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06 May 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Health Check (BBC); 1:05 The Friday Feature; 2:05 NZ Society; 2:30 The Sampler (RNZ); 3:05 Closed, Stranger by Kate de Goldi read by Scott Wills (5 of 12, RNZ); 3:30 The Why Factor (BBC); 5:10 Witness (BBC) 5:45 The Day in Parliament
===6:00 AM. | Morning Report===
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RNZ's three-hour breakfast news show with news and interviews, bulletins on the hour and half-hour, including: 6:16 and 6:50 Business News 6:18 Pacific News 6:26 Rural News 6:48 and 7:45 NZ Newspapers
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06:00
Top Stories for Friday 6 May 2016
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Civil Aviation figures released to Morning Report, which list accidents and deaths, raise concerns about the safety of the Robinson R22 helicopter. After being blamed for the Christmas Island riot and kicked out of Australia, up to 14 deportees could now be extradited back to Australia face charges and the wildfire in Canada spreads south of Fort McMurray - affected a town with a strong New Zealand link .. a place called Anzac.
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Duration: 30'07"
06:06
Sports News for 6 May 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'55"
06:09
Former Xmas Island detainee fears being send back to Aust
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A New Zealander held in a Christmas Island detention centre before being sent home now fears he's about to be shipped back to an Australian prison.
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Tags: Christmas Island
Duration: 2'30"
06:15
Researchers say Māori getting a raw deal
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Researchers say Maori cancer patients are made to feel uncomfortable when they use mainstream healthcare because Maori tikanga, or culture, is ignored.
Topics: te ao Maori, health
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Duration: 3'38"
06:19
Early business bulletin
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 2'15"
06:19
Markets Update for 6 May 2016
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 56"
06:25
Morning Rural News for 6 May 2016
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'22"
06:38
High accident rate of Robinson R22 helicopter
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One of the most widely used helicopters flown in New Zealand, the Robinson R22, has been in 95 accidents in the past 16 years killing 19 people
Topics: transport
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Tags: Robinson R22
Duration: 3'04"
06:41
Five teenagers likely to face serious charges
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Five teenagers are likely to face serious charges after a liquor store burglary led to a police chase across Auckland last night.
Topics: crime
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Tags: teenagers, Police Chase
Duration: 2'03"
06:49
BNZ profits squeezed by lower interest rates and bad debts
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The head of the Bank of New Zealand says a low interest rate environment is posing challenges, but there's still plenty of room for profit growth.
Topics: business
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Tags: Bank of New Zealand
Duration: 1'59"
06:51
Business happy to see Govt. cyber crime spending
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The Institute of Directors says the risks of cyber crime are rising all the time and the government's move to set up a special unit to tackle the issue is necessary.
Topics: business, crime
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Tags: cyber crime
Duration: 1'32"
06:53
New tax bill changes rules on foreign companies
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The accountancy and analytical firm KPMG says a tax reform bill introduced to parliament this week will make cross border tax payments clearer for companies such as banks.
Topics: business, law
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Tags: tax reform bill
Duration: 1'59"
06:55
Low interest rates drive strong growth in bond issues
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Low interest rates on term deposits are one of the reasons for the surge in popularity of bonds being offering on the New Zealand stock exchange.
Topics: business
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Tags: Bonds, NZX
Duration: 1'37"
06:57
Commerce Commssion says no excuses for unfair lending
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The Commerce Commission says lenders have no excuse for failing to comply with tougher cconsumer protection laws that came into effect almost a year ago.
Topics: business, law
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Tags: consumer protection laws
Duration: 1'31"
06:58
Morning markets for 6 May 2016
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American stocks a touch softer the Dow JOnes index is down 12 points at 17640
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'04"
06:58
Business briefs
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A Singapore based company Global Yellow Pages says it's buying a 3.8 hectare plot of land in Queenstown for more than 19-million dollars.
Topics: business
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Tags: Singapore, Global Yellow Pages
Duration: 16"
07:07
Sports News for 6 May 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'56"
07:09
95 accidents involving Robinson R22 helicopters
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Civil Aviation figures released to Morning Report show one of the most widely used helicopters in New Zealand, the Robinson R22, has been involved in 95 accidents which have killed nineteen people since the year 2000.
