Nine To Noon
6,365 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 23 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsFrom nine to noon every weekday, Kathryn Ryan talks to the people driving the news - in New Zealand and around the world. Delve beneath the headlines to find out the real story, listen to Nine to Noon's expert commentators and reviewers and catch up with the latest lifestyle trends on this award-winning programme.
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Covid: Can employers force you back to the office?
March 29, 2022 22:45 - 11 minutes - 10.8 MBChanges to vaccination mandates and who is covered by them will kick in next week, but what impact might that have on private employers considering their own vaccination policies? And as the omicron wave subsides, what will that mean for employees working from home. Can they be forced back into the office? The legal commentator today is Helen Pryde of Duncan Cotterill.
A cosy cabin and colourful farm
March 29, 2022 22:36 - 9 minutes - 8.91 MBFarmer Christine Hilton is quick to turn her hand to anything. She's built a log cabin on her land in Twizel, and although new farming she's made sure her Geraldine farm stands out from others. She talks to Kathryn about the rigours and challenges of farming, running an events business on the land, and how her cabin offers respite.
Transmission Gully officially opens
March 29, 2022 22:30 - 6 minutes - 6.07 MBTransmission Gully has officially opened today, after missing five deadlines in the last two years. A ribbon-cutting ceremony has just been held for the 27-kilometre stretch of highway from Wellington through Kapiti. Our reporter Jake McKee is one of the first to take a drive along Transmission Gully. He tells Kathryn how he found it.
Book review: Letters to You by Jazz Thornton
March 29, 2022 21:45 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MBHarry Broad reviews Letters to You by Jazz Thornton, published by Penguin Random House NZ.
The history of death
March 29, 2022 21:07 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBOver the centuries, the most common causes of death have changed dramatically. What are we most often dying from now and how could that change in the future? Biochemistry professor Andrew Doig put four decades of research into his new book This Mortal Coil: A History of Death.
Australia: Budget brings fuel tax cuts and cash injections
March 29, 2022 20:48 - 7 minutes - 7.16 MBAustralia correspondent Bernard Keane looks at what was announced in yesterday's federal Budget, from a temporary cut in the amount of fuel excise collected to a number of cash payments. But Bernard says there was little support in the budget for climate change, even as parts of east Australia are facing yet more flooding - just weeks after the last devastating deluge.
Plans for waste minimisation might have the opposite effect
March 29, 2022 20:32 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBA shake-up is coming to the way Auckland collects and charges for its waste services. At the moment it's different in the Super City depending on where you live: residents in Manukau and Auckland City are charged through their rates, residents elsewhere buy bags or bin tags and pay-as-they-throw. The Council, as part of its waste minimisation plan, wants to standardise its collection services and fees, and has just closed its submissions on the process this week. To discuss the changes, ...
Solomons-China deal and security in our Pacific backyard
March 29, 2022 20:07 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBThe Prime Minister of Solomon Islands has confirmed his government has finalised a security treaty with China. The agreement lays down a framework which could permit Beijing to deploy forces to protect the safety of Chinese personnel and major projects in Solomon Islands. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has described the deal as "gravely concerning". Kathryn speaks with Mihai Sora, a Research Fellow in the Pacific Islands Program at the Lowy Institute, and a former Australian diplomat to S...
A guide to autism by somone diagnosed with it
March 28, 2022 22:30 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBWhen Chanelle Moriah was diagnosed with autism at age 21, life finally began to make sense. By then, there had been several misdiagnosis and six years in the mental health system. After the diagnosis, Chanelle went in search of information , but couldn't find much written from the perspective of someone with autism. So they wrote and illustrated their own book, now published by Allen & Unwin, and called I am Autistic: An interactive and informative guide to autism (by someone diagnosed w...
Book review: Breathless by Amy McCulloch
March 28, 2022 21:35 - 4 minutes - 3.95 MBElisabeth Easther reviews Breathless by Amy McCulloch, published by Penguin Random House NZ
Anil Seth: Being yourself
March 28, 2022 21:05 - 25 minutes - 23 MBOur guest today is trying to work out why we think, and why we exist as cognitive beings. It turns out we're not very good at assessing ourselves and how we think. Which makes the whole thing difficult. Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex Anil Seth has put his work on the subject so far down in a new book titled Being You. He joins Kathryn to discuss the fabric of reality and why we have such a hard time comprehending it.
USA correspondent Kate Fisher
March 28, 2022 20:45 - 8 minutes - 7.76 MBRelations between the US and Russia are close to a full collapse after President Biden's declaration that Russian leader Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power" . The off-the-cuff remark has potentially serious implications for Washington's ability to help end the war in Ukraine and avoid a wider conflict. Meanwhile in President Biden has just unveiled his budget for the 2023 fiscal year in which he calls for more military spending in the face of Russian aggression toward Ukraine. And th...
