Gideon Voon (guitar) and Filiva’a James (vocals/keytar) from Shepherds Reign are in to talk about the band’s new single, Nafanua, from their forthcoming album. Nafanua also has a music video out now, and you can catch them on tour soon. Whakarongo mai nei!
David White, director and writer of Far North is in to talk about the stranger than fiction story that airs this evening on TV3 and streams on ThreeNow. Whakarongo mai nei!
The Labour Party announced their tax policy over the weekend. It included policies like dropping GST off fruits and vegetables and changes to Working for Families.
The Policy has received some support, but several organisations advocating for the eradication of poverty and tax reform say it does not go far enough to address the wealth gap in Aotearoa.
Caeden spoke about this with Glen Barclay, Chair of Tax Justice Aotearoa and the Better Taxes for a Better Future campaign which is a coalition of 20 organisations aiming to work for better taxes to grow revenue and have a fairer tax system.
They started by asking Glen if Labour’s announcement is fair tax policy.
Caeden also spoke to economist Susan St John for the Child Poverty Action Group’s position on the announcement. As they have been quite critical of it, they started by asking what the issues were.
For our weekly catch up with the ACT party Rawan Speaks to Simon Court about ACT’s recent pledge to make changes to judge sentencing policies.
The party feels that the current system is not giving criminals, especially ones committing violent crimes, the appropriate time in prison. As a result they have promised to ensure that public risk and security be one of the main considerations alongside risk to the victim. They have also said they will abolish cultural background checks and considerations.
They also discussed where the party stands on National’s recent proposal to ban smartphones in Primary, intermediate and high schools and why they believe there are other issues that need to be focused on.
This week on Tomorrow's World, Leilani and Rawan look into the upcoming, cost covered Girl's on Ice Aotearoa expedition for 15-16 year old girls.
This is an 11 day expidition in Mt Ruapehu focused on earth science, art and the outdoors and is a part of the Inspiring Girl's Orginisation.
Rawan spoke with Lauren Vargo, researcher at the Antarctic research centre in Victoria University and director of the Girl's on Ice about what the programme is about and why it is important.
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