Topics: transport
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Tags: Robinson R22
Duration: 4'07"
07:15
Former Xmas Island detainees blamed for riot
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New Zealand detainees who were blamed for the Christmas Island riot and deported from Australia six months ago are bracing themselves to be dragged back to face charges there.
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Tags: Christmas Island
Duration: 4'00"
07:20
Unrelenting fire forces more evacuations in Canada
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The massive wildfire burning near Fort McMurray in the Canadian province of Alberta is spreading south, forcing more evacuations.
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Tags: Canada, fires
Duration: 6'44"
07:26
Anglican Dean stood down over historic affair
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An Anglican priest who had two affairs 25 years ago has been stood down from his position as Dean of the Napier Cathedral.
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Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Anglican priest
Duration: 7'04"
07:37
Flood clean up in Porirua
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Porirua is continuing to clean up this morning after heavy rain yesterday caused flooding and widespread damage.
Topics: weather
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: flooding, Porirua
Duration: 3'09"
07:41
Report finds Councils and RMA failed Poroti Maori
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Research commissioned by the Waitangi Tribunal has found that the Maori owners of Poroti Springs in Northland have been badly let down by the Resource Management Act - and by local councils.
Topics: law
Regions: Northland
Tags: Waitangi Tribunal, Poroti Springs
Duration: 4'26"
07:45
Murder trial hears of midnight request for burial advice
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A man says his nephew came to him in the middle of the night, asking him for advice about where to bury the bodies of his ex girlfriend and her three year-old daughter
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: Kamal Reddy
Duration: 3'30"
07:49
Industry leader says cyber security unit long overdue
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The Prime Minister has used the Panama Papers as a cautionary tale to underline the need for strong cyber security.
Topics: security
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Tags: Cyber Security Summit
Duration: 5'29"
07:55
Greenpeace defends against criticism it supports polar bear hunting
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Greenpeace is denying claims it's endorsing polar bear hunting in the Arctic.
Topics: environment
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Tags: Greenpeace, polar bears
Duration: 4'27"
08:07
Sports News for 6 May 2016
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'16"
08:11
Robinson pilots urged to be given more training
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Transport safety investigators have warned pilots of Robinson helicopters NOT to over-extend their capabilities.
Topics: transport
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Tags: Robinson R22
Duration: 5'59"
08:17
Lawyer says OIO is putting off some Chinese investors
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An Auckland-based lawyer who runs Australasia's largest South-East Asian-focused law firm says the overseas investment office is causing some investors to shy away.
Topics: law
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Tags: OIO, Overseas Investment Office
Duration: 3'23"
08:24
Anglican Church stands down Dean of Napier Cathedral
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As we have been reporting this morning a highly-ranked Anglican priest has been stood down for having two affairs 25 years ago.
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Regions: Hawkes Bay
Tags: Anglican priest
Duration: 4'42"
08:28
Tribunal suggests Crown and Māori should discuss clauses
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The Waitangi Tribunal says a clause in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement should provide reasonable protection for Maori interests.
Topics: te ao Maori
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Tags: TPP, Waitangi Tribunal
Duration: 5'21"
08:39
Auckland Police keen for motorists to avoid window washers
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Police in Auckland have renewed their campaign to rid the city of window washers at intersections after a motorist was assaulted in Greenlane.
Topics: crime
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: window washers, police
Duration: 3'18"
08:43
Kiwis & Kangaroos prepare to do battle in ANZAC Test
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New Zealand take on Australia tonight in the Anzac rugby league test.
Topics: sport
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Tags: rugby league
Duration: 2'50"
08:47
New Zealand's readiness for electric vehicles under fire
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The Government wants to see more electric cars on the roads but New Zealand's readiness is being questioned.
Topics: transport
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Tags: electric cars
Duration: 3'08"
08:50
Danish man fined $10,000 for killing whio
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A Danish man has been convicted and fined ten thousand dollars for killing a protected whio or blue duck while out on a hunting trip.