People, land and belonging - Kainga
March 28, 2022 20:30 - 9 minutes - 8.89 MBIn his new book Kainga Dr Paul Tapsell says too often Maori become alienated from their ancestral identity. He founded Maori.maps.com to help reconnection. The digital web service is particularly helping reconnect connecting urban-raised Maori youth to their ancestral communities. Dr Tapsell (Te Arawa, Tainui) is a museum curator, ethnographer and anthropologist. He's also former director Maori at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, and a former Dean of the University of Otago's Te Tumu Sc...
Warnings about Long Covid
March 28, 2022 20:05 - 33 minutes - 30.7 MBAs more New Zealanders recover from Covid, we're exploring what is known about the health effects of Long Covid. As a nation our quick and stringent initial COVID-19 pandemic response has been praised, but two years on, focus is now turning to the long-term health effects and ongoing recovery. A WHO policy brief has suggested around 25 percent of people who have had the virus, will continue to have symptoms for at least a month, and three months on, around one in 10 people are still feel...
Urban issues: Timber vs concrete vs super-wood
March 27, 2022 22:45 - 9 minutes - 8.44 MBBill McKay discusses the merits and issues of construction in two popular materials and a better one: engineered timber. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.
Yum Jar: The zero-waste meal delivery service
March 27, 2022 22:30 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBYum Jar is a Porirua based, zero-waste company that serves their customers' dinners in jars. Even the delivery method is environmentally friendly - with the food boxes brought to customers' doors via electric vehicle. The business is also living wage accredited. The meals take less than 30 minutes to make and are all plant based. Head Chef and CEO at Yum Jar, Ottilie Smith speaks to Kathryn about what inspired her business.
Book review: Sticky by Laurie Winkless
March 27, 2022 21:35 - 6 minutes - 5.82 MBMary Fawcett of Schrödinger's Books in Petone reviews Sticky by Laurie Winkless, published by Bloomsbury
Hiding in plain sight - oceanic manta rays in New Zealand
March 27, 2022 21:05 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MBThey are enormous, highly intelligent and threatened. Vice president of Asia-Pacific Marine Programs at Conservation International Mark Erdmann leads a team of researchers trying to build on our scant knowledge and understanding of oceanic manta rays. Mark's work largely focuses on the management of marine protected areas. Having lived in Indonesia for a couple of decades, he's logged a couple of hundred new species of reef fish. Apart from reef fish his speciality is mantis shrimp, enda...
The engineers behind Paralympic gold medalist Corey Peters' sit-ski
March 27, 2022 20:30 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBWhen Paralympic skiier Corey Peters sped to the medal podium, he did so in a ground-breaking sit-ski designed by engineers at the University of Canterbury. Corey took home two medals from the Beijing Paralympics - a gold in the Men's Downhill Sitting and silver in the Men's Super-G Sitting. In mid 2020, the university was approached by Snow Sports NZ to improve the aerodynamic design of Peters' standard, off-the-shelf sit ski. Sit skis are made up of a seat and suspension system mounted ...
Concerns Stewardship land won't be guided in the right direction
March 27, 2022 20:05 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBThe Environmental Law Initiative is concerned re-classification of Stewardship land is being pushed through too quickly, with potentially disastrous consequences, including that some of our public conservation land will be sold off for mining. Cherished land including pristine parts of the Southern Alps are included in the 2.7 million hectares (9%) of New Zealand's land area that has been designated as Stewardship land and is now up for review. Kathryn speaks with The Environmental Law I...
Sports commentator Sam Ackerman - spectators back to stadiums
March 24, 2022 22:30 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBSam talks to Kathryn about the long-awaited return of spectators to sports games this weekend, after two years of empty or sparsely populated stadiums. Also the White Ferns impending Cricket World Cup exit, and will Ross Taylor's farewell will be a bang or a whimper?
Book review: Remember Me by Charity Norman
March 24, 2022 21:35 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MBMelissa Oliver from Unity Books Wellington reviews Remember Me by Charity Norman, published by Allen and Unwin
Tairawhiti flooding latest
March 24, 2022 21:30 - 4 minutes - 4.58 MBRNZ journalist Andrew McRae with the latest on flooding in Tairawhiti.
How the Holocaust had its roots in eastern European pogroms
March 24, 2022 21:05 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBThe eyes of the world may be on Ukraine right now, but Dr Jeffrey Veidlinger has focused on a largely forgotten period of history that once captured international attention there too. At the end of the first world war a wave of anti-semitic violence rocked the eastern European region as the Russian empire fell apart. It's thought over 100,000 Jews died in hundreds of localised attacks and forced hundreds of thousands more to flee. The violence itself was carried out by those of varying p...
