Lately for Thursday 11 March 2021

Photo: RNZ

10:20 New Zealand's use of facial recognition technology

Calls today from the Maori Party for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into racial profiling of tangata whenua by police. It comes off the back of an RNZ investigation which found seven Māori whānau had rangatahi stopped by police and their photograph taken. The Police Commissioner Andrew Coster denies the police are using facial recognition technology to profile young Māori. Karyn speaks with Associate Professor, Nessa Lynch, who has led a New Zealand Law Foundation-funded research project into facial recognition technology.

Photo: Victoria University

10:30  NZ On Screen's Sailing Collection

Day one of America's Cup racing between Emirates Team Zealand and Luna Rossa is behind us and another looms tomorrow. Just in time, NZ On Screen has launched a curated Sailing Collection, including 70 years of seafaring around Aotearoa. Content Director, and curator of the collection, Kathryn Quirk explains what it is and where to find it.

10:45 The Rest Is History: the very slow race for women to priesthood 

In 1994, the Church of England ordained its first women priests. The idea was first tentatively floated in 1920. But it took until 1975 for the General Synod to pass a motion saying it had "no fundamental objections" to the ordination of women to the priesthood. But it wasn't until 1985 that women could be lay clergy known as deacons, and it took til the mid 1990's to ordain 33 women priests. The story in New Zealand was vastly different.  Jacynthia Murphy is an ordained priest. She talks to Karyn Hay about the patriarchy that wahine still battle even in New Zealand.

Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral's Great Window, designed by Nigel Brown, is said to be the largest expanse of stained glass in the southern hemisphere. The windows have a Polynesian and a European side, with the risen Christ in the centre crowned by a flower depicting the seven days of Creation. Photo: RNZ