The National party has rolled a series of new proposals aimed at dealing with violent gangs, if they were to win the 2020 election. They’ve said they want to take a much stronger stance than the current government, promising new laws ranging from banning gang patches to revoking parole for those associated with gangs to the setting up of a new task force, modelled after a prolific New South Wales unit called “Strike Force Raptor”. This is apparently only the beginning of a broader “gang action plan” that National has promised to release by next year. Meanwhile Corrections minister Kelvin Davis called the document a "mishmash of reheated ideas", stating that the focus should be on anyone who breaks the law rather than specific groups. University of Auckland Criminologist Dr Ron Kramer said the proposals were "transparently pathetic", "overblown propaganda", and that they provide no substantive impact on crime. William Boyd spoke with Manukau ward councillor Efeso Collins, who has been outspoken in the past about opening up conversation with gangs as opposed to cracking down on them. William started off by asking him for his input on the new proposals.
This week's show featured new music from Paul Weller, El Michels Affair and Leon Bridges. Sam also says au revoir to French electronic kings Daft Punk who announced their split after 28 years last week.
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.
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