The polar bear, the honey badger and the moose: Dunedin's taxidermy auction
March 24, 2022 20:30 - 8 minutes - 7.39 MBA polar bear, a blue fox and a honey badger are all up for grabs in Dunedin this weekend at an auction of taxidermied animals. Stuffed animal collectors are an eclectic group – young and old, male and female – says third-generation auctioneer Ronnie Proctor.
09:30 The polar bear, the honey badger and the moose: Dunedin's taxidermy auction
March 24, 2022 20:30 - 8 minutes - 7.39 MBA 6 foot 5' Alaskan polar bear is making a star appearance at an auction of taxidermied animals in Dunedin on Sunday. Some of the other museum-quality mounts going under the hammer include a North American Stone Sheep, three species of Moose, five species of Caribou, Bison, a Kodiak Island Blue Fox, a Zebra Skin, and a Honey Badger. Kathryn Ryan speaks with auctioneer Ronnie Proctor, who's seen a few things in the forty years and three generations his family have run Proctors Auctions. T...
More support needed for Asian mental health
March 24, 2022 20:15 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBDemand for mental health support amongst Asian New Zealanders has soared since the beginning of the pandemic, but the community remains underserved. One provider, Asian Family Services, is trying to meet the demands of the Asian population, but says its funding is limited and is managing a three week long waitlist. In a recent 2021 survey commissioned by the health provider, 44 percent of respondents reported symptoms of depression, increasing to 61 percent for those under 30 years of ag...
Australia backs down over refugee resettlement
March 24, 2022 20:05 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBAfter nearly a decade languishing in off-shore detention centres, 450 refugees in Australia will be resettled in this country over three years. The Australian government agreed to the deal yesterday - nine years after it was first offered by the then National Prime Minister John Key. Kathryn speaks with Melbourne based human rights lawyer Alison Battison who has acted for many of the refugees.
Film & TV: The Adam Project, Bad Vegan, Windfall and Meeps
March 23, 2022 22:45 - 10 minutes - 9.22 MBFilm and TV correspondent Laumata Lauano joins Lynn to talk about sci-fi flick The Adam Project (Netflix) starring Ryan Reynolds, new fraud documentary Bad Vegan (Netflix), a Hitchcockian thriller Windfall (Netflix)and bite-sized Samoan comedy Meeps (Vimeo/YouTube).
How to talk to your children about what's happening in Ukraine
March 23, 2022 22:25 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBRussia's war in Ukraine is dominating the headlines, so what can parents, grandparents or educators do to help children understand what they're seeing? And how can that message be delivered in an appropriate way to various age groups - from pre-schoolers to teenagers? Lynn is joined by Dr Nicole Racine, a clinical pyschologist and expert in paediatric mental health based at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada.
Tech: Why no Russian cyber attacks?
March 23, 2022 22:05 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBTechnology correspondent Bill Bennett joins Lynn to look at why there appears to have been a lack of cyber-attacks during Russia's month-long war with Ukraine. He says, in reality, there IS a cyber-war going on but it's very much behind the scenes and doesn't affect New Zealand. It's a year since Australia introduced laws to make tech giants pay for the news they display - how has it gone? And why are Meta (formerly Facebook) employees running for the door? It's not because they've had a...
Book review: Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
March 23, 2022 21:35 - 4 minutes - 4.53 MBLuke Finnegan reviews Paradais by Fernanda Melchor, published by Text Publishing.
Reporter Andrew McRae on flooding near Gisborne
March 23, 2022 21:30 - 3 minutes - 3.55 MBEvacuations have taken place in the middle of the night and Tolaga Bay Civil Defence expects some residents to remain cut off for four days or more, as a result of this week's flooding. A helicopter has been up this morning identifying damage to roads and infrastructure. Almost half a metre of rain has fallen in two days.The Hikuwai River north of Gisborne peaked at higher than 12 metres - coming within a hundred millimetres or so of going over its banks and causing massive damage. RNZ r...
Adam Nicolson: The hidden world of rockpools
March 23, 2022 21:05 - 21 minutes - 20 MBAdam Nicolson has been obsessed with the landscape we live in his entire life. Recently Adam has been staring into rockpools, trying to work out what might stare back. The journalist, broadcaster and poet has been writing books about how we interact with our environments since the 1980s and his newest tome The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides is no exception. In the book he wanders around the world to try and understand what the liminal space of the world's seas can tell ...
