Waitakere City
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Oct 8, 2026
Hazel PhillipsGUEST
Solo is my first outdoorsy kind of book.
Hazel PhillipsGUEST
Um, the first one I wrote was a history of New Zealand advertising industry, and the second one was a biography, political biography of Sir Bob Harvey, uh, who was Waitakere City mayor for decades, you know, and a real character.
Hazel PhillipsGUEST
Um, and then, yeah, had a long break from writing books, and so those two books are not on sale anywhere, and they're f- they're found in libraries and stuff.
Hazel PhillipsGUEST
Um, and then started, yeah, writing outdoors books.
speaker_0HOST
The court is part of a project that aims to rehabilitate rather than incarcerate.
speaker_0HOST
Judge Lisa Tremuwen works in the court in Waitakere and says its results are proven by research.
Lisa TremewanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Not only do we get a reduction in re-offending, but we also get better health outcomes.
Lisa TremewanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We get, for example, kids receiving having parents who are in recovery, making better choices, being more responsible as parents, getting the kids to school, all those basic things that we know can make a difference.
Christina ParaskosHOST
RNZ has taken a look inside the Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court, an innovative system that aims to rehabilitate rather than incarcerate.
Christina ParaskosHOST
Judge Lisa Tremowan works in the court in Waitakere.
Christina ParaskosHOST
and says its results are proven by
Lisa TremowanSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
research.
Wallace ChapmanHOST
Auckland weather, says Peter.
Wallace ChapmanHOST
If you can see the Waitakere, it's going to rain.
Wallace ChapmanHOST
And if you can't, it's raining.
Wallace ChapmanHOST
Interesting.
Erin JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
All up, that'll cost $800 million.
Erin JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
Funding is yet to be sorted for West Auckland, which Councillor for Waitakere, Shane Henderson, says is intensifying rapidly and can't be forgotten.
Shane HendersonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And the Henderson-Massey area in particular have taken the most resource consensus of any area of Auckland over, over the entire super city, uh, history, right? Uh, those populations have, have exploded and will keep exploding.
Erin JohnsonCORRESPONDENT
He says there's been some tragic incidents on the line, including one last week.
Nicola WrightHOST
The work is expected to cost three billion dollars and take thirty years.
Nicola WrightHOST
Waitākere Councillor Shane Henderson says his area has had the most intensification of any part of Auckland, and funding and timeframes for the work need to be locked in.
Nicola WrightHOST
Auckland Transport says the work will depend on funding from council and government.
Nicola WrightHOST
The government's putting eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars into a major World of Wearable Art exhibition to open in the capital.
Jay CarterGUEST
but they often grow up in riparoa and you know like little small towns in new zealand
Ian RenshawHOST
this there's a study that our friend andy rogers um and i wanted to do and andy alerted me to this and um there's a town on the street called gray street near Waitakere, is it
Jay CarterGUEST
Waitakere?
Ian RenshawHOST
Fungare, sorry, Fungare.
Ian RenshawHOST
And I can't remember, Kamo, is it a place called Kamo? And at one time there were five international sportsmen came off that street.
Marcus LushSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I also understand the huge stress with councils after what happened at Mount Maunganui.
Marcus LushSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I do know the campground there floods because the Waitakere floods, and that's quite often had a lot of water come in.
Marcus LushSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm sure there's a solution because the Piha campground for a campground so close to Auckland is a fantastic asset to the city.
Marcus LushSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And yeah, I don't know how, I mean, I was even mowing the lawns there for a while.
Mark RobinsonGUEST
And all that, and seeing if they can move them.
Mark RobinsonGUEST
You know, there's a beautiful one out at Waitakere, you know, like another one of them out there, you know, that no one uses.
Mark RobinsonGUEST
Yeah, yeah.
Mark RobinsonGUEST
We're using it on the field.
James MeagerGUEST
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Ryan O'ConnorHOST
... yeah, uh, who's, who's now tr- dipping his toe in with, with ACT in Waitakere.
Ryan O'ConnorHOST
Um-
James MeagerGUEST
Yeah, he was on my Game Animal Council, and I've given him leave of absence to go-