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The government's Conservation Amendment Bill includes plans to sell up to 60% of New Zealand's conservation land. The government argues that much of this land is not your typical conservation land - rather that it includes farmland and other unused areas without ecological benefits.  The bill's opponents, however, say this isn't the full story, and that the government's criteria for sale opens room to sell large portions of land currently inhabited by our native flora and fauna. The policy also paves the way for further sales of conservation land, especially concerning because of the minimal public influence on the decision, despite the fact that it affects public assets.  The concerns are further compounded by the release of a Curia Market Research poll this morning on public support for the sale of conservation land. Not only are the majority of the population opposed, but this opposition extends to the majority of National and ACT voters and half of NZ First voters.  Youth unemployment is also an issue in the news cycle this week, with rates at a thirty year high. Despite this government being in power for almost three years, improvements are difficult to find.  Lastly, last week saw announcements that Flying Out Record Store and Neck of the Woods will both be closing. These announcements follow the closure of Verona Cafe and Bar and the cancellation of The Others Way festival for 2026. With Auckland's arts and culture funding seeing cuts each year, there are calls for the government to take action to support these businesses and communities. For this week's catch-up with the ACT Party's Simon Court, News Director Castor asked about each of these issues, beginning with the Conservation Amendment Bill.

We chatted to the majestic and illustrious Greta O'Leary to discuss her latest single, Year of the Dog, and its accompanying music video. And booooooooy, is it a goodie!

One hundred Kiwi kids are diagnosed with a life-threatening condition called Hydrocephalus yearly. Hydrocephalus is a condition where the brain gets an abnormal amount of fluid buildup, which causes harmful pressure on brain tissues.   The current standard treatment for it is a shunt implantation, which is a tiny silicon tube that gets inserted into the brain to drain any excess fluid into other parts of the body harmlessly. However, these shunts have the tendency to get blocked about fifty percent of the time. And if they don't get replaced in time the raised pressure in the brain could cause huge damage and even death. The major problem is that symptoms of a failed shunt are very common and are hard to interpret.  To fix this, researchers have been developing an implantable wireless brain sensor, which will be able to read brain pressure wirelessly and safely at home.  To learn more about this new technology and how it will work in the future. Producer Jude spoke to University of Auckland Senior Research Fellow Dr Sarah-Jane Guild.

Food Standards Australia New Zealand is currently consulting on a proposal to make health star ratings mandatory, with the present voluntary system coming under fire. Currently, only 36% of eligible packaged foods in New Zealand display a health star rating, well short of the 70% goal set by food ministers in November 2025.  Additionally, a recent briefing by the Public Health Communication Centre had nutrition experts arguing that labels can help improve dietary choices, encourage product reformulation and strengthen transparency. Front-of-pack nutrition labelling is also recommended by the World Health Organisation. To discuss making food health star ratings mandatory, producer Thomas spoke to University of Auckland Professor Dr Sally Mackay.  

This week on the Monday Wire... For our weekly catchup with the ACT Party, News Director Castor spoke to ACT MP Simon Court about selling conservation land, youth unemployment, and arts and culture funding for Auckland's CBD.  Producer Thomas spoke to University of Auckland Professor of conservation biology James Russell, about the Conservation Amendment Bill. He also talked to University of Auckland Professor Dr Sally Mackay about making food health star ratings mandatory. And Producer Jude spoke to Auckland University senior research fellow, Dr Sarah-Jane Guild about the development of wireless brain sensors.

Arini joins Rosetta and Milly to share a whakataukī to take us through the week! Whakarongo mai nei! Ka kī te pīro o ngā manu, o ngā tangata ka kata // Full guts of birds and people makes us fulfilled. 

Ata mārie e hoa mā! E whai ake nei, coming up on the show this morning: Whakataukī o Tēnei Wiki with Arini Loader, This Is How We Brew It with Charlie, Loose Reads with Jenna, and your chance to win the new Menzies album on vinyl + tickets to their Tāmaki show! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

Jenna is back up in the studio to chat about an exciting Pulitzer Prize winning pukapuka, Daniel Kraus' Angel Down!  Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!

It's another Monday Drive with Crawley and the gang. Producer Harry was here, and so was Lou! Yippee!! Laika joined us for a bit to talk about the latest and greatest in the theatre world. Currently, some very big Bildungsroman vibrations. Professor Emeritus Peter Lineham, of course, joined us for That's The Spirit. Who would've guessed it, the Southern Baptists are up to some heinous shit again. Eeek! We also chatted to the majestic and illustrious Greta O'Leary to discuss her latest single, Year of the Dog, and its accompanying music video. And booooooooy, is it a goodie! Ngā mihi nui The Beer Spot!

Charlie tests Rosetta and Milly on their Aeropress brewing technique - whakarongo mai nei!  Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

Today for Ready, Steady, Learn, Milly and Joel are joined by Dr Maryam Tayebi from the University of Auckland Centre for Brain Research, Mātai Medical Research Institute. Dr Maryam Tayebi is part of a research team that has discovered notable differences in the brains of recovering methamphetamine addicts, compared to non-users.   Thanks to UoA! 

