Nine To Noon for Friday 9 December 2022

 

09:05 Is real culture change on the horizon for Fire and Emergency ?

A highly critical review has found Fire and Emergency has failed to fix its poor workplace culture and recommends setting up an independent complaints body. The Internal affairs Minster has said work will progress on this but in the interim an independent panel will soon be put in place. The review by Belinda Clark found FENZ hasn't changed enough since the damning 2019 Judge Coral Shaw report which found harassment and bullying was endemic throughout the organisation. Kathryn speaks with a volunteer firefighter, Jane (not her real name), who made a complaint of sexual harassment against a senior officer two and half years ago - and has been stood down from her brigade since then, while the respondent has remained in his role

09:25 Asuntha Charles: Afghanistan's growing humanitarian crisis

Children and families in Afghanistan are facing a growing humanitarian crisis, as mid-winter bites hard.
Following decades of conflict, poverty, recurrent natural disasters, and the continuing impacts of the pandemic Afghanistan is enduring a hunger crisis, a near-collapse of the health system, devastation to schools, and the destruction of family livelihoods. World Vision's Afghanistan National Director Asuntha Charles is was the only World Vision foreign national who stayed in Afghanistan after power was transitioned back to the Taliban, while others were evacuated or left.  Asuntha is one of the few female leaders dealing with the Taliban. She explains to Kathryn Ryan huge the humanitarian challenges are.

 

09:35     Three Dunedin students with a head for business : dry shampoo

Elsha Bulmer, Jenna Willis and Morgan Passey from Otago Girls High School have taken out this year's top prize at the Young Enterprise Scheme Awards. They  created a colour-matching dry shampoo offering sun protection - particularly for the scalp. The trio's company, Sole, has sold over 500 products marketed via TikTok. Their enterprise has resulted in each of them winning a $5-thousand dollar scholarship to the Massey University Business School.

09:45 Asia correspondent Ed White : focus on China

China appears to be finally calling time on zero-Covid after three years, Ed talks about what has forced Xi Jinping to make a U-turn on one of his hallmark policies. Also, China farewells former paramount leader Jiang Zemin and with an exodus of China's wealthy, there are reports billionaire, Jack Ma has turned up in Tokyo.

 

Ed White is a correspondent with the Financial Times.

 

10:05 A deep dive into flavour, texture and spice!

Urvashi Roe is a Great British Bake-off participant who's taken a life-time of snacking delicious food cooked by numerous aunts, uncles and cousins and turned it into a book called Biting Biting. Born in Tanzania to parents originally from Gujarat, she moved to London at the age of five. Although her parents were on a tight budget, they always made sure there was some "Biting" on the table. Her book is a celebration of her family's customs, and the food of the Gujarati diaspora in Africa and the UK. She tells Kathryn her food memories started in London in the 1970s , when her mother would bring home food her friends had made at the factory she worked at - and it was Punjabi, and Sri Lankan, and South Indian, and Caribbean - all the cultures that were settling in South London at the time.

10:30 Around the motu : David Williams in Christchurch

The Christchurch City Council is pushing ahead with the first step towards partially selling its blue chip assets, a complaint about Christchurch mayor Phil Mauger's election campaigning has been passed on to police, and staff shortages have forced the closure of an in-patient mental health unit Hillmorton Hospital.

10:35 Book review: The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll

Louise Ward of Wardinis Bookshop in Havelock North reviews The Little Match Girl Strikes Back by Emma Carroll, published by Simon & Schuster

10:45 The Reading

Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly told by Neenah Dekkers Reihana and Reon Bell.

11:05 New music with Jeremy Taylor

Bruce Springsteen’s covers set is an unexpected joy, the fine fifth album from Princess Chelsea, a brand new track from Lawrence Arabia, and a tribute to The Clean’s Hamish Kilgour.

11:30 Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

Sam discusses the winners from last night's NZ Rugby Awards. And it's been a busy week for the HR departments of England and Wales Rugby. Wayne Pivac was ousted as Wales coach, with Warren Gatland helicoptered back in 9 months out from the World Cup. Now England are on the hunt for a new head coach after axing Eddie Jones. What impact could the international coaching movements have on the New Zealand landscape?. Also all the drama from the FIFA World Cup.
 

11:45 The week that was 

Comedians Elisabeth Easther and Donna Brookbanks with some humorous stories and advice on how to keep your bread fresh.

 

 

Music played in this show

Track:Driving Man
Artist: Mel Parsons
Broadcast time: 10:45

Track: Pretty Boys
Artist: Paul McCartney / Khruang Bin
Broadcast time: 10:10