Nine To Noon for Wednesday 21 August 2024

 

09:05 Tairāwhiti's largest GP practice cuts back

Tairāwhiti's largest GP practice has closed its books to new patients and will no longer open at weekends or afterhours. Three Rivers Medical has 20,000 patients - 9,000 of whom are Māori. The move means there will effectively be no after hours service in Gisborne, leaving the hospital's emergency department the only option. Kathryn speaks with Dr Hiria Nielsen, managing partner at Three Rivers Medical.

09:20 Knowing your rights : when police evidence and human rights collide

University of Auckland law lecturer Alex Allen-Franks is keenly awaiting the outcome of a case that has been before the Supreme Court - where a passenger in a car that was pulled over, had his photo taken by the police, and the picture was then linked to a robbery for which he was charged. At issue is whether the photograph from an unrelated incident should be permissible in the prosecution of a crime. Dr Allen-Franks who is the Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice, has no involvement with the case, but says it raises interesting issues. She will be talking next week at the University's annual Raising the Bar about knowing your rights.

09:30 Backcountry to banjo: How a Niuean country musician is inspiring Pasifika youth

Annafinau Tukuitoga is a trailblazing bluegrass musician from Paeroa who is inspiring other Pasifika youth, both inside and outside of music. The 20 year old singer, songwriter and banjo player grew up in Paeroa and has been performing in country music competitions for most of her life. She includes Niuean in her lyrics and sees it at a platform to promote the language. She's also taken up leadership positions outside of music, from youth parliament to international conferences, and most recently she's been recognised on the YWCA's list of leaders under 25.

09:45 Australia: Liberals' deadline flub, Dutton defends Gaza migrants stance

Australia correspondent Chris Niesche details how the Liberal Party managed to miss a deadline to file election nominations in New South Wales - meaning more than 100 candidates won't be able to run for council. It could result in legal action, after a request from the party's state president for an extension was denied. Meanwhile Liberals' leader Peter Dutton has rejected claims he's racist, over his stance on Palestinian refugees from Gaza.

10:05 Megan Dunn's lifelong obsession is turned into a midlife mer-moir

What is it about mermaids? They appear throughout history, from legends and books to film and even on your Starbucks cup. For Megan Dunn, the 1984 movie Splash was the siren call for a lifelong obsession with mermaids, one that she explores in her new book The Mermaid Chronicles. She She dives into legends, from The Little Mermaid to New Zealand's own Pania of the Reef, and travels to meet the biggest names in the professional mermaid business. Through her research, Megan came to understand more of her mid-life and motherhood. And then...there's Daryl Hannah. Megan joins Kathryn to explain.

10:35 Book review: The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne 

Jenna Todd of Time Out Bookstore reviews The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne published by Allen & Unwin

10:45 Around the motu : Tim Brown in Christchurch

Work to restore ChristChurch Cathedral is over - for now. The project needed a central Government lifeline, which cabinet rejected earlier this month. The cost to rebuild the cathedral, which was extensively damaged in the February 2011 earthquake, had more than doubled from 2017 estimates to 219 million dollars, leaving an 85 million dollar shortfall.

11:05 Music with Dave Wilson: How healing and music is intertwined

Music correspondent Dave Wilson plays three tracks that demonstrate the role music can have in healing.  The sounds that people produce through voices, instruments, and other means are intertwined with individual and community wellbeing of all kinds through listening and through sensing of all kinds of vibrations.

Dave Wilson is a saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and interdisciplinary scholar, a Senior Lecturer in Music at the New Zealand School of Music-Te Kōkī.

11:20 Magnolia man Vance Hooper  

Vance Hooper has been breeding plants since the 80s. The Taranaki nurseryman is most well known for his 'Genie' species of magnolia - a multi-award winning cultivar he bred in the early 2000s. Last year 'Genie' was even selected to be part of the King's Coronation Collection. Vance and wife Kathryn have littered their Waitara farm cottage - known as Magnolia Grove - with a huge range of magnolias growing everywhere you look. And not just magnolias - Vance has begun experimenting with bananas and there's a bamboo forest. 

11:45 Personal finance: Should young professionals rent-vest while overseas?

Money expert Simran Kaur joins Kathryn to talk about the wisdom of buying a property to rent if you're off overseas and want to build equity while you're away.

Simran Kaur is the co-host of the podcast Girls That Invest. This discussion is of a general nature, and does not constitute financial advice.