Nine To Noon

Scott Bainbridge on his new book New Zealand Mysteries

June 16, 2020 23:34 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MB

If you like a good mystery, you're in luck. In his new book New Zealand Mysteries, writer Scott Bainbridge turns his attention to some of Aotearoa's well-known legends and some lesser-known, but equally intriguing tales.

Book review - Upturned by Kay McKenzie Cooke

June 16, 2020 22:35 - 4 minutes - 3.99 MB

Chris Tse reviews Upturned by Kay McKenzie Cooke, published by The Cuba Press.

Stories from the saddle - Jo Haines

June 16, 2020 22:10 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MB

Cycling adventurer Jo Haines is traveling the world, 3 months at a time, on a bike. Each autumn she sets off from Albert Town, to explore another unique corner of the earth. She talks to Kathryn Ryan about her stories from the saddle, including her latest bike trip through Georgia and Armenia. This year she'll be at the 18th New Zealand Mountain Film & Book Festival in Wanaka and Queenstown and broadcast online nationally.

'Branch stacking' claim against Victorian Labor Minister

June 16, 2020 21:45 - 5 minutes - 5.35 MB

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to look at the career-ending allegations against Victoria's Labor Minister Adem Somyurek, including that he recruited people into the party to boost his own standing. A video has also surfaced of him abusing his ministerial colleague. Bernard will also talk about Prime Minister Scott Morrison's comment that there was no slavery in Australia.

Major change within court system must happen: Chief Justice

June 16, 2020 21:27 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MB

The Chief Justice says major change within the court system must happen, and the Covid 19 pandemic has highlighted the issues. Jury trials were suspended in March because of the virus, and will only resume in August. At last estimate, 60-thousand events were backlogged across the court system. The Chief Justice, Dame Helen Winkelman, says people on remand, awaiting trial or sentencing are most affected. She says the remand population is unacceptable, the court system too complex, and the...

Health shakeup: What's the Government going to do?

June 16, 2020 21:10 - 19 minutes - 18 MB

The Health and Disability Review has recommended the biggest change to the health system in a generation, including cutting the number of DHBs, scrapped elected representative and setting up two new health bureaucracies to work alongside the Ministry of Health. Kathryn asks Health Minister David Clark which recommendations might make it to the Cabinet table.

Observations of King Country district nurse

June 15, 2020 23:30 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MB

During her decade as a district nurse in King Country, Sara McIntyre got to know the people, their history and the rural settlements very well. A lifetime interest in photography led to her capturing the faces and the landscape throughout the region. The pictures of locals, their homes and their environment feature in Sara's book Observations of a Rural Nurse.

Health and Disability review shakes up health sector

June 15, 2020 22:34 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB

Kathryn talks to Health Correspondent, Rowan Quinn about the wide ranging review of the Health and Disability sector led by Heather Simpson. An interim report, published in September, found the health system's structure was overly complicated and lacked leadership.

High school mums (and their inspirational teacher)

June 15, 2020 22:10 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MB

Kathryn Ryan meets two young mums whose stories are part of a new TV series High School Mums which begins screening on TVNZ tonight. The series follows the students and children at the teen parenting unit He Puaawai, which is attached to Fraser High School in Hamilton. Dru Brown and her son Areka, and Cierrah Puke and her son Jonah are featured, along with their inspirational head teacher Lee Marchioni. Dru Brown and Cierrah Puke are two of the teen mums featured in the new TVNZ series H...

Deluge of potential apprentices seeking free trades training

June 15, 2020 21:33 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MB

Training organisations dealing with an influx of people seeking government funded trades apprenticeships are calling for more clarity on the free stimulus initiative.The $320 million Targetted Training and Apprentices Fund supports skill gathering across a range of industries. To discuss whether there is enough detail about what the Training Fund means for individual sector groups, Kathryn talks to Road Transport Forum Chief Nick Leggett who says his organisation is about to launch its o...

Abandoned plans: Building industry at risk of cracking

June 15, 2020 21:10 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MB

As the government details 11 job-rich infrastructure projects it hopes will repair the economy, there are warnings of a looming crash in the building industry. A new survey from the Property Council has found 70 per cent of pre-Covid commercial and industrial proposals and 50 per cent of residential builds face being delayed or cancelled due to market uncertainty. Property Council chief executive Leonie Freeman joins Kathryn. Also AUT construction management professor John Tookey, who sa...

Recent Changes Reducing Building Consents for Small Buildings

June 14, 2020 23:50 - 9 minutes - 8.32 MB

Bill McKay talks to Kathryn about the new types of building work that from August will no longer require a building consent, saving homeowners up to $18 million a year and reducing the number of consents by 9000. Currently buildings under 10 metres square, like garden sheds don't need building consent. This is being increased to 30 m2 for sheds, cabins, sleepouts, verandahs, and 40m2 for carports. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the Universit...

