Today on your bFM Breakfast: congratulations are in order for PM Ardern; Finn's back in studio to let you know all about Auckland Kiddie Limits; we host the heat death of the universe as a musician reviews a book written by another musician; and we send a newly cellphone-d champion to Splore.
Spike Milligan - Bad Jelly The Witch
Marshall Cavendish - Gobbolino the Witches Cat
Eddie Spaghetti - Wake Up, Wake Up
Kath Bee - Enchanted Forest
Petite Music Box - Dreamers
Craig Smith - Scariest Thing In The Garden
Anika Moa - The Witch of Maketu
Tanya Batt - The Giant's Heart
Dan & Dani - A Spider Looking at Me
Levity Beet - Build a wall or a bridge
Keith Mitchell - Captain Beaky
There’s concern at the amount of untreated sewage being washed into Auckland’s harbours. A Herald investigation revealed one million cubic litres of human and animal effluent is flowing into the ocean every year - the equivalent of 400 olympic swimming pools. It’s happening every time more than five millimetres of rain falls in the city, due to our stormwater drains being combined with our sewage drains. While the infrastructure was a great advancement when it replaced open air sewers in the early 1900’s… today it doesn’t quite stack up.Ten of Auckland’s beaches are now so polluted people are unable to swim. 95bFM producer Hannah Ross spoke to Auckland Mayor Phil Goff about the issue, while producer John-Michael Swannix spoke to, Gemma Tolich Allen, a wastewater biologist and scientific advisor for the Manukau Harbour Restoration Society, who has worked in this area for thirty years, and Dr Lokesh Padhye who is a wastewater engineer at the University of Auckland.
Today on the show, we’re continuing our coverage about Niki’s eviction. If you've tuned into the Wire over the last couple of days, then you would have heard about her story - Niki is a woman living in a state house in Glen Innes who is being evicted from her home. This is because the Tāmaki Regeneration Company, a joint venture between the Government and Auckland Council, have plans to redevelop the area. Ximena speaks to the Tāmaki Regeneration Company’s general housing manager, Neil Porteous, live on the show.
A National Party representative is calling for the return of corporal punishment in schools after a gang of teenages wreaked havoc over the weekend in the small Far North town of Kaikohe. The gang, which consisted of children as young as 11, robbed a liquor store and vandalised a petrol station. But the Chair of the National Party's Kaikohe branch, Alan Price, says the underlying reasons for such youth disobedience is down to a lack of physical discipline, even going as far as saying it's a form of child abuse not to raise children with discipline. 95bFM reporter Adam Jacobson speaks with Julia Ioane, a Clinical psychologist who specialises in the area of youth justice, child behaviour and youth mental health about the subject, to really find out if there is any scientific backing to the calls for a return to physical discipline in the school system.
A group protesting seismic testing and oil drilling on the East Coast has taken their fight to the United Nations. The group, Te Ikaroa are heading to the UN Oceans Conference in New York where they will highlight how seismic testing violates indigenous rights through the disruption of local marine ecosystems. More than 80 indigenous communities have voiced their objection to seismic testing being carried out by Chevron and Statoil on the East Coast, while a petition has also been set up to remove Statoil from the area. Reporter Sam Smith spoke to Te Ikaroa spokesperson Tina Ngata about their campaign.
Renowned anthropologist Dame Anne Salmond’s new book, Tears of Rangi, is a philosophical and historical exploration of interactions and colliding worlds. Beginning with an inquiry into the early period of encounters between Māori and Europeans in New Zealand, she then investigates such clashes and exchanges in key areas of contemporary life – waterways, land, the sea and people. Our world is defined by maps and calendars – making it seem that this is the nature of reality itself. But in New Zealand, concepts of whakapapa and hau, complex networks and reciprocal exchange, may point to new ways of understanding interactions between peoples, and between people and the natural world. Reporter Pearl Little speaks to Dame Salmond about the book.
The Hikurangi Group is made up of a charitable trust and a charitable group that is owned by the trust. the company is an enabling tool to get different projects off the ground. There is an investment company that works as a mechanism for its people and supporters. Hikurangi Enterprises is one of those leveraging tools and can partner with other entities such as whanau based companies or external stakeholders to the local area in order to bring a project to life. Panapa Ehau is an executive director of the group and spoke recently at Splore about the Hikurangi Cannabis Company, a medical cannabis venture based in Ruatoria. Lillian Hanly caught up with Panapa afterwards and started by asking how the Hikurangi Group came about
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