Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily in partnership with Ārepa. Today on The Spinoff, Jack Marshall reports on a graffiti job on a prominent Wellington landmark that’s seemingly gone unnoticed for months, Terry Baucher on what’s behind our banks’ sudden charitable streak and an excerpt from a new book by Robert Vennell about the time toheroa soup went global – and almost extinct. But first, Alice Snedden’s Bad News unpacks the complexities of the minimum wage exemption.  Roughly 900 workers in Aotearoa get paid between $2 and $5 an hour as a result of the minimum wage exemption. Although it’s a government initiative to get more people with learning disabilities into the workplace, it still makes Alice Snedden feel a little uneasy. Is it weird to remunerate entirely based on productivity? But how else can we ensure a fully inclusive workplace? In the latest episode of Alice Snedden’s Bad News, the comedian speaks to those who are for and against the minimum wage exemption. (The audio description of this episode is available at Attitude Live.)
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When toheroa soup went global When the future king of England wrote ‘Very good!’ next to ‘Toheroa Soup’ in the margin of his menu, it triggered a frenzy of exploitation that nearly drove the prized shellfish to extinction. In this excerpt from Robert Vennell’s Secrets of the Sea: The Story of New Zealand’s Native Sea Creatures, the history of toheroa is served.
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