As Shakespeare in the Park 2021 is fast approaching, Will and Bess pop in to talk us through what we can expect to see in Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing.
The Abel Tasman National Park is currently coming alive to the sound of young kākā following a successful breeding season for the park’s resident birds. Collaborators on the breeding programme including Project Janszoon, DOC and the Abel Tasman Birdsong Trust are all celebrating the successful fledging of eight chicks from three nests in the Bark Bay and Torrent Bay areas.
In 2015, Kākā were virtually extinct in the park with only a few wild male birds surviving there. Since then a total of 35 captive-bred birds have been released, with the last release happening in 2019. Most of these birds came from captive South Island kaka but about a third were raised from eggs or chicks collected from Nelson Lakes and Kahurangi National Parks. This year’s chicks were all banded and fitted with a transmitter before they left their nests. They are particularly vulnerable in the period between leaving the nest and learning to fly, which can take up to a week, but most are now competent flyers and adding their tunes to the chorus of the park.
This week on the Wire, Frances speaks with ornithologist Ron Moorhouse and Project Janszoon’s Project Director Bruce Vander Lee about the much loved birds and conservation in the area.
Last year. Half a million parking tickets were given out in Auckland by the city's growing fleet of Automatic plate-recognition vehicles. The city now has 25 of these vehicles. With non-compliance tickets having doubled since 2024, concerns have been raised over how these systems generate revenue for Auckland Transport and the council.
While Auckland Transport has defended revenue as an unavoidable consequence of non-compliance systems, and insisted that they must stay consistent in their policing and management, some have labelled this as a ‘commodification of non-compliance’
Monday Wire Producer Alex spoke to Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland, Mohsen Mohammadzadeh about these tickets, revenue, and how this technology should, or shouldn't, be used.
Gene Wilder – Pure Imagination
Devendra Banhart – Saturday Night
Regina Spektor – Small Bill$
Sleigh Bells – It's Just Us Now
Nightcrawler – Dystopia
DBLDBL – Gains
Tkay Maidza – Carry On feat. Killer Mike
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
Johnny Cash – Hurt
serpentwithfeet – four ethers
Soft Hair – Lying Has To Stop
Thundercat – Bus In These Streets
Swet Shop Boys – Tiger Hologram
L'Orange & Mr. Lif – Strange Technology feat. Akrobatik & Gonjasufi
Bon Iver – 33 GOD
Oberhofer – Pure Imagination
Factory Floor – 25 25
The Raveonettes – A Good Fight
Crystal Castles – Fleece
Sam Evian – I Need A Man
The Growlers – City Club
Tennisinc – Ladies Don't Play Guitar
Angel Olsen – Intern
Yohuna – Apart
Boxed In – Forget
Mick Jenkins – Spread Love
Local Natives – Coins
Cate Le Bon – Wonderful
Couple of new things alongside some classics, spat this tape out over a couple late nights inbetween fits of boredom and a slightly amplified base level of paranoia as this stupid fucking year plods on.
I'm just gonna dump the playlist here:
VLAD TEPES – RETURNING TO MY OLD BATTLEGROUND
THE SHITS – MURDER ON MY MIND
PROSTATE – PROSTATE
CERNUNNOS – LAMENTATION OF A HOBGOBLIN (DUNGEON OF RATS AND BATS)
TOMBCRUSHER – CREATION OF BLASPHEMIES
Μνήμα – INVOCATION
INFERNAL LEGIONS OF MORDOR – TRAX (69 SONGS ABOUT HOW I THINK COTTAGECORE IS FALSE AND NOISECORE IS TRVE
FENTANYL SURPRISE – PROSTHETIC FACE
MANKIND’S DEVASTATION – UNTITLED (UNRELEASED SESSION)
ELECTRIC EELS – ACCIDENT
THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS – MY MYSTERIOUS DEATH (TURN IT UP AGAIN)
TRIPLE SIX MAFIA – RIDIN’ N DA CHEVY
LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY – EXCREMENTAL CARNAGE
DEAD INFECTION – DAY OF DECAY
SPECTRAL VOICE – INEFFABLE WINDS
LIL NOID – LOAD MY CLIP
INNUMERABLE FORMS – DESPOTIC RULE
GORGON – THE LADY RIDES A BLACK HORSE
WARSORE – STOP POSING AND KILL SOMEONE
MILUMET – COINCIDENCE REARRANGED
LIZA ‘N’ ELIZA – LET THE BASSDRUM GO
BILLY BAO – UNTITLED
ROBBER – MAIN MAN
RAPID DYE – GET OUT
BOWEL RUPTURE – LIVIDITY
I miss the 95bFM coffee machine very dearly. A thousands praises to the skeleton crew keeping the station going.
The government announced their ideal route for the new Auckland city light rail last week. The light rail is intended to connect the Auckland Airport with other parts of the city in order to improve public transport efficency. However, out of the three route options proposed the governments top choice is garnerning criticism from many with regards to it's practicality. The Public Transport Users Association was apart of the inital conversations between the government and the Auckland Light Rail Project as to what would be the best way to link the Auckland Airport with other parts of the city. Emily Bell spoke to the National Coordinator for the Public Transport Users Association about the government's light rail route choice and what other alternatives could be put in place instead.
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