Nine To Noon

How to navigate conflict with a partner

March 19, 2024 22:20 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MB

Getting into a heated exchange with your partner over text is never a recipe for relationship success, says therapist Jo Robertson. "Nobody feels cared for over text message in a conflict. Nobody feels really heard or really listened to. And that's our ultimate goal in every single conflict," she tells Kathryn Ryan.

Around the motu: David Williams in Christchurch

March 19, 2024 21:45 - 11 minutes - 11 MB

The final year of former Christchurch City Council Chief Executive Dawn Baxendale's turbulent reign has come at a cost.

Book review: Until August by Gabriel García Márquez

March 19, 2024 21:35 - 5 minutes - 5.23 MB

Phil Vine reviews Until August by Gabriel García Márquez published by Penguin Random House.

A decade fostering start-ups & entrepreneurs

March 19, 2024 21:05 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MB

Marian Johnson has spent years helping build businesses out of the rubble following Christchurch's earthquakes as Chief Executive of the Ministry of Awesome.

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane

March 19, 2024 20:50 - 6 minutes - 5.85 MB

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane looks at how conservative politicians are pushing for similar moves to those in the US over TikTok.

Lifelines for Northland businesses affected by Brynderwyn

March 19, 2024 20:20 - 10 minutes - 9.61 MB

Crucial repairs to section of State Highway One at the Brynderwyns has again closed the vital gateway to the north.

Ministry apologises as 10,000 sign petition over disability funding changes

March 19, 2024 20:05 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MB

The Disability Issues Minister has been forced to clarify changes to funding rules that were introduced without notice on Monday and have caused widespread concern within the sector.

Sports correspondent Marc Hinton

March 18, 2024 22:45 - 9 minutes - 8.78 MB

Sports correspondent Marc Hinton

Imposter syndrome and strategies to deal

March 18, 2024 22:30 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MB

People of all ages and stages can be affected by imposter syndrome and worried that they don't measure up. That little voice that might tell you you are not enough.Bex Bell has a PhD in Criminal Psychology and has always been fascinated by the human condition. She is the founder of Remix Coaching and Consulting which includes working with people from all walks of life to optimise their potential. Part of that is finding practical solutions to deal with doubt. Her own struggles with the r...

Imposter syndrome and strategies to deal with it

March 18, 2024 22:30 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MB

People of all ages and stages can be affected by imposter syndrome and worried that they don't measure up. That little voice that might tell you you are not enough.Bex Bell has a PhD in Criminal Psychology and has always been fascinated by the human condition. She is the founder of Remix Coaching and Consulting which includes working with people from all walks of life to optimise their potential. Part of that is finding practical solutions to deal with doubt. Her own struggles with the r...

Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson

March 18, 2024 22:05 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MB

Rebecca Stevenson is a senior journalist at BusinessDesk

Around the motu: Peter de Graaf in Northland

March 18, 2024 21:45 - 9 minutes - 8.53 MB

Around the motu: Peter de Graaf in Northland

Book review: When I open the shop by Romesh Dissanayake

March 18, 2024 21:35 - 4 minutes - 3.99 MB

Kiran Dass reviews When I open the shop by Romesh Dissanayake published by Te Herenga Waka Univeristy Press

The cultural preservation of space junk

March 18, 2024 21:05 - 25 minutes - 23 MB

Alice Gorman is an internationally renowned expert of space archeology. The Associate Professor has made a career of tracking human-made items in the cosmos, and studying their cultural significance. She lays claim to the first archaeological fieldwork to ever to take place outside of Earth, co-directing a study on how astronauts interact with their surroundings at the International Space Station in 2022. She has contributed to international space policy and has authored a book on the to...

Carbon recycling company LanzaTech captures interest

March 18, 2024 20:25 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MB

A New Zealand company which recycles pollution into products like biofuel and packaging is capturing the attention of several retail giants. LanzaTech has developed a microbe which can convert carbon into ethanol. It employs more than 500 people, many from its headquarters in Chicago, and operates several plants across China, India and Europe, with several more in the works. Several big-name companies like Zara, Lululemon and Adidas now use the recycled carbon emissions in their products...

