Lately for Wednesday 12 May 2021
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Midweek Mediawatch
10:40 PM.Midweek Mediawatch with Hayden Donnell Read more Audio
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Gisborne Council's looking for the whanau of graves
10:30 PM.A crash has significantly damaged a number of headstones in Gisborne's Taruheru Cemetery and the council is looking for their families. Karyn speaks with Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz. Read more Audio
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Protestors across the country call for more money for Pharmac
10:20 PM.The Government is refusing to be drawn whether Pharmac is in line for a significant funding increase in next week's Budget. The advocacy group Patient Voice Aotearoa staged protests across the country… Read more Audio
10:20 Protestors across the country call for more money for Pharmac
The Government is refusing to be drawn whether Pharmac is in line for a significant funding increase in next week's Budget. The advocacy group Patient Voice Aotearoa staged protests across the country today including at Parliament calling for the drug buying agency's budget to be doubled immediately and tripled within two years to three billion dollars. Karyn speaks with organiser Malcolm Mulholland about today's protest and petition with 100-thousand signatures.
Photo: RNZ / Ruth Hill
10:30 Gisborne Council's looking for the whanau of graves in Taruheru Cemetery
A crash has significantly damaged a number of headstones in Gisborne's Taruheru Cemetery and the council is looking for their families. Karyn speaks with Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz.
Gisborne Mayor Rehette Stoltz. Photo: RNZ / Tom Kitchin
10:45 Midweek Mediawatch: Hayden Donnell
Lately's midweek catch up with the Mediawatch team - tonight Hayden Donnell speaks with Karyn Hay about a media organisation correcting the record about one of New Zealand's msot notable Nazis, Willi Huber. Hayden also looks at the media's reporting on the Covid-19 vaccine and the so-called pay freeze.
Photo: TVNZ / Screenshot
