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08 October 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 One in Five (RNZ); 1:05 Discovery (BBC); 2:05 The Thursday Feature: Playing Favourites (RNZ); 3:05 Caught in Clay, written and told by Ellie Smith (RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ): 5:10 Witness (BBC)
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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Radio New Zealand's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour
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06:00
Top Stories for Thursday 8 October 2015
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Fires overnight in Canterbury, Otago, Police say their focus is on finding missing 10-year-old, Crown tell UK court Cairns's arrogance led him to lie, Fifa president Sepp Blatter provisionally suspended for 90 days, NZ soldiers say they feel safe working in Iraq's Taji Camp, Mistaken deportation allows man to dodge drugs trial, GCSB may step in to trace person who threatened Otago Uni, Long sentence for animal welfare case, and Offshore processing in Nauru under scrutiny.
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Duration: 33'27"
06:06
Sports News for 8 October 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'18"
06:08
Fires overnight in Canterbury, Otago
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With the very latest from Canterbury is the Canterbury Fire Service shift manager Riwai Grace.
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Regions: Canterbury, Otago
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Duration: 2'52"
06:12
Police say their focus is on finding missing 10-year-old
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Police have called on the military for help as they continue to search for ten year old Alex Fisher, who's missing in Waitarere Forest near Levin.
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Alex Fisher
Duration: 1'54"
06:15
McCaw out for Tonga on Saturday
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The All Blacks captain, Richie McCaw, has been ruled out of the team's final Rugby World Cup pool match against Tonga in Newcastle on Saturday.
Topics: sport
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Tags: rugby, RWC 2015
Duration: 2'15"
06:17
Pacific News for 8 October 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'31"
06:23
Morning Rural News for 8 October 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'12"
06:25
Te Manu Korihi News for 8 October 2015
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A lawyer for claimants challenging New Zealand's involvement in the Trans Pacific Partnership says the announcement of an agreement shows a complete lack of understanding of the Treaty's principles. The organiser of a unique grief support programme says it's attracting nation-wide interest. A Wellington restaurant that launched a billingual menu using English and Te Reo Māori says it's actually encouraging some diners to order their kai in Māori.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'23"
06:35
Firefighters unable to contain two major blazes overnight
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In the last few hours, Canterbury firefighters have managed to bring the fires in Oxford and Akaroa under control. Dave Shelton who lives near the site of the fire told Morning Report last night the fire appeared to have started with a burnoff at the weekend.
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Regions: Canterbury, Otago
Tags: fires
Duration: 3'23"
06:48
Air NZ sees passenger numbers driving strong profit growth
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Air New Zealand says passenger numbers are expected to grow by 15% in the next year, which will see its underlying profit nearly double in the first six months of the year.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Air New Zealand
Duration: 2'55"
06:51
Super Fund steering clear of Govt contributions
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The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is steering clear of calling for a resumption of government contributions to the fund, which were suspended in the wake of the global financial crisis and the deterioration in government finances.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Superannuation Fund
Duration: 2'53"
06:54
ASB says further dairy price rises needed to back forecast
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The latest dairy auction results have led to forecasters raising their estimates of farmer payouts this season to between $5 to $5.39 a kilo of milk solids.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: dairy, dairy products
Duration: 1'06"
06:56
UAE pushing ahead with economic diversification
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The United Arab Emirates is one the New Zealand government's targets for a free trade agreement but it has been struggling with weak oil prices, which remain mired below $50 U.S. a barrel.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: dairy, dairy products
Duration: 1'05"
06:59
Morning Markets for 8 October 2015
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Wall Street has pared back some earlier gains, due to concern about the outlook for earnings in the United States. Tech shares have fallen after reduced profit forecasts from companies such as Adobe.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'02"
06:59
NZers confidence in cyber security falls
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New Zealand organisations are far less confident about the security of their information and of their suppliers according to a new survey out this morning.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: cyber security, information security
Duration: 45"
07:06
Sports News for 8 October 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'44"
07:08
Some Dunedin evacuees back home following blaze
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Fires are continuing to burn but are now under control in the South Island. Families were also evacuated from their homes north of Oxford in Canterbury late yesterday. In Mosgiel Michael Knopp and his family were among those evacuated.
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Regions: Canterbury, Otago
Tags: fires
Duration: 4'21"
07:14
Fires continue to burn but under control in the South Island
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Our reporter Darryl Baser is at Saddle Hill.
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Regions: Canterbury, Otago
Tags: fires
Duration: 2'08"
07:16
Latest on Canterbury fires
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In Canterbury our Christchurch bureau chief Belinda McCammon is with us.
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Regions: Canterbury
Tags: fires
Duration: 2'08"
07:18
Search continues for missing Levin boy
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The search for a 10-year-old boy missing in the dense Waitarere Forest near Levin resumes in about an hour. Reporter Adriana Weber is at Waitarere Beach Fire Station.
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Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Alex Fisher
Duration: 3'18"
07:25
Crown tell UK court Cairns's arrogance led him to lie
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The prosecution has opened its case in Chris Cairns' perjury trial in London, describing him as golden boy of cricket, whose match fixing proposals some players found hard to resist. Cushla Norman has been at today's opening at Southwark Crown Court.
Topics: sport, law
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Tags: Chris Cairns, cricket, perjury trial
Duration: 7'11"
07:34
Fifa president Sepp Blatter provisionally suspended for 90 days
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Members of Fifa's ethics committee have been meeting since Monday - after the Swiss attorney general opened criminal proceedings against Blatter last month. Martin Lipton is the deputy head of sport for The Sun newspaper.
Topics: sport
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Tags: FIFA
Duration: 2'53"
07:38
NZ soldiers say they feel safe working in Iraq's Taji Camp
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The Prime Minister John Key flew into Iraq under a shroud of secrecy on Monday to witness first hand the New Zealand deployment. Political editor Jane Patterson reports on the New Zealanders carrying out the training, and the Iraqis they are working with.
Topics: defence force
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Tags: Iraq, Iraqi security forces, Islamic State, Daesh
Duration: 5'10"
07:42
Mistaken deportation allows man to dodge drugs trial
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A man facing serious drugs charges escaped his jury trial because he was mistakenly deported. Auckland court reporter Edward Gay has been looking into the case.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: deportation
Duration: 2'31"
07:44
GCSB may step in to trace person who threatened Otago Uni
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A forensic IT investigator says the GCSB may be called in in a bid to find out who made an online threat to shoot people at the University of Otago. Daniel Ayers is a Forensic IT investigator.
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Tags: GCSB, Otago University
Duration: 3'09"
07:45
McCaw rested for final All Black pool match
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The All Blacks will go into their last pool match at the Rugby World Cup against Tonga on Saturday without captain Richie McCaw. Reporter Alex Coogan Reeves was at the team announcement.
Topics: sport
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Tags: All Blacks, RWC 2015
Duration: 2'38"
07:49
Long sentence for animal welfare case
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A Landcorp dairy farm manager has been handed what is thought to be New Zealand's longest prison sentence for animal cruelty offences. Peter Hyde is MPI's Animal Welfare Manager.
