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Decision Day
April 19, 2020 20:00 - 18 minutes - 34 MBBy 4pm today we will know when we are making the shift down from Level Four. So what are the criteria that need to be met? Plus, how are Zoo animals faring without any visitors?
Coronavirus: Teaching Council wants principals to decide if schools open
April 19, 2020 19:56 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MBThe Teaching Council says it should be up to principals to decide how many students can go back to school once the country moves to Alert Level 3. It says each school is different and will need to carefully consider how many students it can safely teach on site. The government wants parents who return to work during Level 3 to be able to send their children to early childhood centres and schools. They cannot legally allow those under the age of 14 to stay home alone. The Teaching Council...
Coronavirus: Year 13 students could have to return next year
April 19, 2020 19:53 - 3 minutes - 3.3 MBThe government's decision to keep the oldest secondary students home from school when Alert Level 3 begins has some secondary principals worrying about their most vulnerable students. They warn that teens enrolled in practical subjects and those who don't have internet access are most at risk. They are already considering weekend catch-up classes and one principal says some Year 13 students will have to return next year to complete their studies. Here's RNZ education correspondent, John ...
Coronavirus: Green Party suggests inter-city rail for post-pandemic recovery
April 19, 2020 19:47 - 6 minutes - 6.22 MBThe Green Party wants the government to commit to a ten-year plan to make high-speed intercity train travel a reality. It's envisaging new electric passenger and freight services that ultimately could get from Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch to regional destinations at speeds of up to 160 kilometres an hour. The Greens estimate the project would cost $9 billion over ten years and is exactly the sort of climate-friendly, job-creating project that will be needed post Covid-19. Julie ...
Coronavirus: Investment network pulls together
April 19, 2020 19:43 - 3 minutes - 3.51 MBThe investment network supporting New Zealand start-up and growth companies is pulling together to help fledging companies survive the Covid-19 crisis. Investors looking to back the next big thing in New Zealand's tech industry have plenty to choose from, but they are being much more cautious in their selection. Nona Pelletier has this report.
News in Tongan for 20 April 2020
April 19, 2020 19:40 - 5 minutes - 4.98 MBThe latest news in Tongan brought to you by Pacific Media Network
Coronavirus: Up to 30,000 awaiting surgery after lockdown
April 19, 2020 19:37 - 3 minutes - 3.65 MBAn estimated 30,000 people have had their surgery delayed or deferred because of the Covid-19 lockdown. While many of those are classed as elective, the conditions can still be very serious, with people waiting in pain or going downhill. Already stretched hospitals have their work cut out for them to clear the backlog. Health correspondent Rowan Quinn reports.
Coronavirus: Demonstrations in locked down US states
April 19, 2020 19:26 - 6 minutes - 5.53 MBDemonstrations have continued in several US states as protesters demand an early end to the coronavirus lockdown. President Donald Trump said some businesses would reopen in Texas and Vermont today. He accused some Democrat state governors of getting "carried away" with Covid-19 restrictions. Washington correspondent Simon Marks speaks to Susie Ferguson.
Coronavirus: Some not eager to move out of lockdown
April 19, 2020 19:23 - 3 minutes - 2.89 MBAs New Zealand prepares for a potential drop in lockdown to Level 3 this week, some people think it is too soon to be relaxing the standard. Almost a month has passed since the country hunkered down in isolation, adjusting to a new reality. Eleisha Foon spoke to people across the country about their views on the matter.
Coronavirus: Lockdown should be extended - University of Auckland professor
April 19, 2020 19:14 - 8 minutes - 7.46 MBModelling on the way coronavirus spreads and how different actions could change that is one the key pieces of information Cabinet will consider when deciding whether to drop the country to Alert Level 3. Some of that data from an Auckland University team headed by Professor Shaun Hendy. He speaks to Corin Dann.
Coronavirus: Contact tracing a few days off 'gold standard'
April 19, 2020 19:08 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MBJacinda Ardern will announce if we are to head into Alert level 3 from Thursday at the weekly post-Cabinet media conference today. Central to that decision is the efficiency of contact tracing Covid-19 cases. The Health Ministry has been consulting with the state spy agency, the GCSB, about how best to trace people as it works to get its Covid-19 systems up to speed. The contact tracing system is several days away from being at the promised 'gold standard'. Phil Pennington reports.
