Theia, with her project TE KAAHU, comes in for a kōrero and plays a beautiful unrelease track ’Taupiri’ with her band, Amy Boroevich (Hina) and Jol Mulholland. They also play 'Kiwi Weka'. TE KAAHU's album Te Kaahu O Rangi is out May 6, and you can also catch her playing her Matariki show at the Tuning Fork on June 24th. Whakarongo mai! 

A campaign to give 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote has been granted leave to appeal in the Supreme Court. 

While the Court of Appeal agreed that barring teenagers from voting was in fact unjustified age discrimination, they stopped short of making a formal declaration.

Emilia Sullivan spoke to Sanat Singh, co-director of Make it 16 about his campaign heading to the Supreme Court.

Twitter has agreed to sell its platform to Elon Musk for a mammoth sixty seven billion New Zealand dollars. 

Musk, who is a self-professed ‘free speech absolutist’ has given hints as to what he plans to do with the site regarding content moderation, user verification, and more.

Emilia Sullivan spoke to Greg Treadwell, head of the journalism department at AUT about what this acquisition of twitter by Elon Musk could mean.

Earlier this week, researchers from the University of Otago released a report looking at substance usage amongst adolescents. The study found that rates of alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis usage amongst Kiwi teens peaked about 20 years ago and have declined rapidly since, but our adolescents are still binge drinking at higher rates than their peers in similar countries overseas.

Joe spoke to Jude Ball, from the Department of Public Health, who co-authored the study on the matter. 

Rāpare brings some Political Commentary with Lara; TE KAAHU performing live in-studio ahead of Te Kaahu O Rangi's release on May 6; Mediabatt with Tim; and Leith from Ringlets on the line about their very first single! Whakarongo mai! 

Leith from the brand new Tāmaki band Ringlets chats about their first single "Feeling of the Body." You can catch them playing at The Wine Cellar on the 6th of May with Sweet Pea. Whakarongo mai! 

The tales of silly little Elon Musk, a scrapped app, local media being scabby, and TVNZ's new John Campbell. 

Lara talks about co-governance, the climate change adaption plan, and national’s policy framings around tax and spending. Whakarongo mai.

Fukumodo is back from a short stint in the Hospital with a sampler of Retro Remixes, Outsider Music, and Songs celebrating the wireless airwaves (Radio). Nan gives her ANZAC biscuit recipe after trial-and-error, Tyler gives some Better Living Tips with renting a property and we get the latest from the Global Meme Stock Exchange. Did we mention there's a song about someone's piss kink in this program?

We start off with a conversation with ACT’s Brooke van Velden about the housing crisis and how to boost housing supply. 

Stella then speaks with Angela Maynard from the Tenants Protection Association about the human rights commission’s call for an independent housing authority and rental WOFs

This is followed by Stella chatting with Georgia Pigot, an environmental social scientist from the university of auckland about the third round of funding for the Government Investment in Decarbonising Industry Fund

Alex then speaks with Associate Professor Kevin Simon of the University of Auckland about microplastic pollution in freshwater. 

And then with Steven Trewick of Massey University about his research into six new Weta species in the alpine region of the south island.

Finally, Stella speaks with ben Birks Ang, deputy director of the NZ drug foundation, about recent police wastewater statistics showing increases in methamphetamine.