Nine To Noon for Wednesday 16 November 2022

 

09:05 David Parker on sweeping RMA changes

The government is planning to ditch the Resource Management Act -  promising a faster and more simple way to manage the built and natural environment. Two new bills replacing the RMA should become law next year, with the new system expected to take about a decade to bed-in. A third bill focussed on climate, will set out how managed retreat would work and who would pay for it, but that may not be passed before next year's election. The Environment Minister David Parker says the changes will free-up land and resources for more housing, and save developers, infrastructure providers and businesses hundreds of millions of dollars a year.

09:30 Polish officials react to missile strike

Poland's government is holding an urgent meeting of its national security and defence committee after reports Russian missiles crossed into its territory, killing two people. It's believed two stray missiles hit a Polish village near the border of Ukraine. Local firefighters told Reuters two people had died in an explosion -  a senior US intelligence official told the Associated Press the missiles had crossed into Poland, which is a member of NATO. Russia had been bombarding cities in Ukraine overnight New Zealand time - hitting cities including Kyiv and Lviv in the west, Kharkiv in the northeast and Odesa in the south. Ukraine's government says it's the heaviest wave of missile strikes in nearly nine months of war. Kathryn speaks with Warsaw-based Deutsche Welle correspondent Rafal Kiepuszewski.

09:40 Scoot or bike and ride: Trial of new way to connect to public transport

A pilot programme set to run in Auckland is looking at how park and ride services could be adapted to scoot or bike and ride instead. The aim is to take the pressure off park and ride services which have become extremely popular and  - at times - oversubscribed. Researchers at Auckland University's School of Architecture and Planning have received funding from Waka Kotahi to trial a six-month programme that will use the city's Panmure station to base a micro-mobility hub with e-scooters, e-bikes and powered bike racks to connect commuters with where they want to go. A series of mini-hubs will extend the reach of the hub network beyond the rail station area. Dr Tim Welch is the pilot's principal investigator and joins Kathryn to explain how it'll work - and why he believes any attempt to lure commuters from their cars brings benefits for the whole community.

09:45 Australia: Medibank hack, China meeting, more floods, Djokovic scores

Australia correspondent Karen Middleton joins Kathryn to talk about efforts by law enforcement to minimise the damage done by hackers who got the private health data of more than 9 million customers and started to release it on the dark web after a ransom was refused. PM Anthony Albanese is confident relations between his country and China are entering a new era after he and President Xi Jinping met on the sidelines of the G20. Flooding has again hit towns in central west New South Wales and anti-vax tennis champ Novak Djokovic will be allowed to play in the Australian Open despite his deportation and 3-year ban earlier this year.

10:05 Deconstructing a shared British identity to sell Australasian goods

We look at how British culture and identity have historically been used by Kiwi and other Commonwealth marketers and advertisers to sell products abroad. Felicity Barnes is a senior lecturer in history at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland. She has researched how advertisers between the first and second world wars constructed a shared British identity in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. What she's found is outlined in her new book Selling Britishness: Commodity Culture, the Dominions and Empire. During the inter-war period New Zealand, Australia and Canada, filled British shop windows, newspaper columns, and cinema screens with "British to the core" Canadian apples, "British to the backbone" New Zealand lamb, and "All British" Australian butter. Dr Barnes says a thread running through the marketing was selling a Dominion-styled British identity. Some international advertising campaigns featured touring sports-people and politicians championing the products of their home countries to British shoppers. And from 1934, here is Australian test cricket captain Bill Woodfull's appeal for Empire buying, talking about being part of one big British family.

 

10:35 Book review: Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

Jenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore reviews Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson, published by Text Publishing

10:45 The Reading

Mick Rose reads 'Images' by Owen Marshall.

11:05 Music with Kirsten Zemke: Whistling songs!

Music commentator Kirsten Zemke joins Kathryn to talk about songs over the decades that have whistling at their heart. Sit back, relax and whistle along! Kirsten Zemke is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Auckland's School of Social Sciences.

11:20  GP-turned-crime writer Fiona Sussman on her new page-turner 

What would you do, if you arrived home to find your wife naked - but for an apron - bleaching a stain from the carpet that only she can see? It's the set-up for Fiona Sussman's latest page-turning novel - in which two couples who have known each other for years have their lives turned upside down by a cancer diagnosis - and then by a mysterious death. Fiona is an Auckland-based writer who's written short stories and novels - including Addressed to Greta and The Last Time We Spoke, which won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel in 2017. Fiona trained in medicine and was a GP for years - experience she's taken and used for the book, called The Doctor's Wife.

11:45 Science: Could a gene mutation help free a convicted killer?

In today's science slot, Professor Allan Blackman looks at the case of Kathleen Folbigg - dubbed 'Australia's worst female serial killer' over the deaths of her four children. A second inquiry into her convictions has been fuelled by the intervention of a group of researchers who suggest a genetic mutation may have caused their deaths. Allan will also talk about a new study into why some people are mosquito magnets and how low frequency bass can really rock a dance floor!

 

Music played in this show

Track: Star Love
Artist: Cheryl Lynn 
Time played: 10:30am 

Track: Limit to your Love 
Artist: James Blake
Time played: 10:40am