Nine To Noon for Friday 23 August 2024

09:05 Harbourmaster details shortcomings in response to Aratere grounding

Marlborough's harbourmaster has detailed shortcomings in the response to June's Aratere ferry grounding. Jake Oliver's report says at times, responders were confused as to who was in charge. Police took the lead, and there was no formal handover to other agencies.  He also details issues with communications. The Interislander ferry Aratere ran aground at Titoki Bay, near Picton, in June.  KiwiRail, Maritime NZ and the Transport Accident Investigation Commission are still investigating the incident. Oliver has made 26 recommendations to the council, and speaks about them with Kathryn Ryan.

09:20 The battle to beat the mpox outbreak in the Congo - before it spreads further

The deadly virus M-pox has reached Asia. Last week, the World Health Organisation declared the increasing spread of M-pox in Africa a global health emergency. It's now been detected in two cases outside Africa - one in Sweden, and now one in Thailand, in a 66 year old European man who arrived in Bangkok from an unnamed African country last week. He has the M-Pox strain known as Clade One-b. At least 450 people have died from M-pox in an outbreak centred in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 96 percent of cases have been reported. The disease, which can be spread through close contact with an infected person, is hitting children particularly hard in the Congo. Kathryn speaks with Greg Ramm, country director with Save the Children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. For more details on the outbreak, or information on how you can help, please click here or here, for RNZ's explainer.

0925 Auckland school trades academy fostering future builders

There are 70 students at One Tree Hill College who are getting hands on experience in renovating a house - under the watchful eye of qualified tradies. Kāinga Ora has provided a former state house, originally from Māngere East -  which year 12 and 13 students doing the school's trades course are able to work on. Part of the retrofitting involves making the house into a dry and healthy home, and this is aimed at preparing the students for apprenticeships in the building sector. One Tree Hill College's Teacher in Charge of Trade Charlotte McKeon and year 13 student Imroz Ali talk to Kathryn about the initiative

09:45 Pacific correspondent Lydia Lewis

RNZ Pacific correspondent Lydia Lewis is in Tonga - where Pacific leaders are starting to arrive for the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders' Meeting. The Kingdom is hosting the leaders and ministers of 18 Forum member nations. Lydia runs through the main issues to be discussed. These include the seasonal worker brain drain, freer travel around the Pacific,  making it easier for Pacific nations to access climate finance to prepare for disaster, but the New Caledonia political crisis is front and centre.

 

10:05 Robin Woodsford: Why Boomers should fight for the future

It was the greatest generational shift the world had seen. Post-war babies who grew into young people not content to just accept the way things were - picking a fight against the 'isms': racism, sexism, militarism, consumerism.. But they didn't realise how much they'd been shaped by the traumatised parents who raised them. Robin Woodsford has examined this in his book 'Me and my generation: Why Boomers should claim the past and fight for the future'. He was an activist himself, working for the Young Christian Workers movement in the 70s, before going on to become a youth worker, counsellor and therapist. His book is part memoir, part exploration of what the Baby Boomer generation stood for - and where it ran out of mojo. He makes the argument that the job's not done, and fellow Boomers should be thinking hard about how to make their legacy count.    

10:35 Book review: Becoming Tangata Tiriti: Working with Māori, Honouring the Treaty 

Paul Diamond reviews Becoming Tangata Tiriti: Working with Māori, Honouring the Treaty by Avril Bell published by Auckland University Press

10:45 Around the motu: Kelly Makiha in Rotorua

An independent panel has given the go-ahead for a controversial housing development for 202 homes at Ngongotahā in Rotorua. And two children believed to be as young as 6 and 10 have  smashed through a glass door of a Rotorua vehicle dealership, two dirt bikes taken. 

Kelly Makiha is a senior journalist with the Rotorua Daily Post.

11:05 Music reviewer Grant Smithies​

Thirty years ago, British production collective The Ballistic Brothers released London Hooligan Soul, a diverse double-LP overview of UK club culture. A remastered 30th Anniversary edition has just been reissued, and we'll hear two key tracks from that today, followed by chiming guitar business from Auckland's Silk Cut and some 80s Afro-disco from Ghana's Kofi Ayivor.
 

11:30 Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

The All Blacks coaching group lasted only five tests - Sam looks at the what Leon MacDonald’s departure means for the ABs, plus the return of the America’s Cup and the farewell of a Warriors great.
 

11:45 The week that was Te Radar & Donna Brookbanks

Comedians Te Radar and Donna discuss some of the contenders for strangest pet insurance claim of the year.