Lara joins Joel and Milly for a kōrero about all things politics! Whakarongo mai nei!

Ata mārie! Joel joins Milly with a very husky voice for breakfast this morning, including: Political Commentary with Lara Greaves, Short Player with Welcomer, and Ready Steady Learn thanks to UoA. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

The twits are back! And it's one hell of a show.   This week, Gareth Shute joins the boys for AudioCulture to talk about legendary Auckland music festival the Others Way and it's legacy.   Thanks to The Beer Spot

Kia ora koutou, Cosy autumnal vibes on Morning Glory today…  Highlights: Tara Clerkin Trio, Carla dal Forno and Acopia

The government claims its new Conservation Amendment Bill will improve protections of conservation land while also enabling more economic growth. Its opponents say the bill will undermine existing protections, however, especially as it enables the sale of large swathes of conservation land into private ownership. This would also undermine existing legal protections for land specifically in the Coromandel, which alongside the Fast Track Bill illustrates this government's intention to entirely circumvent many of New Zealand's long-standing environmental policies. To discuss the Conservation Amendment Bill, what makes it an interesting policy, and how it could end up affecting local conservation efforts in the region, News Director Castor spoke to Chair of Coromandel Watchdog of Hauraki, Catherine Delahunty. You can make a submission on the bill here. Submissions close at midnight on the second of July. 

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On this week's edition of Audio Culture, writer Michèle A'Court joins Smashton and Big J to talk about the Others Way Festival.  Thanks to Audioculture

A new study has been released that shows the impact of human-induced climate change on global sea levels, focusing on the change from 1900 to 2005.  It found that, worldwide, one in a hundred-year flooding event had a median increase to the 1 in 8-year event average over this time. Even more concerningly, the study found that the increase was not geographically balanced, and Wellington coastal floods have increased to roughly a twice-per-year occurrence. Relevantly, last week Wellington faced large swells up to 9 metres, resulting in a state of emergency and mandatory evacuation orders at numerous bays in the area. To discuss the results of the study and how best to respond to the findings, host Thomas talked to Victoria University Professor of Climate Science & Physical Geography, James Renwick.

Oto and Jaycee spoke with the members of The First Child Lily and Cam about their latest single 'Eyeless in Wonderland', their love for the local scene and their upcoming album. 

Poor Milly is still māuiui, but Rosetta has lots of goodies lined up for you on Breakfast this morning! E whai ake nei; Whakataukī o Tēnei Wiki with Arini Loader, This Is How We Brew It with Charlie, Loose Reads with Nate, and bosom selecta with Anniversary Eve! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

This week on the Monday Wire... For our weekly catchup with the ACT Party, host Thomas spoke to ACT MP Simon Court about the party's proposed Nationally Determined contribution towards the Paris Agreement, funding for the Liquified Natural gas import terminal and public transport policy. He also talked to Victoria University Professor of Climate Science & Physical Geography James Renwick about a study which found concerns with costal flooding events in Wellington. And he spoke to Association of Salaried Medical Specialists executive director Sarah Dalton about Pharmac changing eligibility criteria for diabetes medication and Health NZ stopping cardiology groups from objecting. Caeden also spoke to Asthma and Respiratory Foundation New Zealand Chief Executive Letitia Harding about calls from the World Health Organisation to ban flavoured tobacco products.

Pharmac has recently proposed changing who can receive funded treatment for key diabetes medication, moving it in line with a cabinet directive from 2024 saying public services should be prioritised on the basis of need, not race. There has been an outcry from health professionals, such as the cardiac network, saying data shows that Maori and Pacific people are more at risk of diabetes, regardless of their socio-economic status, and the best way to maximise health benefit for dollars spent is by targeting these groups. Further criticism has been directed at Health NZ, which has banned the cardio network from objecting to the removal of eligibility criteria, saying it would breach the 2024 cabinet directive. Cardiologists will be forced to make submissions as individuals, a move the network has said is silencing scientific evidence in the name of politics  To discuss the eligibility changes and Health NZ silencing cardiologists, host Thomas spoke to Association of Salaried Medical Specialists executive director Sarah Dalton.

Mikey selects vintage & classic tunes. Dedicated to the late DJ Big Matt

Nadine and Yann from Anniversary Eve are your bosom selectas today! Catch their show on Wedensdays from 12am - 2am, or anytime via the bCasts!

This week on Loose Reads, Nate is reviewing the wonderful and weird pukapuka The Shadow of the Object, by Chloe Aridjis. Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Timeout Bookstore!

Arini shares a whakataukī to guide us through our wiki! Whakarongo mai nei!

