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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:
25 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 Mr Allbones' Ferrets, by Fiona Farrell (2 of 10, 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 25 June 2015
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Kids as young as 11 being scouted for secondary sports; Apologetic Boston bomber sentenced to death; Labour label behaviour at Helath Minsitry 'nasty, undermining'; Some Anzac Parade residents returning home this afternoon; Fmr Heart of the City boss' court defence met with derision; Conservationists hope for official investigation on kauri; Principal says vulnerable kids being damaged by delays in getting CYF help; Defence Minister fronts up over Iraq.
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Duration: 30'26"
06:06
Sports News for 25 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'18"
06:16
Pacific News for 25 June 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'39"
06:22
Morning Rural News for 25 June 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'06"
06:27
Te Manu Korihi News for 25 June 2015
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The Law Commission is calling for whānau to have better, and faster, access to the bodies of their loved ones once they die; A group of Māori leaders are calling for an urgent hearing in the Waitangi Tribunal, in relation to the Trans-Pacific Partnership; Precious Niupepa Maori - Māori language newspapers - published in the 19th and early 20th century have now been digitalised and can be viewed by the public online; Using electronic media to tell Māori stories is proving a success for one company, with plans to expand its comic book series of Māori myths.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'21"
06:37
Sports expert warns against high-pressure school sport
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Principals' groups say schools are going too far to attract the best athletes, and pushing them too hard once they've got them.
Topics: education, sport
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Duration: 2'42"
06:47
Trust says West Ak need to work together better
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The chief executive of the Waipareira Trust says the agencies that are meant to help at-risk children and their families in West Auckland aren't working together as they should.
Topics: te ao Maori
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Waipareira Trust, children at risk
Duration: 2'40"
06:48
Air NZ says FY pre-tax profit to rise 60% on year earlier
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Air New Zealand says earnings growth has remained strong in the second half of its financial year.
Topics: transport, business
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Tags: Air New Zealand
Duration: 1'01"
06:49
CallPlus withdraws Global Mode to avoid legal action
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Internet New Zealand is disappointed that CallPlus will stop a service that allows its users access to overseas television shows that would otherwise be blocked.
Topics: internet, media
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Tags: CallPlus, geo-masking, Global Mode, VPNs
Duration: 1'56"
06:51
NZ one of the best in supporting biotech innovation
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A survey has found New Zealand's one of the best places in the world to develop a biotech business.
Topics: business, science
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Tags: biotech
Duration: 1'49"
06:53
Food investor expects a better year
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The food and drink investor, Veritas Investments, is forecasting a better year after struggling with underperforming units.
Topics: business, food
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Tags: Veritas Investments
Duration: 1'26"
06:55
US-based Dean Foods part of consortium interested in A2
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A2 Milk says the United States-based Dean Foods is the other party in the consortium that is toying with the idea of buying the specialty milk company.
Topics: business, food
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Tags: A2 Milk, dairy
Duration: 39"
06:56
Arvida expands with purchase
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Arvida says it's going to focus on its redevelopment plans after buying three Auckland-based retirement villages.
Topics: business, economy
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Arvida, retirement villages
Duration: 27"
06:58
Ryan Bridge in China
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There's been mixed reaction in China to news of last week's share market nose-dive, when stocks on mainland exchanges plunged by up to 13 percent.
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Tags: China, share market
Duration: 1'34"
06:59
Morning markets
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Wall Street has fallen as investors keep an eye on Greece.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Wall Street, Greece
Duration: 50"
07:06
Sports News for 25 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'05"
07:10
Kids as young as 11 being scouted for secondary sports
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Principals' groups say schools are going too far to attract the best athletes, and pushing them too hard once they've got them.
Topics: education, sport
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Duration: 2'56"
07:14
Apologetic Boston bomber sentenced to death
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The Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has apologised to his victims during a federal court hearing in Boston in which he was sentenced to death.
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Tags: Boston Bomber, USA
Duration: 4'27"
07:18
Labour: behaviour at Health Minsitry 'nasty, undermining'
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Senior leaders at the Ministry of Health have been accused of bullying and destructive behaviour.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Ministry of Health, workplace bullying
Duration: 4'24"
07:23
Some Anzac Parade residents returning home this afternoon
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About half the people with homes inside Whanganui's Anzac Parade emergency cordon should be allowed to return to their properties this afternoon.
Topics: weather
Regions: Manawatu, Whanganui
Tags: Whanganui floods, floods
Duration: 3'50"
07:28
Fmr Heart of the City boss' court defence met with derision
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Former Heart of the City boss Alex Swney's claim he stole from the Auckland promotion agency because he wasn't being paid enough is being met with derision.
Topics: business, law, crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland, Heart of the City, Alex Swney
Duration: 4'04"
07:33
Conservationists hope for official investigation on kauri
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Far North conservation groups are hoping to hear today the Auditor General will conduct an inquiry into the swamp kauri trade.
Topics: environment, business
Regions: Northland
Tags: kauri log export
Duration: 4'02"
07:41
Principal says vulnerable kids being damaged by delays
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As we reported yesterday community agencies in West Auckland says thousands of at-risk children are failing to get the help they need.
Topics: education, life and society
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: children at risk, Auckland
Duration: 3'06"
07:46
Defence Minister fronts up over Iraq
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The New Zealand Defence Force aims to train 18-hundred Iraqi soldiers.
Topics: defence force
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Tags: Iraq
Duration: 2'58"
07:51
Auckland rents soar to new record high
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For the four out of ten people in Auckland renting their home, the cost of living just got more expensive.
Topics: housing
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Auckland, renting
Duration: 6'01"
07:58
People will find a way to stream content online
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The end of a streaming service that let online TV viewers watch blocked overseas shows may drive some people back to piracy.
Topics: technology, internet, media
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Tags: streaming, piracy
Duration: 2'16"
08:06
Sports News for 25 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'11"
08:11
Principals fear school sports rivalry could harm children
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Principals' groups are worried school sport rivalry's reached new heights with star players being imported from overseas and talent being scouted from intermediate schools.
Topics: sport, education
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Duration: 6'58"
08:18
Auckland council to vote on hefty rate rise today
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A hefty rate rise for Aucklanders, including a new transport levy is expected to be signed off by the Auckland Council today.
Topics: transport, politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: rates
Duration: 2'58"
08:23
Rena can be left on the seabed - iwi
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A Bay of Plenty iwi has decided not it won't oppose the plan to leave the wreck of container ship Rena on the Astrolabe Reef.
Topics: te ao Maori, environment, life and society
Regions: Bay of Plenty
Tags: Rena, Astrolabe Reef
Duration: 4'07"
08:27
Greenpeace protestors atop parliament buildings
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Greenpeace protestors are staging a protest atop parliament buildings.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Greenpeace
Duration: 1'44"
08:30
Markets Update for 25 June 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 1'13"
08:35
Farmers feel insulted by government assistance on offer
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Farmers in the lower North Island say they feel insulted by the government assistance on offer after last weekend's flooding.
Topics: farming, rural
Regions: Manawatu, Taranaki
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Duration: 4'16"
08:39
Court plans over Crown land possibly sweetened by Govt
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Iwi planning to go to court over the Government's plans to sell off surplus Crown land for low cost housing are believed to have been offered sweeteners to abandon their action.
Topics: te ao Maori, law
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Tags: Crown land
Duration: 5'41"
08:47
Petition calls for end of unnecessary food packaging
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A Whanganui woman is taking a stand against supermarkets wrapping fruit and vegetables in too much packaging.
