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A 24-hour recording of Radio New Zealand National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
18 June 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 (RNZ); 3:05 Bread and Roses, by Sonja Davies (10 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 NZ Books (RNZ); 5:10 Witness (BBC); 5:45 The Day in Parliament
===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 18 June 2015
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Claims of mismanagement are laid at the door of the sacked Southern District Health Board.. A former board member disagrees. Dire predictions if the cost of power goes up in the poorest parts of the country. For some, lines charges will almost triple if the Government agrees to the Electricity Authority's proposals and the Auditor General is asked to investigate why kauri swamp logs are being exported. A Northland conservation group says MPI hasn't been enforcing the Forest Act as it should.
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Duration: 35'07"
06:06
Sports News for 18 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Tags:
Duration: 2'27"
06:14
Greens say lamb deaths highlight shonkiness of Saudi deal
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Officials have confimed high numbers of New Zealand-bred lambs died shortly after being being born on the Government's controversial demonstration farm in the Saudi Arabian desert.
Topics: politics
Regions:
Tags: Saudi Arabia, Hamood al-Ali al-Khalaf, animal welfare, sheep
Duration: 1'51"
06:17
Pacific News for 18 June 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'45"
06:20
Morning Rural News for 18 June 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'00"
06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 18 June 2015
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An Australian mining expert says there needs to be better regulations around how the extractive industry engages with Māori; New research shows many medications and treatments may not work as effectively for Māori and Pasifika as they do for people with European ancestry; A North Taranaki iwi says it's unlikely to oppose the extension of leases at the historic bach settlement at Tongaporutu; The Government is rejecting calls for the Māori flag to be given dual status to the New Zealand flag.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions:
Tags:
Duration: 3'27"
06:40
Southern DHB's commissioner confident of success
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The commissioner appointed to run the Southern District Health Board says getting the board back into the black will be a considerable challenge.
Topics: health
Regions: Southland
Tags: Southern District Health Board
Duration: 2'14"
06:48
Less red tape may help land supply - think-tank
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A free market think tank says less red tape and new ways to fund infrastructure will help ensure there's enough land for housing in growing centres.
Topics: business, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: New Zealand Initiative, Productivity Commission
Duration: 3'12"
06:51
Fed still on track for rate rise this year
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The Federal Reserve in the United States is still picking interest rates to rise at least once this year.
Topics: business
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Tags: Federal Reserve, USA
Duration: 38"
06:52
Current account deficit expected to widen over the year
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The current account deficit is expected to widen over the rest of the year, with a diminishing benefit from lower oil prices and ongoing weakness in dairy prices.
Topics: economy
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Tags: deficit
Duration: 1'04"
06:53
NZ has other trade choices - Groser
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The Trade Minister, Tim Groser, says New Zealand has other choices, as the chance to complete a Pacific-wide trade deal this year stalls in the United States.
Topics: business
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Tags: Trans Pacific Partnership, TPP, trade
Duration: 1'14"
06:54
Woolworths boss quits
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The chief executive of Woolworths will step down after four years at the helm as the Australasian supermarket chain faces intense competition.
Topics: business
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Tags: Woolworths
Duration: 1'13"
06:56
ASB says higher NZ milk supply dampening prices
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An economist says central banks in New Zealand and America are helping the dairy sector cope with falling global dairy prices.
Topics: business, economy, farming
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Tags: dairy prices
Duration: 44"
06:57
Auckland Airport expected to be hit by regulatory price changes
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Auckland Airport's revenue is expected to be hit by an anticipated reduction in what it can charge airlines in landing fees.
Topics: business, transport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland Airport
Duration: 1'46"
06:58
Morning Markets for 18 June 2015
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Wall Street has made gains after the two-day monetary policy meeting of the Federal Reserve - with a first rate rise still likely for this year.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 56"
07:07
Sports News for 18 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'14"
07:11
Confidential report outlines Southern DHB's failings
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A confidential report on the Southern District Health Board says its financial problems are the result of poor management, not government underfunding.
Topics: health
Regions: Southland
Tags: Southern District Health Board
Duration: 3'37"
07:15
Southern DHB's newly-appointed deputy commissioner
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One of two of Southern DHB's newly-appointed deputy commissioners is Richard Thomson.
Topics: health
Regions: Southland
Tags: Southern District Health Board
Duration: 6'37"
07:22
Electricity transmission costs could triple
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Some of the poorest parts of New Zealand could soon be paying 500 dollars more a year for power if a working paper on transmission prices is adopted.
Topics: business
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Tags: transmission costs, electricity
Duration: 3'29"
07:25
Electricity Authority defends transmission pricing options
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We asked the Electricty Authority's chief executive Carl Hansen why there are such big discrepancies between the regions.
Topics: business
Regions:
Tags: transmission costs, electricity
Duration: 3'03"
07:28
Tiger kills man in central Tbilisi
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A white tiger that ran loose from Georgia's zoo after disastrous floods at the weekend has killed a man in central Tbilisi.
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Tags: Georgia
Duration: 3'53"
07:37
Labour increases pressure on Parata over kohanga reo trust
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The Education Minister's under increasing pressure to demand the resignation of the Kohanga Reo National Trust board.
Topics: education, language
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Tags: Kohanga Reo National Trust board
Duration: 4'55"
07:41
Parata responds
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And with us is the Education Minister, Hekia Parata.
Topics: education
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Tags: Kohanga Reo National Trust board
Duration: 3'47"
07:45
Lance O'Sullivan steps in to fix Auckland school
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An outspoken children's health campaigner has ousted the chair of an Auckland school and is stepping up to fix what he describes as serious safety issues.
Topics: education
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Hato Petera College
Duration: 5'08"
07:53
Auditor-General asked to investigate kauri exports
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A Northland conservation group has asked the Auditor General to carry out a formal inquiry into the way the Ministry for Primary Industries has been regulating the export of swamp kauri.
Topics: business, politics, crime, environment
Regions: Northland
Tags: kauri log export
Duration: 4'05"
07:57
NZ won't follow US trans fats ban
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The United States has decided to ban artery-clogging trans fats from food, but food authorities in New Zealand say this country won't be following suit.
Topics: health
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Tags: trans fats
Duration: 3'06"
08:07
Sports News for 18 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'17"
08:11
Poorest communities could suffer
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The Government agency responsible for promoting efficiency in the electricity market wants power prices increased in some of New Zealand's poorest communities.
Topics: business
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Tags: Electricity Authority, electricity, electricity prices
Duration: 3'39"
08:14
MPI swamp kauri regulation under scrutiny
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Is the Ministry for Primary Industries' doing enough to stop swamp kauri logs being illegally exported?
Topics: business, crime, environment
Regions: Northland
Tags: kauri log export
Duration: 7'20"
08:22
Doctor sacked from Southern DHB says something had to change
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A confidential report on the Southern District Health Board says its financial problems are the result of poor management, not government underfunding.
Topics: health
Regions: Southland
Tags: Southern District Health Board
Duration: 5'01"
08:27
Trade officials confirm mass lamb deaths
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Officials have confimed high numbers of New Zealand-bred lambs died shortly after being being born on the Government's controversial demonstration farm in the Saudi Arabian desert.
Topics: business
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Tags: Saudi Arabia, Hamood al-Ali al-Khalaf, sheep, animal welfare
Duration: 4'03"
08:31
Markets Update for 18 June 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'05"
08:37
A Sikh Man was left horribly embarrassed after being banned
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A Sikh man is mortified after being barred from lunch with colleagues at an Auckland Club.