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Tags: animal welfare, animal cruelty, Michael James Whitelock
Duration: 4'15"
07:57
Majority of the primary industries stoked with TPP
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Despite the dairy industry's grumblings about the Trans Pacific Partnership not living up to expectations many primary industries are celebrating the signing of the deal. Political reporter Benedict Collins has more.
Topics: economy, business
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Tags: TPP, primary industries, dairy industry, trade
Duration: 3'18"
08:06
Sports News for 8 October 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'52"
08:08
20 families still out of homes after fires
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Twenty families are still out of their homes after yesterday's fire near Mosgiel. Jamie Cowan is a rural fire officer for Otago.
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Regions: Canterbury, Otago
Tags: fires
Duration: 2'52"
08:14
Homes in peril from Oxford fire
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As many as 15 fire engines along with helicopters were in action late yesterday in a bid to save homes threatened by fire just outside Oxford in North Canterbury. Brian Clark who runs the town's Black Beech Bar was among those whose homes were off limits last night
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Regions: Canterbury, Otago
Tags: fires
Duration: 2'50"
08:17
John Key cops flak for judging Iraq too quick
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The Prime Minister's secret trip to Iraq is being hailed as a good move by opposition MPs, but he's copping flak for being quick to judge how safe it is there for New Zealand troops. Demelza Leslie reports.
Topics: politics, defence force
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Tags: Iraq, Iraq deployment
Duration: 2'39"
08:20
Political editor describes experience of visiting Iraq with PM
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Political editor Jane Patterson is with the Prime Minister in Dubai.
Topics: politics, defence force
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Tags: Iraq, Iraq deployment
Duration: 4'10"
08:24
Police maintin visible presence at Otago Uni following threat
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Dunedin Police are maintaining a visible presence at Otago University after an anonymous threat to shoot people was posted online this week. The Acting Area Commander is Inspector Mel Aitken.
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Regions: Otago
Tags: Dunedin Police, Otago University
Duration: 3'48"
08:27
TPP battle has only begun for Obama
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership deal has been agreed but the political fallout is just beginning in the United States. Shawn Donnan is the world trade editor for the Financial Times.
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Tags: TPP, USA
Duration: 4'56"
08:32
Markets Update for 8 October 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 41"
08:38
Offshore processing in Nauru under scrutiny
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The safety and security of asylum seekers on Nauru is under renewed scrutiny after several recent reports of rape. The ABC's Elizabeth Byrne says the hearings at the High Court will test for the first time whether Australia has the legal right to participate in the offshore detention of asylum seekers.
Topics: refugees and migrants
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Tags: Nauru, Nauru detention centre, Australia, asylum seekers
Duration: 2'52"
08:40
Nobel Prize for work on neutrinos raises new questions
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Three scientists from Sweden, the United States and Turkey have won the this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry for a discovery that promises to provide new ammunition in the war on cancer. Dr Art McDonald speaks with Kim Hill.
Topics: science
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Tags: Nobel Prize, chemistry, neutrinos
Duration: 4'45"
08:46
Te Manu Korihi News for 8 October 2015
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Researchers have managed to unravel the genetic heritage of New Zealand's first dog, the now extinct kurī. The organiser of a unique grief support programme says it's attracting nation-wide interest. A Māori spoken word poet says New Zealand has an uncanny connection with the indigeous people of Canada. A Wellington restaurant that launched a billingual menu using English and Te Reo Māori says it's actually encouraging some diners to order their kai in Māori.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'36"
08:50
Companies celebrated for tackling gender equality
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ANZ Bank and the New Zealand Defence Force were among organisations awarded by the YWCA last night for showing initiative in tackling the persistent wage gap in their work places.
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Tags: wage gap, pay gap, gender
Duration: 3'52"
08:53
Antarctic scientists may face new alcohol restrictions
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American officials say scientists in Antarctica are drinking so much that it has created 'unpredictable behavior' leading to 'fights, indecent exposure and employees arriving to work under the influence'.
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Tags: Antarctica
Duration: 4'20"
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===9:06 AM. | Nine To Noon===
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Current affairs and topics of interest, including: 10:45 The Reading: Speed of Light, by Joy Cowley, read by Simon Leary (9 of 10, RNZ)
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09:10
Julian Assange, The Wikileaks Files
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The founder of the international whistle-blowing website Wikileaks speaks to Lynn Freeman from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he's been holed up for three years. Julian Assange has a new book out The WikiLeaks Files which uses experts to collate and analyse the historic importance of some of the leaked cables.
Topics: author interview
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Tags: Julian Assange, Wikileaks, The Wikileaks Files, Ecuadorian Embassy, Sweden
Duration: 23'29"
09:33
Volkswagen's "toxic" culture to blame for emissions scandal?
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Volkswagen has admitted to rigging 11 million diesel cars with software that allowed them to cheat emissions regulations. US corporate management advisor and author Brian Fielkow says these issues always starts at the top. Mr Fielkow runs Houston-based logistics company Jetco Delivery and is about to head to New Zealand to speak about workplace health and safety at the Driving to Perfection Conference, organised by business advisors, Ritetrack.
Topics: environment
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Tags: emissions, vehicle emmisions, Volkswagen, company culture, workplace health and safety
Duration: 12'57"
09:44
Where did the kuri come from?
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Old bones from an ancient Maori oven are helping unravel the history of the Polynesian dog, or kuri, which were brought to Aotearoa by the first Maori settlers. University of Otago PhD student Karen Greig says genetic testing shows kuri are most closely related to Indonesian dogs. She says the ancient dogs had a variety of uses: guarding, hunting, cleaning and often... Eating.
Topics: history, science
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Tags: Kuri, dogs, Polynesian dogs, Indonesian dogs, genetics, Maori
Duration: 6'58"
09:50
UK correspondent Matt Dathan
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The latest news and politics from the UK.
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Tags: UK
Duration: 7'58"
10:09
Michelle Dixon: Tackling unconscious bias in the workplace
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Australian lawyer and CEO Michelle Dixon believes inequality in the workplace is never as black and white as some of us would believe, and is doing something about it. She makes everyone in her law firm, Maddocks, take unconscious bias training and is even prepared to cut the salary of male partners to achieve gender pay equity.
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Many women will recognise the warning signs – being cut off mid-sentence, distracted attention when pitching an idea, or being perceived as aggressive rather than assertive in business meetings.
Australian lawyer and CEO Michelle Dixon believes inequality in the workplace is never as black-and-white as some of us would believe, and she is doing something about it.
Michelle makes everyone in her law firm Maddocks take unconscious bias training, and is even prepared to cut the salary of male partners to achieve gender pay equity.
She talks with Lynn Freeman.
Topics: business, inequality, law, life and society
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Tags: gender, bias in the workplace, unconcious bias, gender pay equity, pay gap, wage gap
Duration: 27'18"
10:36
Book Review: Back to Blood by Tim Wolfe
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Reviewed by Ralph McAllister. Published by Random House, $27.99.
Topics: books
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Duration: 6'14"
11:06
Closure of Huntley East mine
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A media statement is expected shortly about this mine closure.
