is the lowest it’s been in 20 years.

12:10 – Tunumafono Ava Faamoe, Otara Community Board chairman
There’s been a good deal of criticism of the Government’s unwillingness to take on recommendations from the Law Commission on liquor policy in New Zealand. The head of the Law Commission, Sir Geoffrey Palmer, has said that one of the “seminal moments” in the commission’s inquiry was visiting community leaders in South Auckland who were frustrated that they couldn’t control the way alcohol was being sold in their area. Understandably, the Government’s refusal to follow the Law Commission’s advice has disappointed many in South Auckland and the chair of the Otara Community Board, Tunumafono Ava Faamoe, joins me on the show.

12:25 – Marie Shroff, Privacy Commissioner
With the fast-paced development of technology it’s getting easier and easier to transfer large amounts of information on smaller and smaller data devices. There is some concern then on the security measures of organisations and government departments that hold sensitive information about the public. According to a survey conducted by the Privacy Commission, government departments have improved security around the use of data disks, however, there are still some that need to do serious work to improve the way they control data storage and transfer. The Privacy Commissioner, Marie Shroff, joins me on the show to discuss privacy measures that government departments already have in place, and what still needs to be done to ensure sensitive details don’t fall into the wrong hands.

12:35 – Dear Science with Peter Griffin from the Science Media Centre
Today on Dear Science Peter will explore the 25th anniversary of the ozone layer being discovered, as well as how scientists have weighed in on mining debates in New Zealand.

12:45 – Gareth Hughes, Green Party spokesperson on libraries and archives
There is a brilliant piece in this month’s edition of Werewolf, an online publication associated with Scoop.co.nz, on libraries in New Zealand and how funding is going down and how the costs to users are increasing. In light of this, I’ll play an interview I did this morning with the Green Party spokesperson on libraries and archives Gareth Hughes on the importance of libraries for communities and the problems posed by a user-pays model.

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