Topics: spiritual practices
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: racism, discrimination
Duration: 2'49"
08:40
Relationships Aotearoa stands by its records
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Relationships Aotearoa says it categorically rejects ministerial comments the former counselling service fudged its own figures.
Topics: health
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Tags: Relationships Aotearoa, mental health services
Duration: 3'22"
08:45
Te Manu Korihi News for 18 June 2015
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New research shows many medications and treatments may not work as effectively for Māori and Pasifika as they do for people with European ancestry; A Ngati Tama spokesperson says the North Taranaki iwi is unlikely to oppose the extension of leases at the historic bach settlement at Tongaporutu; An Australian mining expert says there needs to be better regulations around how the extractive industry engages with Māori; The Government is rejecting calls for the Māori flag to be given dual status to the New Zealand flag.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags:
Duration: 2'52"
08:48
Rohinyga refugee calls on Government to take in more refugees
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A Rohingya refugee is calling on the Government to take in more asylum seekers forced to flee violence in their home countries.
Topics: politics, refugees and migrants
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Tags: refugee quota, asylum seekers
Duration: 3'51"
08:52
Biggest cruise liner ever to visit this country
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The biggest cruise liner ever to visit this country is going to have to anchor in Auckland's Waitemata Harbour, and shuttle its almost five thousand passengers ashore in boats.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: cruise liner, Ovation of the Seas
Duration: 3'18"
08:55
University introduces new uniforms
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Bangkok University has introduced uniform guidelines for its ladyboy and tomboy students.
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Tags: Thailand, gender-neutral uniforms, uniforms, clothing
Duration: 3'21"
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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: Undercover Mumbai, by Ayeesha Menon (F, Goldhawk)
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09:08
Emergency doctor says MDMA should be legalised
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Emergency medicine specialist, Dr Paul Quigley, says the purest form of ecstasy, MDMA should be legalised as it is much safer than the new synthetic substances flooding the market. He says emergency staff are struggling to deal with people who have taken synthetic drugs like N Bomb, which causes psychosis, hallucinations and damages internal organs.
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A toxicologist at Wellington Hospital's emergency department is calling for the purest form of ecstasy, MDMA, to be legalised.
Emergency physician and toxocologist Paul Quigley told Nine to Noon the drug was much safer than the new synthetic substances flooding the market.
Staff are struggling to deal with people who have taken synthetic drugs like N Bomb, which caused psychosis, hallucinations and damaged internal organs.
It would be safer to legalise a drug such as MDMA, which did not have such serious side effects, he said.
"It used to be a prescription medicine. It was used by doctors in the 70s quite extensively for psychiatric work and work in marriage counselling, of all things.
"So there's even human trials out there - there's doses established etc, and then it was banned ... without considering whether it even had a purpose in medicine or not."
The Government would be able to regulate the market if the drug was legalised, Dr Quigley said.
"We've got to start thinking about new ways of controlling and one of them may be to provide a safe alternative," he said.
"In New Zealand, with the Psychoactive Substances Act, we've got the potential to do that because we could assess it, decide whether it's safe, we could regulate it, we could earn income off it, we could restrict it."
Topics: health, politics
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Tags: MDMA
Duration: 14'12"
09:22
Human water use is sucking aquifers dry: study
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A new study shows a third of the biggest aquifers in the world are being depleted as more water is being drawn, than is being replenished. The research from NASA satellites shows that 21 of the world's 37 largest aquifers are at risk of drying up. Sasha Richey from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is one of the authors of the study.
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A third of big groundwater basins are in distress. Image: UC Irvine/NASA/JPL-Caltech.
A new study shows a third of the biggest aquifers in the world are being depleted as more water is being drawn, than is being replenished. The research from NASA satellites shows that 21 of the world's 37 largest aquifers are at risk of drying up.
Sasha Richey from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is one of the authors of the study, and she joins Kathryn Ryan.
Listen to our interview from last month with author Mark Hertsgaard on the drought gripping California, where there has been no significant rainfall in four years and underground reservoirs are being sucked dry.
Topics: weather, environment, technology, farming, health, economy, climate
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Tags: water, climate change
Duration: 14'20"
09:40
Nepal two months on - Nelson charity helps
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Durga Aran is the Founding Director of First Steps Himalaya who was in Nepal distributing uniforms to three schools and sets of exercise books to over 4,000 children in 29 schools.
Topics: international aid and development
Regions:
Tags: Nepal earthquake
Duration: 9'35"
09:52
UK correspondent Dame Ann Leslie
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Dame Ann Leslie reports on Labour's leadership woes, who will be the next James Bond?
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Tags: UK
Duration: 6'52"
10:05
Citizens rising up against the cartels
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For his film Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman embedded himself with a citizen-led paramilitary group in the Mexican state Michoacán.
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For his film Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman embedded himself with a citizen-led paramilitary group in the Mexican state Michoacán.
He admits it was one of the most dangerous assignments imaginable, going undercover with a vigilante group fighting one of Mexico's most violent drug cartels, the Knights Templar.
The cartel supplies most of the methamphetamine to the US, and have been linked with kidnappings,drive by shootings, extortion and the massacre of entire families.
Former California physician Dr Jose Mireles decided to take matters into his own hand, forming a paramilitary group called Autodefensas, to fight back against the cartel. He and his team travel through towns where they supply weapons and training to locals to protect themselves from the Knights Templar.
Matthew Heineman travelled with Dr Mireles and was there for many tense stand offs, both with the cartel, and the army, which tried to stop the vigilante groups.
Matthew Heineman also joined another armed group on the other side of the Rio Grande, the Arizona Border Recon, which patrol Arizona's Altar Valley, known as Cocaine Alley.
He spoke to Kathryn Ryan about the film and how he learned the lines between good and evil are blurred when it comes to the groups fighting the cartels.
Cartel Land screens at the New Zealand International Film Festival which starts in July. You can view the trailer on YouTube.
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Tags: drug cartels, Mexico, NZIFF
Duration: 25'38"
10:37
Book review: 'The Kamikaze Hunters' by Will Iredale
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Published by Macmillan, reviewed by Quentin Johnson.
Topics: books
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Tags:
Duration: 5'11"
11:07
New technology with Sarah Putt
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Sarah Putt discusses Vodafone buying WorldxChange; mobile first for the New York Times; and times are tough for dating apps.
Topics: technology
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Tags:
Duration: 15'10"
11:25
Hat's Lessons on Life
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Harriet "Hat" Rowland is the author of the bestselling The Book of Hat, a finalist in this year's NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Hat died last year, aged 20, two years after she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma - a rare form of bone cancer. The Book of Hat is a collection of her blog posts, written after her diagnosis, throughout her grueling treatment, brief remission, then devastating relapse. Book Awards judging panel convenor Bob Docherty says, "It's funny at times, it's melancholic at times, there's nothing pretentious about it. It's just raw living from someone who is on the edge, and it's not a tragedy. This is life." For Hat's parents, Jan Kelly and John Rowland, the book's shortlisting for the book awards is bitter sweet. John talks to Kathryn about what his daughter still has to teach others.
