Sam speaks with prison abolitionist Emilie Rakete of People Against Prisons Aotearoa about matters concerning policing in Aotearoa from the enforcement of lockdown to the trials of armed police squads.
This week on City Counselling, we talk to Cr Pippa Coom about rates, priorities and homelessness. 95bFM's Oscar Perress began by asking about the budget and consultation on the budget.
Sam provides shares some insights on paralells between the recent report from the Childrens Comissioners and 1988's landmark Puao Te-Ata-Tu which made considerable recommendations for the overhaul of child welfare services in Aotearoa.
Meka Whaitiri of Labour's Maori caucus speaks with Sam about why the government intends to honour the recommendations put forth in 1988's landmark Puao Te-Ata-Tu report thirty two years later as we continue to see the same issues with child welfare services that we had then