Topics: business
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Tags: Huntly East Coal Mine
Duration: 2'37"
11:08
New technology with Andy Linton
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On-line voting and our increasing reliance on "big data". Andy Linton has more than 30 years' experience in computer networking in the telecommunications industry and the academic sector. He currently spends his time teaching and helping build networks in developing regions around the world.
Topics: technology
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Tags: elections
Duration: 14'12"
11:27
Sarb Johal: Parenting adult children
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Failure to Launch. Clinical and health psychologist Sarb Johal, and Associate Professor at Massey University discusses how to deal with adult children who can't or won't leave the nest.
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Clinical and health psychologist and Associate Professor at Massey University Sarb Johal discusses the challenges of adult children who can't or won't leave the nest, also known as 'failure to launch'.
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Tags: parenting
Duration: 19'49"
11:49
Viewing with Paul Casserly
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The new faces of Grand Designs and The Daily Show and the best local current affairs show that no one's watching.
Topics: media
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Tags: television
Duration: 11'04"
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09:05 Julian Assange, The Wikileaks Files
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The founder of the international whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks is speaking to Nine to Noon from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he's been holed up for three years. He sought refuge there and was granted political asylum in August 2012, avoiding extradition to Sweden to be questioned on sexual assault allegations, which he denies. The Australian activist feared that if he set foot in Sweden he could then be extradited to the US and put on trial for releasing secret US documents. Five years ago, Wikileaks collaborated with some major global media organisations to publish confidential documents and images which became headline news.This included thousands of US Government cables, exposing documents relating to human rights violations, covert operations and alleged cover ups.
Julian Assange has a new book out The WikiLeaks Files which uses experts to collate and analyse the historic importance of some of the leaked cables.
09:25 Was Volkswagen's "toxic" culture to blame for the emissions scandal?
The German car giant Volkswagen has admitted to rigging 11 million diesel cars with software that allowed them to cheat emissions regulations, which could cost it up to 18 billion US dollars in fines. It was a series of mistakes that stem from toxicity in the company's culture, according to US corporate management advisor and author Brian Fielkow who says those issues always starts at the top. Mr Fielkow runs Houston-based logistics company Jetco Delivery and is about to head to New Zealand to speak about workplace health and safety at the Driving to Perfection Conference, organised by business advisors, Ritetrack.
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09:35 Where did the kuri come from?
Old bones from an ancient Maori oven are helping unravel the history of the Polynesian dog, or kuri, which were brought to Aotearoa by the first Maori settlers. University of Otago PhD student Karen Greig says genetic testing shows kuri are most closely related to Indonesian dogs. She says the ancient dogs had a variety of uses: guarding, hunting, cleaning and often... eating.
09:45 UK correspondent Matt Dathan
10:05 Michelle Dixon: Tackling unconscious bias in the workplace
Australian lawyer and CEO Michelle Dixon believes inequality in the workplace is never as black and white as some of us would believe, and is doing something about it. She makes everyone in her law firm, Maddocks, take unconscious bias training and is even prepared to cut the salary of male partners to achieve gender pay equity.
10:30 Book Review: Back to Blood by Tim Wolfe
Reviewed by Ralph McAllister, published by Random House
10:45 The Reading: Speed Of Light by Joy Cowley read by Simon Leary (Part 9 of 10)
11:05 New technology with Andy Linton
On-line voting and our increasing reliance on "big data".
Andy Linton has more than 30 years' experience in computer networking in the telecommunications industry and the academic sector. He currently spends his time teaching and helping build networks in developing regions around the world.
11:30 Sarb Johal: Parenting Adult children
Failure to Launch. Clinical and health psychologist Sarb Johal, and Associate Professor at Massey University discusses how to deal with adult children who can't or won't leave the nest.
11:45 Viewing with Paul Casserly
The new faces of Grand Designs and The Daily Show and the best local current affairs show that no one's watching.
===Noon | Midday Report===
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Radio New Zealand news, followed by updates and reports until 1.00pm, including: 12:16 Business News 12:26 Sport 12:34 Rural News 12:43 Worldwatch
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12:00
Midday News for 8 October 2015
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Solid Energy's coal mine at Huntly is going to close and firefighters are keeping an close eye on the remaining hot spots around the South Island.
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Duration: 15'15"
12:17
A2 Milk hopes to raise $43 million in institutional share offer
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The speciality milk producer, A2 Milk Company, is looking to raise 43-million dollars through an underwritten sale of new shares to exisitng and institutional shareholders.
Topics: business
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Tags: A2 Milk Company
Duration: 1'26"
12:18
ANZ truck survey points to perkier economy
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The ANZ Bank's latest economic survey - the truckometer - suggests a slowdown in growth may have levelled out and there are a few signs of a pick up.
Topics: business
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Tags: ANZ Bank
Duration: 1'27"
12:21
Michael Hill sales up
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The ANZ Bank's latest economic survey - the truckometer - suggests a slowdown in growth may have levelled out and there are a few signs of a pick up.
Topics: business
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Tags: Michael Hill International
Duration: 42"
12:23
Business briefs
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Trading in Pyne Gould has been suspended by the NZX's regulator after the company failed to file its annual report on time.
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Duration: 30"
12:23
Midday Markets for 8 October 2015s
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Brad Gordon at Macquarie Private Wealth,
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'28"
12:24
More business briefs
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A British court has heard a convicted currency trader offered six brokers - including a New Zealander - take-away curry in exchange for helping to fix currency trades.
Topics: business
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Duration: 18"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 8 October 2015
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Adam Blair and Issac Luke have been named as co-captains of the Kiwis squad for their upcoming tour to England.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 3'13"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 8 October 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'46"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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13:09
First Song
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Decemberists - A Beginning Song
Topics: music
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Duration: 5'37"
13:14
Huntly East Coal Mine Closure - Allan Sanson
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Solid Energy is to close its underground coal mine at Huntly East, which employs 68 people. Company managers met workers at the mine this morning to give them the news. Solid Energy chief executive, Dan Clifford, said the mine had been struggling financially for some time and its loss-making position had become worse recently. The Waikato District Mayor, Allan Sanson, talks about how this will affect Huntly.
Topics: business
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Solid Energy, Huntly East Coal Mine
Duration: 5'13"
13:21
Huntly East Coal Mine Closure - Kim Baker Wilson
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Radio New Zealand's reporter, Kim Baker Wilson, has been at the Huntly East Mine speaking with workers this morning.
Topics: business
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Tags: Solid Energy, Huntly East Coal Mine
Duration: 3'24"
13:24
State of Play Survey - Dr Scott Duncan
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A new survey into how our kids play, shows that what's known as 'bubble wrapping' or 'wrapping your kids in cottonwool' can have major consequences for their development. The nationwide State of Play Survey, asked more than two thousand New Zealand parents about how their kids are playing. It was conducted by Auckland University of Technology's Human Potential Centre, in conjunction with Persil. Dr Scott Duncan is from the AUT Human Potential team.
