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For our monthly catch up with Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins, Milly and Rosetta chat with Chris about criticism from the coalition Government about former Labour ministers not showing at the public Covid-19 hearing, the recognition of a Palestinian state, and the latest TVNZ Political Poll. Whakarongo mai nei!

Over the weekend, the highly discussed summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin was held in Anchorage, Alaska to discuss the terms for an end to the war in Ukraine.

Today on The Birds, The Bees, and The Bugs, Milly and Rosetta catch up with Care HQ nurses Nicki and Charlotte to chat all things Chlamydia. Whakarongo mai nei!

Thanks to Care HQ!

Lucy Macrae, Justin Rendall and Harriet Ellis of Dick Move join Sof in the studio this week! Together, they chat about their latest single, 'Fuck It', finding catharsis in their music, and their single release show at Whammy this Saturday. 

Dick Move's picks:

Cuntology 101 - Lambrini Girls 

PEA - STIFF RICHARDS

Jerks - Cruelster

Artist track: 

Fuck It - Dick Move

Today on your Rāapa Breakfast: What's Up with Chris Hipkins, Milly and Rosetta chat with Author Liz Pelley about the downfalls of music streaming, a chat with the organisers of the Great NZ Toastie Takeover, and The Birds, The Bees and The Bugs thanks to Care HQ! Whakarongo mai nei!

For our weekly catchup w/ the Green Party Oto spoke with MP Ricardo Menendez-March about the party's support for the five unions taking the Government to the High Court over their pay equity law changes, The final cost of the iRex ferry project’s cancellation and The Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Bill passing in Parliament.

In November 2019, the autonomous region and island of Bougainville held a referendum to decide whether they should express a desire for independence, instead of continued autonomy as a part of Papua New Guinea. The result of the vote saw a landslide 97.7% majority vote for independence and would see Bougainville seek to replace South Sudan as the newest country in the world.

Yet, despite this, Bougainville remains an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea six years later. The difficult transition period has resulted in political tensions rising between the island and Papua New Guinea. However the recent signing of the Melanesian agreement in June is seen by experts as a significant step towards independence for Bougainville.

To talk about why this situation has dragged on for so long and what we can expect moving forward, Producer Max spoke to Gordon Nanau, the head of Pacific Studies at the University of Auckland.

Just yesterday, the Greens announced their support for five unions filing a legal case against the government in the High Court over their changes to pay equity laws.

The Nurses Organisation, Tertiary Education Union, NZEI Te Riu Roa, Post-Primary Teachers' Association, and Public Service Association argued the new rules breached the Bill of Rights Act and that the case gives workers who have been denied the right to challenge the changes a chance to challenge the government in court.

In that same week, it was revealed that the total cost of the scrapped iRex ferry project had escalated to $657 million dollars, following a final $144m payment to previous contractor Hyundai.

The project was originally scrapped in December 2023 after the total budget amounted to nearly $3 billion.

And the Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Bill recently passed in parliament.

Part of the government’s plan to fully replace the RMA, some of the changes in this amendment bill include: Requiring councils to grant consents for certain energy infrastructure within a year, Removes a range of freshwater planning requirements from farmers and allowing discharges into waterways as long as councils were confident that their planning will improve the waterway within a decade.

For our weekly catchup with the Green Party, Oto spoke with MP Ricardo Menendez-March to get the party’s take on all of these issues

Kia ora e te whānau, thanks for tuning in. 

New releases from Dean Blunt, Leon Vynehall and John Glacier this morning – plus the usual selection of folk through to electronica and everything in between. 

Thanks to the legends over at the Tuning Fork!

In recent weeks, the central government has pushed through numerous amendments to the Resource Management Act, in an effort to help streamline consent processes for corporations.

However, these changes— in particular ones surrounding freshwater planning and waterway pollution requirements — have been criticised especially by environmental advocates as disregarding the negative impacts to the environment and affording too much power to financial interests in the case of natural resource management.

As well, this past week Education Minister Erica Stanford announced a proposal to ban books with “too much” reo Māori in them from early learning materials in the ‘Ready to Read phonics scheme’. 

While she justifies the changes as being of genuine literary necessity for children’s learning, many have contended the changes as an act of racism against te reo Māori which asserts white supremacy in the education system.