This week on the show we welcome a new member of the Swap Meet crew - Aotearoa beat digging MVP and Tairāwhiti's finest: Campbell Ngata. He has long been one of our favourite DJ anywhere, and he begins his time with us with three hours of crucial vinyl selections traversing Jazz, Modern Soul, Disco, Boogie, Reggae and all points on the map inbetween. Welcome sir! Drop him a follow over on Instagram, his handle is "campbellngata". @soul_scourer @kirkjames13
Last week, the ACT Party announced its outline for the Treaty Principles Bill, which is set to go through a SIX month long committee process.
For our weekly catch up with Te Pāti Māori, News and Editorial Director, Joel, spoke to Mariameno Kapa-Kingi about the new developments of the bill, what the reception has been like, and the estimated price of how much the bill is set to cost taxpayers.
They also spoke to her about Te Pāti Māori MP, Hana-Rawhiti Maipa-Clarke, being a recipient of the One Young World Politician Award, an award set up to acknowledge promising young politicians between the ages of 18 and 35 internationally, and what this means for the young MP, and Te Pāti Māori as a whole.
John Tamihere joins Oscar Perress to discuss everything to do with his mayoral campaign for 2019.
Tune in to learn more about the flaws of Neoliberalism, a bit about his Transport policy and convincing Tāmaki Makaurau's landlords to fix up in a future with frozen rates.
Now that Auckland is in the red setting, Auckland Transport is having to adapt their public transport services to suit the new restrictions with reinstated metro night bus services, increased capacity on individual vehicles and timetables remaining reduced due to fewer people using public transport over summer.
News and Editorial Director Jemima Huston speaks to Stacey van der Putten, Group Manager of Metro Services at Auckland Transport, about how lockdown has impacted public transport in Auckland. They discuss moving to the new red setting and keeping people safe with Covid-19 remaining a community threat.
Data from Fitbit smartwatches is being used to provide key information to healthcare providers, in a new study pioneered by University of Auckland doctoral student Ruhi Bajaj.
They developed a prototype app that would allow for tracking of vital signs to be analysed using machine learning and stored in a database, which could then be analysed by healthcare providers to provide early warning signs.
Arno spoke with Ruhi to find out more about the study. Arno started by asking what the hypothesis behind the study is.
In a typically varied set, Def Jim splices gnarly nuggets from old stalwarts of the avant-garde with new releases from the likes of Ethnic Heritage Ensemble and Julian Lage, virtuosic guitar in both electric blues and finger-picked trio/duo settings and sundry sparkling album tracks bursting out of relative obscurity before closing out with some classic John Coltrane.
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