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Harriet “Hat” Rowland is the author of the bestselling The Book of Hat, a finalist in this year’s NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Hat died last year, aged 20, two years after she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma – a rare form of bone cancer. The Book of Hat is a collection of her blog posts, written after her diagnosis, throughout her grueling treatment, brief remission, then devastating relapse.
Book Awards judging panel convenor Bob Docherty says, "It's funny at times, it's melancholic at times, there's nothing pretentious about it. It's just raw living from someone who is on the edge, and it's not a tragedy. This is life."
For Hat's parents, Jan Kelly and John Rowland, the book’s shortlisting for the book awards is bitter sweet. John talks to Kathryn about what his daughter still has to teach others.
Topics: life and society, health, books
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Tags: The Book of Hat, Harriet Rowland, death
Duration: 17'57"
11:47
Film review, Dan Slevin
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Dan Slevin reviews new releases Jurassic World, Marshland and San Andreas.
Topics: arts
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Tags: film, Dan Slevin
Duration: 11'39"
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09:05 Emergency doctor says MDMA should be legalised
Emergency medicine specialist, Dr Paul Quigley, says the purest form of ecstasy, MDMA should be legalised as it is much safer than the new synthetic substances flooding the market.
He says emergency staff are struggling to deal with people who have taken synthetic drugs like N Bomb, which causes psychosis, hallucinations and damages internal organs.
09:20 Human water use is sucking aquifers dry: study
A new study shows a third of the biggest aquifers in the world are being depleted as more water is being drawn, than is being replenished. The research from NASA satellites shows that 21 of the world's 37 largest aquifers are at risk of drying up.
Sasha Richey from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is one of the authors of the study.
Listen to our interview from last month with author Mark Hertsgaard on the drought gripping California, where there has been no significant rainfall in four years and underground reservoirs are being sucked dry.
09:30 Nepal two months on - Nelson charity helps
Durga Aran is the Founding Director of First Steps Himalaya who was in Nepal distributing uniforms to three schools and sets of exercise books to over 4,000 children in 29 schools.
Pictures courtesy First Steps Himalaya
09:45 UK correspondent Dame Ann Leslie
Dame Ann Leslie reports on Labour's leadership woes, who will be the next James Bond?
10:05 Citizens rising up against the cartels
For his film Cartel Land, Matthew Heineman embedded himself with a citizen-led paramilitary group in the Mexican state Michoacán, lead by former California physician Dr Jose Mireles. The group was set up in 2013 to counter the violence of the local drug cartel, The Knights Templar, which provides methamphetamine to the US and have been responsible for kidnappings and massacres in the state. Matthew Heineman also spent time with another armed vigilante group, this time on the other side of the Rio Grande. Arizona Border Recon patrols the state's Altar Valley, which is known as Cocaine Alley. He says making the film was a terrifying experience and talks to Kathryn Ryan about the film and how the lines between good and evil are blurred in the dangerous world of cartels on the Mexican border.
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Cartel Land screens at the New Zealand International Film Festival which starts in July. You can view the trailer on YouTube.
10:30 Book review: 'The Kamikaze Hunters' by Will Iredale
Published by Macmillan, RRP$34.99. Reviewed by Quentin Johnson.
10:45 The Reading: 'Undercover Mumbai', by Ayeesha Menon
Inspector Alia Khan, a young detective in the Mumbai Police Force, faces many obstacles as she attempts to solve a series of crimes, make sense of her troubled past and cope with being a woman in a chauvinistic, male-dominated police force (9 of 9, Goldhawk) Note: audio is not available for this programme.
11:05 New technology with Sarah Putt
Sarah Putt discusses Vodafone buying WorldxChange; mobile first for the New York Times; and times are tough for dating apps.
11:20 Hat's Lessons on Life
Harriet “Hat” Rowland is the author of the bestselling The Book of Hat, a finalist in this year’s NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Hat died last year, aged 20, two years after she was diagnosed with osteosarcoma – a rare form of bone cancer. The Book of Hat is a collection of her blog posts, written after her diagnosis, throughout her grueling treatment, brief remission, then devastating relapse.
Book Awards judging panel convenor Bob Docherty says, "It's funny at times, it's melancholic at times, there's nothing pretentious about it. It's just raw living from someone who is on the edge, and it's not a tragedy. This is life."
For Hat's parents, Jan Kelly and John Rowland, the book’s shortlisting for the book awards is bitter sweet. John talks to Kathryn about what his daughter still has to teach others.
11:45 Film review, Dan Slevin
Dan Slevin reviews new releases Jurassic World, Marshland and San Andreas.
=PLAYLIST=
Artist: Ladi 6
Song: Like Water
Composer: Tamati
Album: The Liberation Of…
Label: Ladi6
Time: 09:36
Artist: The Staves
Song: Steady
Composer: Staves
Album: If I was
Label: Warner Music
Time: 09:36
Artist: Chuck Berry
Song: You Never Can Tell
Composer: Berry
Album:
Label: Geffen
Time: 10:36
Artist: Bombino
Song: Imidiwan
Composer: Moctar
Album: Nomad
Label: Nonesuch
Time: 11:22
Artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Song: Into My Arms
Composer: Cave
Album: The Boatman’s Call
Label: Mute
Time: 11:43
===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 18 June 2015
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Sacked board members hit back at criticism of Southern DHB's management, and GDP growth slows in the March quarter.
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Duration: 15'11"
12:17
GDP growth slows in the March quarter
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The New Zealand dollar has fallen three-quarters of a cent to below 69 US cents after the pace of economic growth slowed by more than expected.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags:
Duration: 1'20"
12:19
Milford pays $1.5m to settle market manipulation case
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The fund manager, Milford Asset Management, will pay 1-point-5 million dollars, following an investigation by the capital markets regulator over claims of market manipulation.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'41"
12:20
Milford pleased investigation over
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Milford's managing director, Anthony Quirk, says it's pleased the investigation is over.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 47"
12:22
Fletcher Building sets out growth strategy
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Fletcher Building has told investors that profit margins and revenues have improved in New Zealand, while margins in Australia have fluctuated following a period of steady improvement.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags:
Duration: 52"
12:25
Midday Markets for 18 June 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Angus Marks at First NZ Capital.
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Tags:
Duration: 1'47"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 18 June 2015
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Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum surprised by England's successful run chase.
Topics: sport
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Tags:
Duration: 2'37"
12:35
Midday Rural News for 18 June 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 7'42"
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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Information and debate, people and places around NZ
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13:10
Your song - She moves on
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She Moves On by Paul Simon. Chosen by Dennis Nuberg.
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Duration: 16'10"
13:20
New Zealand A to Z - Owaka
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New Zealand A to Z - Owaka. Anne Marie Holland JR Burgess Peter McNab Gail Ramsey - Director of the Owaka Museum.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Southland
Tags: community, Owaka
Duration: 34'29"
14:10
Flag feedback
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A Massey University design student has created a web site for New Zealanders to discuss and debate the thousands of flag designs that have been submitted through the Flag Consideration Project. Thomas Le Bas, who launched "flagpost" this week, says the website allows the public to feed their views back in a way the current government process does not.
Topics: life and society, politics
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Tags: New Zealand Flag
Duration: 10'14"
14:20
The Orpheus Disaster
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It was, and still remains, this country's worst maritime disaster. In 1863, 189 people were killed when the HMS Orpheus hit a sandbar off the coast of West Auckland. Local Waitakere historian Bruce Harvey speaks about what went wrong, who came to rescue 70 of the crew, and who spent most of their life being wrongly blamed for the disaster.
