Today on the show, Nicola Willis chats to Rachel on What's Up about National's education policy, the political responses to Posie Parker's visit and Christopher Luxon's State of the Nation speech from earlier this month. Rob Bollix talks health and repair on The Mind Trench. Rachel speaks to IMNZ Classic Record recipient Micronism (AKA Denver McCarthy) about Inside A Quiet Mind. Vanessa Worm dials in to chat about her upcoming gig this Saturday, and her recently released album Mosaics. Whakarongo mai nei!
Nicola Willis dials in to chat to Rachel about National's education policy, the political responses to Posie Parker's visit and Christopher Luxon's State of the Nation speech from earlier this month.
Statistics New Zealand recently released data showing no improvement for children living in material hardship over the past year.
Arno spoke to Molly Grant, a researcher at the University of Auckland conducting a survey of over 5000 children in a project called Growing Up in New Zealand. She has uncovered some of the symptoms of childhood poverty and is calling for policy changes to help urgently increase some of the country’s lowest incomes.
Arno started the interview by asking if New Zealand was “the best place in the world to grow up”, set as a government goal four years ago.
Andre Fa’aoso spoke to Sandra Morrison from the University of Waikato and Christina Tausa from the University of Canterbury about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent Synthesis Report from a Māori and Pasifika perspective.
Arno Cronje talked to Molly Grant, a researcher from the University of Auckland and author of the Growing Up in New Zealand research program on child poverty rates.
Alex Bonham spoke with Cath Handley, Waiheke Local Board chair and Elena Keith from Quiet Sky Waitemata about the impacts of helicopters on the city’s suburbs and islands.
And on the Green Desk, Jack Marshall discussed polyamorous southern elephant seals with a PhD Student at the University of Tasmania, Sophia Volzke.
On Thursday 30 March the Auckland Council Planning Committee will receive an internal report on compliance and decide how to better regulate helicopters within the planning system. This follows years of advocacy from residents in Herne Bay and Waiheke who are frustrated by the proliferation of helicopter pads and the significant impact they have on the wellbeing of people and animals nearby. The report suggests compliance is adequate and notes there are few complaints. However, there has been no consultation with residents who make the point that there is no proactive enforcement of compliance. The council relies on complaints to act and discourages feedback by providing no avenues to complain, noting on its website that it does not deal with aviation noise. When people do complain about breaches of consent they are required to know exactly what helicopter is used and the address of the consent holder. This creates an impossibly high bar for most people to meet. However, it was clear from a notified submission in Cremorne St last year which attracted 130 submissions, all in opposition, that feelings in affected neighbourhoods run high and that local residents with experience of living near private helipads want them banned in urban residential areas entirely. Waiheke local board chair Cath Handley and Elena Keith of Quiet Sky Waitemata talk about the issues, why Auckland is an outlier, the changes in approach needed and why they want National Planning Standard 15 for helicopter noise measurement to be incorporated into planning decisions immediately.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or ‘IPCC’ for short, released their latest Synthesis Report earlier this month.
It is the most recent summarisation of all climate reports over the past five years, and states there is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all.
Despite the implementation of global climate mitigation policies since the previous synthesis report in 2014, the IPCC paints a bleak future where keeping global temperature rise to one-point-five degrees celsius is nearing impossible.
As seen in Aotearoa, the impacts of the floods in Auckland and Cyclone Gabrielle have been expansive and affected communities across the country.
Firstly to receive a Māori indigenous perspective within Aotearoa, Andre Fa’aoso spoke to Sandra Morrison, Professor in the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato.
To understand the effect that climate change has on the Pacific Islands, Andre also spoke to Dr Christina Tausa, a Political Scientist and Research Manager for the Pacific Ocean Climate Crisis Assessment at the University of Canterbury. Chrisina also spoke about the measures that are being taken in Pacific nations to build their existing climate resilience.
This week on The Green Desk, reporter Jack Marshall speaks with PhD student and researcher Sophia Volzke about her latest paper looking into the lives of southern elephant seals and the problems of polyamory.
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