The Wire w/ Caeden: 22 October, 2026

For City Counselling this week, Wire Host Caeden spoke to Councillor Shane Henderson about the importance of this election for Tāmaki Makaurau. For Politics with Whakaata Māori, they spoke to Daniel Perese about recent Whakaata Māori-Curia polling and rangatahi Māori voter enrolment. And they spoke to Malak Tamimi, National Secretary for Make It 16, about The Youth Debate on Tuesday night, and low voter enrolment amongst young people. Producer Flo spoke with Labour MP Shanan Halbert about youth enrolment, the Te Pati Maori and Greens meeting with the mongrel mob, social media ban for under 16s and opinion polling on the upcoming election. And Producer Eloïse spoke with Esther O’Donnell from On a Roll about the importance of rangatahi being enrolled to vote.