Nine To Noon for Thursday 5 August 2021

 

 

09:05 Could NZ run out of fuel if Marsden Pt oil refinery is closed?

Shareholders in Refining NZ vote tomorrow on a recommendation from company directors to turn Marsden Point into a terminal that only imports processed fuels, ending six decades of the country having its own ability to make petrol and diesel. Australia has just brought in a subsidy to keep its only two surviving refineries open, citing the volatile global supply chain. New Zealand researcher Toby Dalley says New Zealand has been blinkered in the way it has weighed the risks of running out of fuel.He has analysed 15 years of risk assessments done for the government and says the assumptions contained within them are "baffling". Kathryn also speaks with Executive Director of the Sustainability Council, Simon Terry.

09:20 Closing a loophole in Harmful Digital Communications Act 

An amendment to the Harmful Digital Communications Act is expected to create a new offence, making it a crime to share intimate images or recordings without the person's explicit consent. Labour MP Louisa Wall's member's bill would close a loophole that means people won't be charged,  if it can't be proven they intended to cause their victim harm. The bill would make the publishing of intimate images with consent prosecutable, regardless of intent.  But there remains concern about the level of burden placed on the victim, and other gaps in the legislation. Kathryn discusses the legislation with Paulette Benton-Greig a law lecturer at University of Waikato and an expert in online sexual abuse.

09:45 Teens offered vaccine, travel 'traffic light' shakeup, British Olympic success

UK correspondent Harriet Line joins Kathryn to talk about how 16 and 17-year-olds will be offered the Covid vaccine after experts recommended expanding eligibility. The UK's travel traffic light system is getting a shake-up, with India and the UAE removed from the 'red list' while La Reunion was controversially added. And Hannah Mills has become the most successful female Olympic sailor of all time, while Britain's 13 year old skateboarder Sky Brown took a bronze medal.

10:05 Wild dads: Zoo expert Erna Walraven on animal paternal behaviour

Erna Walraven is an Australia-based wildlife specialist and consultant who spent 12 years as a keeper at Sydney's Taronga Zoo before moving on to be a senior curator for the next two decades where she was responsible for the scientific management of 400 species. She written a number of books about Australia's wildlife, how to rescue and rehabilitate oiled birds and animal leadership. Her latest book is Wild Fathers - What Wild Animal Dads Teach Us About Fatherhood, which is packed with facts about how males of various species approach courtship, mating and parenting. The result is an informative, and sometimes humourous, look at animal dads in the natural world and what comparisons - or even tips - there might be for fatherhood in humans.

10:35 Book review - Mrs March by Virginia Feito

Catriona Ferguson reviews Mrs March by Virginia Feito, published by HarperCollins

10:45 The Reading

Duet, part eight. Written by David Hill, read by Kip Chapman.

11:05 Warning for telcos on marketing, wifi row, Instagram for kids

Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about the Commerce Commission's warning to telcos over the way they're marketing alternative broadband technologies as the copper telephone network is about to be decommissioned. Spark, Vodafone and 2degrees are in another row, this time over the wifi spectrum, Instagram has changed its rules for the under-16s - but is it just a PR exercise?

11:25 Jacinta Tynan's Single Mother's Social Club

Five years ago Jacinta Tynan's relationship ended and she suddenly found her self raising her two young sons on her own. The Australian journalist, broadcaster and columnist says despite the challenges, single motherhood can also be a gift. Jacinta's new book The Single Mother's Social Club looks at single parenting as an opportunity to reassess and recreate your life, and find strength you never knew you had. She's interviewed dozens of other single mothers; whether widowed, divorced, or parenting solo by choice, and put together advice for not just surviving but embracing single parenthood.

11:45 The Panthers, Head High, Justice of Bunny King

Film and TV reviewer Laumata Lauano joins Kathryn to talk about the new TVNZ series The Panthers, about the Dawn Raids. She'll also look at season two of Head High (Three, OnDemand), an award-winning family drama about college rugby as well as The Justice of Bunny King, a New Zealand film about a struggling single parent.

Music played in this show

Artist: Talking Heads
Track: This Must be the Place
Time played: 9:35

Artist: Nina Simone
Track: Feeling Good
Time played: 9.50

Artist: Salt
Track: Wild Fires
Time played: 11.29