Tuva'a plays music and talks about stuff. The Dazzler makes a song request but loses, instead our new superhero Smashton comes in for the win. All the while songs of an acid trip are playing throughout the show. And Tuva'a plays his very own Remix of the Day.
This is another of our weekly segments, where Alex will speak with the Deputy Leader of the ACT Party, Brooke van Velden, discussing the hot political topics of today and tomorrow and how one of our most important minor parties feels about them.
Today, they discuss the housing crisis and how to boost housing supply.
We start off with a conversation with ACT’s Brooke van Velden about the housing crisis and how to boost housing supply.
Stella then speaks with Angela Maynard from the Tenants Protection Association about the human rights commission’s call for an independent housing authority and rental WOFs
This is followed by Stella chatting with Georgia Pigot, an environmental social scientist from the university of auckland about the third round of funding for the Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry Fund
Alex then speaks with Associate Professor Kevin Simon of the University of Auckland about microplastic pollution in freshwater.
And then with Steven Trewick of Massey University about his research into six new Weta species in the alpine region of the south island.
Finally, Stella speaks with ben Birks Ang, deputy director of the NZ drug foundation, about recent police wastewater statistics showing increases in methamphetamine.