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Tags: children, play, State of Play Survey
Duration: 7'33"
13:32
Colouring-In Books for Adults - David Hedley
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We're talking about the new craze of colouring-in books for adults. It's a phenomenon that's taking off in New Zealand and throughout the world. Two of the top ten places in Amazon's best seller book list, belong to the genre at the moment. But one bookshop owner says it's taken him by surprise. David Hedley in the owner of Hedley's Bookshop in Masterton.
Topics: arts, books
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Tags: Colouring-In Books
Duration: 8'42"
13:40
Favourite Album
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The Cure - Disintegration, chones by Andy Turley.
Topics: music
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Duration: 19'10"
14:07
First Person - John Campbell
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Times just got tougher for the people of provincial New Zealand, with Solid Energy today (WE EXPECT) announcing the closure of its Huntly Mine and the loss of (68?) jobs there. Our reporter John Campbell has been working on another podcast in his First Person series. We heard part of last week's one, which dealt with issues affecting the working poor in Manukau. The latest episode centres around the meatworks at Wairoa.
Topics: business
Regions: East Coast
Tags: AFFCO
Duration: 14'21"
14:22
Road Map - Raglan
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We're heading out west from Hamilton along State Highway 23 today to the town with the world-famous left-hand surfing break, Raglan
Topics: life and society
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Raglan
Duration: 37'37"
15:07
The Expats
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This week we're talking to World Vision's security director for East Asia, Tristan Clements.
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Tags: expats
Duration: 13'34"
15:25
Masterpieces
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Designer Simon James discusses a couple of his favourite furniture designs.
Topics: business
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Tags: Simon James, design
Duration: 8'19"
15:45
The Panel pre-show for 8 October 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 13'46"
21:06
Science of stony soils and water
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There are a million hectares of stony soils in New Zealand - and scientists are using lysimeters to measure how water and cow urine move through them
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By Alison Ballance
“We’ve an integrated research project using lysimeters to quantify how our management activities affect both the performance of crops and also how water and nutrients leach out the base.”
Sam Carrick, Soil Scientist, Landcare Research.
What do a 50-cm diameter barrel, a 2-metre diameter sewer pipe and a shipping container have in common? They are all being used to study stony soils in Canterbury, to see how water and animal urine move through the soil, affect plant growth and contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide. They have been turned into lysimeters, which enclose an undisturbed plug of soil that can be fitted with scientific instruments so it can be studied in detail. The smaller lysimeters can even be dug up and moved to a new location, while keeping the soil structure intact.
Sam Carrick is a soil scientist from Landcare Research at Lincoln, and he is involved in a six-year research programme called ‘Forages for Reduced Nitrate Leaching’. The project, which is being run by a number of organisations at the Lincoln Hub, including Lincoln University, Dairy NZ, and Plant and Food as well as Landcare Research, aims to ‘reduce nitrate leaching losses by 20 percent by delivering proven, adoptable and profitable pasture and forage crop options.’
A number of lysimeters have been installed on research farms around Lincoln. One contains 24 of the smaller lysimeters, and has a moveable greenhouse that can slide over the lysimeters to keep them dry during a rain storm. This is because irrigation rates are being studied in this experiment, and natural rain would upset the calculations. Different kinds of irrigators deliver water at different rates, and even a centre pivot irrigator delivers differing amounts of water at different points along the irrigator. Sam says it’s important to know the best flow rate and the optimum interval to irrigate at to ensure that the greatest amount fo water stays in the soil and doesn’t flush straight through.
In other experiments lysimeters are variously treated with a nutrient-rich amount of water that mimics a natural urine patch left by a cow.
The 50-cm diameter barrels are the same size as an average urine patch, so some lysimeters can be treated while others are left as controls.
The exercise is being scaled up using the Christchurch rebuild-inspired lysimeters made from a piece of sewer pipe and the shipping container. These lysimeters are large enough to grow crops on, and a number of urine patches can be applied across the surface. Previous research has shown that in the course of a year about cows deposit urine on about half a paddock.
2015 is Year of Soils, and we have already featured stories about New Zealand's rich diversity of soils and Earthworms.
Topics: science, environment, farming
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Tags: Year of Soil, soils, pasture, irrigation, water, nutrients, lysimeter, dairy farming
Duration: 14'02"
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1:13 First Song
Decemberists - A Beginning Song
1.15 Huntly East Coal Mine Closure - Waikato District Mayor Allan Sanson
Solid Energy is to close its underground coal mine at Huntly East, which employs 68 people. Company managers met workers at the mine this morning to give them the news. Solid Energy chief executive, Dan Clifford, said the mine had been struggling financially for some time and its loss-making position had become worse recently. The Waikato District Mayor, Allan Sanson, talks about how this will affect Huntly.
1.20 Huntly East Coal Mine Closure - Kim Baker Wilson
Radio New Zealand's reporter, Kim Baker Wilson, has been at the Huntly East Mine speaking with workers this morning.
1.25 State of Play Survey - Dr Scott Duncan
A new survey into how our kids play, shows that what's known as 'bubble wrapping' or 'wrapping your kids in cottonwool' can have major consequences for their development. The nationwide State of Play Survey, asked more than two thousand New Zealand parents about how their kids are playing. It was conducted by Auckland University of Technology's Human Potential Centre, in conjunction with Persil. Dr Scott Duncan is from the AUT Human Potential team.
1.30 Colouring-In Books for Adults - David Hedley
We're talking about the new craze of colouring-in books for adults. It's a phenomenon that's taking off in New Zealand and throughout the world. Two of the top ten places in Amazon's best seller book list, belong to the genre at the moment. But one bookshop owner says it's taken him by surprise. David Hedley in the owner of Hedley's Bookshop in Masterton.
1.40 Favourite Album
The Cure - Disintegration
2:10 First Person - John Campbell (Live in AK studio)
Times just got tougher for the people of provincial New Zealand, with Solid Energy today (WE EXPECT) announcing the closure of its Huntly Mine and the loss of (68?) jobs there. Our reporter John Campbell has been working on another podcast in his First Person series. We heard part of last week's one, which dealt with issues affecting the working poor in Manukau. The latest episode centres around the meatworks at Wairoa.
2:20 Road Map - Raglan
We're heading out west from Hamilton along State Highway 23 today to the town with the world-famous left-hand surfing break, Raglan
3:10 The Expats
This week we're talking to World Vision's security director for East Asia, Tristan Clements.
3.25 Masterpieces
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Designer Simon James discusses a couple of his favourite furniture designs.
3.35 Our Changing World: Science of stony soils and water
Canterbury's gravel outwash plains are covered in stony soils that are increasingly being irrigated for intensive dairying. Sam Carrick from Landcare Research takes Alison Ballance on a tour of some research farms around Lincoln and introduces her to pieces of soil science kit called lysimeters, some of which have been inspired by the Canterbury rebuild.
3:45 Panel Pre-Show - Jon, Jim & Zara
What the world is talking about, with Jon Bridges, Jim Mora and Zara Potts.
===4:06 PM. | The Panel===
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An hour of discussion featuring a range of panellists from right along the opinion spectrum (RNZ)
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15:45
The Panel pre-show for 8 October 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 13'46"
16:03
The Panel with Lisa Scott and Selwyn Manning (Part 1)
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What the Panelists Selwyn Manning and Lisa Scott have been up to. All Blacks coach Steve Hansen says they're erring on the side of caution by resting captain Ritchie McCaw because of his bruised leg. Prime Minister John Key has seen the "god dam awful place" that is the Iraqi training camp where New Zealand troops are doing their duty. Should they be there? University of Otago lecturer Dr Bryce Edwards tells us what life's like after the on-line gun threat aimed at the campus. Patrick Walsh of John Paul College in Rotorua joins the Panel to discuss if teachers are fleeing the profession early in their career and why.
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Duration: 22'16"
16:05
The Panel with Lisa Scott and Selwyn Manning (Part 2)
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Ground breaking sci fi novel Dune is nearly 50 years old. What the Panelists Selwyn Manning and Lisa Scott have been thinking about. Mark Graham of the Building Guide joins the Panel to discuss how red tape is making people build bigger houses. Barrister Douglas Ewen talks about thousands of suspensions that could be invalid. Where does this leave the NZTA legally? Terror in China as highrise glass walkway cracks.
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Duration: 27'24"
16:07
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Selwyn Manning and Lisa Scott have been up to.
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Duration: 3'42"
16:11
Ritchie McCaw's leg
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All Blacks coach Steve Hansen says they're erring on the side of caution by resting captain Ritchie McCaw because of his bruised leg.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'48"
16:13
Troop training in Taji
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Prime Minister John Key has seen the "god dam awful place" that is the Iraqi training camp where New Zealand troops are doing their duty. Should they be there?
Topics: defence force
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Tags: Iraq, John Key
Duration: 3'43"
16:17
University of Otago after the threat
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University of Otago lecturer Dr Bryce Edwards tells us what life's like after the on-line gun threat aimed at the campus.
Topics: crime
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Tags: online threats
Duration: 4'25"
16:22
Teacher exodus?
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Patrick Walsh of John Paul College in Rotorua joins the Panel to discuss if teachers are fleeing the profession early in their career and why.
Topics: education
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Duration: 7'53"
16:32
Dune turns 50
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Ground breaking sci fi novel Dune is nearly 50 years old.
Topics: books, history
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Duration: 4'39"
16:37
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Selwyn Manning and Lisa Scott have been thinking about.
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Duration: 7'18"
16:45
Auckland housing
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Mark Graham of the Building Guide joins the Panel to discuss how red tape is making people build bigger houses.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 8'56"
16:54
Demerit driving suspensions invalid
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Barrister Douglas Ewen talks about thousands of suspensions that could be invalid. Where does this leave the NZTA legally?
Topics: transport
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Tags: driving lisences
Duration: 5'31"
16:59
Glass walkway
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Terror in China as highrise glass walkway cracks.
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Duration: 42"
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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Radio New Zealand's two-hour news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 8 October 2015
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Searchers find the body of 10-year-old, Alex Fisher.) Dozens of jobs to go as Solid Energy announces its closing the Huntly coal mine and Kim Dotcom takes the stand at his extradition hearing.
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Duration: 20'31"
17:09
Solid Energy plans to close Huntly East mine
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Workers at Solid Energy's Huntly East mine today had their fears confirmed with the state-owned coal miner announcing its plans to shut the mine.
Topics: business
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Tags: Solid Energy, Huntly East mine
Duration: 4'58"
17:14
Police find body in search for 10-year-old
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Police have found the body of the missing schoolboy, Alex Fisher, and have launched a homocide inquiry.
Topics: crime
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: boy, search, body, homocide inquiry
Duration: 2'37"
17:18
Killer of Auckland dairy owner keeps name suppression
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The teenage boy who stabbed an Auckland dairy owner to death during a botched robbery in Henderson is to keep permanent name suppression.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Aurn Kumar, name suppression
Duration: 3'43"
17:22
Dotcom speaks at extradition hearing
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Kim Dotcom says if he had a crystal ball, he would have put aside some of the millions he donated to his ill-fated Internet Party, to fund his extradition defence.
Topics: law, crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Kim Dotcom
Duration: 2'30"
17:24
Dr Rongo Wetere walks away from court case for millions
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Dr Rongo Wetere and his daughter Susan Cullen have abandoned a legal bid for millions of dollars against Te Wananga o Aotearoa.
Topics: law
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Tags: Rongo Wetere, Susan Cullen
Duration: 3'19"
17:27
Fire Service says resources have been stretched in the south
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The Fire Service says its resources have been extremely stretched over the past 24 hours with more than a-thousand call outs in the South Island.
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Regions: Canterbury, Otago
Tags: fires
Duration: 3'03"
17:34
Today's market update
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The speciality milk producer, A2 Milk Company, is looking to raise 43-million dollars through an underwritten sale of new shares to existing and institutional shareholders.
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Duration: 2'00"
17:36
Solid Energy concedes Huntly coal miners will struggle
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Solid Energy has conceded that workers at its Huntly underground coal mine will struggle to find work elsewhere.
Topics: business
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Solid Energy
Duration: 3'06"
17:39
US says NZs role in Iraw shows ISIL a global problem
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The American spokesman for the coalition efforts against Islamic State in Iraq has used New Zealand's presence there to further its argument that ISIS poses a global threat.
Topics: defence force
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Tags: Irak, IS, John Key
Duration: 4'02"
17:44
Parata vetoed charter school results comparison
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The Education Minister, Hekia Parata, has vetoed a plan to compare the results of charter school students with those at state schools.
Topics: education
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Tags: Hekia Parata, charter schools
Duration: 2'24"
17:45
Principals are hailing a new digitally-based education system
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East Auckland principals are hailing a new digitally-based education system as key to engaging children in low decile schools, in particular tangata whenua. The teaching style is called 'Manaia/kalani'; it's been adopted by 12 schools, including a Kura Kaupapa Maori, which say it's transformed their students' learning. Laura Bootham from Te Manu Korihi reports.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Auckland Region
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Duration: 3'21"
17:49
Council removes embarassing dairy farm pollution data
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A dairy lobby group appears to have pressured the Manawatu Wanganui Regional Council into removing potentially embarrassing information about dairy farm pollution.
Topics: farming, rural, environment
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: dairy, pollution
Duration: 3'25"
17:53
Akl Council confident it could cope with population boom
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The Auckland Council is adamant it's doing enough to prepare the city to cope with the predicted population boom and any environmental harm that may come with it.
Topics: environment, housing, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: State of the Environment report
Duration: 2'20"
17:56
State of the Environment report
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A specialist report has confirmed the presence of asbestos at a run-down hot-pool complex near Kaikohe.
Topics: business
Regions: Northland
Tags: asbestos
Duration: 2'36"
18:07
Sports News for 8 October 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'05"
18:12
Body of Alex Fisher has been found
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Searchers have found the body of the missing 10-year-old Levin boy Alex Fisher.
