John Key’s resignation means big changes for the whole of New Zealand as we wait to find out who will be our new Prime Minister, and who will lead National into the next election. But we can’t forget how John Key’s been elected into parliament for the last 14 years - the people of Helensville. Key has said he’ll continue as Helensville's MP so as to not trigger a by-election. But he won't be contesting the seat next year.
John Key’s been called the ‘everyman and nowhere man’ of the electorate, which is centered around the town of Helensville northwest of Auckland. But he’s always been popular, winning about 60-75% of the vote over the last 3 elections. So what’s going to happen to the contest for Helensville, now that it’s no longer a cut-and-dry Key victory?
95bFM reporter Daniel Walker speaks to Labour Party secretary general Andrew Kirton.
Remember remember the fourth of December, because that day we had a fun-as show. Hannah Valentine joined us for the first half, a discussed her sculptural practice, that is open to interaction from the audience. You can find Valentine's "Grips, slips, of space, a memory" at Te Tuhi Gallery in Pakuranga. Described as a feminist primal-rock-band-slash-art-collective, our next guests Fantasing were in town on a residency at Audio Foundation. We enjoyed the chance to break down the group dynamics, and heard some of the diverse influences that seep into their tunes (think 70s country, bacon, Greek prog-rock, NZ's regional mounds, friendship).
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.
Ten months after an outbreak of Campylobacter infected 5,500 people in the town of Havelock North, the first stage of a Department of Internal Affairs report has been released. Although sheep faeces has been blamed for the immediate outbreak, the local authorities, Hawkes Bay Regional Council and Hastings District Council, were also criticised for indirectly contributing.
The report cited earlier contamination events which went largely ignored, infrastructure which wasn't up to standard and a lack of communication between the two councils as the basis for their criticism. Although the second stage of the report is ongoing, the report acknowleged they had no legal basis to criticise local farmers whose sheep were most likely the cause. Instead, Producer Ben speaks with Greenpeace New Zealand's Amanda Larrson, about the effect intensive agriculutre may have had.
Pete Gleeson talks to us about his first feature length documentary, Hotel Coolgardie, playing in Rialto Cinemas from this Thursday. Eliciting both laughter and gasps from its 2016 NZIFF audiences, the doco is a portrait of a remote Australian mining town as it welcomes two female Finnish backpackers to work in its main centre - the pub. Sure, the interplay between incoming female outsiders and the existing population of characters "shaped by the forces of isolation, masculinity, hard work, no work, alcohol, and various twists of fate and fortune" provides a compelling depiction of human nature... but, Pete, what was it like to film?
Whakarongo, ngā tamariki! Prepare yr earholes, bolt down any ornaments - there's a new bag of funk in town. Co-compiled by our guest Alan Perrott with music fiend John Baker, Vostok'snew 'Heed the Call!' compilation is seventeen of the choicest cuts of Aotearoa funk, soul and disco picked from the fertile decade between 1973 - 1983. And who's that on the line from Sydney? Oh, y'know, just cover star and double compilation feature Mark Williams. Ka mutu pea!
This week on Morning Glory Hunter played new songs from Julien Dyne, Thundercat & Badbadnotgood. For 'About Town' this week he highlighted live tracks from this years Whammyfest. In the second hour of the show Jon & Sam from Klang came up to the studio to share some of their favourite influential tunes for this weeks My Morning Mixtape ahead of Klang 004 this Saturday. Listen to the podcast here or follow the Spoifty playlist here.
This week on Morning Glory Hunter played new songs from Juan Wauters, Girlpool and Anderson .Paak. For 'About Town' this week he highlighted live tracks from Belle & Sebastians set at Laneway back in 2015. In the second hour of the show Brian from ROPE came up to the studio to share some of his favourite influential tunes for this weeks My Morning Mixtape ahead of the ROPE gig this friday at The Wine Cellar. Listen to the podcast here or follow the Spoifty playlist here.
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