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  1. 1天前

    Greenpeace calls for New Zealand to lower drinking water nitrate limit w/ Greenpeace freshwater campaigner Will Appelbe: 8th June, 2026

    Last week, the Danish government officially confirmed it will be lowering the legal limits for nitrate contamination in water according to recommendations from an independent scientific review commissioned by the Danish ministry for the environment. The change came after outcry from Danish citizens over the country’s pork industry and its links to water contamination. Greenpeace Aotearoa is now saying New Zealand should follow Denmark’s lead and lower their legal nitrate levels to the same point. There has recently been suggestions New Zealand is in a nitrate crisis, with the Canterbury regional council declaring an emergency last year and Southland is facing increasing calls to do the same. To discuss the lowering of drinking water nitrate limits producer Thomas talked to Greenpeace freshwater campaigner Will Appelbe.

  2. 1天前

    Living in deprived areas linked to ‘deaths of despair’ w/ University of Auckland Social Sciences Professor Barry Milne: 8th June, 2026

    New research has been released which found people who spend more of their lives in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas have a significantly higher risk of premature ‘deaths of despair.' These kinds of deaths include suicide, drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases. The findings of the report suggest neighbourhood effects frequently operate independently of individual-level factors, indicating expanding public health beyond individual treatment to wider neighbourhood care may be necessary to help those most in need. To discuss deprived area’s link to deaths of despair and how best to solve the issue producer Thomas talked to University of Auckland Social Sciences Professor Barry Milne.

  3. 5天前

    City Counselling w/ Shane Henderson: 4 June, 2026

    The Government is changing the law so only elected councillors can vote on council committees, stopping iwi representatives and independent experts from being full voting members. And last week, the Government announced the Budget for the next year. It includes investment in areas such as housing, health, and rail infrastructure in Auckland. For City Counselling this week, Wire Host Caeden spoke to Councillor Shane Henderson about both of these topics.

  4. 5天前

    Maths Education Not ‘In Crisis’ w/ Dr Lisa Darragh: June 4th 2026

    The Government has been presenting maths education as a crisis that needs urgent fixing, with Education Minister Erica Stanford pushing through rapid reforms. But some education experts say the picture is much more complicated than the public narrative suggests, and that the real issues are being oversimplified. Producer Pranuja spoke with Dr Lisa Darragh from the University of Auckland about what the evidence actually shows, why the “crisis” framing has taken hold, and what the current reforms could mean for students and teachers.

  5. 5天前

    The Environmental Consequences of Generative AI w/ University of Waikato's Te Kaka Keegan and University of Auckland's Nirmal Nair: 4 June, 2026

    A new report from the UN University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health has outlined the consequences of AI on water, land, and carbon emissions. Wire Host Caeden spoke to Professor Te Kaka Keegan, from the University of Waikato Department of Software Engineering and Co-Director of the AI institute, about the report and the cultural impacts of AI for Māori.  They also spoke to Professor Nirmal Nair from the University of Auckland Faculty of Engineering about how the report applies to a local context.

  6. 5天前

    The Wire w/ Caeden: 4 June, 2026

    For City Counselling this week, Wire Host Caeden spoke to Councillor Shane Henderson about a law change that will mean only elected councillors can vote on council committees and what Budget 2026 means for Auckland. And they spoke to both Professor Te Kaka Keegan from the University of Waikato and Professor Nirmal Nair from the University of Auckland about a new UN University report on the environmental impacts of AI. And Tuesday Wire Host Alex spoke with Elliot Crossan, the co-chair of Auckland Action Against Poverty, about the changes made to social housing in the 2026 Budget. For our weekly catch-up with the Labour Party, Producer Pranuja spoke with Shanan Halbert about the 2026 Budget. And she also spoke with Senior Lecturer Dr Lisa Darragh, challenging the idea that New Zealand is facing a maths education crisis

  7. 6天前

    Budget 2026 w/ the Green Party's Ricardo Menéndez March: 3rd June, 2026

    IT'S BUDGET WEEK and despite the modesty of this budget, the news cycle has been rolling in.  Key to the budget is the gutting of the public service, with an additional  9000 thousand Kiwi’s working in government services set to be gone by 2029 on top of the thousands the government let go earlier this term.  Seemingly as a part of this, The Social Security (Modernisation) Amendment Bill will enable automated or ‘robo’ decision making within the Ministry of Social Development. Taking humans out of benefits and disability payment decisions, a practice that came to a dark end in Australia with many recipients wrongfully lumped with debt that the government eventually had to foot. Here in New Zealand it is made even more alarming by being sped through parliament under urgency, removing the oversight and guardrails that reforms would normally face. And if they will have to foot the bill in the long run, is the government really making the savings they claim? The Green Party wants to ask this question in regards to our climate commitments. They say that poor caretaking of our Emissions Trading Scheme has led to the failure of recent auctions of credits, leading the government to be over a billion dollars behind and failing to meet our international commitments, which will cost the country even more. So for our weekly catch-up w/ the Green Party, Host Manny spoke with MP Ricardo Menéndez March about the budget, do the numbers add up? And what are the consequences to cutting people out of the hard choices.

  8. 6天前

    The Budget 2026 Child Poverty Report w/ the University of Auckland's Honorary Associate Professor Susan St John: 3rd June, 2026

    Under the Public Finance Act, the government is required to release a report on child poverty as part of the budget process. The report for 2026, released last week, shows that New Zealand is far from on-track to meet its goal of reducing child poverty to 6% by 2028. One of the key measures of this - material hardship - was not even able to be estimated by the Treasury, but was calculated to be sitting at 14.3% in the financial year 2024/25. With community providers, such as foodbanks, reporting increased hardship in the community, it seems highly unlikely that the government will meet previous targets for reductions in child poverty. So, to speak on the government’s approach so far, and what the recent Child Poverty report tells us, Producer Theo was joined by Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, Susan St John.

  9. 6天前

    The Wire w/ Manny: 3rd June, 2026

    This week on the Wednesday Wire... For our weekly catchup w/ the Green Party, our host Manny spoke with MP Ricardo Menéndez March about the budget, a controversial government law that empowers MSD to automate decision-making, and how the government's failing climate policies are creating more costs. Then Producer Toby spoke to youth development worker Aardon Hendry about the growing issue of youth homelessness and what he argues is an inadequate level of support provided by the government in the recent budget. Following this Producer Theo spoke to Victoria Coleman, whose petition is calling for the scrapping of the Disability Support Services Bill currently making its way through Parliament. Finally, Theo spoke to Honorary Professor Susan St John on the recent Child Poverty Report.

  10. 6天前

    Youth Homelessness w/ Aaron Hendry: June 3 2026

    According to a recent report by Community Housing Aotearoa, homelessness in this country has reached its highest level in history, with more than 50% of people experiencing homelessness being under the age of 24. People continue to die on the streets every year, and as we enter the winter months, the risks to people without a roof over their heads grow even more serious. To discuss the issue of youth homelessness in the context of the government’s recent budget announcement, producer Toby spoke to Aaron Hendry—a youth development worker and advocate based in Auckland. Hendry works with the organisation Kick Back, which runs an open space on Karangahape Road called “the Front Door,” providing shelter and essential services for young people in vulnerable situations.

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Listen back to features and interviews from 95bFM's daily news and current affairs show. Castor Chacko, Alex Fox, Emmanuel Orange, and Caeden Tipler focus on the issues of Tāmaki Makaurau and elsewhere in independent-thinking bFM style. Monday-Thursday 12-1pm on 95bFM.

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