The Bard of Bollix is in to guide us through The Mind Trench, and gifts us a cursed mash up.

Rachel speaks to the co-leader of the Green Party about the recent Budget, the subsequent action day and the government's position on the situation in Rafah.

Liam K Swiggs chats about the 2024 Big Fresh Collective’s Footmahi and the his single, Skate Park featuring Young Ghost.

Salene helps you out with your whack rental situations on A Room Of One's Own. Whakarongo mai nei!

On What's Up with Marama Davidson, Rachel speaks to the co-leader of the Green Party about the recent Budget, the subsequent action day and the government's position on the situation in Rafah. The Bard of Bollix is in to guide us through The Mind Trench, and gifts us a cursed mash up. Liam K Swiggs chats about the 2024 Big Fresh Collective’s Footmahi and the his single, Skate Park featuring Young Ghost. Salene helps you out with your whack rental situations on A Room Of One's Own. Whakarongo mai nei!

Last Thursday, the coalition government revealed its annual budget for 2024.

While the announcement highlighted the government's efforts to lower income tax and expenditure, the budget came under fire from many for what they say were cuts that would put our public services under even greater pressure, and created disappointing outcomes for Maori and marginalised communities across Aotearoa that failed to uphold the government’s obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

For their weekly catch up, Oto spoke to the Green Party’s Ricardo Menéndez-March to talk about budget 2024, with a specific focus on the areas of: Environmental Conservation, Tax and Te Tiriti obligations.

In the Government’s 2024 Budget, over FIVE BILLION dollars has been allocated to military spending.

Despite this being a slight decrease from the actual number spent on the military over the past few years, this still equates to over ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN MILLION per week.

Producer Joel spoke to Coordinator of Peace Movement Aotearoa, Edwina Hughes, about the 2024 Budget and her thoughts on the money allocation to military services as opposed to other services.

They started off by asking her how much the military has been allocated in previous years.

One of the coalition government’s promises during the general election was to introduce Military-style boot camps for young offenders, as part of their purported commitment to crack down on crime in Aotearoa. 

So far, the government seems to be on track to upholding this promise, and announced earlier in March that the first Youth-Offender boot camps would be set up around this time of the year. 

However, a number of critics have come forward in opposition to the government’s plans for youth-offender bootcamps, claiming that when they were first implemented in 2009 under the John Key government, they failed to improve outcomes and reduce recidivism for troubled youth.

For this week’s Get Action! Oto spoke to Clara Donne, President of the Criminological Society at Otago University, who’s started a petition calling for the government to roll back it’s plans to re-establish Youth Offender Camps.

The Government’s 2024 Budget has proposed cuts to areas in public services and social support.

Such cuts include: removing half price public transport, removing $5 universal prescription fees, removing the treaty clause in the Oranga Tamariki law, and changes to the public housing system.

Producer Joel spoke to Coordinator of Auckland Action Against Poverty, Brooke Stanley, about these cuts in the 2024 Budget.

For their regular catch-up, Oto spoke to the Green Party’s Ricardo Menéndez March about the recent Budget 2024 announcement, specifically regarding the areas concerning the Environment, tax and Te Tiriti o Waitangi

For this week’s Get Action! Oto also spoke to President of the Criminological Society at Otago University Clara Donne about a petition to the government to roll back Youth Offender Boot Camps

Producer Rachel and Joel spoke to Coordinator of Peace Movement Aotearoa, Edwina Hughes, about the allocation to the military in the 2024 Budget.

They also spoke to Coordinator of Auckland Action Against Poverty, Brooke Stanley, about cuts to public services and social support in the Budget.