Nine To Noon for Monday 12 December 2022

09:05 Health overhaul: Te Whatu Ora chair, Rob Campbell

This year has seen the beginning of a complete overhaul of the health system, from our hospitals to primary care,  and everything in between. Rob Campbell is the chair of Te Whatu Ora /  Health New Zealand which was established in July, along with the Maori Health Authority. He is tasked with bringing 20 DHBs together, including 80,000 staff and more than 200,000 staff in funded agencies,  with a focus on reducing inequity, while eliminating duplication, waste, and bureaucracy. But the challenges are myriad: chronic staff shortages, burn out, IT systems that don't talk to each other, GPS and primary health care professionals who say the funding system is broken and tens of thousands of patients waiting months for surgery. What has been achieved so far, what is the road ahead and when will we see change?

09:30  Improving the survival rates of undersize snapper caught and thrown back

Recreational fishers land over 4,000 tonnes of snapper annually. Fisheries New Zealand commissioned research carried out by NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)  into the survival rates of recreationally caught snapper that are released back to the sea. The project has been a NIWA collaboration with Ngāti Kuta, Legasea, and Bluewater Marine Research. Results show 85 percent of the fish were still alive at the end of the first experiment, and this could potentially help fishers to save hundreds of thousands of fish each year. Principal scientist at Fisheries New Zealand, Bruce Hartill, who was previously at NIWA, led the project and says more careful handling of fish can increase sustainability.

 

09:45 Europe: More arrests over alleged far-right coup plot in Germany

Seamus Kearney joins Kathryn to talk about the shock in Germany at an alleged plot to overthrow the government and install an ex-member of the royal family of head of state. At least 25 people have been arrested after raids by police in three countries and more arrests are expected. What is the Reichsbuerger Movement and how real was the danger? And a probe in Brussels could turn into one of the biggest corruption scandals to hit the European Parliament, with prosecutors investigating whether money and gifts from a Gulf State was used to influence political decisions.

10:05 Kate Mosse: celebrating extraordinary women erased from history

Historical novelist, playwright, and author of the best-selling Burning Chambers series and the Languedoc Trilogy, Kate Mosse is also a champion of women in literature. She's the founder director of the Women's Prize for Fiction, the world's largest annual celebration of women's writing. In 2013 she was awarded an OBE for services to literature and women. More recently, Kate Mosse has turned her attention to the many women whose achievements, inventions and lives have been erased from history. Last year, she started the #WomanInHistory campaign, asking people on social media to nominate a woman they think should be better known. Inspired by the overwhelming response from people around the world, Kate Mosse now has a new book out; Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. She speaks to Kathryn about why women's achievements have routinely been omitted from the history books, and what the consequences are of telling only half of our human story. 

10:30 Around the motu : Sam Olley in Northland

The Kaipara Council karakia controversy rolls on, doctor shortages force cut backs at Rāwene Hospital and it's been a year since the Kaimaumau Fires, which yielded a 9 million dollar emergency response.

 

10:35 Book review: Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

Phil Vine reviews Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami, published by Penguin Random House

10:45 The Reading

11:05 Political commentators Imam & Morten

Brigitte and Lamia join Kathryn to look at Labour's continuing slide and the polls and a weekend win for National in Hamilton West. Which portfolios are continuing to give the Government a headache and could a cabinet reshuffle planned for early next year make a difference? Three Waters has passed, but questions remain over the entrenchment clause and has co-governance been put on ice?

Brigitte Morten is a director with public and commercial law firm Franks & Ogilvie and a former senior ministerial advisor for the previous National-led government. 

Lamia Imam worked for two years for the Labour Party in the Leader of the Opposition's office under Phil Goff and David Shearer. She also worked for the Ministry of Justice, before gaining a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently works for a large technology company in Wellington.

11:30 Strange Nature Gin

It's full of flavour and it's made from grapes. Kathryn talks about gin made from the by-product of Marlborough Sauvignon Blanc with Strange Nature Gin part-owner Rhys Julian. The distilleries inquisitiveness resulted in this sustainable spirit.  Strange Nature are currently launching a bottle recycling programme in twenty New Zealand bars. .

11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

Kennedy talks about tuke, the rock wren, which has been declared Bird of the Year. This endangered alpine bird is one of the two remaining species of New Zealand wren. Five other species have gone extinct.

Music played in this show

Artist: Cruise Control

Track: Headless Chickens

Time played: 11:45