For their weekly interview, News and Editorial Director, Jessica Hopkins, spoke to ACT’s Simon Court about the government’s new measures aimed at reducing youth vaping, significant cuts to the Ministries for Primary Industries and Health as directed by the government, and calls from more than 30 organisations, including World Vision, Save the Children, and Greenpeace, for the government to create a special humanitarian visa for Palestinians in Gaza with family connections to New Zealand.
For their regular catch-up News and Editorial Director, Jessica Hopkins, spoke to ACT’s Simon Court about youth vaping, public sector cuts, and calls for the government to create a special humanitarian visa for Palestinians in Gaza with family connections to New Zealand.
She also spoke to Co-Founder of Vape-Free Kids NZ, Marnie Wilton, and Associate Professor at the University of Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Kelly Burrowes, about how effective they believe the government’s new measures to reduce youth vaping will be.
Producer Ezra spoke to Pharmacy Lecturer Dr Jay Gong, and Clinical Pharmacist, Hoda Fahmy, from the University of Auckland, about a rise in opioid misuse among older adult and post-surgery patients.
Last week, the government announced a complete ban on disposable vapes and higher fines for vape retailers and individuals caught selling to under-18-year-olds, as part of its ‘crackdown’ on youth vaping.
News and Editorial Director, Jessica Hopkins, spoke to Co-Founder of Vape-Free Kids NZ, Marnie Wilton, about how effective she believes these measures will be in stopping youth vaping.
She also asked Associate Professor at the University of Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Kelly Burrowes, for her thoughts on the government’s crackdown.
She started off the interview asking what impact Burrowes thinks the recently announced measures will have on reducing vaping among young people?
This week for Morning Glory Milly and her dad celebrate thier birthdays in the only way they know how - playing tunes of course! Lots of mean tracks, lots of vinyl is spun, and lots of fun is had.
We chat with Kat Glass about The Great Piratical Rumbustification, a new production by the Tim Bray Theatre Company, on for the school holidays from the 13th April!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Playlist
We talk WOMAD, rugby, budgies and we chat with Kat from Tim Bray Theatre Company about their upcoming school holiday production: Margaret Mahy's The Great Piratical Rumbustification!
Thanks to the wonderful NZ Maritime Museum - Hui te Ananui a Tangaroa - for sponsoring the show!
Enid Blyton - The Enchanted Wood (tk26 - 28)
Little Ripples - Haere mai ki te whariki
Petite Music Box - Coucou
Mr Roberelli and Levity Beet - I'm on my bicycle
fleaBITE - 3 Fleas in a Submarine: Ep 1. Heart
Marshall Cavendish - First Flight
Levity Beet - Trampoline
Claudia Robin Gunn - Inky The Octopus
Bodo Wartke - Barbaras Rhabarberbar
John Cronan With Henri Rene & Orchestra - Molly Whuppie
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