Housing and RMA Minister Chris Bishop on his plans to shake up sectors

March 18, 2024 20:05 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MB

Government Minister Chris Bishop holds some of the most important portfolios for the new administration - namely housing, resource management and infrastructure. A cabinet paper accompanying a speech Chris Bishop gave on housing reforms states housing affordability is arguably the single most pressing economic, social and cultural problem facing this government. He says getting house prices down to three to five times household incomes would have a "transformative effect" on the New Zeal...

Housing and RMA Minister Chris Bishop on his plans to shake-up

March 18, 2024 20:05 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MB

Government Minister Chris Bishop holds some of the most important portfolios for the new administration - namely housing, resource management and infrastructure. A cabinet paper accompanying a speech Chris Bishop gave on housing reforms states housing affordability is arguably the single most pressing economic, social and cultural problem facing this government. He says getting house prices down to three to five times household incomes would have a "transformative effect" on the New Zeal...

Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

March 17, 2024 22:45 - 10 minutes - 9.68 MB

Kennedy Warne discusses why Waipu, where he spent St Patrick's Day, is possibly New Zealand's most Scottish town. While he's on the Northland coast, Kennedy also looks at Significant Natural Areas, and why identifying them is crucial to avoid further loss of native diversity.

Executive chef Dan Shanks on sourcing local to feed

March 17, 2024 22:30 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

More than 22,000 people are expected to descend on Lyttelton on March 23/24 for the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix. It's the ninth event on this season's 13-event calendar - which is heralded as the biggest ticketed sailing event in the world. But what happens behind the scenes for an event like this? Dan Shanks has an excellent idea - he's executive chef of Venues Otautahi and the person in charge of feeding everyone. And an exceptionally high bar has been set for this Sail GP event: n...

Political commentators Sue Moroney and Ben Thomas

March 17, 2024 22:05 - 23 minutes - 21.1 MB

Sue Moroney is a former MP with the Labour Party and now chief executive of Community Law Centres Aotearoa. Ben Thomas is a former National government press secretary, a columnist and a director of public affairs firm Capital.

Around the motu: Diane McCarthy in Whakatane

March 17, 2024 21:45 - 9 minutes - 9.09 MB

The Whakatane District Council is coming under fire from some quarters for high levels of spending on big projects, with consultation underway on an average 17 percent rates rise. Diane also talks about the council making changes to the district plan to make building tiny homes easier. And the Bay of Plenty Harbourmaster's decision recently to stop the safety advisory service on the Whakatane River bar has resulted in a public outcry from some members of the boating community. Eastern Ba...

Book review: The Beautiful Afternoon by Airini Beautrais

March 17, 2024 21:35 - 5 minutes - 5.03 MB

Hannah August reviews The Beautiful Afternoon by Airini Beautrais published by Te Herenga Waka University Press

Nellie's Baby: one woman's search for her birth parents

March 17, 2024 21:05 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MB

RNZ journalist Kirsty Johnston received an email one day with an usual subject line which was: "Investigating the possible murder of my mother". The email was from a woman named Sarah, who'd been adopted as a baby in the 1980s. Sarah wanted to find the truth about her birth mother Nellie, who was a former psychiatric patient at Porirua Mental Hospital, but who'd died in 2008, before Sarah had a chance to meet her. Sarah was suspicious that Nellie may have been deliberately killed, and th...

Russia correspondent Jim Heintz

March 17, 2024 20:45 - 8 minutes - 7.58 MB

Exit polls show Vladimir Putin winning a huge majority of votes in the Russian presidential election. it will be his fifth term as the leader of the country, and the biggest share of the vote he has ever claimed. Jim Heintz is a Russia correspondent for Associated Press. He spent 24 years in Moscow before relocating to Estonia in 2023.

Tauranga's proven strategy for reducing CBD crime

March 17, 2024 20:25 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB

After concerns were raised about shoplifting to order and other anti social behaviour in town, the Council got to work on an initiative to make the inner city a safer space. The crime crackdown strategy has involved the appointment of a safety and engagement advisor to build relationships with retailers and hear their concerns. Some small businesses had been losing thousands of dollars worth of stock to organised gangs of shoplifters. Tauranga City Council Development and Partnerships Ge...

Electrification of houses saves money, even on finance

March 17, 2024 20:05 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MB

A house that moves to fully electric - with solar panels and an electric vehicle - and using finance - can save thousands of dollars a year. Rewiring Aotearoa - a non-profit organisation making the case for electrification of homes, businesses and communities - has today put out its Electric Homes report. It says New Zealand is likely one of the first countries in the world to have reached a tipping point where electrification of homes and vehicles delivers both cost and emissions saving...

