NZ Music week!  NZ Music week!  NZ Music week! All NZ music on Border Radio....... An interesting interview with Tom Cunliffe who has a new album coming out in August ( Covid Allowing).  Jolene from Darcy Clay !!!! Wicked

No Matilda this week - NZ Music Week so we take a break to play 100% NZ music and stories! Back to our chapter book next week. 

Another joyous show from Blind Mango Chutney with 100% Kiwi jazz artists to end NZ Music Month.

This week's show is a NZ Music Month all NZ music special. Featuring Sam's favourite tracks from his time at 95bFM. Sam also pays tribute to the late Joe Hawke who died this week.

Joe Locke (P.H.F.) chats to Zazi about 5 tracks from 'PUREST HELL', for Long Player, thanks to NZ On Air Music! 

The PR All-Aotearoa Music Special 

Cycling infrastructure has been widely reported as receiving $1.7 billion in new funding, with investment in renewable transport forming a part of Auckland’s plan to halve emissions by 2030.

Auckland city council has also closed submissions the NPS UD public consultation, informing its plan for housing intensification.

For Casper's fortnightly chat with Auckland City Councillor Shane Henderson they discussed this investment in Cycling infrastructure as well as an update to their discussion a few weeks prior around housing intensification. Casper first asked Shane what is planned for Auckland’s cycling infrastructure in the 2022 budget and what its implications are for the city.

The Human Rights Comission released a new set of guidelines for school uniforms and how they can be more culturally inclusive, as well as adhere to Te Tiriti.

The rights-based guidelines include specific recognition of Taonga Māori symbols such as tā moko and pounamu. 

Casper spoke with Meng Foon, the Race Relations Comissioner, about the guidelines, what’s in them and what kinds of impacts they might have on schools that choose to adopt them. Casper first asked what the new guidelines entail and what their purpose is.