Topics: health, economy, food
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Tags: Packaging
Duration: 3'34"
08:50
Te Manu Korihi News for 25 June 2015
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The Law Commission is calling for whānau to have better, and faster, access to the bodies of their loved ones once they die; A group of Māori leaders are calling for an urgent hearing in the Waitangi Tribunal, in relation to the Trans-Pacific Partnership; Precious Niupepa Maori - Māori language newspapers - published in the 19th and early 20th century have now been digitalised and can be viewed by the public online; Using electronic media to tell Māori stories is proving a success for one company, with plans to expand its comic book series of Māori myths.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'23"
08:53
Bill ditching MMP coat-tailing provision fails
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The Government's support partners have been labelled self-interested for voting against a bill that would scrap the so-called coat-tailing rule.
Topics: politics, law
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Tags: coat-tailing
Duration: 2'55"
08:56
Queen could leave Buckingham Palace for overdue redecoration
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Queen Elizabeth may have to leave Buckingham Palace because the building needs new plumbing and wiring.
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Tags: Queen Elizabeth, Buckingham Palace, UK, the royals
Duration: 3'06"
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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: Heartland, by Jenny Pattrick, told by Fiona Samuel (4 of 10, RNZ)
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09:07
Has competition in secondary school sport gone too far?
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Youth sports researcher, Dr Craig Harrison says pressure on young athletes is leading to burn out, drop out and injury. With Dr Craig Harrison, director of the Athlete Development Academy at AUT Millenium; and Rob Nichol, Rugby Players Association CEO.
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Schools must do more to ensure teen sporting stars do not neglect their education, Rugby Players' Association chief executive Rob Nichol says.
The chief executive of the New Zealand Rugby Players Association, Rob Nichol.
Photo: Photosport
Secondary school principals say they are worried the intense competition between schools is prompting them to put a lot of pressure on their students.
Mr Nichol told Nine to Noon students were specialising in sport too early.
"Kids are giving up other sports that they enjoy to specialise in a particular sport and effectively put all their eggs in one basket only to find out four to five years later that actually there's not much at the end of the road for them," he said.
"As a result, they've compromised another area, and the biggest area we are frankly concerned about is education."
Parents and teachers needed to step up and act in teenagers' best interests, Mr Nichol said.
His concerns were backed up by sports researcher Craig Harrison, who said some school sports stars were being harmed by excessive training.
"We're getting athletes that are demanded to attend a number of practices a week," the AUT researcher told Nine to Noon.
"They're having to go to these games and they're just not ready to cope, both emotionally and physically.
"So we're ending up with athletes that are burning out and they're experiencing injuries that a lot of the time are putting them on the sideline for extended periods of time."
Students who specialised early in a particular sport often lost motivation, suffered from stress and sometimes dropped out of sport altogether, Mr Harrison said.
Auckland Grammar principal Tim O'Connor said there was also an issue with students being treated as elite sports people.
"I think we do really have to remember that we are involved with amateur sport and we should be trying to develop cultures that endorse our school culture," he said.
Macleans College principal Byron Bentley said the integrity rules needed more teeth, with tougher penalties for such things as poaching good players from other schools.
"Keep the focus on the main aim, which is to give them a good education and send them out with a qualification," he said.
"That's got to be the bottom line."
Topics: sport, education
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Tags: Youth sport, competitive sports
Duration: 24'16"
09:37
ISIS destruction of historic monuments
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IS militants continue to destroy ancient artefacts in Syria and Iraq, University of Pennsylvania archaeologist Katharyn Hanson has just returned from the region and discusses her observations.
Topics: conflict
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Tags: Syria, Iraq, Katharyn Hanson, Islamic State, World Heritage Site
Duration: 14'20"
09:51
UK correspondent - Jon Dennis
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Calais strike and illegal migrants; Airplane stowaway; David Cameron's speech; Troubled schoolboys.
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Tags: UK
Duration: 8'28"
10:05
Madison Stewart - Shark Girl
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For 21 year old Australian Madison Stewart, jumping into shark infested waters is the most natural thing in the world.
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When Madison Stewart was 14 when her life changed forever.
She was on a night dive at one of her favourite spots on Australia's Great Barrier reef; a place where two years before she had been surrounded by sharks and felt completely at home.
This time there was just one shark. The dramatic decline was due to legal gill net fishing despite it being a marine park. It was her call to action and seven years later she is just as passionate.
"I work for sharks, they are everything to me, and my story is one of loss at the hands of environmental injustice. And I work to take back what I believe is mine, and that is a future in an ocean that has sharks."
Madison left school and began working full-time to highlight the sharks' plight, convincing her parents to use the money they would have spent on school fees to buy an underwater camera.
Madison Stewart spoke with Kathryn Ryan on Nine to Noon about her work.
She has since filmed several documentaries about the threats. Her goal is to show that the fish are not the fearsome predators they are made out to be.
Madison says they have a playful side and when she is underwater it is as if they are clamouring for her attention, lining up to be filmed.
Last year she ignored the threat of an obstruction charge to film the Western Australian Great White Shark cull. Madison's footage revealed dead tiger sharks, caught up on the hooks used on baited drum lines.
"Sharks are my family, and no one threatens my family."
She is staunch about what needs to be achieved.
"The most important career I can hope to be involved in is the protection of this planet, and thus my own future. I want a future with sharks in it. This is the end I am fighting for.
"I have seen a change in my lifetime. I am not an activist, or a conservationist. I am just a person who refuses to believe they will lose their home in their lifetime, at the hands of governments and worldwide neglect of this species."
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Duration: 26'12"
10:37
Book Review: The Invisible Mile
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The Invisible Mile by David Coventry, published by Victoria University Press, reviewed by Gyles Beckford.
Topics: books
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Tags: The Invisible Mile, David Coventry
Duration: 7'40"
11:07
New Technology commentator Erika Pearson
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Erika discusses Emotional contagion on Twitter; the end of Global Mode; and do robots have souls?
Topics: technology
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Duration: 12'38"
11:23
Parenting - Teen Depression
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Young Australian author Adam Schwartz with practical advice for parents of children with depression based on his own experience.
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Young Australian author Adam Schwartz with practical advice for parents of children with depression based on his own experience.
Adam Schwartz was just 10 when he first became depressed. He refused to go to school, he was prone to bouts of destruction and contemplated suicide. For the next seven years, he and his parents tried an endless round of therapies and treatments in New South Wales, where they live. Adam is now 24, back in study in healthy and has written a book about what it is like to be a child and teenager suffering from depression. It's called mum, I wish I was dead and he wants it to give hope to both sufferers and their parents.
Topics: author interview, books, health, identity
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Tags: depression, parenting, mental health
Duration: 23'04"
11:49
TV review with Paul Casserly
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Paul Casserly reviews the new Jimmy McGovern series, Banished, as well as his picks for some viewing gems on YouTube.
Topics: arts, media
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Tags: television
Duration: 10'00"
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09:05 Has competition in secondary school sport gone too far?
Youth sports researcher, Dr Craig Harrison, director of the Athlete Development Academy at AUT Millennium. says pressure on young athletes is leading to burn out, drop out and injury. He's joined by Rob Nichol, Rugby Players Association CEO.
9:20 ISIS destruction of historic monuments
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Islamic State militants have blown up two ancient shrines in Palmyra the UNESCO world heritage site in central Syria. The militants seized control of the ancient city last month. There's been significant damage to ancient artefacts and various religious and heritage sites in Iraq and Syria caused by the Islamic State and the Assad regime in Syria.
