Nine To Noon for Wednesday 22 June 2022

 

09:05 GPs say funding offer is "insulting and insufficient"

GPs say they're at breaking point, and a recent funding offer from the outgoing DHBs and interim Health New Zealand is "insulting and insufficient". Primary Health Organisations have been in negotiations over a capitation percentage increase, which is the principal mechanism that sets the funding of general practice. GPs who are part of a PHO receive a base level of funding per patient visit and are allowed to charge a co-payment. Every year, GPs do more than 20 million consultations with patients,  funded with around one billion dollars from the government. But family doctors say they're stretched to breaking point, and the three per cent increase that has been offered is way off the mark. Kathryn speaks with Dr Samantha Murton, President of the College of General Practitioners.

09:30 Fletcher promises to increase plasterboard supply

Fletcher Building says it plans to increase supply over the next few months and believes the plasterboard market will come back to equilibrium by October.  In documents released ahead of its investor day, the company says supply will increase by 10 percent in the next four months, after it reconfigured its factory, increased imports and issued royalty-free licenses to 10-parties to import foreign made plasterboard, which might breach its trademark. It comes as the government has established a taskforce to look at alternatives to GIB board, which makes up 95 percent of the market. RNZ business reporter Nicholas Pointon.

09:30 MĀUI: teaching youth life skills

An almost sold-out performance for Matariki is educating hundreds of Auckland school students about vulnerability and leadership, resilience and joy. Youth worker, choreographer and dancer Hadleigh Pouesi speaks with Kathryn about challenging troubled youth to turn from crime and live a better life by expressing themselves through dance as a physical expression of culture.  Hadleigh's dance-theatre work MĀUI is being presented with three shows at the Aotea Centre tomorrow, as part of the Matariki Festival and Pacific Dance Festival programme.
Hadleigh is a performer in the show, also director and choreographer.  He is in charge of, and part of a cast of over thirty  performers.  He is also a director with Freshmans Dance Crew, which is responsible for creating employment opportunities for over 100 young performers.  As a day job, Hadleigh is a manager at Zeal West Auckland - a dedicated youth centre in Henderson supporting young people through networking, korero and upskilling.

09:45 Australia: Energy crisis continues, Julian Assange, Bernard Collaery trial

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn with an update on the nation's energy crisis, as the national competition watchdog decides to investigate spiraling prices and accusations that power companies are gaming the market by withdrawing supply, leading to blackout warnings. Julian Assange's family and friends fear he could be on a plane to the US within weeks after the UK approved his extradition. And could a new attorney general stop the trial of Bernard Collaery and his former client, Witness K, for their alleged role in exposing a 2004 bugging operation targeting Timor-Leste?

10:05 Douglas Stuart: Young Mungo

Booker Prize-winning Scottish novelist Douglas Stuart speaks with Kathryn Ryan about his new novel, Young Mungo, which is breaking hearts. Young Mungo develops into a romance between two teenage boys.  Mungo is Protestant, James is Catholic.  Their relationship is forbidden on so many levels. Set in the early '90s in hard-bitten Glaswegian tenements riven with sectarian violence, where 'real' men prove themselves as thugs, Young Mungo is a story exploring the bounds of masculinity, the magnetism and disappointment of family, the violence experienced by many queer people, and the dangers of falling in love.  Douglas Stuart is Glaswegian born and bred.  He won the Booker Prize two years ago for his first novel, Shuggie Bain, finally trying his hand at writing after a glittering career in fashion design.

10:35 Book review: The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach

Michelle Rahurahu reviews The Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach, published by Simon & Schuster   

10:45 The Reading

 The New Ships, episode two. Written by Kate Duignan.

11:05 Music with Kirsten Zemke: The power of the duet

Music commentator Kirsten Zemke joins Kathryn to play some duets. Traditionally a duet is a musical composition/performance for two in which the performers have equal importance. Today we look at some big mixed gender duets.

11:20 Six weeks on a steamer boat: Touring Edwardian New Zealand

Travelling to, and around, New Zealand was a major investment in time in the early 20th century. So what made tourists - mainly from Britain - undertake the journey? And how was the country sold to would-be travellers at the time? Historian Paul Moon has written about it in a new book called Touring Edwardian New Zealand. He looks at the Thomas Cook guidebook, first published in 1902, and how the fledgling tourism industry operated at a time when New Zealand was still dealing with tensions between Māori and Pakeha, and wrestling with its colonial ties to Britain.

11:45 Arts: Krishnan's Dairy, Mrs Krishnan's Party, Ngā Rorirori

Arts commentator John Smythe joins Kathryn to talk about Indian Ink's current tour with Krishnan's Dairy and Mrs Krishnan's Party. What's made these two plays so successful at home and around the world? He'll also talk about Ngā Rorirori, opening this week at Wellington's Circa Theatre.

John Smythe is Managing Editor of theatreview.org.nz.

 

 

Music played in this show

Track: Forget Me Nots
Artist: Patrice Rushen
Time Played: 9:35am

Track: The Fall
Artist: Rhye
Time Played: 10:40