Things got shitty on the Green Desk today — New Zealand has a poo problem: An estimated 100 million tonnes of cow and sheep manure fall onto New Zealand pastures each year, causing an environmental and economic stink.
So reporter Jack Marshall went to see a man about dung beetles. Dung Beetle Innovations’s Dr. Shaun Forgie is a specialist in dung beetle reproduction, ecology and evolution. And if he has his way, every farm in New Zealand will have these bugs following around their animals.
Today in Glen Innes a protest will take place in support of Niki Rauti. She is a Tamaki Housing Association tenant who is facing eviction from her home which has been sold to developers. Tamaki Redevelopment Company are removing state housing in the area and building a mixture of social, affordable and private housing in their place. Her supporters say that evicting tenants and redeveloping the land is about making money. Reporter Sam Smith spoke to one of the protest organisers Lisa.
Andrew Little has announced a new policy that would increase funding to social housing through winter. This increase is intended to target those households with children which have previously been growing up in cold, damp home environments, leading to sickness and further issues. Producer Will spoke to Frank Hogan, the housing issues spokesperson for Child Poverty Action group, asking him what effect poor housing standards have on children.
Producer Conor Chats Community Housing with Scott Figenshow from Community Housing Aotearoa, about how community housing projects can play a big part in the housing Kiwis under the new government.
Samoa House Library, your fave community run and sourced art library on K'rd, is putting on a series of public programmes called *Curriculum*. Josh and Hannah popped into studio to talk us through their first event on saturday and how the rest of the pseudo-summer school programme will run.
This week, Sam took a look at the third studio album from dream pop duo Beach House "Teen Dream." Released in 2010, this record helped establish Beach House as one of the premier dream pop acts of the 2010s.
The Opportunities Party (TOP) has released a plan to institute a Land Value Tax as a measure to help stabilise our fraught housing market.
The tax would see land owners pay 0.75% of their land value as an annual tax on residential properties.
Alongside this TOP have also proposed removing the Brightline test as a measure to stop Land Banking.
Nicholas spoke to Dr Nina Su, The Opportunities Party’s Epsom Candidate about the Partiy's housing policy as well their Teal Visa program that would be aimed at generating revenue from wealthy migrants looking to come to New Zealand.
Nicholas began by asking Dr Su how the Land Value Tax would work?
For the first of our NZ Music Month Breakfast live to airs we're joined by the bloody legend that is Pat Kraus. Not to mention our stellar cast of regulars: Jacinda Ardern; Natural Ange; Kiran Dass; and Ximena Smith.
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