The Wednesday Wire with Paul Deady - 14/04/10

1220 - Mike Lee

At the top of the show we hear from the chairman of the Auckland Regional Council Mike Lee and ask what's this about a giant tent on queen's wharf? I don't know about you, but to me marquees just SCREAM class, not to mention party. If the reports are to be believed - and when I spoke to Mike this morning he assured me they were NOT - it'd a drastic step back from the original plan of a 500 million dollar stadium, but is it likely to satisfy us fickle Aucklanders? Probably. Not.

1240 - Suzanne Edmonds

At 1240 I'll be chatting with (above) who runs an outfit called EUFA - or Exposing Unacceptable Financial Activities. Now, Suzanne has had some interesting things to add to the sorry saga of Lombard Finance. The company was liquidated in 2008 owing more than 4000 investors more than $127million. Now, the 4 former directors - including Sir Doug Graham, the former justice minister in the National government of the 90s face civil, and potentially CRIMINAL cases. They've said they'll fight them too, so expect this to stay in the news.

1320 - Counterclockwise

At 1320 Gordon Campbell joins us for counterclockwise today, thanks scoop! The Social development minister Paula Bennett has set a welfare reform working group... working - and one of the possibilities they'll be looking at is something called unemployment insurance. Isn't that what tax is? Anyway - they've used it in Canada - but Gordon will be on to shed a little more light on such schemes and how or why they might be applicable to New Zealand.

1340 - Book She Read

And then sad day o sad day - Sally joins us for the last installment of Book She Read. Ever. She's off to chase her fortune amongst the hustle and bustle of a large international metropolis. Yes, shaking free of the shackles of Auckland, Sally will still bring us an insightful look into the world of books, and ponder how over the 2 years or so she's been doing the feature she's stopped talking so much about paper, and started talking so much about e. As in e-readers.

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