Residents of Point Chevalier recently received a pamphlet titled "One Treaty, One Nation". The pamphlet promotes a one law for all agenda and historical revisionism. Lillian Hanly speaks to Sophie Barclay, a Point Chevalier resident, who found the pamphlet in her letterbox.
Denise Lee joins Laura Kvigstad for their weekly chat. This week they discuss the Terrorism Suppression Bill and the National Party's controversial amendments to the bill that were rejected quickly by government. After that, they touch on Simon Bridges questions being slashed by Speak of The House, Trevor Mallard. This follows the National Party's refusal to remove ads that have been deemed misleading to the public. The Labour Party has also been argued this has breached the 1993 Electoral Act's section 3A, as parties are not permitted to use parliamentary video for election advertisements. Laura and Denise finish up by discussing the recent case of a repeat drunk driving offender being granted residency. The National Party expressed concerns around the decision however it was National MP Michael Woodhouse who granted the individual protected person status back in 2012. Denise says a repeat offender shouldn't have been granted residency as the individual poses a threat to the public's safety.
Between February 20, 2016, and February 20, 2019, Canterbury DHB saw 2,383 recorded physical assaults, 1450 verbal abuse incidents, and 380 psychological harm events. Overall that accounts for two physical assaults a day. Since these figures, the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association says they have seen a spike in assaults, and the concern is that many of them are not being reported. The National Secretary of the New Zealand Resident Doctors Association, Deborah Powell joined Laura Kvigstad to discuss what is happening within our hospitals to see such a rise in assaults.
On this week's wire, Dear Science's Marcus Jones talks about the recently announced nobel prizes for medicine and physics.
Under election coverage for foreign affairs, Bronnie speaks to NZ First’s Rob Gore about the party's policies regarding the rural visa, removing the right to vote for permanent residents and defence funding.
She follows this up with an interview with Professor Andrew Geddis about permanent resident voting rights.
Lastly, Producer Felix Walton brings us a report on the effect of the international student drought on universities as businesses.
Jade talks to Virginia residents Kat Vlasova and Jessica Lewis as well as Washington, DC resident Charles Yook on how vaccine implementation is going in the states and the problems associated such as vaccine hoarding and lack of information.
It is estimated that Aotearoa currently has 14,000 people residing here who do not have visas or any kind of legal status.
Recent news about ‘Dawn raids’ by police on alleged overstayers has prompted a spotlight to be placed on how we treat our migrant communities.
For our segment Get Action! Nicholas spoke to Anu Kaloti about their petition launched on Action Station calling for the government to grant amnesty and working rights to overstayers currently residing in Aotearoa.
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