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Regions: Manawatu
Tags: Alex Fisher, homicide investigation
Duration: 4'47"
18:17
Teacher claims she was bullied for being European
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A trainee teacher says she was bullied and discriminated against at a Maori and Pacific school in south Auckland because she's European.
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Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Sandra Marx, Employment Relations Authority, employment, Southern Cross Campus
Duration: 2'54"
18:20
Students say more hardship than ever
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Students' associations say demand for their foodbanks and financial support is higher than ever, and one has already used up its entire hardship fund for the year.
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Tags: foodbanks, financial support, Students' associations
Duration: 2'55"
18:23
Farmer works all night to save home from flames.
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A farmer who spent all night figting the fires that engulfed Saddle Hill above Mosgiel has saved his home from destruction
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Regions: Canterbury, Otago
Tags: fires, Saddle Hill
Duration: 2'27"
18:25
New blue cod rules for the Marlborough Sounds
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In a bid to appease recreational fishermen and to safeguard dwindling fish numbers, new rules have been announced for blue cod in the Marlborough Sounds.
Topics: environment, law
Regions: Marlborough
Tags: fishing
Duration: 3'54"
18:33
Barack Obama apologises for airstrike on Afghan hospital
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The American President Barack Obama has phoned the aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières to apologize for the accidental killing of 22 people in a US airstrike in Afghanistan.
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Duration: 3'18"
18:36
Amnesty international calls for release of Myanmar prisoners
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Amnesty International is accusing the Myanmar Government of locking up and harassing scores of peaceful activists in the lead up to elections in November.
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Duration: 3'27"
18:41
Govt says major economic benefits to be delivered by new dam
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The Government says the proposed Waimea Community Dam near Nelson would deliver major economic benefits to the region.
Topics: politics
Regions: Nelson Region
Tags: Waimea Community Dam
Duration: 2'05"
18:45
Bangladeshi asylum seeker fights return to Nauru
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A court case challenging the right of Australian authorities to hold asylum seekers in offshore detention centres is being heard at the High Court in Canberra.
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Duration: 3'33"
18:50
Te Manu Korihi News for 8 October 2015
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Waikato-Tainui says the closure of the Huntly East Mine will have a devastating impact on the community, but it's considering the first right of refusal rule when it comes to the land the mine sits on; East Auckland principals are hailing a new digitally-based education system as key to engaging children in very low decile schools.
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Duration: 3'07"
18:53
TPP opponent demands immediate release of text
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A prominent opponent of the is Trans Pacific Partnership is demanding the immediate release of the details of the agreement.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 2'43"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 At the Movies
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Simon Morris reviews The Martian - Sir Ridley Scott’s thriller set on the Red Planet, yet another version of Peter Pan – a prequel this time called simply Pan. He also looks at another well-visited property; Shakespeare’s McBeth, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
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19:30
At The Movies for 8 October
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Simon Morris reviews The Martian - Sir Ridley Scott's thriller set on the Red Planet, and yet another version of Peter Pan - a prequel this time called simply Pan. He also looks at another well-visited property, Shakespeare's McBeth, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
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Simon Morris reviews The Martian - Sir Ridley Scott’s thriller set on the Red Planet, yet another version of Peter Pan – a prequel this time called simply Pan. He also looks at another well-visited property; Shakespeare’s McBeth, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
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Duration: 23'36"
19:30
At The Movies for 8 October 2015
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On At The Movies, Simon Morris reviews The Martian - Sir Ridley Scott's thriller set on the Red Planet… and yet another version of Peter Pan - a prequel this time called simply Pan. He also looks at another well-visited property, Shakespeare's McBeth, starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard.
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Duration: 23'36"
7:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris: Current film releases and film related topics (RNZ) 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:06 Our Changing World: Science and environment news from NZ and the world (RNZ)
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19:12
Learning from the dead
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This year's coveted 'Major Contribution to the Understanding of Death Award' was presented to British pathology museum curator Carla Valentine, who is responsible for about 300 preserved human brains at Barts Pathology Museum.
Topics: science
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Tags: biology, London, pathology, anatomy, human brains, death, death award, Barts Pathology Museum
Duration: 22'52"
20:45
Pasifika
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Swaying to the broad range of arts and culture from around the Pacific is Samoan/Pakeha playwright and independent theatre producer Leilani Unasa... Pacific artists and public art: who's doing what and where.
Topics: arts, Pacific, life and society
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Tags: Pasifika, Pacific arts, public art, Fatu Feu'u, Sopolemalama Filipe Tohi, Michael Tuffery, Lonnie Hutchinson, Martin Leung Wai, Petelo Esekielu, Te Oro
Duration: 14'50"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 7
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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Duration: 22"
21:59
Conundrum Clue 8
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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Duration: 29"
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7:10 pm Learning from the dead
This year's coveted 'Major Contribution to the Understanding of Death Award' was presented to British pathology museum curator Carla Valentine, who is responsible for about 300 preserved human brains at Barts Pathology Museum.
7:30 At The Movies
Films and movie business with Simon Morris.
8:10 Windows on the World
International public radio documentaries - visit the Windows on the World web page to find links to these documentaries.
8:40 pm Pasifika
Swaying to the broad range of arts and culture from around the Pacific is Samoan/Pakeha playwright and independent theatre producer Leilani Unasa... Pacific artists and public art: who's doing what and where.
9:06 Our Changing World
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Bird of the Year Competition 2015
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'Vote Albatross' is the cry from Our Changing World producer Alison Ballance, who is campaign manager for Albatross in this year's Bird of the Year competition.
This is the 11th year of the competition, organised by Forest and Bird to highlight some of New Zealand's native birds. It was first won by tui, and since then it has been won by fantail, grey warbler, kakapo, kiwi, kakariki, pukeko, falcon and mohua. Last year the competition was for Seabird of the Year and it was won by a coastal species, the fairy tern.
Alison reckons that since New Zealand is albatross capital of the world, and since a true ocean-going seabird has never won, it's about time the magnificent albatross was a winner.
Voting is open until 5pm on Sunday 25 October, and a reminder that after you vote you need to click the confirmation email that is sent to you.
Vote Albatross has a website and a Facebook page, and you can also keep up with Alison and the campaign on Twitter.
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21:06
Science of stony soils and water
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There are a million hectares of stony soils in New Zealand - and scientists are using lysimeters to measure how water and cow urine move through them
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By Alison Ballance
“We’ve an integrated research project using lysimeters to quantify how our management activities affect both the performance of crops and also how water and nutrients leach out the base.”
Sam Carrick, Soil Scientist, Landcare Research.
What do a 50-cm diameter barrel, a 2-metre diameter sewer pipe and a shipping container have in common? They are all being used to study stony soils in Canterbury, to see how water and animal urine move through the soil, affect plant growth and contribute to the emission of greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide. They have been turned into lysimeters, which enclose an undisturbed plug of soil that can be fitted with scientific instruments so it can be studied in detail. The smaller lysimeters can even be dug up and moved to a new location, while keeping the soil structure intact.
