Nine To Noon for Thursday 7 October 2021

 

 

09:05 Accessibility legislation proposed

New legislation which would require accessibility barriers to be removed could be on the way,  if an accessibility advocacy group has its way. Accessibility legislation is increasingly appearing in countries around the world and work is underway to introduce something similar here. Currently disabled people in New Zealand have no effective way to report barriers to their participation fully in society, or get them removed, and there's no one agency to identify and deal with non-compliance. The Access Alliance is a consortium of 20,000 people, businesses and organisations advocating for the establishment of accessibility legislation in New Zealand. Independent researchers have now created a blueprint for how the legislation could work, which is now being put to the Minister for Disability Issues, Carmel Sepuloni. They've proposed a legislative framework that includes an Act, a regulator, a tribunal, accessibility standards, and a way to notify the regulator of barriers. Kathryn speaks with Chrissie Cowan, the chair of Access Alliance and chief executive of Kāpō Māori Aotearoa, a Hastings-based organisation supporting the blind. She also speaks to Warren Forster, a barrister and researcher who co-authored the report. 

09:30  Wound gel shows promise for horses - and humans

A gel compound that aids tissue regeneration could have a big impact on horses and humans alike. It's been developed as part of an international partnership led by University of Canterbury academic Rudi Marquez. The gel contains a small molecule that kick-starts healing in wounds that usually fail to heal quickly or properly. In horses, leg injuries can be extremely difficult - if not impossible to treat - and the research team is seeking approval for clinical trials for horses. But it's hoped the gel compound could also have greater implication for diabetes patients - specifically in speeding up the healing process of diabetic ulcers.

09:45 Boris Johnson's 'radical Conservatism', Xmas warnings, Bake Off scandal

UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to look at  Boris Johnson's first Conservative party conference speech in two years, which promised to unleash Britain's "unique spirit" to reshape the UK after Covid and Brexit. It somes amid spiralling gas prices, panic buying of fuel and labour shortages  - with warnings of a cancelled Christmas and a new cost of living crisis. Meanwhile there's scandal in the Great British Bake Off...

10:05 Piercing the criminal underbelly: Mark van Leewarden on life as an undercover cop

Mark van Leewarden tells Kathryn his fascinating and sometimes unsettling true life story about the realities of a secret life in New Zealand's criminal underworld of the late 1970s, and of going on to become New Zealand's most successful international fraud investigator.  Mark's used his experiences in the civilian world since. Mark van Leewarden is a barrister specialising in international fraud investigations, and is the managing director of a private investigation and security company. As a twenty year old, Mark was persuaded into the undercover world, and once he'd successfully traded with his first "fence" he was off and away, as described in a new memoir Crimetime: From Undercover Cop to International Investigator.

10:35 Book review:  AUP New Poets 8 - Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng

Chris Tse reviews AUP New Poets 8 by Lily Holloway, Tru Paraha and Modi Deng, published by Auckland University Press

10:45 The Reading

The Bee by Melissa Browne read by Alex Greig.

11:07 The trouble(s) with Facebook

Technology commentator Bill Bennett joins Kathryn to talk about Facebook's bad week. It was out for six hours on Tuesday, then there was the damaging evidence from former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen that the company has known - and ignored - the harm it causes. Financial media coverage this week suggests Facebook executives know the company is in steady, long-term decline.

11:25 Update to Magic Beans story

Magic Beans is a community food swap initiative that runs in the Hawke's Bay, and Kathryn talked to its founders  - Sarah Grant and Anneliese Hough - about their plans to take it off Facebook and onto its own platform. 

They say they've had a flurry of responses from listeners after their interview and are extending their crowdsourcing campaign  - in the hopes of meeting their target. 

11:25 Parenting with Nathan Wallis - coping with lockdown effects on children's routines 

Neuroplasticity educator and parenting expert, Nathan Wallis talks to Kathryn about Covid lockdowns and getting children back to a normal routine and dealing with the anxiety of going back to school after the holidays.

11:45 No Time to Die, Summer of Soul, The Alpinist

Film and TV reviewer James Croot is along to talk about the latest James Bond film, Summer of Soul, Spice Girls: How girl power saved the world and The Alpinist.

Music played in this show

The Limit
Darkside
09:30am  

Flipside 
Leisure
09:45am 

Too good 
Arlo Parks 
10.35am

Confessions
Sudan Archives
10.45