Nine To Noon for Tuesday 14 August 2018
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Pharmac funding of MS drugs "restrictive & cruel"
9:09 AM.Multiple Sclerosis New Zealand says Pharmac is denying hundreds of patients essential medication by applying overly restrictive criteria, and even withdrawing funding for drugs if a person's condition… Read more Audio
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Simon Bridges talks law and order
9:29 AM.The National leader Simon Bridges talks law and order and where his party sits on the question of criminal law reform.The government is planning the biggest changes to the criminal justice system in… Read more Audio
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US White Supremacists, Obamacare & Omarosa
9:52 AM.US correspondent Susan Milligan looks at the messy departure of former White House advisor, Omarosa Manigault Newman, a white supremacist rally in Washington DC, and how some states are despairing at… Read more Audio
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Robert Wright: Why is Buddhism True?
10:07 AM.US author Robert Wright delves into the science and philosophy of meditation, mindfulness and Buddhism in his latest book, Why Buddhism is True. Wright argues that through meditation and mindfulness… Read more Audio
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Book review - Mayhem: A Memoir by Sigrid Rausing
10:40 AM.Kiran Dass from Timeout bookstore reviews Mayhem: A Memoir by Sigrid Rausing, which is published by Penguin. Audio
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Downward NZ$ & Fonterra cuts payouts
11:07 AM.Business Commentator Rod Oram has been watching the Kiwi dollar slide, and Fonterra cuts its milk payout and dividend. Audio
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Ongoing mystery of NZ's missing people
11:24 AM.True crime author Scott Bainbridge has spent years investigating and writing about some of the country's unsolved missing persons cases. Some of the names in his latest book, The Missing Files, may be… Read more Audio, Gallery
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Offensive speech, tune in, or tune out
11:42 AM.Gavin Ellis discusses a newspaper letter writer's point about 'The right to listen…or not' as a defence against offensive speech. Is the right not to look or listen the best antidote? Or should media… Read more Audio
09:05 Pharmac funding of MS drugs "restrictive & cruel"
Photo: Tysabri
Multiple Sclerosis New Zealand says Pharmac is denying hundreds of patients essential medication by applying overly restrictive criteria, and even withdrawing funding for drugs if a person's condition deteriorates. Auckland man, Brendan Rochford has MS and says the publicly funded drug Tysabri is vital to keep him well enough to continue working. Australian Neurologist, Helmut Butzkueven specialises in MS, and has appealed to Pharmac to review their eligibility criteria.
09:25 Simon Bridges talks law and order
National Party Leader Simon Bridges. Photo: VNP / Phil Smith
The National leader Simon Bridges talks law and order and where his party sits on the question of criminal law reform.The government is planning the biggest changes to the criminal justice system in 30 years - hinting at law changes even before the next election.Justice Minister Andrew Little says the record-high prison population represents a crisis which must be addressed. What does the National leader, and former Crown Prosecutor think?
09:45 US White Supremacists, Obamacare & Omarosa
US correspondent Susan Milligan looks at the messy departure of former White House advisor, Omarosa Manigault Newman, a white supremacist rally in Washington DC, and how some states are despairing at the Federal Government's slow movement on Obamacare.
Omarosa Manigault Newman Photo: credit, Gage Skidmore
10:05 Robert Wright: Why is Buddhism True?
US author Robert Wright delves into the science and philosophy of meditation, mindfulness and Buddhism in his latest book, Why Buddhism is True. Wright argues that through meditation and mindfulness, humans can overcome the constraints imposed by natural selection. Those constraints are things like anxiety, regret and hatred which cloud the way humans perceive the world and their place in it. Robert has been writing about science, history and religion for thirty years and is the author of several books including The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information. He joins Kathryn to talk about how humans can live kinder, happier lives.
US author, Robert Wright and his book, Why is Buddhism True? Photo: composite
10:35 Book review - Mayhem: A Memoir by Sigrid Rausing
Kiran Dass from Timeout bookstore reviews Mayhem: A Memoir by Sigrid Rausing, which is published by Penguin,
10:45 The Reading
Resistance by Rebecca Barnes, episode 12 of 15.
11:05 Downward NZ$ & Fonterra cuts payouts
Business Commentator Rod Oram has been watching the Kiwi dollar slide, and Fonterra cuts its milk payout and dividend.
Photo: supplied
11:30 Ongoing mystery of NZ's missing people
True crime author Scott Bainbridge has spent years investigating and writing about some of the country's unsolved missing persons cases. Some of the names in his latest book, The Missing Files, may be familiar, some little known. Among the missing, Mona Blades, Heidi Charles, Jean Martin, toddler Jefferie Hill, and Mike Zhou-Beckenridge.
11:45 Offensive speech, tune in, or tune out
Gavin Ellis discusses a newspaper letter writer's point about 'The right to listen…or not' as a defence against offensive speech. Is the right not to look or listen the best antidote? Or should media listen to calls for them to stop providing platforms for what some consider hate speech? Also, Lisa Owen replaces John Campbell as presenter of RNZ's Checkpoint.
Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald. He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz
