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!
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.
Felix spoke to Green Party Co-leader James Shaw about proposed changes to the social welfare system, his thoughts on the $100m subsidy given to Amazon by the NZ government, and the Green Party's relationship with unions.
Midway through 100% New Zealand music week and it's still full steam ahead. On What's Up with Nicola Willis, Rachel speaks to the Deputy Leader of the opposition, Nicola Willis, about National's use of AI in campaigning images, the government's budget, and the steel subsidy. Rob Bollix deep dives underwater on The Mind Trench, exploring octopus dreams. Model Home's Rachael dials in from Ōtautahi to talk about their new single, Leaky Home Simulator 2031. We have a very special performance from Aotearoa's own Bic Runga, as well as a chat about two decades of Beautiful Collision, and the upcoming shows to celebrate. Stay tuned for the video of Bic's performance. Whakarongo mai nei!
Just yesterday, Finance Minister Nicola Willis made her Pre-Budget speech, in the leadup to Budget 2025 which will be delivered next month.
During her speech, Willis said that the government would be halving the operating allowance from $2.4 Billion to $1.3 Billion, going to a select number of government departments that Willis has described as “the most important priorities.”
The week before, it came to light that Climate Minister Simon Watts had rejected advice to review the carbon subsidies given to polluting companies like NZ steel and Methanex.
And the Greens recently made a call to the government to ban the use of engineered stone products.
For our weekly catchup with the Green Party, Wednesday Wire host Oto spoke to MP Ricardo Menendez-March about all of these issues.
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