10:30 Budget 2019: Education
Bags at Maraeroa School in Porirua Photo: RNZ Insight/John Gerritsen
The education sector had high expectations of this budget. Sam Oldham, a former highschool teacher, branch chair of the PPTA and PhD candidate in Education Policy join us with his take.
10:35 Budget 2019: Rainbow Communities
Photo: 123RF
Another interesting announcement in today's budget was three-million-dollars of operational funding over the next four years for transgender New Zealanders to access gender-affirming surgery. We speak to Ahi Wi-Hongi from Gender Minorities Aotearoa joins us.
10:40 Budget 2019: International Aid
The New Zealand Defence Force’s NH90 helicopters marked their first overseas mission by delivering essential aid supplies to Nasau village in Koro, a cyclone-ravaged island about 106 km north of the Fijian capital of Suva. Photo: NZDF
International Aid also featured in the Budget today - a little more than some international Aid agencies were expecting. We speak to Jo Spratt, Oxfam New Zealand's Advocacy and Campaigns Director.