Doctor Katharyn Hanson is an archaeologist with the University of Pennsylvania who's been documenting the destruction using satellite imagery, as you can see here. She has also been on the ground in northern Iraq, from where she has just returned to the United States.
09:45 UK correspondent Jon Dennis
UK correspondent Jon Dennis reports about migrants trying to get to Britain and David Cameron's promise to end what he calls the welfare "merry-go- round".
10:05 Madison Stewart - Shark Girl
Twenty-one-year-old Madison Stewart, known as "Shark Girl," a dive master and underwater filmmaker who has devoted her life to protecting the world's sharks.
[gallery:1226] Shark Girl photos by Ernst Stewart, used with permission.
Twenty-one-year-old Madison Stewart, known as "Shark Girl," is an Australian underwater filmmaker who has devoted her life to protecting the world's sharks. She left school at 14 to travel around the world with her father, to document the plight of sharks in the world's oceans and to show the gentle and playful side of the feared predators.
She was the subject of a documentary for the Smithsonian Institute Channel, and has made several films about the threats faced by sharks.
[video] https://vimeo.com/94714243
[video] https://vimeo.com/94363725
10:35 Book review: The Invisible Mile by David Coventry
Published by Victoria University Press. Reviewed by Gyles Beckford.
10:45 The Reading: 'Heartland' by Jenny Pattrick
Read by Fiona Samuel (Episode 4 of 10)
11:05 New Technology commentator Erika Pearson
Erika discusses Emotional contagion on Twitter; the end of Global Mode; and do robots have souls?
Emotional Contagion on Twitter
The End of Global Mode
Do Robots Have Souls?
11:25 Young and depressed
Young Australian author Adam Schwartz with practical advice for parents of children with depression based on his own experience.
Adam Schwartz was just 10 when he first became depressed. He refused to go to school, he was prone to bouts of destruction and contemplated suicide. For the next seven years, he and his parents tried an endless round of therapies and treatments in New South Wales, where they live. Adam is now 24, back in study in healthy and has written a book about what it is like to be a child and teenager suffering from depression. It's called mum, I wish I was dead and he wants it to give hope to both sufferers and their parents.
11:45 TV Review with Paul Casserly
Paul Casserly reviews the new Jimmy McGovern series, Banished, as well as his picks for some viewing gems on YouTube.
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Artist: Andrew Keoghan
Song: Bright Idea
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Album: Artic Tales Divide
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Time: 9.35
Artist: Radiohead
Song: High and Dry
Composer:
Album: The Bends
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Time: 10.34
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Song: Street Fighting Man
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Album: Beggars Banquet
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Time:11.20
Artist: Ben Sollee
Song: How to see the sun rise
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Album: Curving the bend
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Time: 11.25
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Artist: Andrew Keoghan
Song: Bright Idea
Album: Artic Tales Divide
Time: 9.35
Artist: Radiohead
Song: High and Dry
Album: The Bends
Time: 10.34
Artist: The Rolling Stones
Song: Street Fighting Man
Album: Beggars Banquet
Time:11.20
Artist: Ben Sollee
Song: How to see the sun rise
Album: Curving the bend
Time: 11.25
===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 25 June 2015
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The Government boosts its quake payout offers to some red-zone property owners and a Greenpeace protest sparks security worries at Parliament.
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Duration: 15'06"
12:17
TPP supporter says talks back on track
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An advocate for a Pacific-wide trade deal says the talks are back on track after American politicians passed legislation that helps the White House conclude a deal.
Topics: business
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Tags: TPP
Duration: 1'24"
12:19
Online retail spending up 11%: Overseas spending up 23%
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Recent falls in the New Zealand dollar is having little impact on the country's overseas online spending.
Topics: business
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Tags: New Zealand dollar
Duration: 1'29"
12:19
More Fonterra farmers choose to lock in guaranteed prices
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Fonterra says more farmers are choosing to lock in some of their milk at a guaranteed price for the new season.
Topics: business
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Tags: Fonterra
Duration: 33"
12:20
Arvida lifts trading halt: places $30 million of shares
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Arvida Group says it's well on the way to raising the funds it needs to buy three Auckland retirement villages.
Topics: business
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Tags: Arvida Group
Duration: 1'41"
12:24
Midday Markets for 25 June 2015
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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: 2'43"
12:26
Midday Sports News for 25 June 2015
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The All Blacks and Hurricanes wing Cory Jane will miss Saturday's Super Rugby semi-final against the ACT Brumbies in Wellington because of a hamstring injury.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'48"
12:39
Midday Rural News for 25 June 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 8'14"
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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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13:09
Your Song - These Boots Are Made For Walking
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Ange van der Laan from Queenstown has chosen 'These Boots Are Made For Walking' by Nancy Sinatra.
Topics: music
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Duration: 14'29"
13:23
New Zealand A to Z - M for Matariki
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Matariki, the cluster of stars whose arrival - for many of us here in Aotearoa - signals the beginning of a brand new year. The name literally means 'little eyes' (Mata riki) or "Eyes of God' (Mata Ariki) after the story that explains why these brightly twinkling stars first appeared.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags: Matariki
Duration: 35'19"
14:08
Running man - Mark Finch
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Mark Finch has created a device that prevents runners from injuring themselves. It's already been tested at a high level - Australian Olympians and even the US military are giving it a go. The ankle device and accompanying phone app could soon be available for the everyday consumer.
Topics: sport, technology
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Tags: running
Duration: 14'42"
14:23
High tea - Laurent Loudeac
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Laurent Loudeac and Camille Furminieux are flying to Sri Lanka tomorrow to represent New Zealand at the High Tea champs. They'll be serving six dishes, with matching teas, including a duck consomme infused with tea. It's more a high-end degustation menu than white bread cucumber sandwiches and cake, but the pair hope their unique style of cooking and brewing will be enough to beat the 14 other countries competing.
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Laurent Loudeac and Camille Furminieux are flying to Sri Lanka tomorrow to represent New Zealand at the High Tea champs. They'll be serving six dishes, with matching teas, including a duck consomme infused with tea. It's more a high-end degustation menu than white bread cucumber sandwiches and cake, but the pair hope their unique style of cooking and brewing will be enough to beat the 14 other countries competing.
Topics: food
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Tags: degustation, high tea
Duration: 6'32"
14:42
Feature Album - Before This World
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It's a new release from a familiar name in music who since the early 70s has been quietly making hits. It was back in 2002 when James Taylor last released new music, his new album is called "Before This World." and we are about to play three tracks from it.
Topics: music
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Tags: James Taylor
Duration: 17'54"
15:07
The Expats - Faye Gorman
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This week we speak to Faye Gorman, who's working as a mental health nurse for the Royal Flying Doctors in Australia's outback.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: expats, Royal Flying Doctors, Australia
Duration: 16'37"
15:46
The Panel pre-show for 25 June 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'13"
21:45
Mapping Underwater Landscapes
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A team of marine geologists deploy multibeam echo-sounding technology to map the seabed around Kapiti Island, north of Wellington.
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By Veronika Meduna Veronika.Meduna@radionz.co.nz
Marine geoscientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) are mapping the submarine landscapes around Kapiti Island, north of Wellington, this month.
Kapiti Island is one of New Zealand’s earliest bird sanctuaries, and it is surrounded by one of our oldest marine reserves, straddling the Rauoterangi Channel that separates the island from the Waikanae Estuary Scientific Reserve. The waters around the 70-metre deep channel were once frequented by whales and are an important breeding area for fish and invertebrates, including paua and rock lobster.
But despite its significance as one the Department of Conservation’s network of coastal protected areas, the seafloor around Kapiti Island has never been mapped with the latest echo-sounding technology.
The project to collect state-of-the-art topographical information about the seafloor was prompted by diving surveys. Alix LaFerriere, who is studying paua populations within the marine reserve, says getting detailed underwater bathymetry will help DOC to plan future monitoring projects.
It will allow us to decide where to use drop cameras, remote vehicles or diving, and that allows us to look at how the marine reserve is working and if it’s providing protection for species that are economically and ecologically important.
Alix LaFerriere, Victoria University
You can listen to an earlier Our Changing World feature about marine reserves and how ocean creatures respond to protected areas.
NIWA’s research vessel Ikatere is equipped with multibeam echo-sounding technology that produces highly accurate bathymetry and habitat maps of the seafloor to a depth of 50 metres over an area of 50 square kilometres. The information will also be used by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) for the next update of the region’s navigational charts.
In addition, data recorded throughout the full water column can also be used to characterise water masses, identify gas seeps and sediment plumes, and detect schools of fish.
NIWA marine geologist Geoffroy Lamarche says the underwater map will be useful to many people, including geologists studying potential hazards such as landslides and ecologists wanting to understand seafloor habitats.
If you have a flat sandy seafloor, you have a high probability to find scallops or flounders, and if you have a very rugged steep seafloor, you are far more likely to find rock fish and paua. We see that the biology relates very directly to the geomorphology and geology. And that is what we call habitat mapping. We don’t map the animals, we map the substrate and the geomorphology on which they live.
Geoffroy Lamarche, NIWA
Topics: science, environment
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Tags: Kapiti Island, seabed mapping, marine reserve, seabed habitat, multi-beam echo sounder
Duration: 13'15"
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1:10 Your Song
These Boots Are Made For Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra. Chosen by Ange van der Laan.
1:20 Our New Zealand A to Z - M for Matariki
Matariki, the cluster of stars whose arrival - for many of us here in Aotearoa - signals the beginning of a brand new year. The name literally means 'little eyes' (Mata riki) or "Eyes of God' (Mata Ariki) after the story that explains why these brightly twinkling stars first appeared.
2:10 Running man - Mark Finch
Mark Finch has created a device that prevents runners from injuring themselves. It's already been tested at a high level - Australian Olympians and even the US military are giving it a go. The ankle device and accompanying phone app could soon be available for the everyday consumer.
2:20 High tea - Laurent Loudeac
Laurent Loudeac and Camille Furminieux are flying to Sri Lanka tomorrow to represent New Zealand at the High Tea champs. They'll be serving six dishes, with matching teas, including a duck consomme infused with tea. It's more a high-end degustation menu than white bread cucumber sandwiches and cake, but the pair hope their unique style of cooking and brewing will be enough to beat the 14 other countries competing.
2:30 NZ Reading - Mercenary Territory
Connor makes the sale but not before an Urupa is discovered nearby.
2:45 Feature album
Before This World - James Taylor
3:10 The Expats - Faye Gorman
This week we speak to Faye Gorman, who's working as a mental health nurse for the Royal Flying Doctors in Australia's outback.
3:20 BBC Witness - Yugoslavia
In June 1948 Marshal Tito turned his back on his former ally, the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. It was a dramatic turn of events in post-war Europe. Witness hears from Dragica Srzentic, now 103 years old, who delivered a letter from Tito to Moscow sealing the split between the two countries.
3:35 Mapping Underwater Landscapes - Veronika Meduna
The marine reserve around Kapiti Island is one of New Zealand's oldest protected marine areas and an important breeding ground for fish, paua and rock lobster. But the seafloor has never been mapped with 21st century technology - until now. Stories from Our Changing World.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Zara Potts, Jim Mora, Chris Gallavin and Linda Clark.
MUSIC DETAILS:
Thursday 25 June 2015
YOUR SONG:
ARTIST: Nany Sinatra
TITLE: These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
COMP: Lee Hazlewood
ALBUM: Full Metal Jacket
LABEL: WARNER 925613
A TO Z - MATARIKI:
ARTIST: Ahorangi
TITLE: Pounamu
COMP: UNKNOWN
ALBUM: Music 101
LABEL: INHOUSE 1302
ARTIST: Trinity Roots
TITLE: Home Land And Sea
COMP: Maxwell
ALBUM: Home Land And Sea
LABEL: TRINITY ROOTS 240140
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: James Taylor
TITLE: Snowtime
COMP: Taylor
ALBUM: Before This World
LABEL: CONCORD 723527
ARTIST: James Taylor
TITLE: You And I Again
COMP: Taylor
ALBUM: Before This World
LABEL: CONCORD 723527
ARTIST: James Taylor
TITLE: Before This World
COMP: TRAD
ALBUM: Before This World
LABEL: CONCORD 723527
THE PANEL:
ARTIST: Flowers On The Wall
TITLE: Statler Brothers
COMP: DeWitt
ALBUM: The Statler Brothers: The Best Of
LABEL: MERCURY 822524
===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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15:46
The Panel pre-show for 25 June 2015
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Your feedback, and a preview of the guests and topics on The Panel.
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Duration: 14'13"
16:02
The Panel with Chris Gallavin and Linda Clark(Part 1)
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What the Panelists Linda Clark and Chris Galavin have been up to. Four Greenpeace protestors clambered onto the roof of parliament today. They unfurled a banner to draw attention to climate change. This has raised concerns about security at parliament. Parliament's voted to keep coat-tailing in MMP and not reduce the 5% threshold. Mayor Len Brown's 10-year budget has been passed 10-9. We talk to David Thornton of No More Rates about what he took away from today's Council meeting.
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Duration: 22'35"
16:05
The Panel with Chris Gallavin and Linda Clark(Part 2)
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Wallpaper is making quite a comeback. It evokes strong memories for many of us. What the Panelists Linda Clark and Chris Gallavin have been thinking about. Noise control was called out in Wellington after a complaint about a kapa haka group's practice on a Saturday. The Council's Matthew Borich joins the Panel to explain the finer points of noise control. Ngapuhi leader Sonny Tau could face six months in prison or a $100,000 fine after being caught with five protected kereru. Will new daily flights on Kiwi Regional Airlines between Dunedin and Queenstown be a success? Duncan Garner and Heather du Plessis-Allan together on TV3 at seven o'clock, replacing John Campbell. It will include fun and laughter but viewers can rely on them to ask tough questions.
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Duration: 26'41"
16:07
Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Linda Clark and Chris Galavin have been up to.
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Duration: 7'12"
16:14
Solar panel parliament protest
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Four Greenpeace protestors clambered onto the roof of parliament today. They unfurled a banner to draw attention to climate change. This has raised concerns about security at parliament.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 5'06"
16:19
Coat tailing
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Parliament's voted to keep coat-tailing in MMP and not reduce the 5% threshold.
Topics: politics
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Duration: 2'47"
16:22
Auckland Council 10-year budget narrowly passed
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Mayor Len Brown's 10-year budget has been passed 10-9. We talk to David Thornton of No More Rates about what he took away from today's Council meeting.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Auckland Council, rates
Duration: 7'19"
16:33
Wallpaper revival
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Wallpaper is making quite a comeback. It evokes strong memories for many of us.
Topics: housing
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Duration: 6'05"
16:39
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Linda Clark and Chris Gallavin have been thinking about.
Topics: housing
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Duration: 4'17"
16:43
Noise control called on kapa haka
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Noise control was called out in Wellington after a complaint about a kapa haka group's practice on a Saturday. The Council's Matthew Borich joins the Panel to explain the finer points of noise control.
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Duration: 9'09"
16:53
Maori leader caught with protected birds
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Ngapuhi leader Sonny Tau could face six months in prison or a $100,000 fine after being caught with five protected kereru.
Topics: crime, te ao Maori
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Tags: kereru, Sonny Tau
Duration: 3'04"
16:56
New flights for Dunedin-Queenstown
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Will new daily flights on Kiwi Regional Airlines between Dunedin and Queenstown be a success?
Topics: transport
Regions: Otago
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Duration: 1'08"
16:57
Story
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Duncan Garner and Heather du Plessis-Allan together on TV3 at seven o'clock, replacing John Campbell. It will include fun and laughter but viewers can rely on them to ask tough questions.
Topics: media
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Duration: 2'36"
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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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Checkpoint Top Stories for Thursday 25 June 2015
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Police start arresting protestors who climbed onto the roof of Parliament. Aucklanders will be hit with rates rises averaging ten per cent and the sailor who leapt for his life from a burning yacht.
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Duration: 23'01"
17:07
Parliament rooftop protest
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The Greenpeace members were protesting about government inaction on climate change.
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Duration: 5'11"
17:13
Auckland Council ten year budget passed by one vote
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Rates rises averaging ten per cent are a reality for Aucklanders after the council's ten year budget scraped through with a one vote margin.
Topics: politics
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: rates, Auckland Council
Duration: 4'48"
17:18
Further legal action despite increased red zone offers
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The Government has increased its buy-out offers for some red-zoned property owners in Christchurch, after being directed to revise them by the Supreme Court.
Topics: law, Canterbury earthquakes
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: red-zoned property, red zone
Duration: 3'07"
17:21
Locals get first look inside their waterlogged homes
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To Whanganui East, where waterlogged cars have been towed out of garages at the same time as a few locals got a first glimpse inside their wrecked homes.
Topics: weather
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: Whanganui, floods
Duration: 1'54"
17:23
Our reporter in Whanganui
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Our reporter Robin Martin has been with locals as they looked inside their homes.
Topics: weather
Regions: Manawatu
Tags: Whanganui, floods
Duration: 2'28"
17:25
Series of miracles save NZ sailors
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A New Zealand sailor who leapt for his life from a burning yacht says he and his mates were saved by series of miracles.
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Duration: 5'12"
17:35
Today's market update
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An advocate for a Pacific-wide trade deal says the talks are back on track after American politicians passed legislation that helps the White House conclude an agreement.
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Duration: 2'04"
17:37
Labour MPs clam select committee as farcical
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Irate Labour MPs were spitting tacks today, accusing the National MP chairing a select committee of deliberately stopping them grilling the Foreign Minister on his Saudi sheep deal.
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Duration: 2'45"
17:40
US changes approach to hostage negotiations
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President Obama says the families of US hostages have been let down by their own government and he vows to bring in changes that could allow them to pay ransoms and communicate directly with kidnappers.
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Duration: 4'02"
17:43
Strict Nitrogen limits confirmed for Ruataniwha Dam
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The Board of Inquiry into the $600 million Ruataniwha water storage project in Hawke's Bay has confirmed strict limits on the amount of nitrogen that can leach into waterways as a result of farming.
Topics: environment
Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Ruataniwha Dam
Duration: 2'37"
17:47
Iwi leader alleged to have smuggled five kereru
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Northland iwi leader Sonny Tau says he deeply regrets making a mistake after being questioned by DOC about kereru he had.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Duration: 3'04"
17:50
Parents spend too much time on mobiles
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An international survey shows more than half of New Zealand children feel their parents are spending too much time on their phones and tablets.
Topics: technology
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Duration: 3'23"
17:54
Sports experts decry pressure on teen sports stars
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Sports experts have added their voices to criticism of the intense competition in secondary school sport.
Topics: sport, education
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Duration: 3'13"
17:56
Wild weather closes Dart Valley track until Spring at earliest
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One of New Zealand's popular walking tracks along the Dart Valley, through Mount Aspiring National Park, is likely to remain impassable for the rest of the year.
Topics: rural, environment, weather
Regions: Otago
Tags: Dart Valley, Mount Aspiring National Park
Duration: 3'16"
18:07
Sports News for 25 June 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'14"
18:12
More court action after CERA proposed offer
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Proposed new offers for red zone properties in Christchurch are not enough to stave off more legal action against the government.
Topics: law, Canterbury earthquakes
Regions: Canterbury
Tags: red zone, Christchurch
Duration: 3'43"
18:15
Four protesters up on Parliament's roof all day
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Four protesters up on Parliament's roof all day have come down into the waiting arms of police
Topics: politics
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Duration: 3'56"
18:21
Bullying among public servants worse than ever - lawyer
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A Wellington lawyer says bullying in the public sector is worse now than ever before.
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Duration: 5'21"
18:27
Cycleway divides local Wellington community, councillors
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Plans for a cycleway in a coastal suburb of Wellington have split both the local community and the city council.
Topics: sport, transport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: cycleway, Wellington, Island Bay, cycling
Duration: 3'39"
18:35
Australian government rushes to close asylum seeker law
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The Australian government is urgently trying to pass legislation to skittle a HIGH court challenge over its offshore detention camps for asylum seekers.
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Duration: 5'22"
18:41
Council shies away from tough alcohol rules
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The Dunedin City Council has shied away from introducing tough new rules for bars after consulting with the public.
Topics: politics
Regions: Otago
Tags: alcohol, bars
Duration: 3'11"
18:44
Australia orders inquiry into dodgy building products
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Australian lawmakers have voted to hold an inquiry into dodgy building products blamed for endangering people's lives.
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Duration: 4'00"
18:48
Te Manu Korihi News for 25 June 2015
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Politicans are getting in a flap about allegations an iwi leader smuggled five kereru or native pigeons, under his jacket on a regional flight; A Bay of Plenty hapu says it's furious with its iwi board for signing an agreement with the owner of the Rena to keep the wreck where it is; While Maori Television has announced the new line-up for its current affairs programme, Native Affairs, one of its senior producers has handed in her resignation.
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18:53
Today In Parliament for 25 June 2015 - evening edition
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With Greenpeace protestors on the roof, the House gets to grip with climate change - the subject of a quarter of the daily dozen questions for ministers; Questions also on Health; David Shearer reaches end of his tether during questions to Murray McCully about Saudi Farm Deal in Committee Rooms.
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Duration: 5'09"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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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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19:10
Shorebird Stopover
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Keith Woodley from the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre and a couple of other members of the Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists' Trust (PMNT) have just returned from North Korea to search for spots where New Zealand migratory shorebirds might take a rest-stop while on their way to their breeding grounds on the tundra of eastern Russia and Alaska.
Topics: science, environment
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Tags: shorebirds, migration, godwits, North Korea
Duration: 19'27"
20:42
Jamaican Music
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Placing the needle on the one drop of riddim, rocksteady, ska and roots and culture with deejay and toaster Miles Buckingham... "The Spear", Winston Rodney aka Burning Spear.
Topics: music, history
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Duration: 20'52"
20:59
Conundrum Clue 7
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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21:59
Conundrum Clue 8
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Listen on Friday for the answer.
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7:10 Shorebird Stopover
Keith Woodley from the Pukorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre and a couple of other members of the Pukorokoro Miranda Naturalists' Trust (PMNT) have just returned from North Korea to search for spots where New Zealand migratory shorebirds might take a rest-stop while on their way to their breeding grounds on the tundra of eastern Russia and Alaska.
[gallery:1221] Shorebird Stopovers
7:30 At the Movies
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At the Movies for 25 June 2015
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Simon Morris previews the New Zealand International Film Festival. Festival Director, Bill Gosden, picks out some highlights, some headline-grabbers and some personal favourites from the 150-plus titles on offer.
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Simon Morris previews the New Zealand International Film Festival with festival director, Bill Gosden, who picks out some highlights, some headline-grabbers and some personal favourites from the 150-plus titles on offer.
It’s a strong year for documentaries, and also from winners at the big overseas festivals – Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Sundance.
Dramas, documentaries, music specials and a strong selection from New Zealand are among the 150-plus films included in the 2015 Festival. Among the highlights:
Amy – a documentary about Amy Winehouse
The Lobster – one of the winners at Cannes.
Best Of Enemies – the poisonous feud between right-wing William Buckley and left-wing Gore Vidal.
All singing, all dancing – and in good old 3D – Cole Porter’s musical Kiss Me Kate
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Duration: 28'16"
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 Jamaican Music
Placing the needle on the one drop of riddim, rocksteady, ska and roots and culture with deejay and toaster Miles Buckingham... "The Spear", Winston Rodney aka Burning Spear.
9:06 Our Changing World
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Coming Up On Our Changing World on Thursday 2 July
Next week we hear how you can discover a new species during a walk on the beach, we find out about a diet and healthy lifestyle study, investigate dental technology and go to Mars.
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21:06
Heat, Exercise and Heart Health
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Heat and exercise, on their own or together, benefit the cardiovascular system by increasing blood volume and lwoering blood pressure, but could there be other benefits as well?
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By Alison Ballance
“Heat is part of exercise. And it’s probably an important part of exercise. It can adapt various things in the cardiovascular system.”
Jim Cotter, School of Physical Education, Sports and Exercise Science, University of Otago
Cycling as fast as you can on an exercycle, in a room that is heated to 40°C at 60 per cent humidity, isn’t most people’s idea of fun, but PhD student Ashley Akerman at the University of Otago is asking volunteers to do just that, as part of a study looking at cardiovascular adaptations to heat.
Ashley's supervisor, exercise scientist Jim Cotter, says that heat affects the cardiovascular system in a number of ways.
“It can help adapt the blood vessels, and keep them in better condition and slightly larger than they might otherwise be. It can help adapt the heart and protect it chemically against becoming short of blood, so can help protect against heart attack. And it can help increase blood volume and lower blood pressure. For example you can have 5% more blood volume the day after your exposure to exercise [and heat].”
Ashley has already tested a number of people of average fitness, to see if exercising in a hot environment has different results to exercising in a more temperate environment. More recently he has been testing super-fit athletes, such as triathlete and fellow PhD student Rob Creasy, who already has an extremely well adapted cardiovascular system.
“We don’t yet know whether it’s just the fluid part of the blood, the blood plasma, that increases [after exercising and heat exposure], or whether it manages to increase the red call component, the oxygen carrying part, as well,” says Jim. “Some studies are indicating that it is increasing red cell volume and therefore it may take over from altitude training for athletes. But we haven’t seen any evidence of that.”
When asked if living and working in a hot climate predisposes people to have better cardiovascular health Jim says there’s no evidence of that, but he also says that perhaps training in hot climates will have a better outcome than exercising in temperate climates. He mentions that a training institute in Qatar has set itself up as a heat camp to investigate whether training in the heat might replace altitude training. He also says it’s possible that exposure to heat might be beneficial to people who are unable to exercise.
“Heat no doubt has a lot of benefits,” says Jim, “And it’s a question of how wide those benefits go, and how much maybe should they take the place of exercise. Because exercise is free and freely available to almost everybody. But to what extent do we want to add [heat] onto exercise? Or for people who genuinely can’t exercise, how effective is it?”
Rob Creasy is investigating the reason that triathletes competing in very hot environments sometimes find it difficult to finish races even when they were highly motivated. “We found there was a lot of stuff going on with the brain, and blood flow and oxygenation to the brain.”
Jim says that humans shed heat by sweating and moving blood to the peripheries, rather than by shallow panting, which is what many animals do. Heavy breathing can lead to hyperventilation. “We blow the carbon dioxide out of our blood, and it reduces our brain blood flow. So when people faint in the heat it’s sometimes a combination of lack of blood pressure because of vasodilation and blood going to their skin, and partly because they have constricted brain blood vessels.”
Jim Cotter’s work on dehydration and exercise has previously featured on Our Changing World.
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Duration: 17'15"
21:20
A New Device for Measuring Pressure in the Brain
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An implantable device is being developed to measure intracranial pressure in children who have hydrocephalus or "water on the brain"
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Prof Simon Malpas from the University of Auckland holds a tiny rectangular device, about 18mm long x 4mm wide x 2mm thick.
Inside the device is a very tiny circuit containing a glass membrane. When the membrane bends, it effectively depresses a pressure sensor inside.
Simon says this prototype device will hopefully enable the pressure to be measured in the brains of people with hydrocephalus.
Hydrocephalus is also known as “water on the brain”. It’s a condition found in infants, and affects roughly 0.5% of live births.
It is one of the more common paediatric conditions,” says Simon.
People with hydrocephalus develop an increased pressure in the cavity of the brain associated with too much cerebral spinal fluid being produced or under drainage of that fluid. The condition is treated by inserting a catheter (also known as a shunt), which in its simplest form in the 1960s was a piece of plastic tubing, to drain the extra fluid into the abdominal cavity.
In children, these shunts will block about 50% of the time within the first two years of the shunt being installed, requiring a replacement or a revision of the shunt. The symptoms of a blocked shunt may be a headache or changes in behaviour, but this is something that children and people experience often.
So how do you decide whether it’s a true increase in pressure in the brain - the shunt is failing - or in fact, it’s just a headache, a fever, something like that,” says Simon.
Currently, there are a range of investigations which rely on an expensive CT or an MRI scan, which require the child being sedated, to determine if the shunt has blocked.
Instead, the prototype device would be inserted in the skull when a shunt is being installed to provide information on whether the shunt is performing normally.
“That’s our aim, and then the surgeon later on, or potentially even the parent, would be able to come along later and wave a wand…over the top of the skull where that sensor is located,” says Simon.
When the wand is passed over the device, 1 or 2cm away from the skull, the device is energised and reads the intracranial pressure for about 10 to 15 seconds, and sends that waveform back. Ultimately, Simon hopes that this information would also go to a smart phone or Cloud-based patient health record so a surgeon or neurologist could track changes over time.
As well as reducing parents’ anxiety levels, this device may also change clinical treatment where people could potentially have the shunts replaced earlier as they began to fail, reducing emergency presentations and transfers.
One of the challenges with an implanted device like this, is it can’t be recalibrated once it’s inserted. So confidence is needed that the device is making true pressure measurements. “So a lot of our work at the moment is in fact in developing and testing what we term a drift assessment, a big rig which we can put a whole bunch of these devices in that will enable us to measure the drift over time,” says Simon. This will occur before any animal or human testing takes place, and device is only in the early phases of development, in the first year of a multi-year grant.
Another challenge is to make a micro-machined device that is very small, yet highly accurate. There have been a number of attempts to create implantable intracranial pressure sensors in the past, and while there is one large device available that is suitable for adults, there are no currently available devices like this one on the market. “In the past, the devices that have been tried are often really large, in other words they’re not going to fit in and be compatible with paediatric use, or they simply drift too much over time,” says Simon.
As well as working on the prototype device to enable intracranial pressure to be measured, Simon’s group is also trying to stop the shunts from blocking so often, by either changing the way fluid flows through the shunt or pushing back some of the fluid. So, for example, PhD student Dixon Leung is part of the team working on shunt performance.
Overall the big aim of the project is to improve of lives of people with hydrocephalous, by providing tools, providing technology that we hope will make a difference clinically for them,” says Simon
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Duration: 23'51"
21:34
Dunedin's Healthy Harbour Watchers
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Over the last decade secondary school students have measured the chemical and microbiological health of Otago Harbour
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By Alison Ballance
Healthy Harbour Watchers is a citizen science project in Dunedin run by retired science teacher Andrew Innes and University of Otago chemist Barrie Peake. Secondary school students volunteer a few hours on a Saturday, collecting water samples from Otago Harbour and analysing them for nutrients and contamination.
This citizen science project had its beginnings in 2005, when science teacher Andrew Innes spent a year at the University of Otago on a Royal Society of New Zealand teaching fellowship with the Marine Science Department. Andrew was keen to develop a long-term monitoring programme for the waters of Otago Harbour. “I was really just keen to develop a model that we could use in Otago Harbour or any estuaries. But it was clear talking to Barry that there was no reliable database for a lot of the information in Otago Harbour, and so the first part of the mission was to develop a team that could reliably build that database.”
A marine chemistry paper taught by Barrie Peake introduced Andrew to some of the techniques that now underpin the project.
“We would collect water, and analyse this for the major nutrients, nitrate and phosphate … and levels of chlorophyll, which is an indication of the biological activity. And Andrew was able to add in there a measurement of faecal coliform levels, too,” says Barry.
Students from three Dunedin colleges take part in the study. Once a month they visit ten sites around the harbour to collect water samples. They take these samples back to a chemistry laboratory at the University of Otago for analysis, with each team of students responsible for analysing one particular aspect of the monitoring.
Kaya Fukushima from St Hilda’s Collegiate is on the team that is responsible for measuring phosphate levels. “We make a mix reagent, and then add 40 mls of sample to 10 mls of the mix reagent. Then it reacts and turns blue, and we put it in the spectrophotometer to analyse [and compare against known standards].”
“I actually thought it sounded like a very exciting project, and a way to complement my study of both chemistry and biology by looking at a real life situation,” says Nic Taylor, a student at John McGlashan College, when asked why he was keen to take part.
“It’s definitely a really interesting experience,” adds fellow student Joshua Kim, “where we get to delve into using those skills we learn in the classroom and how we apply it to a real-life situation that has great meaning to the whole community of Dunedin.”
Andrew and Barrie say that as the students are dealing with very small concentrations of chemicals the project teaches them the importance of accuracy and the danger of possible contamination. They also point out that students really appreciate access to scientific tools such as clean glassware, as well as sophisticated equipment such as the spectrophotometer.
The project now has a 10-year dataset, and Andrew and Barry are turning their attention to analysing the data and looking for trends. Andrew says the project is well-known in Dunedin and he is often asked “is it safe to go in the harbour? What is it like in the harbour?”
“I would like to think that the Healthy Harbour Watchers project could develop a report card for the Otago Harbour that we can contribute to and people like the Otago Regional Council can contribute to.”
The Otago Regional Council is the body that is responsible for monitoring the quality of water in the harbour.
Topics: science, environment
Regions: Otago
Tags: nitrates, phosphates, sewage, water pollution, faecal contamination, water quality
Duration: 12'55"
21:45
Mapping Underwater Landscapes
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A team of marine geologists deploy multibeam echo-sounding technology to map the seabed around Kapiti Island, north of Wellington.
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By Veronika Meduna Veronika.Meduna@radionz.co.nz
Marine geoscientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) are mapping the submarine landscapes around Kapiti Island, north of Wellington, this month.
Kapiti Island is one of New Zealand’s earliest bird sanctuaries, and it is surrounded by one of our oldest marine reserves, straddling the Rauoterangi Channel that separates the island from the Waikanae Estuary Scientific Reserve. The waters around the 70-metre deep channel were once frequented by whales and are an important breeding area for fish and invertebrates, including paua and rock lobster.
But despite its significance as one the Department of Conservation’s network of coastal protected areas, the seafloor around Kapiti Island has never been mapped with the latest echo-sounding technology.
The project to collect state-of-the-art topographical information about the seafloor was prompted by diving surveys. Alix LaFerriere, who is studying paua populations within the marine reserve, says getting detailed underwater bathymetry will help DOC to plan future monitoring projects.
It will allow us to decide where to use drop cameras, remote vehicles or diving, and that allows us to look at how the marine reserve is working and if it’s providing protection for species that are economically and ecologically important.
Alix LaFerriere, Victoria University
You can listen to an earlier Our Changing World feature about marine reserves and how ocean creatures respond to protected areas.
NIWA’s research vessel Ikatere is equipped with multibeam echo-sounding technology that produces highly accurate bathymetry and habitat maps of the seafloor to a depth of 50 metres over an area of 50 square kilometres. The information will also be used by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) for the next update of the region’s navigational charts.
In addition, data recorded throughout the full water column can also be used to characterise water masses, identify gas seeps and sediment plumes, and detect schools of fish.
NIWA marine geologist Geoffroy Lamarche says the underwater map will be useful to many people, including geologists studying potential hazards such as landslides and ecologists wanting to understand seafloor habitats.
If you have a flat sandy seafloor, you have a high probability to find scallops or flounders, and if you have a very rugged steep seafloor, you are far more likely to find rock fish and paua. We see that the biology relates very directly to the geomorphology and geology. And that is what we call habitat mapping. We don’t map the animals, we map the substrate and the geomorphology on which they live.
Geoffroy Lamarche, NIWA
Topics: science, environment
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Tags: Kapiti Island, seabed mapping, marine reserve, seabed habitat, multi-beam echo sounder
Duration: 13'15"
21:55
Antarctica's Surprising Biodiversity
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Scientists discover that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean harbour a surprisingly rich and expansive biological diversity.
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To most of us, Antarctica is a stark, inhospitable wasteland where life is just about impossible, but a team of scientists has found the frozen continent is teeming with life.
Research published today in the journal Nature describes a surprising diversity and richness of life, far greater than previously thought but the researchers also warn that without adequate protection, human activity could drastically change these ecosystems.
"We now understand that Antarctic biodiversity is much more extensive, much more diverse, and really quite interestingly structured across the continent and the Southern Ocean,” Monash University biologist Steven Chown says.
The discovery is not about trees and lions but rather two-dimensional miniature forests of lichens and mosses and vibrant ecosystems of tiny animals, where the largest predators are the size of a full stop.
If one thinks of terrestrial systems, the kinds of organisms that we are most used to elsewhere, such as flowering plants and insects, are much less diverse of course. There are just two species of flowering plants on the Antarctic continent and two species of true insects, but the diversity of mosses and small animals such as water bears and nematodes … is really higher than previously appreciated – there are several hundreds of species there.
