Caeden Tipler spoke to Te Pati Māori’s Takutai Kemp about National ruling out a coalition with them and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer’s bills that would ban seabed mining and commercial water bottling.

News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to ACT’s Karen Chhour about last week’s extreme weather event in Tāmaki Makaurau and whether they would also rule out working with Te Pati Māori.

Caeden spoke to the Disinformation Project’s Kate Hannah on their recent report on Transphobia.

Nicholas Lindstrom spoke to Shalomi Daniel from Oxfam about their findings from their “What She Makes” campaign that looks into labour conditions and pay in the factories that produce clothes for New Zealand clothing brands.

And Caeden spoke to Māori Studies Professor and Te Rūnanga-Ā-Iwi o Ngāti Kahu chair Margaret Mutu on National’s false statement that Māori get more votes than Pākehā.

The 2013 Rana Plaza collapse forced fashion companies to answer questions about the conditions in which their clothes are made. 

The spotlight may have landed on global fashion giants, but those same questions were still applicable to our own fashion brands.

Launched last year, Oxfam’s “What She Makes Campaign” aimed to get answers about the conditions in which New Zealand’s biggest clothing brand’s merchandise is produced.

Most recently the campaign released scores in relation to the transparency of the brands, with Hallensteins and Glassons recieving scores of two out of five. Nicholas spoke to spokesperson Shalomi Daniel about the results of their transparency report and the future steps In the "What She Makes Campaign"

Last week Caeden spoke to Waipapa Taumata Rau academic John Fenaughty and InsideOUT Board Member Awhi Marshall on the Disinformation Project’s latest report on rising Transphobia in far-right circles.

They confirmed that the Disinformation Project report lines up with data previously collected in other surveys, including the Identify survey, as well as the experiences of trans and takatāpui people like Awhi.

Today Caeden also got the chance to speak to Kate Hannah, Director of the Disinformation Project, on what she’s found writing and sharing the report.

Last Wednesday National ruled out working with Te Paati Māori in any kind of coalition agreement.

National leader Christopher Luxon cited broad ideological differences, but some have raised concerns about his tweet where he implied Māori get more than one vote under MMP.

The final line of this tweet was “We believe New Zealand is one country with one standard of citizenship, meaning one person, one vote.”

In actual fact Māori do not get more votes than anyone else, Caeden looked into why this myth exists, where it came from, and the impacts it has on Māori.

They spoke to Māori Studies Professor and Te Rūnanga-ā-iwi o Ngāti Kahu chair Margaret Mutu.

This week News and Editorial Director Jessica Hopkins spoke to ACT’s Karen Chhour about the extreme weather event in Tāmaki Makaurau last week and if they would also rule out working with Te Pāti Māori in a potential coalition government. 

She started off their interview by asking Chhour about the response from the Auckland Council and Auckland Emergency Management. 

Creativision is a new creative careers conference put on by Youth Arts NZ, taking place next Saturday the 20th of May at Shore Junction at Takapuna. 

With a range of non-cringeworthy networking opportunities, speakers, and performers, the event aims to provide a comfortable space for high school and uni students to learn more about working in the creative industries. 

Speakers include Mazbou Q, Chlöe Swarbrick, Nathan Joe, and more. To learn more about the rest of the speakers and the whole of the event, you can go to https://www.youtharts.co.nz/creativision. 

Liam had a chat with YANZ’s Danielle Hao-Ackin to learn more about the event and the goals for the organisation.

Public transport is often discussed as an issue for commuting to work. But a good public transport system is one that benefits the whole community. Musician and public transport advocate Anthonie Tonnon is passionate about better public transport and the way it can help those in creative industries. Simon began by asking him how public transport helps him as a performer.

Yesterday in parliament a bill was proposed to ban seabed mining. The bill was voted down by National, ACT and Labour, and Environment Minister David Parker announced last week that a select committee inquiry to investigate seabed mining. Kiwis against Seabed Mining spokesperson Cindy Baxter was in parliament yesterday for the reading of the bill and she spoke about what happened. 

The extreme weather system that is continuing to affect the North Island caused havoc throughout Tamaki Makaurau on Tuesday. The state of emergency declared in Auckland drew stark contrasts to the Auckland anniversary floods in January and Cyclone Gabrielle in February. 

Auckland Emergency Management, Civil Defence and Auckland Council sprung into action as the rains poured down throughout the city, with heavy rain warnings issued in north and west Auckland. 

As extreme weather events appear to become more frequent, do Aucklanders and management agencies need to reconsider how they react and deal with these situations? To receive input and analysis, whilst also determining how well agencies have responded to the recent weather, Andre Fa'aoso spoke with Doctor Lauren Vinnell, Lecturer of Emergency Management at Massey University.

Government officials and Pacific community leaders met to discuss continued dawn raids on the Pasifika community despite the official government dawn raid apology in 2021. 

On the 19th of April, a dawn raid on a household led to the arrest of a Tongan man. Amongst those there at the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister Carmel Sepuloni and Immigration Minister Michael Wood. Michael Wood indicated at the meeting that he was considering granting amnesty to all overstayers in Aotearoa. 

To talk more about what has and hasn’t happened for the Pacific community following the dawn raids apology, Andre Fa'aoso spoke to Dylan Asafo, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland.