Episodes

  • Deputy PM: PM well received on US tour

    Deputy PM: PM well received on US tour
    May 25 2022
    Nathan Rarere asked the Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson during their regular weekly chat for his response to the tragedy in Texas.
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    8 mins
  • Update on Texas school shooting: 19 students, 2 teachers dead,

    Update on Texas school shooting: 19 students, 2 teachers dead,
    May 25 2022
    Nineteen students and at least two teachers were murded during a shooting at a primary school in Texas, the latest in a spate of mass shootings in the United States. The 18-year-old gunman carried out the killings at Robb Elementary School in the city of Uvalde. Authorities say the carnage began when the suspect, shot his own grandmother, who survived. Joining us is Kate Fisher.
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    5 mins
  • 40 year Andrea Hansen competing for 3rd Com Games medal

    40 year Andrea Hansen competing for 3rd Com Games medal
    May 25 2022
    Nappies and baby bibs will be alongside bike helmets and running shoes when New Zealand triathlete Andrea Hansen packs her bags for the upcoming Commonwealth Games. Just 15 months after giving birth to daughter Flossie, Hansen is one of six selected in our triathlon team for Birmingham. As Clay Wilson reports, the 40-year-old has her sights set on a third Commonwealth Games medal.
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    3 mins
  • LDR East Coast: Tokomaru Bay legal land owners, homeless

    LDR East Coast: Tokomaru Bay legal land owners, homeless
    May 25 2022
    Time to check in with the Local Democracy Reporting programme and this morning we're in Gisborne with Matthew Rosenberg. He told me the latest from a story in Tokomaru Bay, where people who are legally land owners are, well, homeless ...
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    5 mins
  • Europe: Hungary declares itself in a legal state of danger

    Europe: Hungary declares itself in a legal state of danger
    May 25 2022
    Over the channel in Europe - there's still a war raging - the latest concern being the impact of the war on global food supplies - which is one topic of conversation at the World Economic Forum meeting in Switzerland. Joining me now from Sweden is our correspondent Anita Purcell Sjölund.
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    4 mins
  • UK: Sue Gray Report into lockdown parties released

    UK: Sue Gray Report into lockdown parties released
    May 25 2022
    To the UK now, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson is still on the hot seat in the wake of the release of the Sue Grey report into lockdown parties held at Number 10 Downing Street.. And there is, of course, the photos of the Prime Minister drinking at one of the parties. For the latest on that, Nathan Rarere spoke with our correspondent Henry Riley.
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    5 mins
  • AK's public golf courses not good use of land

    AK's public golf courses not good use of land
    May 24 2022
    Listening to that was Bill McKay, who's a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland's School of Architecture and Planning.
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    5 mins
  • Golfers say Auckland's public golf courses important

    Golfers say Auckland's public golf courses important
    May 24 2022
    The future of 13 golf courses on Auckland Council land is under the spotlight as their leases are due to expire and the city faces a desperate shortage of land for housing and recreation. The Auckland Council wants to make changes to the overall plan that governs those courses to make way for other recreational activities like walking, running and cycle paths. There's been a prolonged battle to fight off plans to divvy up the Chamberlain Park golf course in Mt Albert, turning it from 18 holes into a nine hole course alongside a sports field and a public park. So could the golf courses be better utilised for recreation? Or what about housing? In a moment we'll hear from Bill McKay, who's a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland's School of Architecture and Planning. But first, we sent our reporter Leonard Powell to tee off with the some members of the Chamberlain Park golf course.
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    5 mins