Professor Chown says Antarctica includes 15 different ecological regions, with each hosting unique species that are found nowhere else.
“Previously organisms were considered to be very widely spread across the continent, but genetic work has revealed that they only look similar but are in fact genetically distinct, with different species in different places.”
Craig Cary is a microbiologist at Waikato University, and his research in Antarctica’s Dry Valleys has uncovered microbial ecosystems thriving in extremely hostile conditions. He says it is only a few decades ago that Antarctica’s ice and rare patches of soil were considered sterile.
“There’s been a revolution in microbiology with the application of genetic tools. We thought Antarctica was going to be depleted in [microbial] diversity, but lo and behold when we started to look at the systems it became very obvious that they were much more complex than we had thought.”
In terms of numbers, there are still far fewer microbes living in Antarctic soil than you would find in an average garden soil, but Professor Cary says the level of Antarctic diversity is “significantly higher than expected and within that diversity there are organisms that we’ve never been able to grow in the lab”.
He says microbes are masters of survival, even if that means spending millions of years in a dormant state or switching on their metabolism only briefly while conditions are good, which is a strategy used by microbes in the extremely arid Dry Valleys.
“Dry is a very relative term because what’s dry to us may not be dry to a tiny little bacterium that’s sitting on a sand grain where there’s a little mono-film of water perpetually on that surface that may become liquid for half an hour a day during certain times.”
However, the authors warn that Antarctica’s biological treasures need protection.
Prof Chown says the team also found "incredible richness" in the Southern Ocean, with more than 8000 species living on the seabed and in the deep sea, which is already under threat from ocean acidification.
“For marine systems, one of the most significant threats that’s already playing out at the moment and is likely to worsen is ocean acidification. Life with shells finds it much harder under those conditions – they dissolve a little.”
The prospect of alien invasions is another threat, he says. Already, 70,000 seeds make their way to Antarctica each year on the clothing and shoes of scientists and tourists.
“Some of those have a great deal of potential to become established because they are from the Arctic or from subantarctic islands. Indeed, at least one of these species has established and spread on the Antarctic Peninsula, and was even the subject of an eradication attempt on King George Island - and that’s the grass Poa annua.”
Prof Cary says we can't afford to lose Antarctica’s biodiversity.
“It’s an open door to discovery. Any extreme system, especially one that is as large as the continent of Antarctica, will offer up some amazing new insights into adaptation."
We’ll see vestiges of ancient lineages, old bacterial ancestors that hold clues to how life was back in ancient times. What we’re hoping to do is to use this environment to provide us with new clues on the origins of life, the adaptability of life on this planet, and possibly the location of where we may find life on other planets.
The authors say that that the limited conservation effort is concerning but conclude that further advances in our understanding of Antarctic biodiversity should hopefully encourage more stringent conservation.
Antarctica New Zealand environment manager Neil Gilbert says there is a growing concern that our “limited knowledge and understanding, albeit steadily improving, is potentially being outpaced by increasing pressures on Antarctica's biodiversity - not least a changing climate and increasing human presence and activities”.
As parts of Antarctica are warming as rapidly as anywhere on the planet, native wildlife is already responding to the changes.
As the authors of the paper suggest, currently there appears to be lack of coordinated, continent-wide survey and monitoring coupled with a desire for a low-budget approach to regional management. New Zealand's continued leadership in pressing for a large-scale marine protected area in the Ross Sea is of great importance in this context and further opportunities exist for establishing a set of Antarctic biodiversity targets for the region against which conservation progress can be assessed.
He says Antarctica's wildlife has so far been left out of any global assessments but earlier this month scientists, policy makers and conservation managers from around the world met to discuss an Antarctic strategic plan for biodiversity.
Topics: science, environment, Antarctica
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Tags: biological diversity, endemic species, invasions, climate change, conservation, Southern Ocean, Antarctica New Zealand
Duration: 7'48"
21:58
Climate Change Impacts on Health
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A new report says that the threat to public health from climate change could undermine advances made over the past 50 years.
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by Veronika Meduna Veronika.Meduna@radionz.co.nz
The impacts of climate change on health have been described as a "medical emergency" in a report published in Lancet this week.
The report, produced by the Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, says the threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could “undermine the last fifty years of gains in development and global health”.
The authors say the potentially catastrophic risk to human health posed by climate change has been underestimated, and while the technologies and finance required to address the problem can be made available, global political will to implement them is lacking.
However, the report provides comprehensive new evidence showing that because responses to mitigate and adapt to climate change have direct and indirect health benefits – from reducing air pollution to improving diet – concerted global efforts to tackle climate change could actually represent one of the greatest opportunities to improve global health this century.
The authors show that direct health impacts of climate change come from the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, especially heat waves, floods, droughts and storms. Indirect impacts come from changes in infectious disease patterns, air pollution, food insecurity and malnutrition, involuntary migration, displacement and conflicts.
Commission co-chair professor Hugh Montgomery, director of the University College London Institute for Human Health and Performance, says the situation demands an emergency response. “Under such circumstances, no doctor would consider a series of annual case discussions and aspirations adequate, yet this is exactly how the global response to climate change is proceeding.”
Rhys Jones, a public health physician, lecturer at the University of Auckland and co-convenor of OraTaiao: The New Zealand Climate and Health Council, welcomes the report.
It brings together evidence from a range of disciplines, but with a primary focus on human health. The key message is that tackling climate change is likely to be the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century. That means that urgent action to move to a low (and, very soon, zero) carbon society is not just necessary to avoid the worst effects of climate change, but if done correctly it will be enormously beneficial for our health and wellbeing right now. In other words, action to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions is a no-brainer – both globally and for New Zealand.
He says New Zealand’s contribution to international climate change efforts to date has been extremely weak, and in the context of this report our country’s reluctance to act can only be seen as grossly irresponsible. “Not only does it contribute to delaying necessary global action to prevent catastrophic climate change, it denies New Zealanders enormous opportunities to live healthier lives in a fairer society.”
Co-convenor of OraTaiao Alexandra Macmillan, a senior lecturer in environmental Health at the University of Otago, says climate change is the most significant health threat facing the world globally but well-designed action would provide opportunities to save lives, reduce illness and create a fairer society.
New Zealand will not be immune from the negative impacts, which are already being felt in the form of greater frequency and severity of extreme weather events, ocean warming and acidification. These are already having direct impacts on people’s health and wellbeing, as well as threatening the building blocks for good health – people’s houses, neighbourhoods, food sources and livelihoods.
She welcomes all recommendations made to governments in the report. “Of those nine recommendations, New Zealand is already making small-scale efforts in the right direction in low-carbon transport investment with recent announcements of investment in cycling and public transport; investing in research to account for the public health co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies; and supporting renewable energy transitions in the Pacific.”
At a recent meeting in a series of government consultations, held by the Ministry for the Environment to hear people's views on how New Zealand should manage its greenhouse gas emissions, doctors expressed frustration about the government’s cost-benefit approach to emissions reductions, saying that the cost of doing nothing had not been taken into account.
The consultation process is part of the government's preparation for international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), which will be held in Paris in December this year to work out a new agreement that will determine the course of global climate change policy after 2020.
In the podcast below, you can listen to Scott Metcalfe, a public health physician who says he is concerned that already thousands of people are dying each year because of climate-related conditions, including malnutrition and water-borne diseases. “It’s happening right on my watch, and I feel a sense of shame about that.”
Topics: climate, science, health
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Tags: climate change, health, medical, impacts
Duration: 3'28"
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