Jacquelyn and Jak from Te Kaunihera o Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland Council come and chat to Jonny about Auckland Play Week 2024 and all the fun tamariki and parents alike can have across the city this week!
This week on Dear Science, our expert Professor Allan Blackman chatted to us about the new largest known prime number, Carl Djerassi's birthday, and recycling gold from e-waste.
On the 23rd of October, the Christchurch City Council voted to sanction Israel, becoming the first city council in the country to do so.
News and Editorial Director, Joel, spoke to the National Party’s Katie Nimon, on the move, and whether the party had any plans themselves to implement a similar move.
As well as this, they spoke to Katie about the recent worker’s rallies that occurred in 12 different spots around the country, and whether or not the party has any plans to address the concerns of those who attended the rallies.
On the 29th of October, worker’s unions across the country held rallies over concerns of what they have dubbed this government’s “anti-worker” agenda.
These concerns stem from elements such as the government’s cuts on public services, scrapping fair pay agreements, and re-introducing 90-day trials.
Attendees of the rallies included Labour leader, Chris Hipkins, and several members of Te Pāti Māori, including co-leaders Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, with the Public Service Association sayingroughly 10,000 individuals showed up to the rallies overall.
News and Editorial Director, Joel, spoke to the Assistant Secretary for the Public Service Association, Fleur Fitzsimons, about the rallies, and what the atmosphere was like for those attending the hui.
Last week, the Christchurch City Council voted to sanction Israel.
This follows calls from the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa to stop purchasing merchandise from companies that have links to funding Israel’s war on Gaza, according to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The staff report on Wednesday shows that council did not have any business with companies identified on this list, with recommendations passed by council members that amended the policy to prevent future business with these companies.
Despite passing, councillors Aaron Keown, and Kelly Baber voted against, with councillors James Gough, Victoria Henstock, and Mark Peters abstaining.
News and Editorial Director, Joel, spoke to the National Chair of the Palestinian Solidarity Network, John Minto, about the sanctions, and why these sanctions are so important.
Recently, research into the legal rights of sex workers in New Zealand, Ireland, and Scotland, was undertaken, following 20 years since Aotearoa decriminalised sex work.
News and Editorial Director, Joel, spoke to Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, Lynzi Armstrong, about how sex workers are treated here in New Zealand compared to Scotland and Ireland, and if there are still any concerns participants in the survey have about their profession.
Oto and Jaycee had a chat with Singaporean music legend Isaac Chiew, frontman of the rock group Cactus Cactus and founder of Big Duck Music, a regional independent music collective.
They talked about Isaac's musical journey, stories of his touring Malaysia and why Southeast Asian music is so important to him.
Oto and Jaycee played a variety of Rock, Grunge and Post-Hardcore tracks from across Southeast Asia and had a chat with Isaac Chiew, frontman of Singaporean rock quartet Cactus Cactus and founder of Singapore's Big Duck Music collective.
The members of cumgirl8 phone in from their tourbus while travelling the United States to chat about their newest album, the 8th cumming, with Rosetta. Whakarongo mai nei!
Featuring an interview with Telenova ahead of their show this Rāmere at Neck of the Woods, the members of cumgirl8 phone in from their tourbus whilst on the road in the U.S. to talk about their new EP the 8th cumming and on AudioCulture, Michael Brown talks about New Zealand's first internet-only label Crystal Magic, which put out the music of many bFM favourites such as P.H.F., disasteradio, Little Phnx and more. Read Michael's article on the noisey library of New Zealand to find out more about Crystal Magic - shout out to Iwi Waiata - AudioCulture for bringing us stories from the archive each fortnight.
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