Topics: law, crime
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Tags: blue duck
Duration: 3'19"
08:53
Mums in prison to celebrate mothers day.
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This Sunday people will be out and about all over the country treating their mums for Mothers' Day.
Topics: life and society
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Mothers' Day, prison, Arohata Women's Prision
Duration: 2'57"
08:56
Kerry-Anne Walsh with news from Australia
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Let's have a chat to our Canberra correspondent Kerry-Anne Walsh.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 2'55"
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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: Where the Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti read by Maria Walker, George Henare and Kura Forrester (10 of 15, RNZ)
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09:08
The Government's plans for boosting uptake of electric vehicles
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The Government has unveiled its long awaited electric vehicles policy - but what real difference will it make to the uptake of EVs? The government is to investigate bulk purchasing for government and private sector fleets, to make the cars cheaper to import. It's envisioned that those cars will eventually be sold as second-hand vehicles - putting lower priced EVs into the wider market.But there's criticism that a key policy that has boosted EV ownership overseas - tax breaks for buying electric vehicles - is not among the measures included. The Transport and Energy Minister Simon Bridges says other parts of the policy will make a difference to how much EVs cost.
Topics: transport, energy, environment, politics
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Duration: 13'24"
09:22
People power: communities and change
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Locals in an East Coast community have helped reduce child maltreatment by tackling the problem themselves, rather than waiting for outsiders to come help.
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Locals in an East Coast community have reduced child maltreatment by tackling the problem themselves, rather than waiting for outsiders to come and help.
The Tiakina o Tatau Tamariki community project in the Gisborne neighbourhood of Kaiti South aims to build trust, care and links within the neighbourhood to increase children's safety, using that old idea that it takes a village to raise a child.
Supported with funding from philanthropic trusts, the project has conducted regular neighbourhood surveys and collected data from government agencies.
Since the project began in 2010, there has been a decrease in both violent crime and substantiated child abuse notifications.
Manu Caddie - who has been involved with the project from the beginning - told Nine to Noon it began when a group of residents heard about a project in the United States that had moved away from relying on professionals and paid services, and had then seen maltreatment rates drop up to 50 percent.
He said the group had focused on one part of Kaiti, which had about 1000 residents, and started with the specific goal of keeping the local children safe.
"Everyone can buy into that vision - we all want to keep our kids happy and safe."
The group sought to create spaces where people could come together and get to know their neighbours. After a year of knocking on doors and overcoming initial suspicion to build connections, residents began meeting for coffee groups at the local school.
Mr Caddie said after the initial contact, people in the area started helping, taking up leadership roles and coming up with ideas of their own, taking ownership of the issues that affected their community.
He told Nine to Noon that in the past experts had come in, had their interventions and then left again, and the project was designed to give the community a sense of competence in itself.
"The values of the principles of the project was that the community has the resources within itself to take care of itself, and the converse of that is the traditional professional approach, which is 'you'll be better because we know better', and we've tried to move right away from that."
As well as getting official data such as crime statistics, the project team also saw an improvement in its own list of what it would take to get to know people and the community.
"So people said they enjoyed living more in the neighbourhood in 2013 more than they did in 2010, they knew their neighbours better, they felt safer, they interacted more. One of the ones on our list I really enjoyed was 'how many names of kids in your street do you know that don't live with you', and we saw that improve. We doubled the number of people who knew the names of more than 10 kids in the street."
He said those kind of indicators showed residents were interacting with each other in positive ways, rather than yelling across the fence.
"While you might live in a tight-knit neighbourhood in some ways, but you can be very lonely and separated form people across the fence."
The hands-on approach also filtered down to specific tasks, like painting over grafitied walls with murals. Mr Caddie said the local council came on board, but the project team was adamant they did not just want contractors to paint over the mess.
"We said let us do it ourselves. Provide some resource and expertise, but let the residents do that sort of stuff. So the shopkeepers got involved and they were all really supportive. And murals that were previously covered in graffiti, kids and adults came out to do that, and they haven't been touched since, so that says something as well."
While Mr Caddie had moved into more of an observer status, letting the locals sort out their own issues, he said there was still work to be done sorting out resourcing from central government that was not just focused on agencies.
