Sunday Morning for Sunday 11 September 2016
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Karl Kane and Richard Bartlett - E-Democracy
7:07 AM.With voter participation at an all time low among digital natives is there a digital fix to a growing crisis of democratic participation? Richard Bartlett is a co-founder of group decision making tool… Read more Audio
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The Week In Parliament Sunday 11 September 2016
7:30 AM.Week in the House dominated by urgency, which was accorded on Tuesday for the passing through all stages of the Housing Legislation Amendment Bill. However, the Government's plans to see the bill… Read more Audio
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Local Elections - Coromandel
7:47 AM.Each week we will visit a region in New Zealand to find out what the big issues are in the upcoming local body elections. This week we speak to editor of the Mercury Bay Informer, Stephan Bosman. Read more Audio
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Insight: Cleaning Franchises - Business Opportunity or Dirty Business?
8:12 AM.Teresa Cowie delves into the complicated world of cleaning franchises amid accusations that wages are being driven down, workers are losing their jobs, clients are confused and some franchisees are… Read more Audio
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Mediawatch for 11 September 2016
9:07 AM.Mock shock over fake coke joke; the NZ story which really went viral this week; stuff of substance in the time of clickbait; spreading the word when quakes strike. Audio
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Douglas Osto - Psychedelic Spirituality
9:40 AM.Massey University's Dr Douglas Osto joins Wallace to talk about how the pursuit of enlightenment has often intersected with mind-altering drugs. His new book, Altered States - Buddhism and Psychedelic… Read more Audio
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The New Torchlight List: North America
10:03 AM.Jim Flynn discusses North American authors and tells Wallace Chapman that everyone must read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. He also highly rates Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, but Wallace and Jim… Read more Audio
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The new culture of narcissism
10:07 AM.Narcissism is on the rise says author Anne Manne, and her new book looks at our culture that celebrates the ‘I’. Read more Audio
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Petra Bagust and Ido Drent - Witnessing Human Trafficking
10:42 AM.Television presenters Petra Bagust and Ido Drent have been in Thailand and Cambodia getting a first hand experience of one of the world's fastest growing criminal industries: Human trafficking. They… Read more Audio
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Fiji opposition leaders detained
11:06 AM.The leaders of Fiji's two opposition parties and a prominent trade unionist were being held at separate police stations in the capital, Suva, last night after an afternoon of questioning over an… Read more Audio
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Mark Engler - Non Violent Revolts
11:10 AM.Mark Engler is the co-author, with his brother Paul, of This is an Uprising: How Non Violent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century. He's a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and author of How to Rule… Read more Audio
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Emily Rapp Black - Paralympic Blues
11:35 AM.Writer Emily Rapp Black was born with a congenital defect which led to the amputation of her left foot at age four. She tells Wallace Chapman that in reality people with disabilities are more ordinary… Read more Audio
7:08 Karl Kane and Richard Bartlett - E-Democracy
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With voter participation at an all time low among digital natives is there a digital fix to a growing crisis of democratic participation? Richard Bartlett is a co-founder of group decision making tool Loomio and recently spent time in Taiwan where e-democracy is flourishing. Karl Kane is a Massey University lecturer in visual communication design and the director of the Design+Democracy Project which recently developed Vote Local to help young people identify mayoral candidates with similar priorities to themselves.
7:30 News headlines
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 Local Elections - Coromandel
Each week we will visit a region in New Zealand to find out what the big issues are in the upcoming local body elections. This week we speak to editor of the Mercury Bay Informer, Stephan Bosman.
8:12 Insight: Cleaning Franchises - Business Opportunity or Dirty Business?
Some cleaners are being sacked or having terms and conditions abuse when contracts change over Photo: RNZ/Teresa Cowie
Cleaners says they are being pushed out of their jobs by aggressive tactics from cleaning franchise companies and the law that should be protecting them isn't working. But the country's biggest franchisor says most cleaners don't want the jobs once their employer changes Teresa Cowie investigates cleaning franchises and claims the business model is being used as a way to get cleaning work done for less than the minimum wage.
8:40 The New Torchlight List - Jim Flynn's Search for the Best Modern Authors
Episode 2 - North America
For the book, The New Torchlight List - In Search of the Best Modern Authors, Otago University Emeritus Professor of Politics Jim Flynn read and rated 400 books, mostly by modern novelists. In this episode of the RNZ podcast series based on his book, Jim discusses North American authors and tells Wallace Chapman that everyone must read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. He also highly rates Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, but Wallace and Jim agree that Don DeLillo's Underworld, which received "extravagant praise", isn't really up to snuff. As Jim says: "It is hard to write the great American novel when you are trying to write the great American novel."
9:06 Mediawatch
Is serious journalism being swamped by clickbait? Mediawatch asks an award-winning reporter about its future in tough times. Also: more tsunami drama on the East Coast; and two very different New Zealand stories which went viral online.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Douglas Osto - Psychedelic Spirituality
Doug Osto Photo: supplied
Massey University's Dr Douglas Osto joins Wallace to talk about how the pursuit of enlightenment has often intersected with mind-altering drugs. His new book, Altered States - Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America, looks at claims that hallucinogens like LSD have opened the door to higher states of consciousness.
10:06 Anne Manne - The Life of I - The New Culture of Narcissism
Why are narcissists not doing anything about climate change? Why are they pushing up house prices? Social philosopher Anne Manne ponders these questions in her book, The Life of I - The New Culture of Narcissism. She joins Wallace to explore this new culture that celebrates the 'I' - a culture that helps create narcissists such as Anders Breivik.
10:42 Petra Bagust and Ido Drent - Witnessing Human Trafficking
Petra Bagust and Ido Drent Photo: suplied
Television presenters Petra Bagust and Ido Drent have been in Thailand and Cambodia getting a first hand experience of one of the world's fastest growing criminal industries: Human trafficking. They tell Wallace what they saw, what they learnt and why we should all care.
Mark Engler Photo: supplied
11:05 Mark Engler - Non Violent Revolts
Mark Engler is the co-author, with his brother Paul, of This is an Uprising: How Non Violent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century. He's a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy.
11:35 Emily Rapp Black - Paralympic Blues
Emily Rapp is the author of Poster Child, a book which detailed her life as an amputee and poster child for the March of Dimes. She also wrote a haunting memoir, The Still Point of the Turning World, about her son, Ronan's battle with Tay-Sachs disease, a disease which eventually claimed his life. As an amputee, Emily has to put up with all kinds of insensitive comments about her disability - particularly when the Paralympics are on. She joins Wallace to talk about her experiences.