Sam Carrick is a soil scientist from Landcare Research at Lincoln, and he is involved in a six-year research programme called ‘Forages for Reduced Nitrate Leaching’. The project, which is being run by a number of organisations at the Lincoln Hub, including Lincoln University, Dairy NZ, and Plant and Food as well as Landcare Research, aims to ‘reduce nitrate leaching losses by 20 percent by delivering proven, adoptable and profitable pasture and forage crop options.’
A number of lysimeters have been installed on research farms around Lincoln. One contains 24 of the smaller lysimeters, and has a moveable greenhouse that can slide over the lysimeters to keep them dry during a rain storm. This is because irrigation rates are being studied in this experiment, and natural rain would upset the calculations. Different kinds of irrigators deliver water at different rates, and even a centre pivot irrigator delivers differing amounts of water at different points along the irrigator. Sam says it’s important to know the best flow rate and the optimum interval to irrigate at to ensure that the greatest amount fo water stays in the soil and doesn’t flush straight through.
In other experiments lysimeters are variously treated with a nutrient-rich amount of water that mimics a natural urine patch left by a cow.
The 50-cm diameter barrels are the same size as an average urine patch, so some lysimeters can be treated while others are left as controls.
The exercise is being scaled up using the Christchurch rebuild-inspired lysimeters made from a piece of sewer pipe and the shipping container. These lysimeters are large enough to grow crops on, and a number of urine patches can be applied across the surface. Previous research has shown that in the course of a year about cows deposit urine on about half a paddock.
2015 is Year of Soils, and we have already featured stories about New Zealand's rich diversity of soils and Earthworms.
Topics: science, environment, farming
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Tags: Year of Soil, soils, pasture, irrigation, water, nutrients, lysimeter, dairy farming
Duration: 14'02"
21:20
How best to invest in science
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Motu's director Adam Jaffe responds to the government's science funding strategy and discusses recent research into the efficacy of the Marsden Fund.
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We should fund research.
But trying to choose the best
Doesn't work too well.
Haiku summary of a Motu research project evaluating the Marsden Fund
This week, the government released its science funding strategy, setting out a long-term vision for the science system and a guide for future investments.
The National Statement of Science Investment (NSSI) lays out several key goals: to simplify contestable funding processes, to review the core funding for Crown Research Institutes, to “refresh” the Health Research Council and to introduce annual performance reports evaluating the science system.
At the NSSI launch, science minister Steven Joyce also stressed the government’s intention to increase public funding of science. “We have made a commitment to grow our investment in science further to 0.8 per cent of GDP and include more ideas-led discovery research, which is likely to generate substantial long-term benefits for New Zealand.”
New Zealand spends less money on research, relative to its size, than many other countries in the OECD, and the government’s goal of expanding public funding of science would narrow this gap. But the intention comes with the caveat that it would require a balanced budget.
Adam Jaffe, the director of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research, says raising public investment from about 0.5 per cent of GDP currently to 0.8 per cent would be significant, but it should not hinge on favourable fiscal conditions.
That caveat means that we don’t quite know if or when it’s going to happen. The current government seems quite focused on balancing the budget so the money would have to come from somewhere else. What’s unfortunate about that is that the evidence both internationally and to some extend from New Zealand is that the return on an increased investment in science would be very beneficial for New Zealand.
Adam Jaffe, Motu
He says conditioning the goal on achieving a budget surplus doesn’t make sense from an economic perspective.“If the return is high you’d like to make that investment even if you have to borrow money to do it because the return is going to be there.”
Adam Jaffe says he is not advocating a crash programme because the science system could not support that, but he would like to see a commitment to a long-term gradual increase. “Something like 5 per cent over inflation per year for the next 10 years, that would be the kind of programme that would build the infrastructure and the science system that we need in New Zealand.”
Nicola Gaston, the president of the New Zealand Association of Scientists and a principal investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, welcomes the NSSI as a great improvement on the draft document which was released a year ago.
“Some of the recommendations made by the NZ Association of Scientists (as well, no doubt, as by others) appear to have been taken seriously: this is reflected, for example, in the stated intent to increase levels of investigator-led funding both through the Marsden Fund and through MBIE mechanisms.”
But she says nothing has been done to address the severe shortage of postdoctoral fellowships in New Zealand.
Shaun Hendy, the director of Te Punaha Matatini, echoes the concerns.
“This government cut 90 post-doctoral fellowships in 2010 after officials made a simple mathematical error in a briefing document to the then minister, Wayne Mapp. The draft Statement mentioned post-doctoral fellowships 10 times, and sector submissions made more than 50 mentions of their concerns about a lack of funding for postdocs. Yet this final cut fails to mention postdoctoral fellows at all. This is really very disappointing.”
He says he’s found little new thinking or new policy in the NSSI document.
The priorities still seem to lie principally in seeing science as a route to economic growth, with the nods to health and environmental research focussing on how they too can help grow the economy.
Shaun Hendy, Te Punaha Matatini
Adam Jaffe welcomes the intention to improve evaluation and performance measurement in the science sector. Last week, Motu released a study that evaluated the efficacy of the Marsden Fund and found that grant recipients clearly benefit.
“We find that funding is associated with a significant increase in researchers’ scientific output and the apparent impact of their output as measured by subsequent citation.”
However, another result of the study shows that the selection process, in which expert panels rank the proposals, is not predictive of subsequent success, which implies that if the unfunded projects could have been funded, the benefit wold have been as great as for the projects that were actually funded.
“This means there is no reason to expect diminishing returns if Marsden funding were increased.”
Topics: science
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Tags: Marsden Fund, National Statement of Science Investment, public science funding
Duration: 17'41"
21:34
Why kakariki are losing their feathers
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Tiny skin mites are causing mange and feather loss amongst red-crowned parakeets on Tiritiri Matangi Island, and a screening programme is keeping an eye on the problem
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By Alison Ballance
“For the last few years we’ve seen quite a few rather bald and mangy looking kakariki, and we’ve discovered it’s a skin mite. The mite is microscopic, and it burrows around the feather follicle and pushes the feathers out.”
Emma Wells, bird keeper, Auckland Zoo
“The reality is we seeing more and more disease in wildlife. Because of the pressures wildlife is under animals are increasingly stressed and they’re succumbing to things that historically they might have been able to fight off.”
Dr Bethany Jackson, wildlife vet, Murdoch University.
Kakariki or red-crowned parakeets on Tiritiri Matangi Island, an open sanctuary in the Hauraki Gulf, have a problem. Many of them are losing feathers, and in the worst cases birds are becoming quite bald.
The culprit was identified as a mange mite by Australian wildlife vet, Dr Bethany Jackson, from Murdoch University. A few years ago Bethany investigated the problem as part of the PhD research, and since then she has worked with Auckland Zoo in an ongoing disease screening programme on the island.
Every spring a team visits the island to catch kakariki in mist nets, and assess their health status. The birds are banded, measured and weighed, blood samples are collected for disease screening, and feather loss is estimated. Over the week the zoo staff and volunteers are on the island they usually manage to sample about 70 birds. This spring more than half of the birds studied had mange.
Auckland Zoo keepers Emma Wells and Nat Sullivan also carry out a nesting study, following breeding success in fifty kakariki nests.
