Semisi from Marlin’s Dreaming is in the studio to chat about the band’s new single with Erny Belle, Earnestly, out today with a music video to go along with it.
Rob Bollix chats about aardwolves and lungless frogs on The Mind Trench. Semisi from Marlin’s Dreaming is in the studio to chat about the band’s new single with Erny Belle, Earnestly, out today with a music video to go along with it. Justine helps the listeners navigate employment and union questions on Red Dead Redemption. Whakarongo mai nei!
Playlist
Jessica Pratt - Here In The Pitch
Joe Ghatt - Orange October
Warpaint - Undertow
King Loser - Morning Dew
Troy Kingi - Ocelli
Louisa Nicklin - Thick
Shy One - Gyallis Spiral
Anna Coddington - Kātuarehe
Internn - All The Knots Are Loose
christoph el' truento - Pīwari (Gumboot Joe Version)
Half Hexagon - The Method
Frank Chickens - We Are Ninja - Yasuharu Konishi Mix
With an increase of 8.1% in the nation's unemployment rate, there are now at least 82,000 young New Zealanders, aged between 15 and 24 years, who are currently unemployed, not in education or in training. These individuals are grouped into a category known as NEETs.
The national unemployment rate is the highest it has been since the impact of COVID 19 in mid 2021 and it is expected to increase beyond 5% by next year.
Rachel spoke to Social Development and Employment Minister Louise Upston about the current measures and future plans the government has to slow down the increasing rates of NEETs.
Last week, resources Minister Shane Jones released a draft strategy for mineral mining, aiming to double the amount of exports in the sector.
The strategy also mentioned "significant amounts of different types and grades of coal deposits" in Aotearoa, and aimed to align consents for coal to other minerals in order to increase coal extraction.
In response, the Green party has created a petition, calling on the government to completely roll back on its coal mining initiatives and to protect the natural ecosystems of Aotearoa.
For their weekly catch up, Oto spoke to Green Party MP, Ricardo Menendez-March, to discuss the petition. We also had a conversation about the Defence Minister Judith Collins decision to extend New Zealand Defence Force deployments to the Middle East and Africa
Health outcome gaps for Māori and Pasifika suffering from cardiovascular conditions have been apparent for quite some time.
In order to address this ongoing problem, a group of researchers involved in Manawataki Fatu Fatu for ACCESS conducted a qualitative study, where they interviewed Māori and Pasifika patients in cardiovascular care to uncover the causes behind these health gaps, as well as potential solutions.
To discuss the study and its findings, Oto spoke to Senior Research fellow Karen Brewer from the University of Auckland, of Whakatōhea and Ngaiterangi descent, who conducted the study and had some insights to offer on Māori and Pasifika cardiovascular health gaps.
The United States and New Zealand are the only high-income countries that allow unrestricted direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines, which directs advertising towards consumers rather than medical professionals.
Producer Sofia Roger Williams spoke to Associate Professor of Medical Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland, David Menkes, about concerns researchers have raised about direct-to-consumer advertising and how to address them.
She started the interview asking him how direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines operates in Aotearoa New Zealand.
For Dear Science this week, Professor Allan Blackman spoke to us about reconstructing the genome of the little bush moa, a protein folding prediction programme, and a new discovery regarding promethium.
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