Labour's Andrew Little is back for our weekly chat. This week, Jogai discusses an ongoing investigation regarding Clutha-Southland MP Todd Barclay's secret recording of a long-standing member of staff.
Mike talks to Dr. Gerhard Sundborn about the perils of too much sugar. As sugary drinks are the largest contributor of sugar to the diets of NZ adults and children, what can be done to change these habits? And just what are the main obstacles standing in the way?
This week Joel talked to National MP Paul Foster-Bell who was standing in for Jami-Lee Ross. They discussed calls for an independent inquirey being made by State Care abuse survivors and why the National Goverment rejects these calls. They also discussed the crisis in treatment of intelectually disabled patients, and what needs to happen for the health sector to function effectively if no more funding is available.
With the coming election in September, we're seeing a lot of new young people in the political scene. Producer Reuben McLaren spoke to Brooke van Velden, a public relations consultant standing in the Auckland Central electorate for the ACT party.
Ant Healey, Head of Operations at APRA AMCOS NZ, and newly minted Silver Scroll nominee Fazerdaze (a.k.a. Amelia Murray) talk to Mike about songwriting and the 2017 APRA Silver Scrolls longlist announce. After an initial 200 songs have been whittled to 20 by a jury of songwriter peers, what stands to happen next for both the award organisers and the award hopefuls?
Australian-New Zealand dual citizenship has caused another stir in Canberra after Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce was revealed to be a New Zealand citizen yesterday.
Under Australian constitution, anyone with dual citizenship cannot stand for federal election.
Joyce says the legal advice he’s received suggests he won’t be disqualified by Australia’s constitution and points out his father moved to Australia in 1947, a year before dual citizenship was created.
Reporter Mack Smith spoke to Anne Twomey, a Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney Law School and asked her whether Barnaby Joyce was really in the clear.
Following their partnership with the One Pacific Party, the Māori Party are proposing a new visa category for climate change refugees from the Pacific.
The Māori Party announced the policy last week, alongside an one-off amnesty for Pacific overstayers.
The new refugee status stands alongside the party’s other climate change policies of planting 100,000 hectares of forest over 10 years and subsidising solar panels in the regions and poorer communities.
Co-leader Marama Fox told reporter Mack Smith the threat of climate change was no longer on the horizon.
Can prequels ever really stand alongside their original source material? Dr. Maria asks the question of Westside: Series 3, the popular prequel to NZ cultural juggernaut Outrageous Fortune.
Producer Laura chats with Gayaal Iddamalgoda, a trade union lawyer standing for the Wellington Central electorate for the Migrants and Refugees Rights Campaign about the state of immigration in New Zealand and concerns with other political parties policies on immigration.
Jenna's been living in a printed word flurry of late, but she's still had time to bring us in Meet Me in the Bathroom, Lizzy Goodman's oral history of the 2000s NYC indie music scene. A hefty tome covering The Strokes to Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem to Interpol, Goodman captures a very particular scene from the mouths of the very particular characters that made it happen. But do you have to be a fan? Or does the book stand on its own?
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