Nine To Noon for Thursday 13 May 2021

 

 

09:05 Christchurch's new arena - and the heritage building that's in the way

The David and Goliath battle over a heritage building sitting in the way of a planned $473 million dollar, multi-use arena for Christchurch has ended up in court.  The 25,000-seated, roofed arena is the final anchor project for the Christchurch rebuild and will be designed to host everything from All Blacks tests to big concerts. But sitting on the edge of the site, at 212 Madras Street, is the NG Building, a 115-year old warehouse that's home to a number of creative businesses. It escaped the worst of the 2011 earthquake and was strengthened by its owners: Roland Logan and Sharon Ng. They say they were told in 2013 the building could be incorporated into the arena's design, and are at loggerheads over its compulsory acquisition. Last week they were at the High Court seeking an injunction that would allow them to temporarily maintain ownership of the building, and that decision was released yesterday - and upheld. Roland joins Kathryn to discuss why they hope the building can be saved.

09:20 How will the Reserve Bank move away from cheap and plentiful money?

Billions of dollars has been flushed through the economy in response to the Covid-19 pandemic by the government and Reserve Bank.  As well the as the government's $50 billion pandemic response package, the central bank lowered borrowing rates to record levels and introduced a $100 billion dollar quantitative easing programme. Quantative easing is the modern version of printing money, where the central bank electronically issues NZ dollars to itself and uses that  to buy securities such as government bonds from the market. Dr John McDermott, macroeconomist and Executive Director of independent economic research institute Motu, talks to Kathryn about how and when the Reserve Bank will move away from cheap and plentiful money.

09:45 Queen's Speech, Greensill messages, Labour chaos, Covid unlocking

UK correspondent Hugo Gye joins Kathryn to look at the Queen's first public appearance since Prince Philip's funeral, the dossier of WhatsApp messages ex-Prime Minister David Cameron sent on behalf of his Australian bank employer Greensill lobbying for meetings, the disastrous local election result for Labour and the next round of Covid restriction easing.

10:05 Confessions of a District Court Judge

Rosemary Riddell is a retired District and Family Court judge whose new book provides a rare insight into the life on the bench. She was 40 when she qualified as a lawyer - juggling her studies while raising three young children with her writer husband, Mike. She served 12 years full time on the bench, and says she wrote the book in part to show that judges are not high and mighty or unreachable, but ordinary people doing a demanding and difficult job.  Indeed in her book To be Fair, Rosemary is candid about tragedy within her family, about dealing with stress and the sleepless nights she experienced while deliberating over decisions.

10:35 Book review: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Kiran Dass reviews The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, published by Pan Macmillan

10:45 The Reading

Between the Lines, episode 4. Written and read by Elisabeth Easther.

11:05 Colonial Pipeline and REvil's latest attack, IOS 14.5 and tracking, smart toilets

Technology commentator Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to look at the Colonial Pipeline hack that's reduced supply to the US east coast and hiked prices, the latest cyber attack by REvil/Sodin on healthcare services in Queensland, the changes to tracking made in the IOS 14.5 update, how smart toilets could soon tell you about your health and four cyber criminals face stiff sentences for their part in distributing malware - but did the perpetrators get away with it?

11:25 Parenting: helping children come to terms with grief

Kathryn speaks with Dr Maysoon Salama, whose storybook for children Aya and the Butterfly is a new picture book to help young children come to terms with grief, cope with change, and build resilience. Dr Salama lost her son Atta Elayyan in the Al Noor mosque attack in Christchurch a little over two years ago. Dr Salama wrote this story for Atta's daughter, her granddaughter, Aya, and for other children dealing with loss and trauma. Dr Salama is manager and co-founder of the Al Nur childcare centre, so has also helped many other families through their grief.

11:45 Teine Sā: The Ancient Ones, Stowaway, SIS the Show and Brutal Lives

Film and TV reviewer Laumata Lauano joins Kathryn to look at a new show airing on Prime tonight, Teine Sā: The Ancient Ones, Netflix's new space film Stowaway, Pacific comedy show SIS (Prime TV and streaming on Neon) and drama series Brutal Lives - Mo'ui Faingata'a (Coconet TV).

Music played in this show

Title:  Can't Get 
Artist: Libra Accord
Broadcast time: 11:05am

Title: Freedom Feeling
Artist: Laura Veirs
Broadcast time: 11:25am 

Title: Open
Artist: Rhye
Broadcast time: 11:45am