Glen Innes

So I'm born and raised in the heart of Auckland, East Auckland, actually, in New Zealand.

It's a small suburb called Glen Innes, also known as GI, so that's my hood.

Pretty much my whole family, um, they live here.

When it comes to rugby, I played in intermediate, but I didn't actually...

I'd listen to Talkback.

I got my big break when we had a church skate-a-thon at Paradise Ice Skating in Glen Innes, which a lot of people, if you lived in Auckland or you've been to Auckland, sort of... 20 to 30 years ago, you probably went to Paradise Ice Skating in Avondale or Glen Innes, it's now in Botany, in Auckland for the Aucklanders.

And so they had this late night skate for church youth groups.

So I practised up.

An Auckland councillor says it has been a devastating week for the area with several tragic deaths.

A 33-year-old man has been charged with murder after a man died on a residential street in Glen Innes on Thursday afternoon.

Separately, three family members were also found dead at a Papatoetoe home on Thursday evening.

Manukau Ward Councillor Lotu Fuli says people are in shock, particularly in Glen Innes, where Carl Hurrell, who was also killed less than a year ago.

It's really, really tragic and nobody wants to be dealing with the loss of life like this.

So people are feeling stressed or feeling the grief or feeling a bit uncertain because of what's happened.

Emergency services were called to Cambridge Terrace before 7:00 last night, and police have launched an investigation.

A 33-year-old man has been charged with murder after the death of a man in Auckland's Glen Innes yesterday afternoon.

A police operation is underway in Christchurch's Linwood.

It's part of the search for a 21-year-old missing for nearly a month.

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Emergency services are responding to an incident in Auckland's east suburb of Glen Innes this afternoon.

St John Ambulance says it was called to Sunnymead Road around quarter to three.

A nearby liquor store owner says he saw about a dozen police cars in the area.

Struggle.

Yeah, I think about some of the people I've met in Glen Innes with housing issues, not being able to get a job, care workers, and I think this government has left people struggling and I think we're in a struggle to get out of this.

Yeah, yeah, it's real when you see it in your own suburb, eh? Our next panellist is a former Alliance candidate from the AUT School of Communication, author, lecturer and public academic, my next-door neighbour, Professor Wayne Hope.

Kia ora, Conway, welcome to the show.

This election is about echo chambers in a political landscape riven by social media hate algorithms.

Should Labour be rallying their base rather than chasing a centrist voter that no longer exists.

I think that is what Labour is doing, and it's what we're doing in Tāmaki with our office in Glen Innes.

But we saw it on the weekend with Chris Hipkins at a very energetic campaign launch in South Auckland that I was at.

I'm trying to think of equivalents elsewhere in Auckland.

Where are the worst roundabouts? There's one in Glen Innes that's a nightmare.

Royal Oak.

Royal Oak nightmare.

I raised $15,000 for a brand new community patrol.

I'm a local community patroller, but raised money for a brand new community patrol in Glen Innes.

In Auckland, the issue is we're not winning.

We don't feel like we're winning.