Listen Now: 
March 19, 2025 | News
Dean Wickliffe on Hunger Strike Protest
New Zealand’s longest-serving prisoner, Dean Wickliffe, is on a hunger strike, claiming he was assaulted by guards at Spring Hill Prison near Meremere in the Waikato.
April 21, 2026
October 7, 2024 | News
Double bunking endangering prisoner lives
People Against Prisons Aotearoa spokesperson and Auckland University criminology lecturer Dr Emmy Rākete says the prison double-bunking policy led to the killing of a prisoner in recent weeks.
- Radio Waatea is Auckland's only Māori radio station that provides an extensive bi-lingual broadcast to its listeners. Based at Nga Whare Waatea marae in Mangere, it is located in the middle of the biggest Māori population in Aotearoa.
