Nine To Noon for Thursday 2 February 2023

09:05 News and current affairs

09:30 Floods intensify Auckland's housing crisis

With so many uninhabitable homes across Tāmaki Makaurau - the housing crisis in our biggest city has intensified. So far 175 of the city's flood damaged houses have been red stickered and 760 yellow stickered  - and hundreds more are awaiting assessment. Volunteers at an emergency centre in Mangere say around 400 displaced people are turning up each day, needing emergency housing food and clothing. Auckland Property Investors Association is warning rents are likely to rise as remedial work to flood-damaged properties affects supply. The Real Estate Institute says over a third of all residential properties in Auckland are rented, and it is  appealing to people who may have short term rental and long term rental properties available to get in touch. Kathryn speaks with Real Estate Institute Chief Executive Jen Baird,  Éimhín O'Shea, National Organiser for Renters United, and Tupuola Roine Lealaiauloto from Pacific transitional and social housing supplier, the Penina Trust.

09:45 UK: Biggest single-day strike, Raab bullying claims, Brexit N. Ireland deal

UK correspondent Lara Spirit joins Kathryn to look at the massive strikes which have hit the UK overnight, with schools, trains, universities and border checks affected. It's the biggest single-day of strikes for a decade and up to half a million workers are involved. She'll also look at the pressure Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced in the House today over what he knew about bullying claims against his deputy Dominic Raab, and a deal is believed to have been struck over the Northern Ireland protocol with Brussels reported to have made a key concession.

Lara Spirit is a reporter for The Times Red Box, where she covers politics from Westminster.

10:05 Choreographer Crystal Pite on creating dance inspired by real-life events  

In 2015 an estimated 1.3 million refugees poured into Europe, many of them from war-torn Syria. It inspired Crystal Pite to tell their story in her own way - by creating a contemporary ballet for them called Flight Pattern. The Canadian choreographer has since expanded it, making it into a full length work called Light of Passage which had its premiere late last year with The Royal Ballet.  Crystal's repetoire is expansive - she's created more than 50 works for some of the biggest dance companies in the world. She formed her own company - Kidd Pivot - in 2002 and is bringing one of its most popular shows - Revisor - to the Auckland Arts Festival next month. And Kidd Pivot is one of the first dance companies in the world to make itself carbon neutral while on tour.

10:35 Book Review - Three of the best from 2022: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout, Song of Less by Joan Fleming and Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith

Hannah August reviews three of her favourite books from last year: Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout,  published by Penguin; Song of Less by Joan Fleming, published by Cordite and Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers by Emma Smith, published by Penguin

 

10:45 Around the motu: David Williams in Christchurch

What does leadership look like in a disaster? David compares Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown's leadership this week with how Bob Parker and Lianne Dalziel coped with the Christchurch earthquakes and terror attacks. He looks at how current Christchurch mayor Phil Mauger's council is faring and whether reality meets the rhetoric and what's happened to the city's Metro Sports facility, one of the anchor projects in the rebuild.

11:05 Technology: New tool to combat ChatGPT cheating, Labour + tech, chip wars

Tech commentator Peter Griffin joins Kathryn to talk about how the developer of OpenAI has released a tool to try to determine if text has been created using artificial intelligence, largely in response to concerns in the education sector about a wave of AI-written essays. He'll also look at what the Labour cabinet reshuffle looks like for the tech sector and the US has enlisted its allies Netherlands and Japan to ramp up computer chip sanctions against China, which will make it harder for China to get access to the highly advanced chips it needs.

11:25 Toxic perfectionism in kids

When does 'doing your best' cross the line into unhealthy perfectionism? And what can you do as a parent, if you are worried this is affecting your child? Dr Justin Coulson is a parenting expert, founder of happyfamilies.com.au, author of six books and co-host on Australia's Channel Nine's Parental Guidance. We spoke with him last in 2020,  about how to connect with teenage daughters. He knows a bit about this - he is dad to six daughters! Justin says perfectionism can stop children from taking risks and making mistakes, but parents can help them adapt

11:45 Screentime: Not Even, The Glory, Wednesday

Film and TV correspondent Laumata Lauano joins Kathryn to talk about Not Even, a six-part series centred on a group of Māori and Pasifika friends living in Wellington. She'll also look at K-drama The Glory, which some have pegged as the next Squid Game and Netflix favourite Wednesday.