Uh oh! Annabel and Callum are nowhere to be heard and Freak The Sheep audiophile Taylor MacGregor has taken the Top Ten show hostage! With no signs of remorse or fear, MacGregor blasts bFM listeners with anything and everything from Simply Red to the Sugababes. Despite his bad boy reputation, Tay Mac still rolls out the Top Ten tracks of the week amongst the chaos. Enter at your own risk.
The International Seabed Authority has granted permission for Canadian corporation The Metals Company to mine the sea floor in the Eastern Pacific, a move which Greenpeace sez signals the beginning of a new and destructive extractive industry that will place profit before people and biodiversity, threatening ocean health and people’s way of life.
To chat about the ISA’s decision, as well as what impacts deep sea mining could have on surrounding communities, Emilia spoke to Greenpeace Aotearoa’s seabed mining campaigner James Hita.
Salute @ramseylewis for your musical inspiration and service and legendary Leon Dahl blesses us with some boogie, jazz and mixed business to shake your rump to.
This week, the Wire with Christina kicked off with a Dear Science Nobel Prize special with Joel Rindelaub.
Christina also spoke to Dr Shane Reti from the National Party for their weekly segment, where they discussed meningitis and a bill to reduce alcohol harm
In the wake of last week’s poll results on whether Aotearoa should become a republic, Christina spoke with the New Zealand Republic campaign chair Lewis Holden.
She also spoke to Dr Roshini Peiris-John about her study on the impacts of skin tone on racial discrimination.
And earlier on Breakfast, the b farewelled Auckland Mayor Phil Goff as he prepares to retire from politics. Jess takes us all the way back to the outgoing mayor's very first bFM Breakfast interview with Mikey Havoc in 2017.
On Breakfast this morning, bFM Breakfast farewelled Auckland Mayor Phil Goff as he prepares to retire from politics.
The Wire team revisited his very first interview on bFM with Mikey Havoc all the way back in 2017. Rachel then asked Phil Goff about what he was able to achieve during his tenure.
We’ll be looking at what's happening behind the scenes when drinking water gets to our taps or our wastewater is discharged – and how might climate change get in the way.
Joe spoke to Dr Lokesh P. Padhye, Senior Lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of Auckland about his thoughts on what needs to be done to address the issues within our water infrastructure.
Figures from the hospitality job platform Barcats have shown the industry is short by 30,000 workers.
But John Crocker from Unite Union says the industry's current wages do not reflect this critical need for staff.
"What the industry needs to do to attract workers is lift wages and conditions. The industry has had forever to do this, and it simply hasn't."
The Government's proposed Fair Pay Agreements Bill, currently awaiting its second reading, would provide a framework for collective bargaining for fair pay agreements across industries like hospo.
News & Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to Crocker about the union's campaign for a Fair Pay Agreement for hospo workers, which they say is the best way to resolve ongoing shortages in the sector.
Multiple sub variants of the Covid-19 Omicron variant have recently made their way into Aotearoa, seeing new territory for the country having to deal with multiple sub variants at once.
In the final Covid-19 media response, the Head of the Public Health Agency Andrew Old has made it clear to New Zealanders that the pandemic isn’t over.
Covid cases are currently on the uptick, with Poneke Wellington leading the pack in having case numbers doubling over last weeks amount.
To learn more about the next few months of the pandemic, Liam spoke to Michael Plank from the University of Canterbury about the new wave.
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