His Worship chats to Rachel about the state of housing in Tāmaki Makaurau and how intensification is perceived. Also,covering some of the congestion issues that Aucklander's are facing and how a big corporation's waste ended up in Queen Street's storm drains.
Kiran brings in Wild Honey, basically the book that houses some of New Zealand's women poets. Edited by Paula Green, the structure of the novel showcases a poem while giving context and biographies of the author. A super special book that you've got to get your hands on to dive deep into the world of Aotearoa's beautiful poetry.
Aqui Thami, founder and coordinator of Sister Library, the only feminist library in South East Asia, is in the studio. She talks about the day to day at the library in Bombay, as well as her involvment with the Bombay Underground arts collective. She has been in Auckland with St Paul St Gallery and Samoa House Library. Then, Tim Melville and Heidi talk about his journey from being a flight attendent to one of Auckland's most respected art dealers. The discuss the dynamics of the Maori art market, as well as the behind the scenes of the art market in general.
The Mayor dials in all the way from beautiful Bethells Beach to chat with Rachel about what's going on in Tāmaki this morning. We're talking the councils PR spending, what's happening with North Te Papa, and how on earth we're going to get through the housing crisis.
Hamilton group TOTI are calling for an ‘almost invisible’ piece of national history to be publicly acknowledged this week.
Today is the centenary of the 1919 Women’s Parliamentary Rights Act which for the first time allowed women to stand for election to the House of Representatives - to become MPs.
Oscar Perress was lucky enough to speak to TOTI’s Margaret Evans, who also happened to be Hamilton’s first female mayor, from 1989-98, about the legislation and its place in our past, present and future.
The government recently announced its agreement with the agricultural sector to have agircultural emissions at a farm level to be priced by 2025. This gives the sector five years to calculate and reduce their own emissions until the government can decide to bring them under Emissions Trading Scheme. Jemima spoke to Green Party co-leader and Climate Minister James Shaw about the agreement and whether agriculture will be left off the hook again under the reformed Emissions Trading Scheme and when it comes to the global work to reduce green-house gas emissions.
The Mayor chats to Rachel this week about a couple of hot topics, talking Bird of the Year (and other native bird related issues), housing in Auckland, and some of the latest happenings with the Tupuna Maunga authorities.
National Party Deputy Leader, Paula Bennett, dials in this morning, a week out from Christmas to talk about what's going on in Aotearoa. Rachel talks to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition about Whakaari / White Island, National's RMA reform and housing discussion documents, and the potential changes to our mediascape.
Rod Oram is here to help us make sense of what's going on in the world this week: from America and Iran, to Australian bushfire, to Auckland house prices- 2020 is certainly off to a steep start.
We've got His Worship back on the airwaves, Rachel catches up with the Mayor about what's happening with Auckland's housing market, and what kind of future we're facing with climate change.
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