This week, Ilena explains how the newly released draft of the Natural and Built Environments Act builds on the Resource Management Act, how the public submission process works and the content in the bill. She speaks with Rick Zwaan, Forest and Bird's Otago and Southland conservation manager and RMA reform campaign leader about it.
Olly's on the mix this week, digging through the hard drive and playing some old favourites and hard-to-find mp3s. Keeping it new age and spacious, with a few detours into guitar-melodrama and some NZ-indie classics. And by classics we're talking 2015 CLASSIC... your seventeen and just snuck into Whammy Bar for the first time...
This week, Stella and Isla explore the recently announced SPOTS study (Sex and Prevention Of Transmission Study), including patterns of HIV transmission, why some populations are more vulnerable, and the mechanisms by which HIV infects. They speak to Joshua McCormack, and Cameron Leakey, two researchers on the SPOTS team.
Afio mai, Susu mai, Maliu mai. Talofa lava, it's Samoan Language Week and Samoan Independence Day! I am joined by the wonderful Oscar Kightley, and we delve into all aspects of Samoan Culture. Including music, old sayings, random Samoan facts and a how to guide, if you ever find yourself in the middle of a taualuga. So take it back to memory lane and have a listen!
Ruby Savage and Shy One come up to the studio and treat us to a whirlwind adventure of sounds you can expect from their sets at this weekend's Beacon Festival. Whakarongo mai nei!
Elliot and Vincent are in the studio, having a kōrero with Rachel about upcoming gigs and projects. Get tickets to their show this weekend with k m p t, Ballot Box, and Fazed On A Pony here. Whakarongo mai nei!
For our weekly political catch-ups, News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Te Pāti Māori's Takutai Kemp about benefit sanctions.
She also spoke to Takutai and ACT's Simon Court about new support for Ukraine and New Zealand, Australia, and Canada's joint response to Israel's military operation in Rafah.
She spoke to National Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa, John Minto, about concerns regarding Israeli propaganda and its influence in Aotearoa.
And she spoke to Wellington peace activist Valerie Morse about Auckland War Memorial Museum's move to a Te Tiriti-centric approach.
Things got shitty on the Green Desk today — New Zealand has a poo problem: An estimated 100 million tonnes of cow and sheep manure fall onto New Zealand pastures each year, causing an environmental and economic stink.
So reporter Jack Marshall went to see a man about dung beetles. Dung Beetle Innovations’s Dr. Shaun Forgie is a specialist in dung beetle reproduction, ecology and evolution. And if he has his way, every farm in New Zealand will have these bugs following around their animals.
Oto and Jaycee played a variety of Rock, Grunge and Post-Hardcore tracks from across Southeast Asia and had a chat with Isaac Chiew, frontman of Singaporean rock quartet Cactus Cactus and founder of Singapore's Big Duck Music collective.
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