Lending a hand in lockdown
April 19, 2020 19:00 - 9 minutes - 8.84 MBNewly resettled former refugees who've just begun to find their feet in their new communities across New Zealand, are getting by in lockdown, with the help of volunteers from Red Cross.
Business News for 20 April 2020
April 19, 2020 18:53 - 4 minutes - 4.11 MBNews from the business sector, including a market report.
Coronavirus: Surgeries off at private hospitals too
April 19, 2020 18:43 - 2 minutes - 2.74 MBAs many as 30,000 people have missed out on operations because of the lockdown. Public hospitals stopped a lot of their non-life threatening surgery as they prepared for a possible wave of Covid-19 cases - and to restrict contact while at Alert Level 4. Private hospitals have done very little surgery of any kind. The president of the Private Surgical Hospitals Association, Richard Whitney, told RNZ health correspondent, Rowan Quinn, the delays have had a big impact.
Coronavirus: GCSB could help contact tracing
April 19, 2020 18:40 - 3 minutes - 3.59 MBThe Health Ministry has been consulting with the state spy agency, the GCSB, about how best to trace people as it works to get its Covid-19 systems up to speed. A tech industry leader says it's appropriate for the government to call on its spy agencies for help. Andrew Weaver of industry group Digital Identity told RNZ reporter Phil Pennington the bureau may be able to help but the ministry should be making it more clear just what sort of help it's looking for.
Morning Rural News for 20 April 2020
April 19, 2020 18:22 - 4 minutes - 4 MBA brief update from the business sector.
Early Business News for 20 April 2020
April 19, 2020 18:20 - 4 minutes - 3.7 MBA brief update from the business sector.
Coronavirus: Germany eases lockdown
April 19, 2020 18:16 - 5 minutes - 5.09 MBGermany will start to ease some of its restrictions on Monday after declaring its coronavirus outbreak "under control". The health minister Jens Spahn credits this to a lockdown imposed after an early surge in cases. Mr Spahn says that since 12 April the number of recovered patients had been consistently higher than the number of new infections. Berlin correspondent Thomas Sparrow speaks to Corin Dann.
Coronavirus: Remote learning leaving some senior students behind
April 19, 2020 18:07 - 2 minutes - 1.91 MBSecondary principals are worried that several more weeks of remote learning for senior students will be bad for those from poor families and those studying practical subjects. Neil Watson from Auckland's Otahuhu College says the school has given its students 300 laptop computers and is hoping for a further 130 from the Education Ministry. He told RNZ education correspondent, John Gerritsen, that even with that help, many students will be falling behind.
6am World, Pacific and Sports news for 20 April 2020
April 19, 2020 18:00 - 9 minutes - 8.68 MBThe latest World, Pacific and Sports news
Top Stories for Monday 20 April 2020
April 19, 2020 18:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBIt's decision day - we'll find out at 4 o'clock if we're heading into alert level 3 later this week, The spy agency, the GCSB, has been called in to advise the Health Ministry on how best to trace covid cases, A machete-wielding man is shot dead by police in Papatoetoe.
Coastal Weather Forecast for 20 April 2020
April 19, 2020 16:06 - 9 minutes - 8.57 MBCoastal weather report.
A Conversation with Dr Wayne Ngata - Tikanga Māori
April 19, 2020 06:06 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBMarae are only as strong as it's people, that's according to Dr Wayne Ngata who agrees that Tikanga Māori is in the most part about doing what is practical. In the wake of the Covid 19 lockdown many are taking to social media and communicating with eachother through online platforms, Dr Ngata says this space could be the new 'marae' of the future. Justine Murray joins Dr Ngata for a conservation exploring the function of marae and the act of koha, giving to others.
Laurence Fearnley and Long Litt Woon discuss grief, loss and the power of scent in their writing and lives
April 19, 2020 04:06 - 51 minutes - 71.2 MBTwo very different books celebrate the importance of scent and sensory experience in coming to terms with loss. The authors Laurence Fearnley and Long Litt Woon talk with Jessie Bray-Sharpin.
Allyson Gofton: The Baker's Companion
April 18, 2020 23:52 - 8 minutes - 7.44 MBLike many other New Zealanders, beloved food writer Allyson Gofton has been baking a lot recently. She shares with us two recipes from her "latest and probably last book" - The Baker's Companion.