"When the government talks about community, they usually mean non-governmental organisations (NGOs), which is just other agencies doing the bidding of government. When we talk about community, we're talking about citizens, about residents in those neighbourhoods having the resources to do things all by themselves, and not relying on those professionals all the time to come in and 'save them'."
Seattle-based Jim Diers, who helped found Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods in 1988 and wrote Neighbour Power: Building Community the Seattle Way, is in New Zealand to share his experiences on similar projects overseas, and to observe how the local version worked.
He said the lessons learned in Seattle were now being applied in 17 different countries, and there was still a role for government and NGOs, with community projects needing their help and resources.
"But there is absolutely no substitute for the community when it comes to the things we care most deeply about. As we've seen in places like Christchurch and Lyttleton, it's the key to resilience, it's the key to health, it's the key to loneliness and caring for one another.
"For a long time our communities have been in jeopardy, but we're seeing a huge resurgence these days."
Topics: crime, education, health
Regions: East Coast
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Duration: 18'07"
09:42
What are the chances that Leicester will win the EPL again?
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How will Leicester City's victory effect the big money clubs? Is money still the best predictor of a football team's placing? Stefan Szymanski is the author of Money and Football: A Soccernomics Guide.
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Stefan Szymanski, author of Money and Football: A Soccernomics Guide, crunches the numbers on Leicester City’s remarkable season.
What made this season so special?
The odds of Leicester winning this season were 5000 to 1. That’s about the same chance of tossing a coin 12 times and having it show heads each time.
No team in the last 20 years has won the Premier League without being in one of the top 4 spenders - and 16 out of that 20 were either the highest spender or second highest spender.
Leicester was about the 12th highest spender this season, paying $57 million pounds.
On average, the goals scored versus goals concede would have put Leicester in fourth place, not first place.
What about the team’s chances next season?
Bookies are giving Leicester odds of 33 to 1 to win the Premier League next season - the same as tossing coin five times and it coming down heads each time.
Six clubs have been given better odds to take the title, making Leicester seventh favourite to win next season.
But there is a trend towards less inequality and in the future we might see more Leicester-type stories emerging.
*All figures from Stefan Szymanski's interview with Kathryn Ryan on Nine To Noon.
Topics: economy
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Tags: Leicester, football
Duration: 8'16"
09:50
Asia correspondent Charlotte Glennie
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North Korea holds its first party congress in 36 years and the colourful Philippines election.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Asia, Korea
Duration: 12'03"
10:07
Noam Chomsky on the death of the American Dream
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Famed scholar, activist and political theorist Noam Chomsky talks frankly to Nine to Noon's Kathryn Ryan about politics, society and his new film Requiem for the American Dream.
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Famed scholar, activist and political theorist Noam Chomsky talks frankly to Nine to Noon's Kathryn Ryan about politics, society and his new film Requiem for the American Dream.
Read an edited snapshot of the interview below:
You argue that the problem with inequality at the scale it is developing in the United States, is that it is corrosive to democracy and that the history of democracy in the United States from the time of the founding fathers, has been a cyclical battle between the elite, trying to protect its position in power, and sporadic uprisings of working people and the marginalised in protest. Is this just such another era unfolding in the United States?
So it appears. If you look at the Trump victory yesterday, [which] solidifies his position of Republican candidate. But if you look at the attitudes towards him, the public opposition to him is enormous, it’s running well over 50 percent, just as a candidate. Clinton is not much more popular.
The hatred and anger [towards] virtually all institutions is just overwhelming. Support for Congress has pretty much been in single digits for many years. There is tremendous anger, disillusionment, fear … if it does not take a constructive, organised form, as it did in the 1930’s and to an extent in the 1960’s, it could be a very threatening development.
You have someone who is the Secretary of State, who has been a senator, spent decades in the public eye in the form of Hillary Clinton, who never would have predicted such a sustained challenge from Bernie Sanders, who has been around as an activist for decades, but now is also seriously still in this race for the Democratic nomination. Is that the same kind of feature of disillusionment with establishment politics?