The week that was with Te Radar and Pinky Agnew

March 14, 2024 22:45 - 12 minutes - 11 MB

Te Radar and Pinky Agnew wrap up the lighter moments of the week, including a library in Massachusetts which is allowing patrons to pay with cat pictures. And in Australia, crowds of people have lined up to bear their backsides at an oncoming train - a tradition which takes place every 10 years.

Sports commentator Dana Johannsen

March 14, 2024 22:30 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB

Dana unpacks at the significance of the finding that former halfback Billy Guyton, who died in a suspected suicide last year, had a brain injury related to repeated head knocks. Also, a look at how New Zealand's newly-named A-League football franchise, Auckland FC, is taking shape. The track and field nationals get underway this evening, so why is interest in the event so high this year? And, why the bargaining process for a new collective employment agreement for elite netball players i...

Around the motu: Tess Brunton in Dunedin

March 14, 2024 21:45 - 11 minutes - 11 MB

The Dunedin City Council has voted to take a proposed 17.5 percent rates hike for the coming year to the public. Tess backgrounds what is driving the rise. The council is also considering a proposal to sell its lines company, Aurora Energy. Asbestos has been found in a Southland dump that is eroding into the sea at Bluecliffs. Rapid erosion means the area remains under a state of emergency. And Otago can now lay claim to its own population of the rare and nationally threatened Smeagol se...

Book review: The Unsettled: Small Stories of Colonisa

March 14, 2024 21:35 - 3 minutes - 3.41 MB

Airini Beautrais reviews The Unsettled: Small stories of colonisation by Richard Shaw published by Massey University Press

Aaron Carter on fitness and mental health - 'You strap the shoes on and you go for a walk'

March 14, 2024 21:05 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MB

Sports event organiser Aaron Carter now finds it "really bizarre" that severe depression was able to stop him doing the outdoor activities he loved. He tells Kathryn Ryan that getting active again has been a major part of his recovery. "Eventually, you sort of break through and you see the blue skies again and yeah, you strap the shoes on and you go for a walk and that's literally how it started for me, walking along the waterfront in Taupō and just getting back into life."

Aaron Carter: mental health and getting outdoors

March 14, 2024 21:05 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MB

Aaron Carter is the director of Total Sport, where he's spent the last 25 years running events to help people take a break from the daily grind and get outdoors in nature. Struggling with depression, it was the simple act of getting active outdoors that turned things around in Aaron's own life. The Total Sport team has been busy organising the upcoming 'Love Taupo Trail Festival', which kicks off on April 26th. The festival has a special focus on the link between mental wellbeing and out...

TikTok faces US ban

March 14, 2024 20:45 - 9 minutes - 8.85 MB

Asia correspondent Ed White discusses rising tensions between China and the West as the United States House of Representatives passes a bill offering TikTok's owner ByteDance an ultimatum.

New Zealand brothers and space innovators

March 14, 2024 20:25 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

Brothers Stefan and James Powell are the founders of Dawn Aerospace - which they describe as helping customers who want to get into orbit and space.

Shock suspension of Green MP over migrant exploitation claims

March 14, 2024 20:25 - 5 minutes - 5.34 MB

RNZ's political editor Jo Moir discusses the latest turmoil in the Green Party.

'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton fears tech is too powerful

March 14, 2024 20:05 - 22 minutes - 20.3 MB

The man widely regarded as the godfather of artificial intelligence, Dr Geoffrey Hinton, is worried the technology is becoming too powerful for humanity's own good.

Screentime: Dark City: The Cleaner, The Regime, Dune 2

March 13, 2024 22:45 - 9 minutes - 8.61 MB

Film and TV correspondent Chris Schulz joins Kathryn to talk about local production Dark City: The Cleaner (Neon), based on the bestselling book by New Zealand author Paul Cleave. He'll also look at black satire The Regime (Neon), starring Kate Winslet and the new blockbuster Dune: Part Two (cinemas).

Parenting: What to do when your child refuses to go

March 13, 2024 22:30 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MB

School refusal is a different kettle of fish than a child simply wanting to stay home for a day. It's a situation where they become so anxious or fearful - and it can be for a variety of reasons - that they refuse to go, repeatedly. While it's difficult to measure how many kids experience this, Dr Rosina McAlpine, founder of the Win Win Parenting program in Australia, says it could be up to five percent. Dr Rosina founded the parenting wellness workshop, which has been run across Austral...

