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MAKING WAV E S Wellington radio station RadioActive has just celebrated its 45th birthday. It started with a two-week broadcasting license and using a homemade transmitter. Three years later it had become the first station in the capital to use FM broadcasting (a change in the way waves are carried, which produces a higher quality sound) and by 1985 were broadcasting fulltime. The station has kick-started the careers of some of the country’s musical, and journalistic talents, including John Campbell and Tova O’Brien.
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The Security Intelligence Service (SIS) has agreed a settlement of $66,000 to compensate writer Nicky Hager (see Cap #81) for unlawfully accessing his phone records. The SIS originally pursued the records in an attempt to discover the unnamed sources Nicky consulted for his book, Other People's Wars, which investigated New Zealand's involvement in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The SIS apologised to the journalist in 2019 but it has taken until now to agree compensation.
The pīwauwau rock wren has been crowned New Zealand Bird of the Year 2022. The tiny yellow bird clocked up 2,894 number one votes on Forest and Bird’s website over the two-week voting period. Chief Executive Nicola Toki says, “As Aotearoa’s only true alpine bird, these tiny wrens are already feeling the impact of warmer temperatures, which encourages predators like rats and stoats to climb higher and invade their mountaintop homes.”
Environmental groups including Forest and Bird Kāpiti-Mana, the Kāpiti Coast Biodiversity Project and Low Carbon Kāpiti are petitioning for flood-prone land in Paraparaumu to be turned into a wetland park. The 28-hectare piece of land is currently for sale and is being marketed for commercial or residential building, despite the known flood risk. A wetland would create a spillover area for flooding, as well as a muchneeded green space for the town.
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