Harvesting maple syrup from Moutere

June 14, 2020 23:35 - 10 minutes - 9.4 MB

When you think of where maple syrup comes from, Canada generally springs to mind. But in Upper Moutere in the Tasman District, architectural designer Dave DeGray harvests the liquid gold from his sugar maple grove. He planted 200 trees on his property, near Nelson more than 30 years ago.

Book review - Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land?

June 14, 2020 22:35 - 7 minutes - 7.25 MB

David Hill reviews Colin McCahon: Is This the Promised Land? Vol.2 1960-1987 by Peter Simpson, published by Auckland University Press.

Recording war veterans stories for future generations

June 14, 2020 22:08 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB

After becoming tetraplegic in his teens, oral historian Patrick Bronte was inspired by two war veterans to archive wartime experiences. He's established the Nga Toa Project which so far covers World War Two, Korea, Malaya-Borneo, Vietnam and some more recent operational deployments. It is a free online archive which contains more than 300 interviews with veterans.

Wild venison cull provides jobs and food

June 14, 2020 21:40 - 9 minutes - 8.53 MB

Fiordland wapiti, which in North America are known as elk are prized by hunters, but conservationists argue that they are a threat to native forests. An agreement between the Fiordland Wapiti Foundation, and DOC provides for 1000 of the most inferior animals to be culled annually. This year, with the pandemic disruption and wild venison prices being low, the Foundation and DOC along with Game Animal Council hatched plan for the meat to be processed and donated to charity. The Fiordland W...

Should ACC make a special case for baby birth injury?

June 14, 2020 21:26 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MB

Ten years ago birth difficulties caused a brain injury in Andrew Dickson's son, Ben, who was eventually diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Since then the family has been embroiled in a long dispute with ACC to obtain treatment injury cover. At issue is exactly what or who, if anyone, or anything was at fault during Ben's birth and expert opinion is divided. That's why he is asking ACC to make baby birth injury a kind of special case - and to err on the side of the claimant when experts can't...

The Week that Was with Irene Pink and Te Radar

June 11, 2020 23:50 - 8 minutes - 8.07 MB

The Week that Was with comedians Irene Pink and Te Radar.

Sports commentator Sam Ackerman - Super Rugby and mor

June 11, 2020 23:30 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MB

The start of the Super Rugby competition, with NZ teams versus NZ teams only.

Book review - Footprints, In Search of Future Fossils by David

June 11, 2020 22:40 - 7 minutes - 6.93 MB

Tilly Lloyd from Unity Books, Wellington, reviews Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier. Published by Fourth Estate.

Extracting venom from deadly snakes - Paul Rowley

June 11, 2020 22:10 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MB

Around 140,000 people die from snake bites each year, Herpetologist Dr Paul Rowley has spent his life extracting venom from the reptiles in the hope of lowering that death count.

Building back better - and green - post-Covid

June 11, 2020 21:35 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB

Governments around the world are spending trillions right now to save and repair their economies during the Covid-19 pandemic - but the big question is, how do you spend it wisely?

Church abuse survivors implore others to tell their story

June 11, 2020 21:25 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MB

Two survivors of abuse in the Catholic church are imploring others to come forward and share their stories with the Royal Commission of inquiry.

Transmission Gully, calls for inquiry

June 11, 2020 21:05 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MB

Amalgamated Workers' Union Northern National Secretary Maurice Davis tells Lynn Freeman he wants an inquiry into PPP's (Public Private Partnerships) procurement process, suggesting there should be a single desk procurement agency in place.

Shot Bro, Man on the Bus, Doc Edge Festival

June 10, 2020 23:45 - 9 minutes - 8.59 MB

Film and TV reviewer Tamar Munch looks at the premiere on MÄ�ori TV of Shot Bro, which follows actor Rob Mokaraka around Aotearoa telling the story of his attempted suicide-by-cop in his one-man play.

Curious kids - Helping pre-schoolers understand 'when' and 'why

June 10, 2020 23:30 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB

Wellington speech and language therapist Christian Wright joins Lynn to talk about question development in pre-schoolers as they try to understand the world around them.

Curious kids - Helping pre-schoolers understand 'when' and 'why'

June 10, 2020 23:30 - 17 minutes - 24 MB

Wellington speech and language therapist Christian Wright joins Lynn to talk about question development in pre-schoolers as they try to understand the world around them.

Lessons from lockdown, Zoom soars, TikTok vs YouTube

June 10, 2020 23:07 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB

Technology commentator Sarah Putt looks at an online service Sosbusiness.nz that was launched on March 23 to help SMEs and how it's snowballed.