Parenting: What to do when your child refuses to go to school

March 13, 2024 22:30 - 19 minutes - 26.8 MB

School refusal is a different kettle of fish than a child simply wanting to stay home for a day. It's a situation where they become so anxious or fearful - and it can be for a variety of reasons - that they refuse to go, repeatedly. While it's difficult to measure how many kids experience this, Dr Rosina McAlpine, founder of the Win Win Parenting program in Australia, says it could be up to five percent. Dr Rosina founded the parenting wellness workshop, which has been run across Austral...

Tech: What's behind the US TikTok block?

March 13, 2024 22:05 - 18 minutes - 17 MB

Technology correspondent Peter Griffin examines why the US House of Representatives has just passed legislation to ban Chinese-owned app TikTok and the repercussions it might bring from China. The bill must pass in the Senate, but if it does, TikTok owner ByteDance would be required to sell it within six months or face a ban from US app stores and hosting plaforms. Peter will also update what's happening in Australia as Google moves forward with its publishing deal, even after Meta pulle...

Around the motu : Mike Tweed in Whanganui

March 13, 2024 21:45 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MB

Things are looking up for Whanganui's international pilot academy with the District Council investing $2.78 million in 10 additional planes. The academy has recently signed a new contract with Indian airline IndiGo to train pilots in the river city. Also the town's CBD is being transformed into a pedestrian centric hub and moves are afoot to increase parking fees, currently it only costs 50 cents an hour to park in some areas. Mike Tweed is a Multimedia Journalist for the Whanganui Chron...

Book review: Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024

March 13, 2024 21:40 - 4 minutes - 4.21 MB

Ash Davida Jane reviews Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2024 Edited by Tracey Slaughter published by Massey University Press

The history of art is very different when you include the women

March 13, 2024 21:05 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB

E. H. Gombrich's 1950 book The Story Of Art is one of art history's seminal texts. Now on it's 16th edition, it has sold over eight million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages. But it has one major flaw. The first edition didn't include any women artists, whilst subsequent editions feature just one; Käthe Kollwitz. Art historian Katy Hessel is on a mission to correct that. Her book The Story of Art Without Men re-examines art movements from the Renaissance to today, fo...

UK: Frank Hester racism row, 'extremism' definition reviewed

March 13, 2024 20:45 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MB

UK correspondent Dan Bloom unravels the controversy over major Tory donor Frank Hester, who reportedly said black female MP Diane Abbott "should be shot". It's led to calls for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to refund his donations, and condemn Hester's comments. And Communities Secretary Michael Gove is set to deliver a new definition of 'extremism' - why has the plan been criticised by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York? Dan Bloom is deputy editor of Politico London Playbook

Real estate mogul turns deep sea treasure hunter

March 13, 2024 20:35 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MB

In 1937, Amelia Earhart's historic attempt to circumnavigate the globe ended in tragedy when her plane vanished over the vast South Pacific. The mystery of her disappearance has captivated aviation enthusiasts for decades. Pilot and former US Airforce officer, Tony Romeo has long been fascinated by her disappearance. Determined to discover the location of her missing plane he sold his South Carolina commercial property company, and used the money to set up Deep Sea Vision, an underwater ...

Thousands of biodiversity scientists decry fast track

March 13, 2024 20:25 - 6 minutes - 5.64 MB

A group representing thousands of scientists has written to the Cabinet saying the government's plan for fast tracking consenting is retrograde and values development over the environment. The legislation - which passed its first reading last week - will give three ministers the power to bypass normal consent processes and have the final say on approvals for special infrastructure projects.A group of ten scientific societies which conduct research in biodiversity say New Zealand's plants...

Aggressive and armed shoplifters torment supermarket workers

March 13, 2024 20:05 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MB

Supermarket staff feel threatened, frustrated, fearful and powerless over shoplifters wheeling out goods by the trolley load. This is the daily experience in some stores around the country. Staff at Countdown supermarkets have been confronted with machetes, knives, and one instance a gun. Disdain from some shoplifters can extend to walking of the store with trolley laden with meat, cosmetics and alcohol, valued at thousands of dollars. Point Chevalier Countdown in Auckland is a high risk...

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