Nine To Noon for Wednesday 21 April 2021

 

 

09:05 Guilty verdict in Derek Chauvin - George Floyd murder trial

The former Minneapolis police officer on trial for the murder of George Floyd has been found guilty of second degree murder. Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds last May. He pleaded not guilty charges including second-degree murder. Kathryn talks with US correspondent, Giles Gibson.

09:15 Biggest shake up of health sector for decades - DHBs gone

In the most radical shake up of the health system in decades, the country's 20 District Health Boards are being scrapped. The Health Minister Andrew Little has announced details to health leaders in parliament this morning. A single new body, Health NZ will replaced the DHBs which run services for individual areas around the country.  A new Maori Health Authority is to be established, to policies for Maori health and to decide on and fund those who will deliver services.The country's 30 primary health organisations, large regional networks of GPs and primary care, will also be disbanded. RNZ Health correspondent Rowan Quinn outlines the major changes.

09:20 Health Minister on reforms: " A truly national health service"

The sweeping health reforms outlined today have gone further than what was recommended by the expert panel review of the health and disability sector chaired by Heather Simpson.  Health Minister Andrew Little tells Kathryn the new system will be a "truly national health service".

09:30 Health reforms: expert reaction

Kathryn canvasses reaction from the health sector with Dr Rawiri Jansen, a member the Māori pandemic group, Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā;  Sarah Dalton from the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists;  Dr Sue Crengle who was on the Maori Expert Advisory Group, and Dr Matire Harwood whose research focuses on tacking inequalities in Maori health.

09:45 US correspondent Ron Elving - reaction to Derek Chauvin guilty verdict

Ron talks to Kathryn about how crowds outside a Minneapolis court have reacted to former police officer Derek Chauvin's conviction for murdering George Floyd.

09:57  Australia could reset vaccine rollout, milkshake consent video criticised

Australia correspondent Chris Niesche joins Kathryn to look at how the vaccine rollout might be reset following updated medical advice recommending Australians over the age of 50 need the Pfizer, rather than AstraZeneca vaccine.

10:05 The Abundant Garden, Niva and Yotam Kay

Niva and Yotam Kay have produced what's being welcomed as a "go-to guide to gardening".  Their book The Abundant Garden will be appreciated by established as well as budding food growers. Regenerative and organic vegetable gardening is their thing, hoed to a fine art after years getting their hands dirty in organic Coromandel soil. Having arrived here from Israel, Niva and Yotam have spent more than six years working their market garden, and more recently a food forest.  Theirs is a quarter acre of the off-grid paradise that is the 215 acre farm they co-own with Harry Parke, partner of the late Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons, at their Pakaraka Permaculture site at Kauaeranga Valley, where they've been growing upwards of $85,000 worth of organic produce a year.

10:35 Book Review - Felt by Johanna Emeney

Chris Tse reviews Felt by Johanna Emeney, published by Massey University Press

10:45 The Reading

How to Hear Classical Music, episode three. Written and read by by Davinia Caddy.

11:05 Music 101 Charlotte Ryan on this year's Taite Music Prize winners

Charlotte exclusively plays a classic NZ song re-recorded in Te Reo Māori  for the new Waiata Anthems series, and talks through the winners of the TAITE Music Prize  2021 which were held last night in Auckland.

11:20 Sisters remembering farm tales from childhood

Sisters Jennifer Somervell and Margery Fern are celebrating the launch of the sixth in their Tales From The Farm picture book series. Margery's illustrations help embellish Jennifer's rhyming tales of growing up on a farm in Taranaki in the the 1970s. Here, as children they got involved in family farm adventures. The tales are deeply historical and form the basis of school visits to instill a love of reading in primary age children.

11:45 India's Covid variant, sex techniques and hope for koala chlamydia

Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about the new variant surging in India, a new study that aims to put names to some techniques used by women to increase their pleasure during sex and a new study that has identified some proteins that may one day help protect koalas from chlamydia.

Associate Professor Dr Siouxsie Wiles is the head of Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland.