Podcast appearances and mentions of laura o'connell rapira

Laura O’Connell Rapira (Te Ātiawa, Ngāruahine, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whakaue) is a community organiser, campaigner and writer. She started her career organising events, before moving on to charity fundraising. However, she got pulled into a different direction when she started RockEnrol, a youth-powered campaign to get more young people out to vote. In 2014 she joined ActionStation and became their director. Since then, she has worked with communities nationwide around steps towards economic fairness, climate protection, human rights, global peace and honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi. In this episode we laugh about the irony of being full-time paid activist, we discuss some of her recent highlights, like the move to make Matariki a public holiday, and, we talk about her next chapter with the Foundation for Young Australians.

Laura O’Connell Rapira (Te Ātiawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa) is the director of ActionStation.  ActionStation is campaigning for policy and funding change that would ensure every person in this country is taught about local hapū and iwi history, the context and content of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, colonisation and its impacts. Laura earlier this year organised a petition to make Matariki a public holiday.  She joins us on the line this morning to talk to us about the Labour Party’s announcement that they will make Matariki a public holiday from 2022 if they’re re-elected to government. See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Topics - New Zealand made history in the weekend as one of the first nations in the world to welcome back the fans into a packed sports stadium, thanks to having no active cases of Covid-19. We speak to former All Black and Highlanders player Jeff Wilson. The Race relations commissioner Meng Foon has called called for dialogue on colonisation-linked statues and says we need to "take a pause" as we consider what to do about them.

Topics - Dunedin's iconic Captain Cook Hotel will be renamed, because the owner Mike McLeod says it's clear there's an issue with the name. The new National Party leader Todd Muller has made his "Te Puna pitch" to voters for the position of Prime Minister. Small shopping malls are struggling around the country as retailers shut up shop, but glamourous new shopping areas like Commercial Bay are opening in Auckland. We speak to Retail NZ CEO Greg Harford. Gourmet Picnics is a small operation in Cromwell and started in December as Covid hit, so they were locked down before they started.

- Marie Dhyrberg QC on defends Grace Millane's defence, and questions new laws designed to protect victims of sexual crimes - Simon Bridges on National's plan to introduce performance measures in courts - Laura O'Connell Rapira and Liam Hehir discuss political funding in New Zealand - Marama Davidson accepts the govt hasn't been transformational

B Sides caught up with Laura O'Connell Rapira about what RockEnrol have been up to since last time they were on the show, and the 2019 local government elections

The amazing Laura O'Connell Rapira does many many things but in this interview we talk about co-founding RockEnrol - a group that aims to get young people engaged and voting in New Zealand. Laura told us about their crazy idea to lower the voting age. It's so crazy, it might just work!

Russell Brown talks with Laura O'Connell Rapira, Toby Morris, Steve Abel and Sina Brown-Davis about how online awareness can be transformed in to action which changes society.

Russell Brown talks about activism online and on the streets with the National Director for ActionStation Marianne Elliott; the author Nicky Hager; the political commentator Matthew Hooton; and Co-Founder of RockEnrol, Laura O'Connell Rapira.