For this NZ Music Month special we hear some highlights from this year's Long Players so far, including Long Distance Runner, Francisca Griffin, Melodownz, Lawrence Arabia, Dbldbl, Ounce and more!!
This edition of What's Cooking takes us online with a discussion between Jonny and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs ahead of their visit and gig in Auckland.
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from the Asian continent and its diaspora, and witty commentary from hosts Oto and Jaycee.
The profiles of candidates standing in several Māori ward elections were missing from booklets given to enrolled voters intended to inform their votes.
In response to the missing candidate profiles, Te Pūkenga Here Tikanga Mahi The Public Service Association (PSA) — representing public servants — has called on the government to move the responsibility for running these elections out of the hands of private companies and back to the Electoral Commission.
Wednesday Wire Producer Emmanuel spoke to the PSA’s acting Kaihautū Māori, Marcia Puru, to discuss the PSA's view on the missing candidate information and its implications.
News director Lillian Hanly speaks with Sina Brown-Davis about what she saw during Tongan rugby league supporters celebrations in South Auckland on Saturday. This included police removing a Tongan flag from her daughter fearing it could be used as a weapon.
Reuben McLaren has a chat to the new Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson about what her leadership will mean for the party, how the Greens will hold the government to account and what is to be made from Immigration New Zealand’s alleged racial profiling.
Darashpreet Johal looks into the implications of the pilot programme being run by Immigration NZ for the past 18 months to profile and target overstayers.