UK: Spring mini-budget, inflation hits 6.2%
March 23, 2022 20:45 - 7 minutes - 6.79 MBUK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Lynn to look at what was in Rishi Sunak's spring mini-budget, including a 5p per litre cut in fuel tax and a future 1p reduction in income tax. It comes as Brits - like many around the world, experience a rise in the cost of living. New figures show inflation in the UK has risen to 6.2 per cent. And shoppers won't be buying free range eggs anytime soon - they're banned from sale after a rise in bird flu cases
"Complaints process too slow"- volunteer firefighter
March 23, 2022 20:20 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MBA volunteer firefighter who made a complaint of sexual harassment against a senior officer has been stood down for two years waiting for the case to be resolved, while the respondent involved has continued in the brigade. Jane (not her real name) lodged her complaint with the Behavior and Conduct Office within FENZ in 2020. It is one of 58 unresolved complaints of sexual harassment and bullying reported to Fire and Emergency in the last three years - around a third of all complaints. The...
The new Covid normal: no passes, no scanning, fewer mandates
March 23, 2022 20:05 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBLynn Freeman speaks with Professor Sir David Skegg, chair of the Covid 19 Public Health Advisory Group, about the pathway forward for the country. The government announced yesterday that vaccine passes and scanning will be scrapped with worker mandates lifted in some sectors. The traffic light system will stay in place, but gathering limits are rising for indoor settings and lifted completely for outdoor events.
Siouxie Wiles: "immensely disappointed by mandate changes"
March 22, 2022 22:48 - 8 minutes - 7.36 MBA look at how researchers have developed a natural antibacterial texture for use on food packaging based on the bacteria-killing properties of cicada and dragonfly wings.
Matt Chamberlain: decades on screen and stage
March 22, 2022 22:40 - 8 minutes - 7.41 MBHis latest co-written work opens at Circa Theatre in Wellington on Saturday, with a season at Auckland's Centerpoint to come. Called Timberrrr!, it is set in Taranaki in the 1940s in the world of competitive woodchopping.
Govt outlines next steps on covid restrictions
March 22, 2022 22:30 - 7 minutes - 6.45 MBRNZ political editor Jane Patterson discusses the government's announcement on the next steps for covid restrictions.
Book review: Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood
March 22, 2022 21:35 - 4 minutes - 3.88 MBDavid Hill reviews Burning Questions by Margaret Atwood, published by Penguin Random House NZ.
Gisborne Civil Defence - Tairawhiti state of emergency
March 22, 2022 21:33 - 6 minutes - 5.88 MBThe area between Tolaga Bay and Tokomaru Bay has been particularly hard hit, closing the highway around East Cape to Opotiki, David Wilson is Tairawhiti's Civil Defence Group controller.
The importance of a wandering mind
March 22, 2022 21:06 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBNeuroscientist and the former Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School Moshe Bar is the author of Mindwandering - How it can improve your mood and boost your creativity and he's been exploring the vitality that can come from the vague.
Australia: Space Command launched, Google sued by politician
March 22, 2022 20:45 - 9 minutes - 8.75 MBAustralia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Lynn to look at the miltiary's new Space Command which formally began operating on Tuesday.
Reducing reoffending with bank accounts
March 22, 2022 20:30 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBLynn discusses the project with Darius Fagan, General Manager for Case Management and Probation at the Department of Correction and Mike Williams, chief executive of the Howard League.
What could and should Auckland be in 50 years?
March 22, 2022 20:15 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBLynn Freeman spoke with Sir Peter Gluckman, the report's co-author, Koi Tu director and former Chief Science Advisor, and Nick Hill, Auckland Unlimited Chief Executive Nick Hill.
East Cape flooding: Gisborne region state of Emergency declared
March 22, 2022 20:06 - 5 minutes - 5.3 MBLynn talked to Zak Horomia, chairman of the Hinemaurea Marae in Mangatuna, where some residents were evacuated in the early hours of the morning.
Financial Planner Liz Koh : The Big Squeeze
March 21, 2022 22:45 - 7 minutes - 6.72 MBLiz Koh says with higher interest rates and rising inflation many families will feel a big squeeze. We are likely to see big increases in short term debt as families struggle to cope with financial stress. It's time to take action now! Liz Koh is a financial planner and specialising in retirement planning. This discussion is of a general nature, and does not constitute financial advice.
Citizens Advice Bureau: protection needed for those not covered by Residential Tenancies Act
March 21, 2022 22:30 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBThe Citizens Advice Bureau is calling on the Government to protect the rights of people who are renting accommodation, but are not covered by the Residential Tenancies Act. Dr Hubbard says the Citizens Advice Bureau is seeing a growing number of renting-related inquiries, but where clients have no recourse as their situation is not covered by the Act. That includes flatmates, private boarders, people living in the same house as their landlord, and those living in other situations like ca...
Business commentator Nikki Mandow
March 21, 2022 22:05 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBNikki discusses water reform with the Water NZ National Performance Review just out, and she also talks to Lynn about the demand for GIB board which is in short supply.