Wellington City Council has announced a major project with a private developer to provide affordable housing in the city for nurses and teachers. It's understood this is the first of its kind here in New Zealand, but the rental cap type model is certainly not new in the rest of the world, but the Council and partner developer The Wellington Company have announced more projects in the future that will continue the concept. Wellington councillor Fleur Fitzsimons is in charge of the portfolio and Lillian Hanly speaks to her to find out more about the Council's hopes for 'rent stabilisation' in Wellington.
The Tupuna Maunga Authority say that fires that come about on Tupuna Maunga as a result of fireworks are not only dangerous, but cause harm to taonga. This week, a Parliamentary Select Committee decided not to ban the private sale of fireworks
Paul Majurie of the Authority joined Mary-Margaret this morning to discuss what it means that the government upholds the “balancing of competing interests” over mana whenua. She started by asking Paul to walk through the context that led to the Authority calling for a ban.
Richard Wagstaff of the Council of Trade Unions discusses raising the minimum number of sick days allocated to workers in Aotearoa
In The Week That Was, we cross to producer Ollie Joblin for a recap of the news this week
Paul Majurie of the Tupuna Maunga Authority explains why they are calling for a ban on the private sale of fireworks, and what it signals to them that a parliamentary select committee failed to enact such a ban
This week Zoë Larsen Cumming gets the Green Party co-leader to explain what happened with the controversial $11.7 million government funding of an elite private school, The Green School, in Taranaki and what can be done to amend the decision. They also touch on some new community conservation projects as announced by MP for Conservation, Eugenie Sage.
The whole Tuesday Wire is in studio today! Woohoo!
Noah looks into the Climate Change Commission’s achievable and affordable roadmap for meeting Aotearoa's emission reduction targets. He speaks to the Electricity Networks Association about how the electricity industry will be impacted by climate action. Noah also speaks to National Party Climate Change Spokesperson Stuart Smith about what climate action the government should be taking.
Hanna speaks to Dr Sander Paul Zwanenberg from the Information Science Department at the University of Otago about the private ownership of social media platforms and the issues of power that surround this.
Monday Wire Host Zoë Larsen-Cumming speaks to Green Party co-leader James Shaw about the conditions and abuses of human rights at Waikeria Prison as well as the latest government action on the climate crisis.
Zoë also speaks to PhD Student Scott Claessens who, with his prominent female colleagues, has researched why human females are the one primates who do not show physiological signs of ovulation.
The Government has stated they want to start a national conversation about changes needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector.
The Ministry of Transport recently released a report, outlining potential policies to move the transport sector to net zero by 2050.
Jessica Hopkins talked to Dr Doug Wilson, senior lecturer in transportation engineering at the University of Auckland about his research which focuses on reducing emissions from private vehicles.
Today, Ilena talked to a swathe of people about this week's announcement that the government and Auckland Council will be inveting $35 million into the Auckland Film Studios in Henderson. A privately-funded, $280 million film studio project is also being planned in Wānaka.
She spoke first with Stuart Nash, the Minister of Economic Development, to give some more details on the Auckland development. Ashley Williams and Tim Hamilton both gave their opinions on these high-end investments and how they do/don't feed back into local filmmaking. Queenstown Lakes District Deputy Mayor Calum McLeod discussed the advantages of the proposed Wānaka studio.
Finally, Nikki Boucher from Screen Wellington commented on the current status of film in Wellington, as well as the appearance of a new purpose-built studio opening in Upper Hutt. The speakers also had many thoughts on the New Zealand screen industry's role in our post-Covid recovery as a desirable, well-resourced and safe location for inter/national productions.
On Monday evening, there was a power outage linked to private power company generators that sent over 20,000 homes in the North Island into a black out. But was this outage preventable? Molly Melhuish thinks so. Conor spoke to Melhuish today about the power outages, the politics involved, and what she sees as a preventable blackout.
This week on City Counselling, I spoke with Councillor Pippa Coom about the Councils 2022/2023 Budget being approved for public consultation.
Items for consultation include a proposed Climate Action Targeted Rate to support a billion-dollar climate action package and moving to a simpler payment method for rubbish collections.
We also discussed concerns surrounding the growing number of private helipads in residential areas.
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