Trump wants US open for business by May 1
April 18, 2020 23:42 - 7 minutes - 6.56 MBLockdown American style, and it's been a couple of weeks since we caught up with our U.S. correspondent, the bureau chief for public radio and television in Ohio, the award-winning Karen Kasler. She joins the show for an update.
Alain de Botton: Finding calm through pessimism
April 18, 2020 23:05 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBAlain de Botton says that while it is natural to worry, the truth is that Homo sapiens are a resilient species that have been through extraordinary cycles of suffering and joy. He says one of the fastest routes to calm is through pessimism.
Covid-19: Update on Kiwis living abroad
April 18, 2020 22:57 - 3 minutes - 2.92 MBWe've been in regular contact with a large number of New Zealanders living abroad during the Covid-19 pandemic. We catch up on what's happening to these Kiwis in their respective parts of the world during the lockdown period.
What does the superhero craze say about our own times?
April 18, 2020 22:41 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBSuperman and his descendants launched a fascination with technological superism that continues today. Iwan Rhys Morus is professor of history at Aberystwyth University in Wales and has recently written about the superhero craze.
Neil Gaiman happily stuck in New Zealand due to Covid-19
April 18, 2020 22:07 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBAuthor Neil Gaiman has been coming to NZ for appearances for years now, but he never envisaged he'd be locked down here for the better part of a month along with his wife, musician Amanda Palmer and their four-year-old son, Ash.
3MM: Wayne Brown on NZ's impending economic shift
April 18, 2020 21:37 - 3 minutes - 2.8 MBThree Minutes Max, New Zealand commentators with succinct opinions. Commercial developer and infrastructure owner Wayne Brown shares his thoughts on how Covid-19 challenges Auckland's place in the New Zealand economy.
Anti-lockdown push gets media traction - and pushback
April 18, 2020 21:10 - 5 minutes - 4.82 MBWhile some saw this week's announcement of guidelines for COVID-19 Alert Level 3 as a good sign, many with a mouthpiece in the media saw it as proof the government had over-reacted here with Level 4 and we should have followed Australia’s looser rules instead.
Mediawatch for 19 April 2020
April 18, 2020 21:06 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBMedia make the case for emergency help; expat entrepreneurial journalist proposes an ad-free future; trouble with COVID 19 numbers
Linda Clark and Michael Barnett on the impact of Covid-19
April 18, 2020 20:44 - 16 minutes - 15 MBThe nation is on tenterhooks at the prospect of moving out of alert level 4 after nearly a month of the lockdown period. Linda Clark and Michael Barnett join the show to discuss the impact the Covid-19 pandemic is having in this country.
Covid-19: Kiwis concerned about frontline staff
April 18, 2020 20:35 - 7 minutes - 7.03 MBResearch NZ continues to take the pulse of the nation through the lockdown period, with the latest results showing that Kiwis are worried about whether there is a sufficient supply of appropriate (PPE) for staff working on the frontline.
Covid-19: Foreigners being targetted as threats in China
April 18, 2020 20:25 - 9 minutes - 9 MBVideo emerged this week of a foreigner being held down with a pole by three officials in Beijing for not wearing a mask in public. Nathan van der Klippe is The Globe and Mail's Beijing correspondent. He joins the show for an update.
Covid 19: How much lockdown exercise are Kiwis getting?
April 18, 2020 20:06 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBHow much physical activity are Kiwis actually doing during the Level 4 lock down period? It's a question Associate Professor Elaine Hargreaves and her team from the University of Otago are asking in their Covid-19 lockdown survey.
Calling Home: Michael Anderson in Guayaquil, Ecuador
April 18, 2020 19:50 - 10 minutes - 9.64 MBSouthland man Michael Anderson moved to Ecuador with his German girlfriend Tanja to take up a teaching position, but the couple currently find themselves on strict lockdown in the port city of Guayaquil. He's Calling Home this morning.
Powerful or powerless? What can the Epidemic Response Committee do?
April 18, 2020 19:30 - 13 minutes - 18.2 MBFor three weeks the Epidemic Response Committee has been grilling Ministers and Officials on their response to Covid-19 but how much power do they actually have?
