Yesterday was an historic day for Australia. The postal survey vote for marriage equality returned an overwhelming 61% yes vote, so now a bill can make its way through the senate and Australia can experience marriage reform, something new Zealand achieved four years ago. I spoke earlier with Labour MP Louisa Wall who wrote the New Zealand bill, about marriage equality, and the road thus far in both New Zealand and Australia.
Christmas has come early this particular December Monday on Breakfast: we've got Marlon Williams and Dave Khan live in studio to soundtrack your morning rituals. You're welcome, city.
While Marlon's brilliant second album Make Way For Love isn't available for purchase until February (sorry, Christmas present lurkers), tickets to his Auckland Town Hall show _are_. Get in HERE.
It’s been a big year for Melodownz. Things really started snowballing around the release of his Avontales EP and since then it seems like he’s become an omnipresent force. Which is just a fancy way of saying he’s popping up everywhere, whether it’s on the Laneway line up, or performing at a gallery opening at the Art Gallery, or he’s on David Dallas’ 64 Bars series or on the German ‘Colours’ series. He still finds time to feature on other tracks and visit us here on Freak The Sheep.
Producer Leonard Powell is currently out of town in the Coromandel, however like all of the hardworking news team at 95bFM, he didn't let distance get in the way of a good story.
This is his report on the parking machines at Hot Water Beach.
Mike doesn't eat red meat, but that's not going to get in the way of a good American BBQ hootenanny. Also featuring: micheladas; British Marmite; and the return of sourdough toast.
The health of the mother while pregnant is being found to affect the heath of the unborn child in lasting ways all the time. Clare's research in this area involves supplementing healthy fats, in particular conjugated linoleic acid (or CLA), in the diets of obese female rats with an aim to increasing metabolic function and decreasing weight gain in their offspring. As worldwide obesity worsens, could the findings within Clare's research one day help human mothers?
Tracey is at Rātana today so we spoke with her this morning while she was on the way there, she was driving Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and they’d stopped to get coffee in Levin. Lillian Hanly started by asking how it would work when Peters steps up to be Prime Minister.
What makes a way of dressing take over as a subculture's uniform? And why on earth did the likes of punk band Proud Scum (and Karen Walker) choose to replicate the the jumpers of Donald Duck canon bank robbers The Beagle Brothers?
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