Topics: weather, life and society
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Tags: maritime disaster, Orpheus, shipwreck
Duration: 11'38"
14:45
Feature Album - Back to Black
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Back to Black - Amy Winehouse (2011)
Topics: music
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Tags: Amy Winehouse
Duration: 14'24"
15:10
Expats - Rod Fry in Paris
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Rod Fry is living in the heart of Paris, amongst what the locals refer to as the 'bobos' - the bourgeois bohemians. He and his wife run the Moaroom, where they promote New Zealand designer furniture and lighting to the discerning French.
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Rod Fry is living in the heart of Paris, amongst what the locals refer to as the 'bobos' - the bourgeois bohemians. He and his wife run the Moaroom, where they promote New Zealand designer furniture and lighting to the discerning French.
Topics: life and society
Regions:
Tags: Paris, furniture, Moaroom, community
Duration: 20'15"
15:45
The Panel Pre-Show for 18 June 2015
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What the world is talking about. With Zara Potts.
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Duration: 14'40"
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1:10 Your Song
She Moves On by Paul Simon. Chosen by Dennis Nuberg.
1:20 Our New Zealand A to Z: Owaka
O for Owaka, translated from the reo as 'The Place of Canoes", an apt designation as the town's located close to the joining of two rivers; the Owaka, and the Caitlins river, which meet a few kilometres outside the town.
Owaka's Teapot Land
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2:10 Flag feedback - Thomas Le Bas
A Massey University design student has created a web site for New Zealanders to discuss and debate the thousands of flag designs that have been submitted through the Flag Consideration Project. Thomas Le Bas, who launched "flagpost" this week, says the web site allows the public to feed their views back in a way the current government process does not.
2:20 The Orpheus Disaster - Bruce Harvey
It was, and still remains, this country's worst maritime disaster. In 1863, 189 people were killed when the HMS Orpheus hit a sandbar off the coast of West Auckland. Local Waitakere historian Bruce Harvey speaks about what went wrong, who came to rescue 70 of the crew, and who spent most of their life being wrongly blamed for the disaster.
2:30 NZ Reading - One Flat Coyote
Karen and Ken cross New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island and decide to sell the beast online.
2:45 Feature album
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse (2011).
3:10 The Expats - Rod Fry
Rod Fry is living in the heart of Paris, amongst what the locals refer to as the 'bobos' - the bourgeois bohemians. He and his wife run the Moaroom, where they promote New Zealand designer furniture and lighting to the discerning French.
3:35 Our Changing World - Ruth Beran
The benefits of protein combined with exercise have been studied, but at Massey University a study is looking at whether whey protein after interval training could help glucose consumption in type 2 diabetics. Ruth Beran goes to an early morning exercise session to see some participants put through their paces and to meet exercise physiologist Kim Gaffney. Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jim Mora, Zara Potts, Catherine Robertson and Bernard Hickey.
MUSIC DETAILS:
Thursday 18 June 2015
YOUR SONG:
ARTIST: Paul Simon
TITLE: She Moves On
COMP: Paul Simon
ALBUM: The Rythm Of The Saints
LABEL: WARNER 926098
A TO Z:
ARTIST: Isla Grant
TITLE: Mother's Chair
COMP: Isla Grant
ALBUM: Isla Grant: The Best Of
LABEL: RAJON 250243
ARTIST: Phoenix Foundation
TITLE: All In An Afternoon
COMP: Scott, Phoenix Foundation
ALBUM: Pegasus
LABEL: FMR 338462
EXPATS:
ARTIST: Louane Emera
TITLE: Jour 1
COMP: Louane Emera
ALBUM: Chambre 12
LABEL: UNIVERSAL
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: Amy Winehouse
TITLE: Rehab
COMP: Winehouse
ALBUM: Back To Black
LABEL: ISLAND 171304
ARTIST: Amy Winehouse
TITLE: Back To Black
COMP: Ronson, Winehouse
ALBUM: Back To Black
LABEL: ISLAND 171304
ARTIST: Amy Winehouse
TITLE: You Know I'm No Good
COMP: Winehouse
ALBUM: Back To Black
LABEL: ISLAND 171304
ARTIST: Amy Winehouse
TITLE: Me And Mr Jones
COMP: Winehouse
ALBUM: Back To Black
LABEL: ISLAND 171304
THE PANEL:
ARTIST: Stonewall Jackson
TITLE: Waterloo
COMP: Loudermilk, Wilkin
ALBUM: Stonewall Jackson: The Best Of
LABEL: COLLECTORS CHOICE 420346
===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 18 June 2015
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What the world is talking about. With Zara Potts.
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Duration: 14'40"
16:00
The Panel with Catherine Robertson and Bernard Hickey (Part 1)
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The state of our deficit; The Panel discusses Maori TV cancelling the screening of a debate about Whanau Ora. Political columnist John Armstrong joins in to talk about the Saudi sheep deal and the spend up at the Ministry of Business Innivation and Employment;Private club repeats turban trouble;cyclists.
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Duration: 23'54"
16:10
Panel intro
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What the Panelists Bernard Hickey and Catherine Robertson have been up to.
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Duration: 2'45"
16:15
NZ deficit
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The state of our deficit.
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Duration: 5'54"
16:20
Saudi sheep deal
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The Panel discusses Maori TV cancelling the screening of a debate about Whanau Ora. Political columnist John Armstrong joins in to talk about the Saudi sheep deal and the spend up at the Ministry of Business Innivation and Employment.
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Duration: 8'38"
16:25
Private club repeats turban trouble
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A real estate agent wasn't allowed into the Manurewa Cosmopolitan club because he was wearing a turban. The Sikh man is complaining to the Human Rights Commission.
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Duration: 2'04"
16:27
Cyclists
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The Panel voice their opinions on cyclists.
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Duration: 4'23"
16:30
The Panel with Catherine Robertson and Bernard Hickey (Part 2)
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200th anniversary of Waterloo;Panel says;water;Ecstasy safer than alcohol.
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Duration: 24'56"
16:40
Water
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The world is running out of water.
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Duration: 2'16"
16:45
Panel says
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What the Panelists Bernard Hickey and Catherine Robertson have been thinking about.
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Duration: 10'10"
16:57
Ecstasy safer than alcohol
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An emergency department doctor says the drug ecstasy is safer than alcohol. He wants to see its main ingredient MDMA legalised.
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Duration: 2'13"
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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 18 June 2015
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Jetstar choosing four towns to start regional flights;Port company pleads guilty; widow hoping no one else is killed;Severe weather causing disruptions in the South Island;Closing arguments in dairy murder trial;Confusion over the cause of sheep deaths in Saudi Arabia;Not enough troops to train to fight Islamic State.
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Duration: 23'05"
17:08
Jetstar choosing four towns to start regional flights
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Jetstar is holding out the prospect of up to a 40 percent drop in regional airfares when it begins flying out of at least four towns later this year.
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Duration: 4'40"
17:14
Port company pleads guilty, widow hoping no one else is killed
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The woman who's husband was crushed to death at Lyttelton Port is desperately hoping it's a safer place to work now and no one else is killed.
