For City Counselling this week Simon spoke with Manukau Councillor Lotu Fuli. Lotu spoke about the budget meeting which is currently taking place where councillors are voting on the mayor’s budget. Simon began by asking Lotu how morale is among councillors after last week where abusive emails were sent to councillors, and how she is finding the budget process.

Emanuelle is in the studio to talk about the upcoming show Last Dance, with Elliot And Vincent, Franc015 – the last live band performance from Emmanuelle for the foreseeable future. Whakarongo mai nei!

Raiden Freeman is in the studio chatting about his most recent record and premiering an unreleased new track Streetsweeper, which has a feature from DalyanRD. Whakarongo mai nei!

Natural Ange comes in to give you the lowdown on how to cope with seasonal changes and other wellbeing woes, such from asthma support on top of your pharmaceutical needs, to chapped skin from the biting cold. Whakarongo mai nei!

It has been revealed that the Alpine Fault, which runs down the south island, has a 75% chance of creating a magnitude 8 or stronger earthquake in the next 50 years. Professor John Townend has spent many years studying the fault line to gain a greater understanding of the risks. He began by discussing what he has discovered recently.

Rob Bollix dials in for The Mind Trench, chatting about space and the wonders of legonauts. Whakarongo mai nei!

On What's Up with Marama Davidson, Rachel and the co-leader of the Green Party discuss their campaign for renters to submit their experiences, the electoral system review and have a debrief on the government's budget. Rob Bollix dials in for The Mind Trench, chatting about space and the wonders of legonauts. Scalper speaks to Rachel about new records and upcoming shows. Dons from Dead Famous People is in the studio chatting about the origins of their new album, Ballet Boy. Mia and Kelsi from DAFM dial in to talk about their show this Friday at Whammy Bar with Memory Foam and Lesbian Death Slutz From Hell. Whakarongo mai nei!

Michael Baker, University of Otago professor and epidemiologist, joins us today from Oslo, Norway, to talk about the latest updates on Covid in New Zealand, following an article published in the New Zealand Herald on Sunday. 

Although New Zealand has done comparatively well in managing the health crisis, hospital admissions are still high and a number of people are expected to die from Covid this year. 

Arno started the interview by asking Michael if people still needed to be worried by Covid.

The Auckland Council budget is holding public services hostage - that was what PSA had to say about Mayor Brown’s Auckland Council budget proposal. On the chopping board in Brown’s budget is the selling of Auckland Council’s stake in Auckland Airport, which has been a consistent revenue stream for the council since Auckland’s district councils merged into the Supercity in 2010. 

Tomorrow, Council members will vote on Mayor Brown’s budget proposal including whether to sell-off Auckland Councils Airport shares. To talk more about what implications the share sell-off could have for public services in Auckland, Andre Fa’aoso spoke with Ian Gordon, PSA National Sector leader for local government. 

Dons from Dead Famous People is in the studio chatting about the origins of their new album, Ballet Boy. Whakarongo mai nei!