National has announced the fruits of the childcare policy they campaigned on, which is a rebate paid out once every three months. This is after they campaigned on fortnightly payments, and will disadvantage parents who cannot afford childcare up front.
They’ve also announced they are continuing Labour’s policy of free period product in schools and kura, although whether or not this includes primary as well as intermediate and high schools is uncertain.
For our weekly catch-up with the Labour Party, Wire host Caeden asked Labour spokesperson for Education and Women Jan Tinetti about both of these announcements.
This week, Sherry speaks to Green party co-leader James Shaw on Political transparency regarding political donations. The serious fraud office is currently investigating political party NZ First, and have charged an ex National MP as well. James and Sherry also touch on press freedom, after NZ first took photographs and followed a jounalist investigating these fraud claims. James also discusses the shift to Lower Emission vehicles, after plans for a subsidy scheme are put on hold.
Today on your bFM Breakfast: It's Monday morning so we're taking it easy, with the assistance of coffee as per; Justine is back to help you with all your wage subsidy related queries on Red Dead Redemption; Peter Dickens from Music Helps joins us to chat about how our music community is getting help through this time; and Kiran joins us for Loose Reads with a new fave, Auē by Becky Manawatu, and a Shortlist for the Ockham NZ Book Awards.
We're back with another episode of Red Dead Redemption where local union representative and activist, Justine Sachs, helps the listeners navigate their what through all your employment issues or queries in the midst of Covid-19. Justine covers everythig from wage subsidy queries and concerns through to an increase in your university workload; what's allowed and what's not.
Tonight's show was actually entirely curated by bFM's own Samuel Harmony, who sent Oto and Jaycee, not just a playlist, but a stack of CDs and Casettes that he collected while he was in Indonesia as part of the New Zealand Delegation attending AXEAN Festival 2025. Whakarongo mai to experience 2 hours of Psych rock, folk, disco and more by Southeast-Asian artists playing at the festival!
Happy New Year and with that Walao starts off strong with Co-Host Jaycee showing us demos and his top plays and discoveries from 2025. From Hyperpop to experimental, what a treat!
To celebrate three impending birthdays, Jenn themes her show as OLD and WEIRD. Hear Surf Blood cover The Verlaines, get proggy with Kevin Ayers, get loose with Leikeli47 and let Keren Ann tell you her name (hint...it's trouble). Happy week, lovely listeners, until the next!
This week, we chat to Kevin Moar from the productivity commission about a proposed plan for tertiary subsidies, Joel also chats to Jonathon Gee from the New Zealand Union of Students Associations about the issue. Joel and Tess have their weekly chat with National MP Jami-Lee Ross, this week we discuss Maori run prisons and the DOC funding. Joel spoke to Radio Adelaide's Nicole Wedding for all the latest in Australian news. Lastly, Tess spoke to Marnie Prickett from freshwater campaign group Choose Clean Water about a report released by NIWA about New Zealand's water standards.
Justin spoke to Finance Minister Grant Robertson on the election delay, border testing, extending wage subsidy, and his charity Monopoly game with Naitonal’s finance spokesperson Paul Goldsmith.
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