“What we want to know is how the mange is related to weather patterns and to food availability,” says Emma. “We also want to know if it’s causing issues with breeding. Last year, for instance we had a really low chick survival, with no survivors.”
Emma says that it seemed this low chick survival was related to poor food availability, and that the mange is worse during a poor food year.
The team take photographs of each bird, and by comparing photos of birds that have been caught more than once, over several years, there is evidence that some birds can recover from a bad case of mange.
Bethany says that the mite affects adult birds, but not chicks.
“We also know that kakariki on Little Barrier Island carry the mites, too, although they were looking normal when we sampled them,” says Bethany. “So we suspect this mite could be quite widespread in parakeets in New Zealand.”
Bethany says that it’s important to establish baseline disease surveillance for animals to set a benchmark for what’s ‘normal’.
“While disease is something that has always been part of wildlife ecology, the rate of change in terms of habitat change, climate change means wildlife is under increasing pressure from all directions, including predators,” says Bethany. “And really disease is just another threat we want to be keeping tabs on, and seeing if there’s something new coming into the country. And the reality is we seeing more and more disease in wildlife.”
Tasmanian devil facial tumour, chytrid fungus in frogs and a new fungus infecting salamanders are example of recent disease outbreaks, and Bethany says the growing international trade in wildlife increases the chances of diseases spreading.
Last year Our Changing World joined Auckland Zoo as they released captive-bred wetapunga, or giant weta, on Tiritiri Matangi Island.
Topics: science, environment
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Tags: birds, avian, wildlife disease, feather loss, kakariki, Red-crowned Parakeet, island
Duration: 17'03"
21:45
Wellington joins 100 Resilient Cities
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Wellington recently joined the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities programme and urban planners are now mapping out a long-term resilience plan for the capital.
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The way we define urban resilience is the ability of a city to not just survive but thrive in the face of shocks and stresses.
Nicola Thomson, 100 Resilient Cities
Wellington’s Lyall Bay is a favourite spot for surfers – and when the surf is up, the waves pound the beach with force.
At one end of the beach, there’s Surfers’ Corner, a small car parking area that was initially constructed to sit two metres above the beach. But within a short time, the wave action dumped so much sand against the car park's ocean-facing wall that it’s now only barely above the beach and the ocean regularly spills over and erodes the asphalted surface.
Myfanwy Emeny leads the urban ecology group at the Wellington City Council, and for her team, this is one of the challenges they face as they consider options for making the capital city’s coastline more resilient.
One of the decisions we have to make about this area is should we actually retreat from this car park and move it back closer to the road and replant the dunes in order to better protect the road and the infrastructure behind it.
Further along the beach dunes that have been planted with native sand-binding plants act as shock absorbers. They stand up to the impact and power of the waves and allow sand to be shifted around. “It’s a really effective mechanism to protect coastline.”
Along this part of Wellington’s coastline, the ocean already regularly spills over onto the road, taking logs and rocks with it. “That’s exactly what we’re trying to avoid in the future by looking at some medium to long-term solutions for Lyall Bay and the rest of our coastline as well.”
Wellington’s mayor Celia Wade-Brown says urban resilience is a big issue for the capital, which faces natural hazards such as earthquakes as well as longer-term impacts from environmental, social and economic changes.
“Whether it’s more refugees or sea level rise, it doesn’t happen overnight but has an impact on planning. We need to bring that together so it’s not just a central and local government issue, but businesses, communities, families and individuals as well.”
Wellington recently joined a global initiative of 100 Resilient Cities, which was launched by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2013. Last week, urban planners, hazards scientists and policy makers came together at a workshop to discuss a strategy to turn the capital into a more resilient city.
One of the speakers was Nicola Thomson, an associate director for 100 Resilient Cities. She says the programme was launched to help cities around the world to build natural, social and economic resilience in the face of challenges of the 21st century.
The way we define urban resilience is the ability of a city to not just survive but thrive in the face of shocks and stresses. Shocks are traditional disasters … a disease outbreak, an earthquake, a global financial crisis, but we also recognise that it’s equally important that a city builds resilience to stresses, which are things that are happening in a city constantly or on a cyclical basis that are actually weakening the fabric of the city.
This podcast highlights the issues for Wellington and features resilience planners from other cities that are already part of 100 Resilient Cities.
Topics: environment, inequality, energy, climate
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Tags: urban resilience, 100 Resilient Cities, Rockefeller Foundation, hazards, climate change, poverty, transport
Duration: 15'57"
21:48
Living in the age of resilience
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French experts Pierre Ducret and Lucile Schmid discuss the social impacts of climate change and the challenges in building a fair, low-carbon economy.
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There’s a consensus now that the cost of doing nothing would be huge. The cost of doing nothing is in fact the cost of accepting a more than two-degree warming for the end of the century and that is a zone of no control.
Pierre Ducret
As momentum builds towards a United Nations climate summit in Paris in December, French experts visited New Zealand recently to discuss our capacity to adapt and to address the challenge of climate change.
In an earlier interview, the United Nation’s climate chief, Christiana Figueres, said that she expects that a global and legally binding agreement will emerge from the climate negotiations at COP21, but she conceded that the commitments countries have made so far fall short of keeping temperature rise below two degrees.
Pierre Ducret, an advisor for climate change at a major public investor for economic development, says a world that has warmed by more than two degrees above pre-industrial temperatures would be essentially uninsurable.
But he says the goal is still achievable. “It’s possible because we have all the technical solutions, it’s possible because it’s not such a heavy part of the global GDP to dedicate to the green investments and it’s also possible because the transition has already began all over the world.”
The challenge now, he says, is to seize the opportunity and to accelerate the transition towards low-carbon economies as outlined in the Better Growth Better Climate reports by the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.
Lucile Schmid, who works with several think tanks in France, says an awareness of the cost of inaction doesn’t necessarily mean that people know what to do and whether a transition is possible without losses in the standard of living. She says our idea of progress may have to be redefined. “When we talk about growth for example, having a discussion about the content of growth will be very important, as well as having a discussion about the value of nature.”
Pierre Ducret says economic signals, such as the removal of subsidies for fossil fuel industries, are essential, as is a prize on carbon. “We must put a price on carbon because it’s the best signal to accelerate investment towards green and to penalise brown investments, but we will have different prices all over the world and a kind of disorder about carbon pricing because it will depend on the capacity of the different economies. We also have to proof to developing countries that putting a price on carbon is profitable for their own transition.”
He says overall he is optimistic about the future, particularly as many people are changing the way the think about resources, towards shared use and away from ownership.
In Europe, when you see that the young generation is considering that to be an owner of a car is a stupid thing, we have reasons to be optimistic.
Both Pierre Ducret and Lucile Schmid visited New Zealand to take part in public panel discussions about the Age of Resilience, organised by the Royal Society of New Zealand and broadcast on Radio New Zealand. You can listen to the podcasts of all three events.
Topics: science, environment, climate
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Tags: climate change, COP21, low-carbon economy, ecology, green economy
Duration: 9'45"
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