It's the Auckland Art Fair! Aimée has a quick chat with Sebastian Vargas from Totoral Lab Santiago (booth D10), and posts pics of her personal favourites here.
Sherry spoke to general manager democracy services from Auckland Council, Marguerite Delbet, on One Stop Shops: booths set up to allows people to enrol and vote at the same time in the local elections. Sherry also ask hers on voter turnout in local elections, lowering the voting age and civic engagment. Sherry begins by asking her where these One Stop Shops are.
On Sunday, Greeks were invited to the polling booths for the fourth time in five years, to re-elect their members of parliament. The left leaning Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, a once popular politician who based his entire persona around fighting austerity, was beaten by a centre-right party. Lisa Boudet tells you how and why this happened.
You can trust Campbell Ngata to curate an essential three hour blend of Shazam-defying soulful material - don't take my word for it - *press play*! @95bfm @kirkjames13 @soul_scourer
Like many others around the Motu we are in shock due to the premature death of the great Rodger Fox, and welcome former Rodger Fox Big Band alumni Mike Booth and Mike Young to the studio to share their memories of his work as an educator and musician. Other musicians to share their reminiscences electronnically include Godfrey de Grut, Vanesssa McGowan, Cam Allen and Neil Watson. RIP Rog!
On Friday, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith announced various changes to the electoral system in New Zealand which he says seek to make the process of voting more efficient and effective for future elections.
These include the closing of enrolment 13 days before the official election day, prohibiting the provision of food and drink at polling booths, and a reinstatement of a total prisoner voting ban.
A number of Labour and Greens party politicians have been among those to criticise the changes as a disenfranchisement of voters which will make democratic engagement in New Zealand more difficult.
As well, last week the Ministry for Housing and Urban Development released the latest iteration of the Homelessness Insights Report which reveals that there has been a quantifiable rise in homelessness across Aotearoa.
The Climate Change Commission has recommended sweeping changes to cut down emissions from transport, which totalled about 47 per cent of New Zealand's carbon emissions.
It wants petrol and diesel car imports to be fully banned no later than 2035, and to have ships electrified after 2025 and short-haul routes operated by electric planes by 2030.
The roadmap also targeted to have more cars run by a mix of petrol and biofuel.
The Motor Industry Association, which represents importers and distributors of new vehicles, said they 'cautiously welcome' the report.
Its chief executive David Crawford spoke to Justin Wong.
Justin talked with Health, Treaty Negotiations, and SIS Minister Andrew Little about nurses' strikes, National MP Paul Goldsmith's comments on colonisation, and calls for a SIS-Police taskforce on anti-Māori hate speech.
The Climate Change Commssion released its final advice to the Government detailing New Zealand's roadmap to be carbon neutral by 2050.
Producer Louis Macalister spoke to Federated Farmers' National President Andrew Hoggard on the Commission's report for agriculture.
He also talked to Professor Bronwyn Hayward of Canterbury University on how to communicate the regulations to the public, and to Dr Justin Hodgkiss of Victoria University on technology's role in the report.
Motor Industry Associaton chief executive David Crawford spoke to Justin on the report's proposals to cut down transport emissions.
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