This week, Aotearoa’s Local government Minister and Resource Management Act reform Minister have announced a major shake-up of local government. Regional councils would be replaced, with mayors convening to form 11 combined territory boards across the motu.
Ongoing conversations about wider public transport circuits to West Auckland beaches are arising once more as Tāmaki heads into the summer months, and popular destinations like Piha remain largely publicly inaccessible.
Last weekend, a fire that is being treated as suspicious broke out at G.A.Y nightclub on Karangahape Rd. The Detective Senior Sergeant Martin Friend confirmed the fire happened in a rubbish bin inside the club bathroom. The flames were quickly extinguished by emergency services early Sunday morning, and nobody was harmed.
Producer Jasmine Gray spoke to Councillor Shane Henderson about these topics.
This week Thursday host Emma Gleason played the last of the "sounds like Tāmaki" song requests (thanks listeners!) and chatted to Belladonna about her debut album Arcus Way. There's also new music from Elliott and Vincent, Hemi Hemingway and CCTV, plus some vault tracks from The Features and The Mint Chicks.
This episode of bLine looks at student politics and student associations across Aotearoa. Student organisations and unions can be found in all of Aotearoa’s universities, and their names can be seen at countless student events. But what is it that these organisations actually do, and what kinds of challenges do they face? Is the heyday of student unions long gone, or is there more to look forward to on the horizon? To get a snapshot of how student associations are doing at the moment, we spoke to presidents from associations across the motu.
Wellingon-based artist Belladonna (Bella Cook) joins Thursday host Emma Gleason to discuss her new single 'Holding On' and the incendiary events that shaped her debut album Arcus Way, which is out on Friday November 28.
Happy Rāpare e te whānau - Rosetta and Milly have an epic Thursday brekkie lined up for you. E whai ake nei; Isthmus'n That with Deputy Mayor Desley Simpson, a chat with Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses - and a whooooole bunch of prizes!! Whakarongo mai nei!
Rosetta and Milly resume their bi-weekly catch ups with deputy Mayor Desley Simpson to chat about PC120, the council working towards a response to the Governments suggestion to loosen restrictions on concerts at Eden Park, and Mayor Wayne Brown's comments towards Palestinian Protestors at Tuesdays governing body meeting. Whakarongo mai nei!
Kia ora e hoa mā! Welcome back to Rāpare Drive with HALFQUEEN. E whai ake nei, coming up on the show today: Marijuana Media thanks to The Hemp Store, a kōrero with Karen Nyame KG ahead of The Others Way and Filth, and Cocktail Corner thanks to Thomson Whiskey! Whakarongo mai nei.
On Monday, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced a new National Party Kiwisaver policy, where they’re looking to further increase the default Kiwisaver contribution rate. Luxon said, if re-elected, National would continue to gradually increase the default contribution rates by 0.5% per year until 2032, when both employees and employers would pay 6% each.
The Government also announced that New Zealand would become the latest country to halt new prescriptions for puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria. In response to this, Ricardo Menendez March told RNZ that the government was “buying into imported culture wars”.
And last week saw the end of the COP30 climate summit. One of the major outcomes of the summit was that more than 80 countries, including the United Kingdom and Pacific Island Nations, signed a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels, but New Zealand chose not to.
For our Weekly Catchup with The Green Party, Wednesday Wire Host Max spoke with MP Ricardo Menendez March about The Green Party’s reaction to the COP30 summit, as well as their thoughts on the Government’s decision to halt new prescriptions of puberty blockers for young people with gender dysphoria.
But first, we started with National’s new Kiwisaver policy.
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