Nine To Noon for Monday 8 May 2023

 

 

09:05 Health Minister Ayesha Verrall

Health Minister Ayesha speaks with Kathryn Ryan about the state of the health system. Last week the Minister's office released a plan outlining how New Zealand's GPs and hospitals will cope with what is anticipated to be a very tough winter. The lukewarm response it garnered from health professionals was that it contained good ideas, but was hardly likely to resolve what many are calling a crisis.

09:30 How to lessen construction's impact on greenhouse gas emissions

Seventy-five percent of annual global greenhouse emissions come from the built environment - that's buildings, construction and infrastructure. On their own, buildings contribute 37 percent. Three-quarters of the infrastructure needed by 2050 - just 27 years from now - still needs to be built. Any attempt to rein global warming and keep it under that critical 1-point-five degree Celsius mark simply can't happen unless major changes are made to the way we build. So what are the barriers to doing that and how can they be overcome? Kathryn speaks with Victoria Burrows, Director of Advancing Net Zero at the World Green Building Council.  She's in New Zealand as part of the Green Property Summit taking place in Tamaki Makaurau on Wednesday.

09:45 Africa correspondent Debora Patta

Debora says there is no simple escape for the people of Sudan, who have been living with gunshots ringing out in residential areas and fighter jets thundering for weeks now. A recent daring rescue mission by US special forces evacuated around 100 American diplomatic staff from Khartoum, the battle-torn capital of Sudan. She also talks to Kathryn about Russia's growing influence in Africa in recent years and after the invasion of Ukraine.
 

Debora Patta is a CBS News foreign correspondent based in South Africa.

10:05 Selfies from a ghost town: Jos

The story of lost gold and a ghost town kept alive by one man's photography is told in a new doco Jos - The Forgotten Photographer Who Saved A Town.  Waiutua is a dot of a place on the West Coast south of Reefton. Bringing it back to life on film started three years ago, when Dave Kwant and co-producer Robyn Janes started work on a documentary about Waiuta Whispers of Gold.  But it soon became apparent who the star of the show really was. Photographs taken in the early 1900s by Czech emigre Jos Divis had kept the town alive, despite it being abandoned in the 1950s, with billions of dollars worth of gold still left underground.The filmmakers were amazed to find Jos Divis had been overlooked - even though he is credited as being the "inventor of the selfie". Kathryn speaks with Dave Kwant, geologist and biographer Simon Nathan and photographer Brian Scadden who has recreated some of Divis' photographs using early 20th C equipment.

10:35 Book review: Unscripted by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams

Robert Kelly reviews Unscripted by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, published by Penguin Random House

10:45 Around the motu : Andrew McRae in Hamilton 

The saga of the Founders Theatre continues, with an absolute last chance to convince Hamilton city council to not demolish the theatre coming up next week. This has dragged on for years now with a community group wanting to save it but the council wanting to bowl it. Also Andrew talks to Kathryn about a flagship biodiversity project which connects with Hamilton Zoo and the observatory to form a nature precinct, and a plan announced to seek change of consent for major residential housing near Ruakura by Tainui Group Holdings. Meanwhile the Chiefs are on a roll in Super rugby

 

RNZ Hamilton correspondent, Andrew McRae

11:05 Political commentators Bernie O'Donnell & Liam Hehir

Bernie and Liam join Kathryn to talk about the shock defection of Meka Waitiri to Te Pati Māori  - where does this leave Labour and the waka-jumping legislation? How does that improve the Māori Party's chances at the election. They'll also discuss the departure of Green MP Elizabeth Kerekere, the rejigging of the feebate scheme, dawn raids and on-going problems with Te Whatu Ora.

Bernie O'Donnell is the Chairman of Manukau Urban Māori Authority and a Labour Party Member.

Liam Hehir is a Palmerston North lawyer, political commentator and a National Party member

 

11:30 The nutritional and medicinal uses of herbs

Herbs have so many varied uses, eaten raw or cooked into dishes as well as being used in remedies and cleaning products. Jane Wrigglesworth writes for numerous publications including NZ Gardener and Lifestyle Block - she specialises in gardening, herbs and herbal remedies. Her new book, Everyday Herbalist contains information about how to grow herbs and also the many ways they can be used for health and wellbeing. She's also on Instagram @jane.a.wrigglesworth

 

11:45 Artificial Intelligence and Cities: for better or worse?

Urban issues correspondent Bill McKay looks at the two-decade old concept of the Smart City - where data and digital systems help things run more efficiently, like traffic, for example. Could AI make managing cities better? Or is there a risk it will exacerbate and perpetuate problems that already exist?

Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.

 

Music played in this show

Track: Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Artist: Robert Johnson
Time Played: 10:37

Track: Travelling Riverside Blues
Artist: Led Zeppelin
Time Played: 10:40