OAR FM Dunedin - Community Access Media

25/06/2026

🏳️‍⚧️ Is the Gender Bill a good law? 🤔

On 'The Almey Alternative', Harry Almey is joined by Neave Ashton, one of the organisers of Dunedin's protest against the Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill.

The Legislation (Definitions of Woman and Man) Amendment Bill has, to much suprise, passed its first reading in parliament with a whipped vote across party lines - 67-55. Last Sunday about 1000 people to oppose the amendmend in Dunedin.

Podcast link in comments, listen now at oar.org.nz, Spotify and Apple Podcasts 🎧

The Almey Alternative 🔦
🗓️ Fortnightly Thursdays 7 PM
📻 105.4 FM, 1575 AM and oar.org.nz
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24/06/2026

Still time to make your Octacan donation. The hardy team from Presbyterian Support Otago are in the Octagon until 2pm. Or check out donation options at https://octacanonline.org.nz/

Great to see you this morning OAR FM Dunedin - Community Access Media - thank you so much for your support!

OCTACAN - Winter Foodbank Can Appeal
WHERE: Lower Octagon, Dunedin
WHEN: Thursday, 25 June, 7.30am - 2pm.

Bring your cans, bring your smiles, and come say hello – we’d love to snap a photo for our socials 📸

Can’t make it? You can still support online at octacanonline.org.nz

24/06/2026

On Vibe Check at 4:30pm, Ōtepoti young broadcaster and FactBeast host Ajax Banstola talks about launching the FactBeast Country Challenge 🎥

This exciting youth-led vodcast series invites young people aged 9–19 to share 15 fascinating facts about a country they have strong connections to, celebrating culture, identity, and belonging 🌏

Interested in taking part? Contact Ajax 📩 [email protected]

Factbeast Country Challenge is supported by Otago Community Trust Rangatahi-Led Fund.

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23/06/2026

We are so proud of our Youth Zone podcaster & broadcaster Parishay Khan, host of Parishay's Book Club for being featured in the 2026 Micro Series for National Flash Fiction Day New Zealand 🤩📖

Keep up with Parishay's reading adventures on her podcast, link in the comments below!

City of Literature Dunedin, New Zealand
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22/06/2026

🌍 World Refugee Day & 10 Years of Refugee Resettlement in Ōtepoti 🤝

At 5 PM today on Connecting Cultures Features 🌏 we speak with Kelly Campbell, Migration Manager at New Zealand Red Cross. Kelly reflects on community, belonging, cultural connection, and what she has learned from working alongside former refugee whānau over the past ten years. ❤️

🎧 PODCAST link in comments.

🌿 Manaakitanga Community Pōwhiri
🗓 Saturday 27 June 2026
🕥 Arrive 10:30am
📍 Arai Te Uru Marae

Everyone is welcome to the pōwhiri! Come along to connect, learn, share kai, and celebrate our diverse community.

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21/06/2026

Fa’atalofa atu i le ‘au fa‘afofoga 🇼🇸

The team from Fono Faufautua a Samoa i Otago Leitio are back in the studio from 12pm today. Tune in to hear events happening in the community as well as neighbouring cities.

Listen live on 105.4 FM, 1575 AM or livestreamed and podcast from the OAR FM Website. Link in first comment.

Presented by the Samoan Advisory Council in Otago - Fono Faufautua a Samoa i Otago.

20/06/2026

🥝PODCAST LINK IN COMMENTS ▶ NZ music fans - on tonight's edition of Certain Sound we welcome husband and wife team The Skrubs to our roster of presenters.

The Skrubs (Andrew Long and Claire Gallop) bring their complementary, if not always overlapping, musical taste, aiming to deliver a show brimming with an eclectic array of NZ gems.

Tonight's playlist:
1 Peter Hobbs - Te Kakahu (intro bed)
2 Kitset - Opossum
3 Opossom - Blue Meanies
4 The John Paul Sartre Exerience - I like rain
5 Bailterspace - Shadow (live in Chicago '94)
6 Great Unwashed - Can’t Find Water
7 The Chills - Bee Baa Bee Boh
8 Able Tasmans - Michael Fay
9 Alistair Galbraith - Thoar
10 Stephen Cogle and Peter Stapleton - Native Waiter (brand new from 1981)
11 Scorched Earth Policy - Too Far Gone
12 Headless Chickens - Super Trouper
13 Swingers - Certain Sound 😉

SATURDAYS 10PM ON 105.4FM & 1575AM

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19/06/2026

🎈This week, we celebrated and farewelled CCT Collective regular co-host Blair Herbert, who is stepping down from the on-air crew.

Cake was shared and Blair received his well-deserved Certificate of OARsomeness from Station Manager Lesley Paris.

Huge thanks to Community Care Trust for supporting Blair and the rest of the CCT Collective team. Connor, George and Steve will carry on fronting "all the hits from the Fitz", every second Wednesday from 11am-12pm on 105.4FM & 1575AM.

▶Podcast link in the comments.

🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
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19/06/2026

Sleep - we all do it, but do we talk about it? 🎙️✨

In this new series on OAR FM Dunedin, your host Liesel Mitchell - someone living with narcolepsy and a fascination with sleep - chats with anyone and everyone about their weird, wonderful, and just plain normal sleep stories.

Tune in Sundays at 10:30 AM and Mondays at 10 PM on 105.4 FM / 1575 AM and online from OAR.ORG.NZ or your favourite podcast provider.

https://oar.org.nz/shows/sleep-lab-stories/

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18/06/2026

🦇 Did you know New Zealand has its very own Batman? He doesn’t wear a cape, but he does save lives!

In tonight's episode of The Rainbow Umbrella, Mel is joined by Ben Paris, Senior conservation advisor for Auckland Council known online as New Zealand’s Batman. They will discuss all things batty, why they are so important for our ecology and ecosystem, and not to mention so darn cute!

Tune in tonight at 10pm, or catch the podcast from the OAR FM website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or your fave podcast provider. Link in the first comment.

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