It’s the same kind and in fact if you take a close look at attitudes of Sanders and Trump supporters, they’re not very different. They’re taking different forms, but the actual attitudes are rather similar.
In fact, basically social democratic support for greater government involvement in health, education, higher taxes for the rich and the terrible debt burden on students, opposition to the export of production and the enrichment of largely predatory financial institutions … these attitudes are quite wide spread, both among Trump supporters and Sanders supporters.
There is the clear frustration with the dysfunction of Washington politics and the fact that it’s almost in gridlock, trying to get any decisions made in the capital, in the Congress. Very interestingly, when you look at the Senate’s and Congress’ opposition to what a president is trying to do, that in-built check was there right at the beginning.
You make the point in the documentary that when the political system was being drawn up by the founding fathers, there was an appointment system built into the Senate. It was a check system right from the beginning.
The original framework, established by James Madison and others, held that (I’m quoting Madison) power should be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, the more responsible group of men, those who have a concern for property and its rights and that a primary goal of government should be to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority. And by structuring the system that way, the primary power was actually given to the Senate, which was not - as you say - not elected. The president at that time was more of an administrator. There have been many changes over the years. There’s been substantial struggles that have gained far more democratic participation, there have been regressive periods … we happen to be in one now.
The dysfunction you mention in the government presented in a little bit of a misleading way. It’s one-sided. When Obama was elected, the Republican leadership, Mitch McConnell, and others said straight out, that prime policy will be "No". Make sure that the country is un-governable. That is the primary source of the so-called gridlock and dysfunction.
Of course, from the point of view of the public, this looks like the system has collapsed - and to an extent it has - but its primary responsibility is the fact that the Republican Party shifted so far to the right, that they’re barely a political party anymore.
This is actually recognised by some of their leading intellectuals, the leading political analysts of the American Enterprise Institute, the Conservative institute. Norman Ornstein described the current Republican Party as a “radical insurgency”, which is abandoned parliamentary politics, and that’s not far from truth, that’s the primary source of the gridlock.
But the fact of the matter is that the policies, the Democrats have also moved to the right, but today’s Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans. Richard Nixon is actually the last liberal president if you look at policies.
Bernie Sanders is described as radical and extremist, but if you take a look at his policies, they wouldn’t have surprised President Eisenhower. Eisenhower famously said that anyone who doesn’t accept basic New Deal policies doesn’t belong in the American political system. Sanders is basically a New Dealer. If you look at his policies, they would have been considered relatively moderate in the 1950’s.
All of this is a reflection of the general shift of the mainstream spectrum to the right during the neoliberal period which began in the mid-‘70s and really began to escalate under Regan. And it has led to somewhat similar outcomes in many different places.
In Europe, for example, the attack on democracy has been harsher than in the United States and it is leading to the significant decline of the mainstream political parties and organisations and sharp rise of opposition at both right and left. That’s not entirely dissimilar from the Sanders phenomenon and due to much the same kind of policies, the neoliberal policies have had that kind of consequence almost everywhere and in the Third World, they have been really destructive. But they have led to, for a majority of the population, near stagnation or decline in benefits and opportunities.
There’s a sense of hopelessness for the future. There is a strong antagonism to established institutions.
You talked about the Republicans - are Ted Cruz and others now reaping the prize of that policy, of blocking everything that the Democratic president tried to do? Is this effectively now coming back to bite the party, which does seem to be – certainly its establishment wing – in absolute meltdown?
That’s quite accurate. If you look at the last few primary elections, you can see this building up. In the last several elections in the Republican primaries, if a candidate came out of the popular base of the party they were regarded as so extreme and disastrous that they had to be eliminated and held back. Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, one after the other… And in the preceding primaries the establishment, which controls the basic funding, the institution’s personnel and so on, they were able to suppress, in one way or another, the candidates who arose from the base and finally get their own man… like Romney in the last election, unpopular as he was among the base.
This time, to everyone’s surprise, they were unable to do it. Trump was the candidate of the popular base and he simply overwhelmed the establishment candidates and they’re now in utter disarray, not even able to decide whether to support him, to hold their noses (as some say), as they vote for him or abandon the party.
