n 2010 the New Zealand Special Air Service  undertook Operation Burnham, a joint military operation seeking to target several insurgents within the Taliban forces at the time. 

The operation became the subject of the book Hit & Run, authored by Nicky Hager and John Stephenson alleging that the operation caused multiple civilian deaths and should be considered a war crime. 

Over the past five years, the New Zealand Defence Force has pushed back against the claims, however an inquiry by the new labour government in 2017 proved many of the Journalists claims. Now the Chief Ombudsman is re-opening an independent inquiry into the case, and Liam Hansen brought Nicky Hager on the show to speak about the latest inquiry. 

The latest Stats NZ data shows a downward trend in all nine child poverty measures in Aotearoa. 

However, Save The Children says we still have a long way to go to ensure all tamariki in Aotearoa are able to thrive. 

Jessica Hopkins spoke to Advocacy and Research Director Jacqui Southey, who says that more attention needs to be given to lifting the incomes of our lowest-income families.

They started the interview discussing Jacqui’s response to the Government's announcement that 66,500 children have been lifted out of poverty since 2018. 

Today on my regular catch up with Auckland Councillor Pippa Coom we discussed the Women4Climate Mentorship Programme that is coming to Tāmaki Makaurau this year.

The programme taking place in several C40 cities globally aims to contribute to the emergence of the next generation of climate leaders by sharing knowledge and experience. 

Jessica Hopkins spoke to Pippa about who is eligible, and clarified the programmes' inclusion of non-binary and gender queer people. 

Jade brings you some Imagination in the Morning w/ some creative thoughts: What Dnd character would you be and whats your backstory? Jade would be a Dragonborn Bard named Lenard, who betrayed his parents Swamp Business by traveling to Hollylandia to pursue his keytar solo dreams. Oh and also some tunes and live music by rad Chinese New Zealand duo Ersha Island. 

Ersha Island brings us some soulful singing alongside beautiful sweeoping violin solos, with the perfect mix of soul cutting lyrics and mixed Chinese New Zealand pride. 

Dr Lara Greaves chats to Zoë about political responses to the anti-vaccine mandate protest in Wellington. Whakarongo mai. 

Like pretty much all of Auckland, there's a 🎀𝒸𝓁𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓉𝒶𝒸𝓉🎀 situation up at the b. Today Rachel hosts from home and Zoë does button-stuff in studio, and in and amongst the fun carnage and tunes there's some Political Commentary with Dr. Lara Greaves, Mediabatt with Tim, and a chat with Peter Ruddel and Frances Carter about a very cool new Sulfate music video. Whakarongo mai! 🦎

Denzel takes over the late morning hours to liven up your Thursdays with an eclectic set of tunes accompanied by some stellar chat and good nostalgic vibrations as he delves into video game soundtrack history to bring everyone’s favorite radio spot ‘video game soundtrack gems’