Māpuna for Saturday 21 May 2022
12:10 Iwi Chairs Forum on government's latest climate plan
This week the government released its first emissions reduction plan and allocated 4.5 billion dollars of funding towards it. Minister of Finance Grant Robertson billed the plan to tackle global warming as a turning point in New Zealand's history, a plan "like no other", the significance of which "cannot be underestimated". Mike Smith is the climate spokesperson for the Iwi Chairs Forum.
Mike Smith Photo: Supplied
12:30 Lecturer heads to MIT with focus on Maori housing
Jacqueline Paul is a lecturer in architecture at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland. In August she will start a five year course of study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the world's number one ranked university. Paul will do her PHD at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. She says she would like to look at new ideas on how to tackle Maori housing issues.
Photo: Jacqueline Paul
12:45 Uncertainty for performing artists during Covid
Four years ago opera singer Kawiti Waetford returned to Aotearoa after years abroad and a blossoming singing career. He and his wife started a new life in Northland where Kawiti began working with rangatahi, teaching singing and holding vocal masterclasses. He still performs but says Covid has led to uncertainty with a planned trip to Vienna cancelled because of Covid-19. So what's next for a singer still only in his early thirties and mentored by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa?
Photo: Kawiti Waetford
