The situation on Manus Island is worsening by the week. The detainees have locked themselves in the center and are refusing to leave, while food and medicine are being denied to them by authorities. Many are calling the situation a humanitarian crisis, with the UN and other international NGOs, shocked at the treatment of the detainees by the Australian Government. The New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is offering to take 150 of the detainees, however, the Australian Government has turned down the offer. Sam Smith spoke to commentator Tracey Barnett about the situation as it stands.
Today on Neighbourhood Watch with Nicole Wedding from Radio Adelaide we chat about Barnaby Joyce who continues to show animosity toward New Zealand after their offer to take 150 Manus Island refugees. We also discuss the Royal Commission's research into child sexual abuse in institutions and how it is still relevant today.
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.
This week Bronwyn spoke to tutor and PhD student at University of Canterbury, Ngārie Scartozzi about her "eClean bioreactor" technology which cleans contaminants from water bodies. She has just received a grant of $150,000 from Astrolab and has 12 weeks to build a prototype of the bioreactor which has been the focus of her research for the past 15 years. A key focus of Scartozzi's work is integrating mātauranga Maori with scientific research.
She began by telling us what started her off on this journey.
HELLO! EVERYBODY! here we are with our first post-corone lockdown studio episode!!! we send all our love to those infected and affected by this god damn virus. halfqueen is in with some turbo 150bpm during the first hour, then zeki bounces thru with all the floaty, poppy classics. this episode is peppered with annoying but hot special guests by way of pollyhill, as well as our flower of the week segment with kalisha hehe :~) <3
Another week of Dear Science featuring AUT Professor Blackman! This week, Allan and Christina dove into some rather perspective-bending numbers and statistics. They discussed the scale of the Tonga eruption, how your great-granddad's smoking habits could be the cause of your excess body fat, and how a 150-year-old maths problem related to chess has finally been solved.
Due to the effects of the climate crisis, there has been an unprecedented rise in environment-related disasters across the world.
Beginning in March, Canada has experienced a surge of wildfires leading to the evacuation of over 150,000 people.
In support, organisations within Aotearoa have provided international additional aid to support the recovery of struggling communities - including the deployment of 92 kiwi firefighters to battle the blaze.
Ashley-Rose Redstone spoke to Director of International Development at Oxfam, Angela Wilton about her experience witnessing the wildfires and Aotearoa’s role in providing global humanitarian aid.
This week for Tomorrow's world Rawan spoke with the head of the Institute of marine science, Simon Thrush about his new report on the Hauraki Gulf.
The report looked 150 years into the future of the Hauraki Gulf and predicted that there was a chance for a much better future for the region.
Rawan asked Professor Simon Thrush about how he came to this conclusion, what methods of conservation we need to use in order to achieve the vision he describes and how we can integrate iwi support.
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