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Regions: Canterbury
Tags: Lyttelton Port, Lyttelton, workplace death
Duration: 3'40"
17:17
Severe weather causing disruptions in the South Island
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Severe weather has closed roads, schools and disrupted flights and caused flooding in Otago and Southland. Reuben Mama was on a bus trip between Christchurch and Wanaka, which stopped in Tekapo and then couldn't go any further.
Topics: weather, transport
Regions: Canterbury, Otago, Southland, West Coast
Tags: Snow storm, South Island
Duration: 3'37"
17:25
Closing arguments in dairy murder trial
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The Crown has rubbished the idea that a knife-wielding thief stabbed a dairy owner in self-defence.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Kumar trial
Duration: 2'45"
17:27
Confusion over the cause of sheep deaths in Saudi Arabia
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Labour says blaming sand storms for the deaths of lambs on the government backed Saudi farm is another ludicrous attempt to disguise a bribe for a wealthy Saudi Arabian businessman.
Topics: farming
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Tags: live sheep export, animal welfare, Saudi Arabia
Duration: 3'15"
17:29
Stolen digger taken on joy-ride through Christchurch streets
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A teenager's joy-ride in a stolen digger only came to an end when police officers threw tear gas into the cab - but not before he'd bashed into several cars and fences.
Topics: crime
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: stolen digger, Christchurch
Duration: 2'48"
17:35
Evening Business for 18 June 2015
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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Duration: 2'13"
17:37
Sikhs to meet over club's turban ban
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Sikh leaders will meet in Auckland this weekend to discuss how to prevent religious discrimination after a club barred a Sikh man because of his turban.
Topics: spiritual practices
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Sikhs, turbans
Duration: 3'48"
17:43
Not enough troops to train to fight Islamic State
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The United States top general and its defence secretary say not enough Iraqis are willing to be trained to fight Islamic State.
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Tags: Islamic State, Iraq
Duration: 4'47"
17:46
Cyclist aggrieved at being fined
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A cyclist has been fined $150 for holding up traffic on a narrow stretch of Dyers Pass Road above Christchurch in the Port Hills.
Topics: transport
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: cycling, fines
Duration: 4'50"
17:50
Te Manu Korihi for 18 June 2015
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Te Reo Maori has been given a boost with the revival of an influential languague society based at the Victoria University of Wellington. In the seventies the Maori Language Society was pivotal in pushing the Government to declare Maori an official language.
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Duration: 3'27"
17:56
Tree felling leaves eyesore
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Protester says the felling of 23 pohutukawas on the Waitara riverbank today has left the township looking out on to a concrete wall topped with barbed wire.
Topics: environment
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: pohutukawa
Duration: 3'12"
18:07
Sports News for 18 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'21"
18:10
Jetstar takes on Air New Zealand
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Jetstar is taking on Air New Zealand in the regions, but it hasn't decided where.
Topics: transport
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Duration: 2'06"
18:14
Power cut to hundreds of properties in Mackenzie District
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Hundreds of properties in the South Island's Mackenzie Country are without power this evening. Heavy snowfall today has knocked out Alpine Energy's Geraldine network.
Topics: weather
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: power cuts, Mackenzie country
Duration: 3'17"
18:17
Meatworkers say they're now forced to sign individual contracts
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A union representing meatworkers says its members are being forced to sign individual contracts that mean more work for less money.
Topics: business
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: industrial dispute, Meatworkers' Union, AFFCO, meat works
Duration: 2'35"
18:22
English concedes lower dairy prices hurting but still confident
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The Finance Minister has conceded lower dairy prices are hitting the economy but Bill English says growth is still expected to remain strong over the next four years.
Topics: politics, economy
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Duration: 2'46"
18:24
Four trampers lucky to be alive
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Rescuers had to battle their way through cloud and thick ice to reach four trampers who were hurt and suffering from hypothermia.
Topics: weather
Regions: Waikato
Tags: Mt Ngauruhoe, tramping
Duration: 3'25"
18:26
Saviour of children in burning car gets award
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A mother of two's been honoured for diving into a burning car to save two girls while on a trip to the supermarket. Tamsin Duckmanton, chopper pilot John Oakes and mountaineer Ben Dare all received bravery medals from the Royal Humane Society today.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: community, bravery awards
Duration: 3'07"
18:35
Gisborne Boys High teacher awarded for work engaging Maori boys
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A woodwork teacher at Gisborne Boys High has been awarded for his work in getting Maori boys who hate school to love it.
Topics: te ao Maori, education
Regions: East Coast
Tags: whakairo, woodwork, Gisborne Boys High, Craig Callaghan, carving
Duration: 4'46"
18:42
FMA and Milford reach $1.5 million settlement
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A high profile funds manager Milford Asset Management will pay one point 5 million dollars in a settlement after being found at fault in an investigation over market manipulation.
Topics: economy
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Tags: market manipulation, Milford Asset Management
Duration: 2'44"
18:44
Housing Minister 'remains confident' over Auckland plan
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The Labour Party is accusing the Housing Minister, Nick Smith, of picking a fight with iwi over the right of first refusal for surplus Crown land in Auckland.
Topics: politics, housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Crown land
Duration: 2'27"
18:48
Te Manu Korihi for 18 June 2015
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A Far North iwi with vast resources of swamp kauri is refusing to sell the taonga - despite the high prices it's fetching overseas; A Te Atiawa hapu says it is devasted that four rare yellow-flowering pohutukawa have been cut down in Waitara; Aotearoa Fisheries say a new fishing vessel project is set to change the face of fishing and provide numerous benefits for Maori; Te Reo Maori has been given a boost with the revival of an influential languague society based at the Victoria University of Wellington.
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Duration: 3'33"
18:52
The Day In Parliament for 18 June 2015
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Trade Minister Tim Groser defends desert farm in Saudi Arabia despite high death rate among lambs; Foreign Affairs Committee hears petitions on Syrian Christian refugees & TPP trade deal.
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Duration: 9'48"
18:57
Official tightlipped on NZ's measures for dying Saudi lambs
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Trade and Enterprise is not saying what killed hundreds of lambs in the Saudi desert even though it knows what happened.
Topics: farming
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Tags: animal welfare, live sheep export, Saudi Arabia, Trade and Enterprise
Duration: 3'37"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
=DESCRIPTION=
Entertainment and information, including: 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
Instant Waterfall
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How an Icelandic canyon, which is home to Europe's most powerful waterfall, was created within a matter of days by extreme flooding - with Edwin Baynes from the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences.
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How an Icelandic canyon, which is home to Europe's most powerful waterfall, was created within a matter of days by extreme flooding. Bryan Crump talks to Edwin Baynes from the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences.
Topics: science
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Tags: geoscience, Iceland, waterfall, extreme flooding.
Duration: 21'16"
20:42
Comics
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Shading in the heroes and villains of an animated realm is cartoonist, writer, illustrator Adrian Kinnaird, who looks at 'High Water', an anthology of local cartoonists featuring stories themed around climate change; and the re-release of 'White Trash'.
Topics: arts, crime, life and society, media, politics, spiritual practices
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Tags: comics, graphic novels, animation, High Water, climate change, White Trash.
Duration: 16'09"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 7
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Listen in tomorrow night for the answer
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Duration: 25"
21:59
Conundrum Clue 8
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Listen in tomorrow night for the answer.
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Duration: 36"
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7:10 Instant Waterfall
how an Icelandic canyon, which is home to Europe's most powerful waterfall, was created within a matter of days by extreme flooding - with Edwin Baynes from the University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences.