Book review - The Undying. A Meditation on Modern Illness by An

June 10, 2020 22:40 - 5 minutes - 5.38 MB

Kiran Dass of Time Out Bookstore reviews The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by Anne Boyer, published by Allen Lane.

David Walliams - Slime, awful adults & wonderful mums

June 10, 2020 22:08 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

Children's story writer and comedian David Walliams speaks with Lynn Freeman about his latest book Slime, podcasting and conversations with his mum during lock-down.

Covid response reveals hidden homelessness. Calls for national strategy

June 10, 2020 21:30 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MB

The true extent of Kiwis in insecure housing was exposed during the Covid 19 response leading to calls for a national homelessness strategy and to make housing a legal right.

Economic recovery must tackle tax reform and super - PwC report

June 10, 2020 21:08 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MB

The professional services firm PwC says the rebuilding of our economy post Covid 19 must involve tackling some political hot potatoes such as a capital gains tax and changing the national super scheme.

Galleries re-awakening and sharing their collections and exhibi

June 09, 2020 23:50 - 10 minutes - 9.56 MB

Arts correspondent Julia Waite joins Kathryn to talk about how Covid-19 has been an opportunity for galleries have 'leaned in' to their own art collections, and are sharing more of the art here in New Zealand.

Crazy for cold water swimming - Hampstead Ponds

June 09, 2020 23:30 - 17 minutes - 15.8 MB

Ponds - Still Waters Run Deep follows the seasons and with them the devotees who frequent Hampstead Ponds, the iconic outdoor swimming holes five kms from Oxford Street in Central London.

Book Review - Wayfinding

June 09, 2020 22:40 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MB

Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb of University Book Shop, Dunedin, reviews Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way by Michael Bond. This book is published by Pan Macmillan.

Book Review - Wayfinding by Michael Bond

June 09, 2020 22:40 - 4 minutes - 4.05 MB

Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb of University Book Shop, Dunedin, reviews Wayfinding: The Art and Science of How We Find and Lose Our Way by Michael Bond. This book is published by Pan Macmillan.

High tech market manipulation and the Flash Crash

June 09, 2020 22:18 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MB

In 'Flash Crash' investigative journalist Liam Vaughan paints a detailed portrait of market trader Navinder Sarao who triggered the fastest stock market crash in history.

New guidelines on electricity lines charges

June 09, 2020 22:07 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MB

A new blueprint on how much consumers should pay for electricity lines charges has just been released by the Electricity Authority.

Open for business - Commercial Bay to boost Auckland's post-Covid-19

June 09, 2020 21:50 - 10 minutes - 9.45 MB

The billion-dollar Commercial Bay retail development in downtown Auckland opens on Thursday for the first time.

Rescue Fish - The proposal to overhaul New Zealand's fisheries

June 09, 2020 21:07 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MB

A plan to radically overhaul New Zealand's fisheries system proposes the Crown buy back all commercial quota shares, set up a resource rental payment and allow for independent monitoring of commercial fishing operations.

Genetic matchmaker ... for birds!

June 08, 2020 23:30 - 13 minutes - 12.2 MB

Conservation geneticist, Tammy Steeves talks to Kathryn Ryan about how she helps some of our highly threatened native birds find 'the one' using DNA to estimate relatedness and make pairing recommendations.

Book Review - Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon

June 08, 2020 22:40 - 4 minutes - 4.52 MB

Ralph McAllister reviews Code Name Hélène by Ariel Lawhon, published by Simon and Schuster.

Alarming new stats on youth mental health and Covid-19

June 08, 2020 21:25 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB

New statistics paint an alarming picture of the impact of Covid 19 on the mental health of children and young people. Youthline says from mid March to mid April, it had a 50 per cent increase in contacts over suicide, self harm, anxiety and depression over the same period last year. Barnados, which runs the free helpline for under 18s, 0800 What's Up, text messages about about suicidal thoughts increase 192% between February and April, up more than 200% from last year. Messages about sel...

Immigration Minister on the government's plans for migrants

June 08, 2020 21:08 - 27 minutes - 25 MB

Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway joins Kathryn Ryan to talk about what the government plans to do about thousands of temporary visa holders who are locked out of their jobs, schools and lives. People like Carolina Zalazar and her daughter Martina, who joined us on the programme two weeks ago, to explain how their week-long holiday to Bali has ended up being nearly three months. Why are some sectors, like the film industry, being granted exemptions to border closure rules? And whil...

Akaroa Salmon - an experiment that proved successful

June 07, 2020 23:30 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MB

Duncan Bates founded Akaroa Salmon with his father Tom three decades ago, with an experimental licence from the Akaroa County Council. It was an experiment that paid off. The initial pens full of hand-fed fish have now expanded to include a specialised processing plant and hatchery which produces over 200 tonnes of king salmon a year.

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