‘Set’ is a teachers council journal with a new issue focusing on civics, citizenship, and political literacy in education. The journal critiques what type of civic knowledge and citizenship is currently being taught and asks whose citizenship and what values are prioritised. Amanda spoke to Josiah Tualamali’i of the Pacific Youth Leadership and Transformation initiative about this journal and the piece he co-authored.
Labour Leader Andrew Little announced on Wednesday a $10 million investment towards Dunedin’s gaming industry if they’re elected this year. The fund will go towards creating a Chair of Computer Gaming at Otago University, setting up a gaming incubator with a motion capture studio, and provide funding to attract more people to the city, all with the aim of turning a $90 million dollar industry into a billion dollar one. 95bFM reporter Ben Goldson speaks to New Zealand Game Developers Association spokesperson James Everett about the funding.
William Walker and his band 'BadforEducation' come through to the studio and chat with Ally about his new EP which he released on Soundcloud -
(check it out here >> https://soundcloud.com/badforeducation/sets/good-for-health-ep)
A new taskforce has been set up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to watch Trump’s administration. The new Americas taskforce is made up of seven people and will operation 24/7 to keep up to date with any new policy put in place by the US government. This comes after a the Ministry was reprimanded by the New Zealand government over a delay finding out how Trump’s immigration ban would effect some New Zealanders. bFM reporter Amanda Jane Robinson speaks to University of Auckland Associate Professor Stephen Hoadley about this taskforce.
Minister for the Environment, Nick Smith, is set to release a statement this week on the state of New Zealand’s fresh waterways. Currently, the standard for New Zealand freshwater systems states that they must at least be wadeable. But more than 12,000 kiwis have signed a Green Party petition that calls for the government to up their game and make the country's waters swimmable. 95bFM reporter Adel Abied speaks to Green Party water spokesperson Catherine Delahunty about the issue.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has an upcoming announcement in March around digital rights management (DRM). The W3C, led by Tim Berners-Lee, looks set to standardise DRM-enabling Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) in browsers. This all sounds a bit jargony and esoteric, but some are saying this threatens the fundamental free and open principles of the web, and opens users up to security threats. Ximena speaks to Internet NZ CEO Jordan Carter to find out more.
95bFm news director, Ximena Smith, chats to Green Party co-leader James Shaw about the government’s announcement that they’re set to introduce new nationwide regulations around the use of poisons such as 1080, and also a new Green Party bill that will see aquifers being protected by law.
79-year-old Fang Ruzhen immigrated to Auckland to help raise her grandchildren. Fifteen years on English is still a foreign language, but she has found community with other elderly Chinese expats on her weekly bus rides to the Asian supermarkets of East Auckland. Filmmaker Julie Zhu is set to make a documentary about this community through the Loading Docs program. bFM reporter Amanda Jane Robinson talked with Julie about the project.
This week Sam takes a look at the debut album by British producer and multi-instrumentalist the Streets. This was the project of Mike Skinner, which took influence from the UK garage scene in the 1990s and set the tone for UK grime to emerge into the mainstream during the 2000s.
95bFM reporter, Tess, speaks with Radio Adelaide's Nicole Wedding about changes to the Racial Discrimination Act, former prime minister Tony Abbott's confidence about a push for a postal ballot on same-sex marriage, and staff at one of Australia's busiest airports setting up camp and sleeping at work.
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