The Commerce Commsion's decision to sue Wilson Parking over a Wellington City monopoly has led to discussions on fair parking prices for consumers. Bailley spoke to Head of Research at Consumer NZ Jessica Wilson to talk about the concentration of service providers for consumers
This week with Finn McCahon-Jones speaking about the walking tours of Tāmaki- Makaurau he is taking with David Straight called Looking at the City. We Also have Lisa Beauchamp, Hannah Burgoyne and Julia Craig in studio- the crew at Gus Fisher Gallery- speaking about the grand re-opening of the gallery: We're Not Too Big To Care!
Jenna's just read Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu and highly recommends it. If Charles' work on HBO series, Westworld, isn't enough to entice you to read this book, perhaps winning the Fiction prize in the National Book Awards for 2020 will.
For City Counselling this week Simon spoke with Waitākere City Councillor Shane Henderson about the recent report into Auckland City Council's response to the Jan 27th floods, as well as repairing infrastructure after the events. Shane also spoke about how some communities are struggling since the events. He also shared views on Auckland Transport's parking strategy. Simon started by asking Shane what he thought about the flood report from last week.
An interview initially waylaid by fireworks and an inability to keep pyros out of the park, Mike and Ant (eventually) return to the studio to talk all things HP48HRS. Established by Timpson in 2004, the film competition now boasts a massive amount of entries and a sizeable prize pool. Even better - the final is open to the public. Check out the best work from across NZ's filmmaking community this Saturday at the Mighty Civic. Get your tickets HERE.
Last year, Auckland Council removed 30% of bins from public places with the hopes of saving about $9.5 million over an eight year period. While the council didn’t foresee an increase in littering, last week Stuff published an article sharing the frustrations of residents who observed a growing litter problem in council parks.
Illegal dumping has also been on the rise across Auckland.
With more than 1300 reports per month, the cost of retrieving illegally dumped items is about $2.7 million every year and rising.
Also Mayor Wayne Brown has announced that he wants to see Auckland become the “premier tech city” of New Zealand to boost our global influence and reputation—-- calling on the government to establish the new Advanced Technology Institute here, which he says could play a key role in guiding new start-ups, so ideas don’t ‘die on the vine’.
Beginning with the problem of rubbish in Auckland, Producer Sara started by asking Julie Fairey if she believed the removal of bins was to blame for increased littering
For City Counselling this week, our regular catch-up with the Auckland Council, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Councillor Shane Henderson about the council deciding on whether to establish seats for Māori representatives and on-street parking prices increasing across the city.
Auckland city mission are currently overwhelmed with requests for food parcels. For this month alone they have given out over 1,150 food parcels. With the numbers increasing rapidly, Lucy Austin spoke to David Ciurleonous from the mission to find out a bit more about the issue and what needs to be done to help. If you would like to donate food to the mission you can drop it off on Hobson street, or at the New World supermarkets at Victoria park and Devonport.
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