'No evidence that Covid-19 is causing huge loss of life'
April 18, 2020 19:10 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBProfessor Michael Levitt, a Nobel laureate and Stanford biophysicist, says there is no clear evidence that Covid-19 is causing massive loss of life, despite evidence to the contrary in places like Europe and New York City.
Introducing: Rubi Du
April 18, 2020 03:00 - 5 minutes - 4.99 MBTāmaki Makaurau reggae/ hip hop musician Rubi Du (FKA Silva MC) introduces her new song 'One Spirit (Parks Remix)'.
Craig Potton: conservationist and publisher’s lockdown life
April 17, 2020 23:45 - 8 minutes - 8.07 MBThe landscape photographer, conservationist, traveller and publisher Craig Potton is finding a prolonged period of social isolation strangely productive. Ensconced in a bubble in Nelson with two daughters and two dogs he's suspended all surfing activities, but is instead working on a book about pilgrimages in the Himalayas.
Australian working on Singapore’s Covid-19 offensive
April 17, 2020 23:25 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBAustralian Dale Fisher is one of those leading Singapore’s response to tackling Covid-19. Professor Fisher is chair of Infection Control at the National University Hospital in Singapore, and also heads the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network for the World Health Organization. He's also been sharing health messages and fighting fake news about the Covid-19 crisis in a comic series entitled The Covid-19 Chronicles. He arrived in Singapore in 2003 when it was dealing with the SARS ou...
Johanna Knox: lockdown food foraging
April 17, 2020 23:05 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBWoodland warrior and seasoned forager Johanna Knox has been taking some value added walks around her neighbourhood in the lockdown.
Andrew Solomon: depression, anxiety and the virus
April 17, 2020 22:35 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB"It's not that an antidepressant will make people unafraid of this mysterious and awful virus, nor that a single hug will mitigate their profound aloneness, but they can help." Writer, journalist and psychology professor Andrew Solomon is the author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. The book won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and was included in The Times' list of the 100 best books of the decade. His other books include Far from the...
Peter de Jager: overcoming the Y2K crisis
April 17, 2020 22:10 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MBCovid-19 isn't the first time the world has needed to rally together to mitigate a potential global catastrophe. Twenty years ago armies of computer programmers worked for years to prevent vital computer systems infrastructure falling over on January 1, 2000, due to the Y2K problem. This was a technical issue, abstract to most, the result of computer programs using two digits to represent a four-digit year, which when 1999 ended would cause computers to think it was 1900. Author and tech...
Chris Smith: Virologist on latest Covid-19 science
April 17, 2020 21:35 - 25 minutes - 23 MBAs New Zealand chafes under what could be last few days of its Level 4 lockdown, Dr Chris Smith returns to digest the week's scientific happenings. A consultant clinical virologist at Cambridge University, and one of BBC Radio 5 Live's Naked Scientists, he has the latest on the hunt for a vaccine, what we do and don't know about our immunity post infection, and the winding path to a fully functional antibody test to work out who's had the virus and who hasn't. Also on the agenda, the US ...
Ann Patchett: The Dutch House author
April 17, 2020 21:05 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBThe US novelist Ann Patchett received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel Bel Canto. She's also writes non-fiction and the latest of her eight novels, The Dutch House, was released last year. It revolves around siblings Danny and Maeve's obsession with their family home, after they are dispossessed of it by their (wicked?) stepmother. Patchett is currently locked down in Tennessee, and is keeping the independent bookshop she co-owns in Nashville ope...
Philippe Sands: The Ratline
April 17, 2020 20:30 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBLaw professor and barrister Philippe Sands has appeared in some high profile international human rights trials involving the likes of Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, and the wars and genocides in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Sands is the author of 16 books about international law including Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules (2005), Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values (2008) and East West Street: On the Origins ...
Katy Watson: Brazil and coronavirus
April 17, 2020 20:10 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBWhile the USA might be the current epicentre of the Covid-19 outbreak, another country headed by a strongman leader is grappling with its effects too. Brazil has had nearly 30,000 cases of the virus and close to 2,000 fatalities to date. The country's president Jair Bolsonaro has consistently downplayed the seriousness of the outbreak- even alienating the political allies who got him into power- and government inaction has led to vigilante quarantine rules enforced by gang leaders in fav...