This week on Green Desk Mitch speaks to Sophie Barclay and Mandy Patmore about
Community Waitakere’s project on the pekapeka tou roa. In an attempt to create a better
understanding about the pekapeka tou roa including their presence and behaviour in West
Auckland, Community Waitakere ran a project which has enabled the pekapeka to be radio
tracked. To raise more awareness and share information on the pekapeka, Community
Waitakere is hosting an exhibition on the 31 st of October which will showcase work by
environmental artists and share information about the pekapeka tou roa. Mitch and Sophie
discuss the findings of their research as well as the threats they are facing before chatting to
Mandy about her work as an environmental artist and the exhibition itself. To begin,
Mitchell asks Sophie to exactly what the pekapeka tou roa is.
Animal advocacy group SAFE has launched a new campaign raising awareness of bobby calf deaths in the dairy industry. Mack hears from spokesperson Mandy Carter about the research behind it.
Rob fills in the other Plato's Retreat boys on the Dingle code, Dingle drama, and the re-appearance of Mandy Dingle...along with the unmasking of Wolf Bear!
The RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under Season 4 special as we head into the finale! Joel speaks to Nikita Iman, a top 5 contestant, and the finalists, Mandy Moobs, Vybe, Freya Armani, and Lazy Susan, while listening to a mix of calm indie and upbeat house! Whakarongo mai!
Kākano Youth Collective pops up to the studio. Artist Tori Whiting talks about his show at Corban's Estate Art Centre. Mandy Patmore recounts the history of the Collective, and the leaps and bounds in life and art that artists like Tori have made in the last few years. Sean Kerr and Judy Darragh waltzed in to chat about their Two Rooms exhibition, In Kahoots.
Today on the Tuesday wire, 95bFM News were lucky enough to talk to Mandy Henk of Tohatoha NZ about how profit based access models can harm Aotearoa, and how we can make our digital world more equitable, democratic and sustainable for scholars and learners.
Host Jemima Huston takes over the Monday Wire for Jessica Hopkins and Louis Macalister who produced the show from home.
This week on the show, Jessica talks to Conversion Therapy Action group's Shaneel Lal about how people can have a say on the proposed legislation to ban harmful conversion therapy practices.
She also speaks with Dr Paula O’Kane from Otago Business School on how employers can best support their employees during lockdown.
Louis interviews Author Mandy Hager about her new book, Aotearoa's History of Protest.
He also speaks to The University of Otago’s Professor Elisabeth Slooten and Sea Shepherd's Michael Lawry about critically endangered Maui and Hectors Dolphins.
And finally, Louis talked to Dr Kyle Clem from Victoria University of Wellington about how a blob of warm water off the east coast of Aotearoa is causing drought in South America.
To end off the year, Joel replays some of their favourite queer tracks on the show, and catches up with the runner-up's of RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under Season 4, Mandy Moobs and Vybe, and the winner, Lazy Susan!
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