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Milly takes you through a great three hours of radio, with Club Ruby making an appearance for Friday Live, brought to you by NZ ON Air Musicwith thanks to McLeod's Brewery. Whakarongo mai nei for good vibes all round!
Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei helps us wrap up 2016 with her thoughts on the changes to NZ politics, the Green-Labour agreement and the stakes going into election year.
The Green's announced a new policy yesterday to make Te Reo MÄori compulsory in schools. bFM reporter Mack Smith examines this issue, speaking to Green Party MPs Marama Davidson and Catherine Delahunty, and President of the New Zealand Educational Institute, Lynda Stuar in this report.
Minister for the Environment, Nick Smith, is set to release a statement this week on the state of New Zealand’s fresh waterways. Currently, the standard for New Zealand freshwater systems states that they must at least be wadeable. But more than 12,000 kiwis have signed a Green Party petition that calls for the government to up their game and make the country's waters swimmable. 95bFM reporter Adel Abied speaks to Green Party water spokesperson Catherine Delahunty about the issue.
Green Party MP, Catherine Delahunty, is criticising the government's new water policy. The plan, announced by Environment Minister Nick Smith, places the focus on lowering the standards required for water swimmability rather than improving the quality of the rivers. 95bFM producer Tess Barnett spoke to Green MP Catherine Delahunty about the government’s announcement regarding swimmable rivers.
95bFm news director, Ximena Smith, chats to Green Party co-leader James Shaw about the government’s announcement that they’re set to introduce new nationwide regulations around the use of poisons such as 1080, and also a new Green Party bill that will see aquifers being protected by law.
The Green Party said yesterday that the Government’s weak strategy for cleaning up fresh water won’t undo years of abuse, unless we change our farming model and take a hard long look at how we develop land in this country. bFM reporter Ambrose O’Meagher spoke to Green MP Catherine Delahunty about this issue, earlier yesterday morning.
Last night the government voted against a Green Party Bill that was proposed to help reduce the gender pay gap in Aotearoa, which currently stands between 12 and 14 per cent. Wire producer Harry Willis spoke with Green Party Women's Spokesperson Jan Logie about the Bill, beginning with the question of what it actually is and what it hopes to achieve.
The recent One News Colmar Brunton poll which has come out and placed Labour down three points to 24%, which is the party’s lowest results since the formation of this poll in the 90’s. It also saw the Greens boosting from 11% to 15% which could be a result of Co-Leader Metria Turei's recent admittance of benefit fraud.
Joel talked to Co-Leader James Shaw about why these numbers are happening, and what they mean for the Labour Green coalition.
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