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7:30 At the Movies
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19:30
At The Movies for 18 June 2015
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Simon Morris reviews the all-conquering Jurassic World, and the rather more minor hit Hot Pursuit, starring Reese Witherspoon. And the Spanish Oscar-nominated Marshlands delivers to the True Detective audience.
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Simon Morris reviews the all-conquering Jurassic World, and the rather more minor hit Hot Pursuit, starring Reese Witherspoon. And the Spanish Oscar-nominated Marshlands delivers to the True Detective audience.
The big picture with Simon Morris
I’ve been mulling over Hollywood’s two big problems – under-representation of women and a memory-loss over how to make up good, commercial stories – and I thought I may have cracked it.
Why not combine these problems? Just get every all-male hit story of the past and remake them with women stars.
If Iron Man is cute and successful, wouldn’t Iron Woman be even more so? Is there mileage in a simple Everywoman travelling through American history called Doris Gump? Is there any good reason why an all-women Magnificent Seven would be any less Magnificent?
As it turns out, Hollywood is way ahead of me, with mixed success. Certainly Pitch Perfect – a sort of cheerleader version of the blokey Commitments – did well. They’ve recently announced a girl-power Ghostbusters. And this week, Reese Witherspoon produces and stars in a rejigged Robert De Niro classic. Midnight Run featured an uptight lawman taking an unwilling criminal to testify against his boss. Hot pursuit takes the story, broadens the comedy and aims it squarely at a female audience.
The results…? Well, let’s just say that the Global Replace with Women Characters strategy needs a little work…
Out in the rest of the world, a Spanish film sticks with the blokes, and a standard police investigation of two missing girls.
But where Marshlands scores heavily is, first, placing it in one of the most picturesque settings in Europe – the astonishing-looking delta of Andalucia – and second, having the story take place shortly after the demise of Fascist dictator Franco. Two cops – one a former Fascist, the other a stroppy democrat – give Marshlands the sort of depth last seen in another Latino thriller, Argentina’s The secret in their eyes.
The fact that it won every Spanish film award going is a reminder that great stories are thin on the ground everywhere, and doubly welcome when they turn up.
But the big story this week is the wildly successful revival of an old Steven Spielberg franchise. 20 years on, let’s go to Jurassic World.
Topics: arts
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Tags: Jurassic World, Hot Pursuit, True Detective
Duration: 23'51"
19:31
Jurassic World - film review
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Simon Morris reviews the all-conquering Jurassic World, which ups the stakes for the competition.
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Directed by Colin Trevorrow, starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and Irrfan Khan.
Simon Morris reviews the all-conquering Jurassic World, which ups the stakes for the competition.
Steven Spielberg has a reputation for being a great story-teller, which isn’t completely accurate. Most of his plots are a string of disasters, and someone trying to get home.
But you can’t deny his ability at inventing great movie moments, like the first appearance of the dinosaur in the first Jurassic Park. When Sam Neill’s jaw dropped as the camera panned to gigantic brachiosaurs, we knew how he felt. Nobody had seen anything like it before... which causes a problem for a new film. These days we’ve seen just about everything before. To the credit of the producers of the new Jurassic film, Jurassic World, they’re well aware of this.
Part of the fun is working out just what special powers the super-dino has. It’s bigger than a T Rex, with rather more furious front legs, and all sorts of other goodies up its sleeve.
Jurassic World has got story-smarts as well – bits of Alien, bits of Jaws and of course plenty of what made the original Jurassic Park such a hit. The kids are spunky, but still kids, the romance between Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) is generally light and family-friendly, and the big moments when they happen are scary fun.
Above all, Jurassic World remembers what the point of a big blockbuster is meant to be. Yes we want plenty of Wow Factor, but above all we want a story with thrills, spills, laughs and touching moments, all climaxing in a satisfying ending.
Spoiler alert, it’s all about getting home. It is a Steven Spielberg production after all.
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Tags: film, film review, dinosaur, Jurassic World
Duration: 7'04"
19:40
Hot Pursuit - film review
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Simon Morris reviews minor hit Hot Pursuit, the old "cop escorting the witness" story, with one difference.
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Directed by Anne Fletcher, starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara
Simon Morris reviews minor hit Hot Pursuit, the old "cop escorting the witness" story, with one difference.
Pint-sized star Reese Witherspoon got sick of looking for good parts a few years ago, and decided if Hollywood wasn’t hiring strong women, she’d do it herself. Last year she produced two very successful, women-driven films – Gone Girl and Wild - and this year she moves into, you’d think, her comfort zone – comedy drama.
Hot pursuit is a twist on an old formula – an over-zealous cop drags an unwilling witness to testify against a criminal Mr Big. The twist being that both cop Cooper and witness Mrs Riva are women.
With a setup like this, it’s all in the cooking. Everything in the film is tagged “comedy” with a capital K, from Reese Witherspoon’s desperate uptightness to Sofia Vergara, once again playing her exotic, Latina sex-kitten.
The trouble with playing it broad is that full-on farce is one of the hardest things to keep up without wearing out its welcome.
A ruthless director might have pulled it off, but the Coen Brothers were busy this year. Hot Pursuit’s director, Anne Fletcher, did a nice job on Step Up, and to a lesser degree on The Proposal. This one got away from her.
There’s nothing wrong with the idea of a woman’s take on a hitherto male genre. But once you get your characters in place, that’s when the real work starts. And if you don’t put the effort in before the shooting, then it ends up all too obviously on the screen – as it does in Hot Pursuit.
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Duration: 6'23"
19:50
Marshlands - film review
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Simon Morris reviews the Spanish Oscar-nominated Marshlands, which delivers to the True Detective audience.
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Directed by Alberto Rodriguez, winner of 12 Goya awards.
Simon Morris reviews the Spanish Oscar-nominated Marshlands, which delivers to the True Detective audience.
The first shot of the new Spanish drama Marshlands is absolutely extraordinary. For a few moments you can’t tell what it is – an abstract painting maybe? A microscopic picture of stem-cells? No it’s an aerial shot of Andalucia, the Southern quarter of Spain – all intertwining marshes and river estuaries - where the story is set.
We meet two big-city detectives – Juan and Pedro – who’ve been sent from Madrid to investigate the disappearance of two teenage girls. The year is 1980, just five years after the death of Fascist dictator Franco. The older Juan clearly comes from the Franco era, while Pedro is prematurely democratic. His secondment to Andalucia is a punishment for an ill-advised letter to the Press.
The hostile relationship between the two echoes TV series like True Detective and the hit shows from Scandinavia. But the flavour couldn’t be more Spanish.
The cops suspect the worst with two girls missing, and they’re soon proved right. The clues inevitably point towards a criminal organisation. The question is, how far up does this possible conspiracy lead? Information is in short supply among the suspicious locals, and when it comes, it asks a whole lot more questions.
Each time we shift gears in the story of Marshlands, director Alberto Rodriguez pulls out another of his extraordinary aerial shots – I’m guessing, taken from a balloon – shots of the intertwining land and water, punctuated by fishing-boats and flamingos. Just to remind us that we’re in the Spanish badlands.
Marshlands, which picked up just about every prize at the Spanish Goya Awards, has many things going for it.
The clues are clearly marked, and we follow them at the same pace as the police. The suspects are believable, and lurking in the background is the shadowy history of Spain under Generalissimo Franco.
