This morning, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child called out the failure of the New Zealand Government to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility. Referring to the current minimum age of criminal responsibility, the Committee stated clearly that the NZ Government is "just not getting children’s rights right".
Joe speaks to Lisa Woods, Campaigns Director for Amnesty International Aotearoa on this matter.
University of Canterbury Astronomer Professor John Hearnshaw is calling for national legislation to limit light pollution.
He proposed a national law that would set new controls on outdoor lighting, such as 10pm curfews for illuminated advertising signs, limits on what street lights could emit, and reductions in blue light across cities and towns.
David spoke to Richard Easther from the University of Auckland about what would happen if New Zealand started to regulate light pollution.
While fish and chip shop customers in South Australia are eating threatened and endangered shark species labelled as “flake”, sharks are facing the risk of being extinct. As a 2020 study concluded sharks were “functionally extinct” on 20% of the world’s coral reefs. A new study building on this research from the journal Nature Communications shows that now 2 in 3 of the worlds sharks are being driven to extinction. The cause is clear and simple: overfishing. What will be the effects on the ocean ecosystem? What consequenses will this have for humans? And why do sharks have such a bad image?
Our show directly preceeded Auckland suffering from the first round of torrential, almost monsoon, rain fall - which even delayed and presented an odd version of Friday Live.
It almost didn't happen as torrential rain was just starting to pelt down, but we were honored to host Georgia of Camp Cope before they were scheduled to perform at The Tuning Fork later that night.
Rod Oram phones up to share his ever astute thoughts on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's departure, Rātana, and his predictions for the political year. Whakarongo mai nei!
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