The ministry for Primary Industries has launched an investigation after a number of meals served to children by the School Lunch Collective were found to have their plastic packaging melted into their food.
This would be the fourth investigation launched into the collective after the government introduced the Alternative Provision Model for Ka Ora Ka Ako, replacing local suppliers.
Around this same period of time, a consultation document was sent to schools across the motu by education minister Erica Stanford asking for feedback on a proposal to defund and disestablish 174 full time roles for Resource Teachers of Literacy and Resource Teachers of Māori.
And the Greens recently issued a call to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon calling on him to rule out any possibility of joining the AUKUS military pact, following the contentious bilateral meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Whitehouse last week.
For their weekly catch up, Oto spoke to the Green Party’s Ricardo Menendez-March for the Green Party’s take on all of these issues.
Jennifer Mason is a Tāmaki based oil painter, with a practice centered around Mason's passion for painting the figure, a subject typically known as ‘The nude’.
Her current exhibition The Boundary of the Intelligible delves into new modes of exploration for the artist. In earlier works Mason typically focused solely on the figure, resembling elements of portraiture with references taken from posed models. But within this new body of work Mason has shifted her point of reference and has turned directly to the history of western art, and its iconic figures.
Recontextualizing these figures from art history and pulling them into her own paintings filled with vibrant prismatic fields of colour where bodies ascend, weightless and untethered. Removed from their past moments and brought into a world of tranquility with renewed vitality, separated from space and time.
Maya had a chat with Jennifer about her show and overall practice.
Rosetta is driving today! She plays some of her current faves, new and old. She also has a catch up with Nabihah Iqbal before her show at Neck of The Woods tonight, and chats with Chelsea from Skilaa about what the group has been up to. Thanks for tuning in!
First up on today’s Wire, Jemima speaks Dr Jarrod Gilbert about working with gangs to reduce crime. Neutral corner returns on Trump’s recent executive order to reverse the separation of children and their families at the border. Andrew Little joins Lachlan for their regular chat where they discuss rehabilitation in prison. Our Wire Worry week is sex work and Lachlan talks to Dame Catherine Healy from the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective about the Swedish model and why decriminalisation is much better. Finally This Day in History looks at the Freedom Summer murders in 1964.
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