Marshlands is an expert thriller on the surface, but its Spanish roots run far deeper than the usual CSI, serial-killer plots we’re used to on TV. Heartily recommended, and hopefully Hollywood won’t make its own version of it, set in Arkansas and starring Meryl Streep and Kim Kardashian. As the breath-taking aerial shots remind us, this is a story that belongs in Andalucia.
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Tags: film, film review, Marshlands, Andalucia, Spain
Duration: 5'38"
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 Comics
Shading in the heroes and villains of an animated realm is cartoonist, writer, illustrator Adrian Kinnaird, who looks at 'High Water', an anthology of local cartoonists featuring stories themed around climate change; and the re-release of 'White Trash'.
9:06 Our Changing World
=SHOW NOTES=
Coming up on Our Changing World - Thursday 25 June
Dunedin’s Healthy Harbour Watchers, heat and exercise, a device to measure pressure in the brain, and mapping Kapiti Island’s submarine landscapes.
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21:06
Protein, Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes
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Massey University researchers are looking at whether why protein after interval training could help type II diabetics with their blood sugar levels
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By Ruth Beran
Novel research testing the effects of protein and exercise on type 2 diabetics is being conducted at Massey University.
This is probably the first time it’s been done well in a human diabetics cohort"
Kim Gaffney, Massey University
Previous research has been conducted in athletes, healthy populations or in animals.
The trial is testing whether consuming a milk protein supplement after exercise speeds up the capacity for diabetics to consume sugar. “So after they eat a meal, their capacity to actually tuck that sugar away into the muscle tissue should have been enhanced,” says exercise physiologist Kim.
Half of the thirty participants are taking the supplement, and half are on a placebo, and even Kim doesn’t know which participants are taking the supplement.
The supplement is a whey protein, mainly because it is inexpensive, and people tolerate it well. There’s also evidence to suggest that milk proteins like whey protein have a powerful effect on vascular and skeletal muscle, and Kim says, vascular tissue delivers the insulin and the glucose to the muscle where it gets stored.
Participants are placed on an exercise regime which consists of cycling on an exercise bike three days a week, and strength training twice a week for ten weeks. The program is based around high intensity sessions, because there is evidence to suggest that even short sessions can have a big effect on metabolism. Participants have one 60 second interval of high intensity cycling then 60 seconds of low intensity for 20 minutes, as well as lighter weights but high repetitions in interval style fashion in the weights training sessions.
For Colin Daley, a participant in the study, the sessions are a challenge but they have given him a better approach for monitoring his sugar levels. He’s also making progress physically in being able to meet the demands required of him.
Colin hasn’t seen any weight loss though from the exercise regime, but Kim says that weight loss is not a specific aim of the program partly because there is no intervention with the participants’ diet. “We’re just asking them to maintain their normal diet, good or bad, and we’re looking to see whether just the exercise alone will have an effect and whether that’s enhanced by the supplement,” says Kim.
In fact, Kim says that sometimes participants will even gain weight, but this is usually because they have grown some muscle while body fat has decreased.
For a lot of diabetics, exercise can be a struggle, and Kim is happy that the participants are sticking to the program.
We haven’t had anyone drop out of the program. It’s certainly achievable to exercise five days a week,” says Kim. “They’re short intensive sessions so they don’t seem to impact much on their lifestyle. They can fit it in that time, and get a really good effect.”
Topics: science, health
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Tags: protein, exercise, diabetes, interval training, blood sugar, glucose
Duration: 20'54"
21:20
Kelp and Climate Change
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Warming ocean temperatures and increasing sediment as a result of more extreme weather events may have profound effects on the health of our coastal kelp ecosystems
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By Alison Ballance
“Kelp is potentially really susceptible to some impacts of climate change such as warming temperatures. There are already places in Australia where the ocean is warming and it’s had negative effects for kelp forests, actual reductions in the extent of where they occur.”
Kirsten Rodgers, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland
Warmer sea temperatures and more extreme weather events leading to increasing sediment runoff are among the effects predicted to affect our oceans as climate change kicks in. PhD student Kirsten Rodgers, from the University of Auckland’s Leigh Marine Laboratory, is investigating how New Zealand’s common kelp Ecklonia radiata might cope under these future environmental conditions. And to do that she has had to develop some novel experimental techniques.
One of the questions she is looking at is how the kelp’s rate of photosynthesis varies at different temperatures and under different light regimes.
Kirsten has developed a novel chamber system that can enclose a single kelp plant, and she works underwater on scuba in the Leigh Marine Reserve with the chamber to measure the rate of photosynthesis and oxygen production by individual kelp plants at different light levels. She can increase the light by moving the plant and its chamber closer to the surface, and she can lower light levels by putting what she describes as a ‘shade cloth sock’ over the container.
“We want to understand what’s happening when a kelp is in a kelp forest, and it’s got natural light, water movement and shading from other kelp.”
Once she has measured photosynthesis under a range of light condition Kirsten then uses this data to model the production of entire kelp forests.
To measure the rate of photosynthesis at different temperatures she has had to develop another system to work with whole kelp plants in outdoor mesocosms, because, as she says, “we can’t heat the whole ocean.” Climate change predictions are that sea temperatures around New Zealand will increase by 3° Celsius by the end of the 21st century. Kirsten has eight mesocosms, which are large barrels fed seawater from a tipper bucket that creates turbulent water conditions for the kelp. In her experiments she treats four of them mesocosms with 21°C seawater (the current summertime average around the Leigh Marine Laboratory) and the other four with 24°C water. At the same time she can manipulate the light levels by using shade cloth to create darker conditions.
What she found was that warming temperatures alone didn’t cause any measurable changes to the plant’s rate of photosynthesis, whereas low light levels noticeably decreased rates of photosynthesis.
“As one stressor increases it can push a species closer to its physiological threshold, and any additional disturbances can then have major effects,” says Kirsten. “So increasing temperatures might affect resilience.”
To test this further she blacked-out the mesocosms, to simulate a major storm-event that washes lots of sediment into the water and blocks the light for several days. These results were very clear: much of the kelp in the warmer water died, while the kelp at normal temperatures all survived.
“What that indicated was that warmer water reduced the kelp’s resilience to additional disturbance.”
So, as the impacts of climate change become more marked it will not be ‘business as usual’ in our coastal ecosystems. Kirsten notes there could be quite profound changes, and because kelp is such a keystone species “those changes in kelp functioning or distribution will have wide-reaching effects throughout the ecosystem.”
Kirsten’s supervisor Nick Shears was on Our Changing World last week talking about further research into the impact of changing light levels on kelp, and how increasing water temperatures in southern New Zealand and around Tasmania are the result of changes to ocean currents and the South Pacific tropical gyre.
Topics: environment, science
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Tags: climate change, extreme weather, kelp, marine ecosystems, Leigh marine reserve, marine algae
Duration: 13'18"
21:34
Brain Training to Slow Progression of Huntington's Disease
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University of Auckland neuroscientist Melanie Cheung has developed a Maori-focused brain resilience programme which could slow the progression of Huntington's Disease
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By Veronika Meduna
We want to know if early on … if we engage those pathways that become very sick later on, and if we continue to engage those pathways, can we stop or slow down the disease process.
Melanie Cheung, neuroscientist University of Auckland
Our brain has a remarkable ability to rewire itself constantly, even following injury.