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has renewed calls to ban flavoured nicotine products, particularly sweet, fruity, and confectionery-style flavours, which it says drive addiction amongst young people.  WHO has warned that tobacco and nicotine companies are deliberately creating products that are “more appealing, easier to use and harder to quit” for adolescents and young people. Thursday Wire Host Caeden caught up with Asthma and Respiratory Foundation New Zealand Chief Executive Letitia Harding about the calls for restrictions and how this applies in a New Zealand context.

Charlie joins Rosetta in the studio to brew up some delicious PNG single origin kawhe - filter style! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

Emma Fitts is a Ōtautahi-based Interdisciplinary artist working amongst sculpture, photography, and textile installation. Drawing from an expanded painting practice in which the canvas is reimagined as an active material in itself, creating its own imagery and form while also behaving as its own support structure. Resulting in these immersive material rich spaces that contemplate architecture, textiles, queer history, feminism and memory.  In her current exhibition at Melanie Roger Gallery, Emerald Pools Fitts explores the notions of memory through the revisitation of a work first exhibited in the courtyard at Objectspace (2022) as lapping at your door, and later reconfigured for the installation of The Air like a stone presented at The Physics Room (2023). The work then undertook another reconfiguration and is now back here in Tāmak at Melanie Roger Gallery, presented as Emerald Pools.  Through each of its reconfigurations the work has built up this rich history, holding residue of its past lives and allowing the works memories of reconfiguration, weather exposure, and re-installation to become embedded within the work itself. Alongside the memory of the work's various iterations the work also holds the history of its own making process at its forefront. With Fitts purposefully exposing the works methods of construction through raw seams, and canvas folds. Shifting the viewers attention to not only the work itself but also the wider histories a work might hold. The show becomes a site of multiplicity, holding the work's accumulative history of its prior contexts, configurations, and surrounding dialogues. Maya caught up with Emma about the show and her overall practice.

Cam is up in studio sharing some of the epic new releases at Southbound today! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to Southbound Records!

Sof catches up with artist Lucy Meyle about her solo exhibition in The Changing Room at Gus Fisher Gallery, Phone Tree.  And Maya caught up with artist Emma Fitts about her solo exhibition Emerald Pools, currently on at Melanie Roger Gallery.  Whakarongo mai

Lucy Meyle is a Tāmaki-based artist whose practice primarily explores our relationship with animals, examining and questioning the limits of human conjectures about them as a relational investigation, rather than a scientific inquiry. Predominantly working in sculpture and publication, Meyle embraces the absurd, gathering and assembling archives, found objects, drawing, and casting into material relation.   In her current solo exhibition in The Changing Room at Gus Fisher Gallery, Phone Tree, Meyle has turned her interest in human and animal relationships to moths – reframing moth traps as holders of moth narratives, as inadvertent collectors capturing moth memory, drama, and dreams.  In Phone Tree, Meyle presents five moth ‘situations', each embodying a different kind of moth and reimagining its trap into a new form reflecting its potential experience, memory, or navigation of the world as a moth – an act of anthropocentric guesswork of their interiority. Enveloping these situations are large scale ‘drawings' on the walls made of this moth-eaten looking tissue paper, layered, collaged, and hole-punched, creating this playful exploration of scale within the space.  Imagining the interior lives of moths in such detail, Meyle has turned these moth traps, as devices of surveillance and control, into portals of reconsideration of our relationships with them, reorienting our preexisting ideas of the lives and world of moths.  Sof had a kōrero with Lucy Meyle about Phone Tree and her overall practice.

This morning for Fancy New Band Huia had Noah Nite come in and play a few songs before they release their debut album next month!  Thanks to NZ On Air!

Dr Kirsten Zemke tells us stories of artists who sadly passed away while performing on stage, whakarongo mai nei!

Rosetta catches up with Radio Active Breakfast host Frida for Parakuihi Pals! Whakarongo mai nei!

Happy Friday! Milly is off sick but Rosetta has a great show for you: Travelling Tunes with Dr Kirsten Zemke, Parakuihi Pals with Radio Active, From The Crate with Cam thanks to Southbound, and more! Whakarongo mai nei! Thanks to eighthirty coffee roasters!

This Morning Glory Huia started off with some soft, heartfelt and moody tunes to ease into the day. Leading up to Fancy New Band Huia started playing some more guitar based music and amped up the vibe to compliment Noah Nite who came in to play! Brought to you by NZ On Air! Thanks to The Tuning Fork! 

Cover Host Alex is joined by Comedian Tom Sainsbury to chirp about Tom's gig as a Bird Call Competition judge at FAM this weekend, and Tom's upcoming dance show, Sharp Teeth, next month.  

Sola Rosa's Andrew Spraggon talks to Thursday Morning Glory host Emma Gleason about his latest record, In The Mids, and imminent album tour. It kicks off in Auckland on Friday May 22 at Double Whammy, before travelling to Hawkes Bay, Nelson, Christchurch, New Plymouth and Wellington. Expect live interpretations of the album's tracks and reworked music from his extensive archive, plus (excitingly) an audio-visual element. Tickets are available here.