The National Party’s, Denise Lee, joins Laura Kvistad for their weekly chat. They talk about the decision to scrap the ban on parliamentary tv footage for political advertising, the conflict of interest in the provincial growth fund and the recent meeting Denise has had in Mount Wellington after a survey from the public where some are saying the area is not receiving enough attention in regards to crime and safety.
This week on Green Desk, Mitch speaks Cawthron Institue’s Dr Susie Wood who is leading
the Lakes380 Project. Currently Lakes380 is the largest undertaking of data collection on
Lakes done in New Zealand possibly the world, making use of the best technology in the
world. Mitchell and Susie discuss the scale of the project and the processes involved with
such a large undertaking. To begin, Mitch asks Susie to explain what Lakes380 is.
This week Sherry continues the discussion on the Emissions Trading Scheme with Green Party co-leader James Shaw. He responds to some criticisms brought up by Sherry from economist Geoff Bertram on the proposed ETS Bill. Secondly, they also discusses the public housing crisis and the lack of affordable homes.
But first, Sherry begins by asking James to respond to Geoff’s critisms regarding the lack of transparency in the proposed ETS bill.
Today marked the fourth Epidemic Response Committee meeting. Lillian recaps the main points covered, as reported by Laura Kvigstad.
The committee heard from Otago University professor and epidemiologist Sir David Skegg and Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield. Minister of Health David Clark also addressed the committee, beginning with an apology for his repeated breaches of the rāhui.
The Epidemic Response Committee was established in late March to consider and report to the House of Representatives on matters relating to the Government's management of Covid-19. The chairperson is Simon Bridges, leader of Opposition.
The next commitee meeting is scheduled for 10am tomorrow morning.
This week, Simon Bridges became the subject for criticism after he voiced his concerns around the extension of level four, and two weeks in level three. He criticised the government for not doing enough groundwork to progress out of level four sooner, insinuating the government was wasting New Zealanders time. The National Party’s Denise Lee joined Laura Kvigstad, stressing that contact tracing needs to be occurring at a quicker rate echoing Bridges position that there was more the government needed to do. They then later discussed why small businesses are being called the sacrificial lamb under covid 19, answering Laura's questions as to whether the pressures for economic freedom from National are putting New Zealand's covid 19 health outcomes to chance.
The great promises of the internet to offer inter-connectedness and the spread of great ideas has brought great challenges in discerning fact from fiction. In this discussion, Damaso Reyes discusses some of the ways that we can identify misinformation and disinformation. Reyes is a researcher, speaker and trainer in the field of media and information literacy. An experienced journalist, his specialties include providing professional development training for educators and journalists around the world, teaching them how to better understand the (mis)information landscape and spot, and fight against, disinformation. Maria Armoudian spoke to him about the perceived proliferation of misinformation and so-called “fake news.”
ustin recaps the main points covered in today's Electoral Response Committee meeting, as reported by Laura Kvigstad and Jessica Hopkins.
Following Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Alert Level Two announcement yesterday, the committee looks into the impacts of Covdi 19 on the tourism industry. Representatives from New Zealand Māori Tourism, The Haka Tourism Group, Event Impressions, Sounds Air, Pan Pacific Travel, Sudima Hotels and Tourism Industry Aotearoa were all in attendance, with Minister of Tourism Kelvin Davis joining later in the meeting.
The Epidemic Response Committee was established in late March to consider and report to the House of Representatives on matters relating to the Government's management of Covid-19. The chairperson is Simon Bridges, leader of Opposition.
This week on the Green Desk, Bronwyn spoke to Tessa Clarke, the co-founder of the mobile app, Olio, which helps to mitigate household waste by allowing people to give their excess food and other items to their neighbours.
The app began the United Kingdom, but it has now spread throughout the world, including here in New Zealand where food waste is very much a prevalent social, economic and environmental issue. Every year, kiwis waste almost 160,000 tonnes of food, contributing 325,000 tonnes of Co2 emissions. Meanwhile, around 10% of people in New Zealand are experiencing food insecurity.
Tessa begins by discussing this mulit-pronged effect of food wastage.
Environment Minister David Parker announced this week that Auckland Council’s proposal, to more than double their daily water draw from Waikato river, will be fast tracked through the consent process. The Wire have been discussing the fast tracking of certain projects through the consent process for a couple of weeks now, but this week Mary-Margaret spoke to Nate Rew of Te Ara Whatu about the risk of this particular project. Waikato-Tainui are trying to protect their river from this, as they say it will cause long term harm, and that consultation was never attempted with them. Mary-Margaret asked Nate about breaches to Te Tiriti of this nature, and the framing of land issues by media as iwi ‘blocking’ a solution.
This week on The Green Desk, Bronwyn Wilde spoke to Dr Kēpa Morgan about mauri modelling - a framework for decision-making which measures sustainability trends. Unlike a purely economic view of sustainability, the model recognises four dimensions of wellbeing, environmental, cultural, social and economic. Kēpa first invented the mauri-o-meter in his 2008 thesis about municipal waste water management, but since then it has been applied throughout the country to a number of ecosystems, including the clean-up following the Rena oil spill. Bronwyn and Kēpa spoke about the model, how it compliments and even improves on western science, and why we value certain knowledge over others.
He began by shedding some light on the concept of "mauri".
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