Ministry of Justice workers have begun taking industrial action in order to get the Ministry to meet their pay and condition demands. This includes the use of lightning strikes in efforts to get the Ministry to budge. Lachlan spoke with Tatiana Daniels from the PSA and Len Andersen from the Criminal bar Association about the strikes.
Laura O’Connell Rapira is the director of Action Station which is an independent, crowdfunded, community campaigning organisation. Recently, the organisation created a programme called Tauiwi Tautoko which gave non-Māori, or tauiwi, the opportunity to undergo training in order to be able to combat racism toward tangata Māori online. Lillian Hanly spoke with Laura about the programme, as well as Kate Collyns who was a volunteer on the programme.
Radio Adelaide’s, Samantha Smith catches us up on all the latest Australian news in Neighbourhood Watch. She tells Laura Kvigstad about the rhetoric around terrorism that has sparked in Australia following the arrest of three alleged terrorists and Prime Minister, Scott Morissons recent inflamatory remarks around the muslim community. Then they speak on migration in Australia and Morisson's recent emphasis on reducing permanent migration in order to combat congestion. Finally, they talk about an Australian convicted drug smuggler, who has served her sentence in Indonesia and the media coverage surround her return to Australia.
This week Laura Kvigstad found herself in a debate around condom use in porn. It is fairly rare that you see condoms being used in heterosexual porn and producer Jennifer Rose Tamati pointed out that it’s often used as a plot device in the way of being a barrier for 'good sex'.
Porn seems to have an effect on the way people have sex but our question today is 'how'?
A new charitable trust in New Zealand, The Light Project, was set up in order to help educate youth in navigating the world of porn. The Project Director for the organization, Nikki Denholm tells us all about the research around porn and the effect it has on young people watching it.
On Dear Science today we talk about the end of the Opportunity Rover on Mars, push ups and heart disease, and the best order to drink wine and beer together as well as a profile of the element Americium from the Periodic Table.
Fletcher Tabuteau is with us this week and Lillian Hanly spoke with him about the Digital Services Tax and the possible shift away from the use of 1080.
Finally, Lillian has something special in store for Wednesday listeners over the next month or so, and that is A Seven Part Chat with Rod Oram. This will be explained later in the show but basically there were some articles around the possibility of another global financial crisis and Lillian wanted to know more about that, and whether we should be keeping money out of the bank...
Heaps of great interaction from listeners today too with lots of good points about alcohol poisoning and tax and fairness.
The environment court has declined a permanent protection order for a centuries old kauri name Awhiawhi by locals and iwi. It’s the latest in a series of battles over the tree in attempts to stop it being felled for development that have included multiple occupations, judicial reviews, and petitions. Lachlan spoke with local resident and one of the campaigns leaders WInnie Charlesworth about the environment court’s decision.
This week on the Monday Wire Jemima speaks to Green Party co-leader James Shaw about the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment's report on climate change. Michael Andrew is in studio for Southern Cross to talk about the latest in Pacific news. Lachlan speaks to Dame Catherine Healy about a Hamilton bylaw that prohibits soliciting sex work on the city's streets. He also speaks with Winnie Charlesworth about the environment Court's decision to decline a permanent protection order for a centuries old Kauri. I talk with Maire Leadbeater from West Papua Action Auckland about the humanitarian crisis in Nduga.
Producer Bronwyn Wilde spoke to Don Carson from Forest Owners Association. This interview arose out of an earlier interview last month with a representative from 50 Shades of Green - a group of farmers who are concerned about the Billion Trees program encouraging investors to buy up prime farmland in order to plant trees and reap the carbon credits. The main takeaway from that initial interview was that 50 Shades of Green wanted those billion trees to be native, and planted on marginal land.
Don Carson heard this interview and got in contact to defend pines and forestry as the solution to sequester our carbon in the short term, and supply jobs for farmers who will be forced to change their lifestyles.
He began by telling us what he sees as the weaknesses of the 50 Shades of Green campaign.
Disclaimer: Genevive Forde's views are not representative of the view of 95bFM. In the interest of democracy for this local election, we have given every candidate the opportunity to be heard.
Following our local election coverage, mayoral candidate, Genevieve Forde, joins to discuss her vision for a sustainable and environmentally friendly Tāmaki Makaurau.
Forde's key ideas are around reducing the pollution created by transport. She’s looking to transition our buses to electric buses, incentivise the use of public transportation by making it free and, potentially increase rates in order to pay for the transition towards a more sustainable Auckland.
She gives a quick introduction before diving into her policy ideas.
Law and Order Spokesperson for New Zealand First Darroch Ball, does not support drug checking as a harm reduction strategy and is currently blocking a clarification of the Misuse of Drugs Act that would allow the service to be implemented nationally. To find out more, Olivia Holdsworth spoke to KnowYourStuffNZ’s Managing Director, Wendy Allison and began by asking why is drug testing important?
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