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Nine To Noon for Wednesday 18 July 2018

 

09:05  Four-day week. Yes we can!

Team succes. Photo young business crew working with new startup project. Notebook on wood table. Analyze plans hands, keyboard.

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The landmark trial to compress the five day working week to four days, has proved a resounding success, with no loss to productivity, an improvement in work-life balance and reduced stress levels. Perpetual Guardian founder Andrew Barnes and Professor of Human Resource Management at AUT Jarrod Haar discuss the findings with Kathryn Ryan.

09:20 Busy Wildlife Hospital wrestles with long term funding

A kea is weighed in at the Wildlife Hospital Dunedin. Two kea have been treated since the Hospital opened in January 2018, one with lead poisoning and one with a concussion. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla

Dr. Lisa Argilla performs surgery on a yellow-eyed penguin. Photo: Murdo McLeod

Dr. Lisa Argilla analyses a yellow-eyed penguin x-ray. Photo: Murdo McLeod

This harrier hawk, or kahu, was being treated for lead poisoning. The bandages protect the harrier's feet from being pierced by its own talons, a neurological reaction to the lead in its bloodstream. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

An erect-crested penguin is held by Senior Wildlife Vet Nurse Angelina Martelli in preparation for feeding. The Wildlife Hospital Dunedin has treated several erect-crested penguins this year, some of which were attacked by dogs while moulting. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

A Haast tokoeka (kiwi) is treated for an infection at the Wildlife Hospital Dunedin, one of six seen by the hospital this year . This kiwi lives at Orokonui Eco Sanctuary in Dunedin. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

An x-ray of a Haast kiwi. Note the location transmitter attached to its leg. Photo: Wildlife Hospital Dunedin.

A yellow-eyed penguin receives a blood transfusion at the Wildlife Hospital Dunedin. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

A juvenile kereru, or native NZ pigeon, sparked a lively debate on the Wildlife Hospital's Facebook page - cute or ugly? Kereru are the second most common species treated at the Hospital in 2018. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

An x-ray of a kereru. Photo: Wildlife Hospital Dunedin.

A kereru receives treatment in one of the Wildlife Hospital Dunedin's ICU incubators, as well as medication from a syringe driver. Both pieces of equipment were donated by individuals who support our work: a vet who ran the Christchurch marathon to raise money for us, and a woman who used the donation as a memorial to her late mother. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

A sooty shearwater brought in from the Dunedin city centre, where it had become grounded.

A tui is sedated prior to being x-rayed. The Otago Community Trust donated a state-of-the-art digital x-ray machine to assist with our operations. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

A yellow-eyed penguin patient indicates it is time to clean its cage and provide fresh towels. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla

Yellow-eyed penguins compare notes on their stays at the Wildlife Hospital Dunedin. More than 70 of these endangered penguins have been treated in Hospital in 6 months. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

A kingfisher is sedated for x-ray. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

A kaka perches on a piece of native wood while snacking. The kaka in Hospital this year have been our most mischievous patients. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

Senior Wildlife Vet Nurse Angelina Martelli x-rays a kea at the Wildlife Hospital Dunedin. Photo: Dr. Lisa Argilla.

Dunedin's Wildlife Hospital says the issue of its long term funding must be addressed. The Wildlife Hospital, based at Otago Polytechnic is the only facility of its kind in the South Island, and treats a wide variety of animals, including native birds, penguins, seals, and sea lions.Before it opened, in January of this year, endangered species were flown to the North Island for treatment, impacting significantly on survival rates. Currently, in addition to public donations keeping the hospital up and running - the Dunedin City Council has committed to supporting it  for three years. But the Otago Regional Council has decided not to give it any additional funding through its long term plan. Jordana Whyte the Wildlife Hospital Trust 's secretary

09:45 Australia's growing population and Tony Abbot

Traditional symbols of Australian culture and nature in the form of maps

Traditional symbols of Australian culture and nature in the form of maps Photo: 123RF

Our Australia correspondent, Bernard Keane has details of political disagreement over the country's population policies; cybersecurity concerns about a new electronic health record system and the conservative candidate who has been claiming a military service medal he wasn't entitled to.

10:05  'Ma'am Darling'. An irreverent take on Princess Margaret

At the races. 1955.

At the races. 1955. Photo: Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

Her beauty and glamour bewitched legions of admirers, while her acerbic tongue made her notoriously rude. One of Britain's best satirical writers, Craig Brown talks to Kathryn Ryan about taking on the contrary princess in his latest book, 'Ma'am Darling - 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret.' 

10:35 Book review - Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding

Lisa Finucane reviews Her Pretty Face by Robyn Harding, published by Simon & Schuster   

10:45 The Reading

Dance of the Peacocks by James McNeish, read by Ian Johnstone. Part 3 of 10. 

This reading is not available online due to copyright restrictions

11:05 Music with Graeme Downes - Rolling Stone Magazine 21st century top 10

Graeme Downes is a musician, musicologist, and senior lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Otago.

What will survive by 2025? Graeme Downes reviews 3 of the top ten, Royals by Lorde, Runaway by Kanye West and Hey Ya by Outcast.

Kanye, Lorde and Outcast

Kanye, Lorde and Outcast Photo: composite

11:20 Sad backstory to Niue's WWI involvement

Private Pimeleko of Mutalau. He sailed from Auckland to Egypt, then France, returning from Hornchurch on the Arawa in July 1916

Private Pimeleko of Mutalau. He sailed from Auckland to Egypt, then France, returning from Hornchurch on the Arawa in July 1916 Photo: courtesy of Mrs Fasa Tongakilo, Mutulau, Niue

Historian, Margaret Pointer with the sad backstory to Niue's World War One involvement. Most of the 150 Niuean men who enlisted had never left the tiny Pacific nation before, and had no immunity to European disease. Within months of serving abroad more than 80 percent had been hospitalised. The story is captured in Margaret's latest book, Niue and the Great War.

11:45 Decisions under new legislation

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Law commentator, Garth Gallaway, has details of one quad bike accident case on a kiwi fruit farm and the case to reduce Worksafe's sentencing bands.

Garth Gallaway is a partner at Chapman Tripp in Christchurch.