Melanie Cheung, a neuroscientist at the University of Auckland’s Centre for Brain Research, hopes to harness this plasticity to slow the progression of neuro-degenerative conditions such as Huntington’s disease.
Huntington’s is an inherited genetic disorder that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain. Its symptoms include deterioration of movement, personality and thinking. There is no cure, and no effective treatment.
Although the prevalence of Huntington’s disease among Māori has not been formally quantified, there is evidence that it is at least twice that of non-Māori. Melanie Cheung has recently received nearly $1.2 million from the Health Research Council to develop computer-based brain training programmes with a strong focus on te reo and tikanga Māori.
Her team has been working with several whanau affected by Huntington’s who have now become part of a study to assess whether brain resilience training can help to delay the onset of symptoms and to slow the course of the disease.
“My idea was based on the fact that in Huntington’s there is an increase in neurogenesis (the production of new brain cells) but it’s too little too late. So perhaps neuroplasticity could help recruit these cells, help them integrate functionally and enhance that process.”
One of the molecules that plays an important role in neuroplasticity is called Brain-Derived Neutrotrophic Factor, or BDNF, and it is significantly reduced in Huntington’s. But other researchers who have used brain training with schizophrenics have shown that BDNF increased when people started using the programmes. The hope is that this will also be the case in Huntington’s.
In the human brain you have cells that talk to each other, and the more and more they talk to each other the stronger those connections become. So what happens with neuroplasticity is that we’re making the cells talk to each other so that the pathways become really strong. And the pathways that we’re aiming to strengthen are the very ones that become weakened in Huntington’s disease.
Melanie Cheung (Ngāti Rangitihi, Te Arawa) combines both indigenous and Western science in her research, and her work integrates experimental neurobiology, bioethics, tikanga and Mātauranga Māori.
As part of her commitment to tikanga Māori, she consulted her own whanau and iwi when she began work on brain tissue.
She became particularly interested in neuroplasticity after working with pioneering American neuroscientist Michael Merzenich, who has been part of the development of the Māori-focused brain training programmes.
The first study began earlier this year, when all participants were assessed for their baseline cognitive and sensory function, psychological conditions such as depression and anxiety, and the research team took an MRI scan of their brain.
Each study member will go through the same suite of measurements after 20, 40 and 80 weeks of daily brain training, focusing on tasks such as emotional recognition, temporal processing, speed of processing, working memory and attention.
“These are all things that get changed early in the disease process. These cognitive changes then lead to other issues further down the track.”
The study focuses on people who don’t yet experience any symptoms, and may not even know whether they have inherited the gene that leads to Huntington’s. If the results are promising, Melanie Cheung hopes that brain training will be recommended to anybody who has any history of Huntington’s in their family.
Topics: science, health, te ao Maori
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Tags: brain plasticity, brain function, tikanga Maori, Huntington's disease, neuro-degeneartive diseases, brain training, matauranga, tikanga
Duration: 18'56"
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Brain Training to Slow Down Huntington's Disease
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University of Auckland neuroscientist Melanie Cheung has developed a Maori-focused brain resilience programme which could slow the progression of Huntington's Disease.
Topics: science, health, te ao Maori
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Tags: brain plasticity, brain function, tikanga Maori, Huntington's disease, neuro-degeneartive diseases, brain training
Duration: 18'56"
21:46
Rare Mudfish, the Farmer and the School
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A population of rare South Canterbury mudfish are benefiting from a community project involving the St Andrews School, the farmer and the Working Waters Trust
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By Alison Ballance
The secret to having good numbers of one of New Zealand’s most endangered species living on a South Canterbury farm is a natural spring - which provides water even during a drought – plus a farmer who is motivated to fence out stock and work with the local primary school to improve and expand the habitat.
The fish in question is the Canterbury mudfish, the farmer is Ross Rathgen, and the school is St Andrews. Also in the mix is Lan Pham from the Working Water’s Trust.
“Ross is the reason this is happening,” says Lan. “He’s been wanting to do something with the site for years … [and now] it really just feels like all different aspects of the community coming together
This population of Canterbury mudfish is fortunate to have a sympathetic farm owner, as there is currently no legal protection under the Wildlife Act for any species of freshwater fish in New Zealand, expect for the extinct grayling, so conservation measures rely on the goodwill of landowners.
When cropping and dairy farmer Ross bought the farm seven years ago there was a population of Canterbury mudfish living in the drainage ditches, but not much in the way of fencing. He fenced off the ditch first, kept stock away from that part of the farm, and with Immediate Steps funding from Environment Canterbury’s Orari-Opihi-Pareora Zone Committee and support from the Department of Conservation, he has just completed fencing off just over a hectare of mudfish habitat.
To enhance the area for the mudfish twenty mudfish ponds were dug in the swampy ground near the drainage ditches at the end of 2014. Lan laughs and says they had to explain to the digger driver that they didn’t want the ponds – which are about a metre deep, five metres long and three metres wide – to be tidy, but rather they wanted rough gently-sloping edges where the mudfish would be able to find shelter. Water from the spring and wetland area quickly filled the ponds, and many of the ponds soon had a healthy growth of pondweed on the surface.
On the 1st May 2015 Lan, Ross and a class from the school headed out to see how the mudfish had survived the intense summer drought – and whether any of the new ponds had been naturally colonised by the mudfish. The day before, Lan Pham and Sophie Allen from Working Water’s Trust, and South Canterbury mudfish expert Leanne O’Brien from Ichthyo-niche, had set fish traps baited with marmite – and the first trap they checked from one of the new ponds had caught nine mudfish. Mudfish can move between ponds by slithering across wet grass. The original ditch was teeming with mudfish, and Leanne decided that these would be liberated into a couple of the new ponds that she thought the mudfish might have more difficulty reaching themselves.
Canterbury mudfish are listed as Threatened - Nationally Critical, and are the most endangered of the five mudfish species. They are the second most endangered species of freshwater fish in New Zealand.
“The number of Canterbury mudfish populations that need attention is just huge. We literally are losing them really quickly, particularly with the drought.”
Lan gives the example how one significant population of Canterbury mudfish disappeared this year, because the habitat dried up in the drought and there were no regulations to stop the landowner from then digging it up and installing a centre pivot irrigator. Lan says the main problem is a lack of knowledge about the mudfish, with many landowners not realising they even have populations on their property.
Ross says he has plans to protect all the little wetlands and streams on the farm, and that his aim is to covenant the fenced area that the school is involved in. In the long term, Ross, St Andrews School and the Working Waters Trust would like to put a boardwalk through the reserve, which is adjacent to State Highway One, and invite the public to walk through the reserve, and learn about the Canterbury mudfish.
Department of Conservation freshwater ranger Peter Ravenscroft, who works with many threatened freshwater fish populations in Otago, joined Lan and the St Andrews school on Ross’s farm, and he was very impressed with what was happening.
“Ticks all the boxes, doesn’t it?" says Peter. "Local community with a local farmer looking after local values, with support from passionate people like Leanne and Lan, and a little bit of financial support from the likes of DoC and Ecan to provide the resources. And then benefit to a nationally critical animal – I couldn’t be happier, to be honest.”
Topics: environment, science, education
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: freshwater fish, wetlands, streams, South Canterbury mudfish, St Andrews School, farming, whitebait, Department of Conservation, habitat restoration, conservation
Duration: 14'22"
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