Representatives from the group opposing housing development on sacred land Ihumatao are off to a United Nations summit in New York. Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL) - the group behind the current occupation of the land - are sending two members to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues next week. Pania Newton and Delwyn Roberts will attend, and have applied o speak at the event. 95bFM reporter Mack Smith spoke to Newton about the issue.
It’s no secret Trump spilled some highly-classified beans last week during his meeting in the White House with the Russian Foreign Minister. But what actually went down? What’s the significance of this revelation for US national security? And will there be any consequences for Trump? 95bFM’s Ximena Smith reports.
Breakdowns of the Goverment's draft suicide prevention policy; Bill English's upcoming visit to Japan; the 'Crown Housing Policy'; and that puffy great satsuma over in the States.
Labour's Andrew Little is back for our weekly chat. This week, Jogai discusses the promises made in the Party's election year congress over the weekend in Wellington, including the rising concern over housing and immigration.
95bFM reporter, Ambrose, speaks to Quentin Abraham, the president of the New Zealand Psychological society about a report by the Child Poverty Action Group and the New Zealand Psychological Society who have been long been concerned with the impact of poverty on children’s health. The combined effects of inadequate family incomes, high living costs and poor housing conditions can lead to serious and prolonged physical illness. 95bFM reporter, Ambrose speaks to Quentin about a report released by these two organisations outlining the impacts.
For her second week on the Wednesday show, Tracey chats to Ximena about New Zealand First’s renewed call for all Year 10 students to have access to programmes that promote healthy and safe relationships at school, in light of new research showing alarming rates of sexual violence among teens. Ximena also grills Tracey about Winston Peters' response in Parliament yesterday to the London terror attacks, where he said Islamic communities “must clean house” and “start with their own families”.
This week, Tess chat to Jamie Lee-ross from the National Party about immigration and gets into housing, infrastructure, and public services. We have our weekly Friday feature Neighbourhood Watch - this week Nicole Wedding runs us through everything new in Australian politics . And finally, Jack has a report on the on going debates regarding fishing management practices in New Zealand talking to both academics and MPI. All this and more on the Friday Wire - check out the full podcast here.
The Grenfell Tower fire occurred on the 14th of June 2017 at a 24-storey high tower block of public housing flats in North Kensington, west London, England. bFM reporter Amanda Jane Robinson looks into what happened and the risk of something similar occuring in New Zealand.
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