The Democratic Party is in not much better shape, if you want to know the truth. And we may see in November, the Sanders supporters, many of them young, energised, mobilised, bitter about establishment politics, they may just not depart from the party. It’s the kind of situation that we’re also seeing in Europe – the decline of the centrist parties.
Do you have a sense of what this outcome is going to be?
I think we’re going to see, in the coming months up to the election, a very ugly scene of bitterly harsh, negative advertising, denunciations, condemnations, hatred, fury… you can hope that out of these forces, especially the Sanders forces, there might come an organised movement that might sustain not the specifically electoral extravaganza, but would be a continuing force. It could happen and it could even happen that they would be joined by the largely white, working class supporters of Trump. That is conceivable.
In fact, it’s kind of striking to compare the present situation with that of the 1930s, which I am old enough to remember personally. The 1930s, the Depression, the circumstances were much more grim. It was a much poorer country, the conditions were far harsher, but subjectively, it was a much more optimistic period.
People felt that, we would get out of this somehow. The labour unions, which had been virtually destroyed in the 1920s, were reconstituting. There was militant labour action, the CIO organising sit-down strikes. Activism of race issues, and so on. A lot of pressure. There were political organisations of many kinds. There were political debates, discussion on many fronts.
It was a fairly sympathetic administration and the effect of it was to yield the New Deal legislations, which didn’t end the Depression, the War ended the Depression, but they did soften the edges and give people a sense of hopefulness and expectation that the future would be better. That’s strikingly lacking now. But it might consolidate.
It’s not impossible that existing forces will organise themselves in a way that will yield a subjective experience and direct activism that could lead to policies that will overcome the harsh effect of the neoliberal programmes. They’re not in stone, they can be changed.
*In Requiem for the American Dream, Noam Chomsky unpacks the US policies of the past half-century which have lead to an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of the select few.
The documentary gets its New Zealand premiere at this years Documentary Edge International Film Festival It screens in Wellington today and on Sunday and in Auckland on Tuesday May 24 and Saturday May 28.
Topics: politics, economy
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Tags: Noam Chomsky, US
Duration: 41'22"
11:07
Unity Books Review: The Lonely City
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'The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone' by Olivia Laing, reviewed by Kiran Dass, published by Canongate.
Topics: books
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Duration: 5'12"
11:12
New music with Grant Smithies
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Grant Smithies ransacks his thesaurus for superlatives after being faced with spectacular new releases from local songwriters Roy Irwin and Joe Blossom, and gets a tad misty-eyed over an older track from Cat Power, who tours here next week.
Topics: music
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Duration: 26'26"
11:39
Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
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Lester City, football win. Bad headlines for the Warriors.
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Duration: 10'13"
11:50
The week that was
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With Te Radar and Alice Brine.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: comedy
Duration: 9'57"
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09:05 The Government's plans for boosting uptake of electric vehicles
The Government has unveiled its long awaited electric vehicles policy - but what real difference will it make to the uptake of EVs? The government is to investigate bulk purchasing for government and private sector fleets, to make the cars cheaper to import. It's envisioned that those cars will eventually be sold as second-hand vehicles - putting lower priced EVs into the wider market.But there's criticism that a key policy that has boosted EV ownership overseas - tax breaks for buying electric vehicles - is not among the measures included. The Transport and Energy Minister Simon Bridges says other parts of the policy will make a difference to how much EVs cost.
09:20 People power: communities and change
Tiakina o Tatau Tamariki is a community project in the Gisborne neighbourhood of Kaiti South, where locals wanted to reduce child abuse and maltreatment by taking a very different approach.
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The project aimed to build trust, care and links within the neighbourhood to increase children's safety - the old idea that it takes a village to raise a child. Supported with funding from philanthropic trusts, the project has conducted regular neighbourhood surveys and collected data from government agencies. Since the project began, there's been a decrease in violent crime and substantiated child abuse notifcations. Manu Caddie was involved with the project from the beginning. He joins Kathryn, along with Seattle based Jim Diers who was the first director of Seattle's Department of Neighborhoods in 1988, and is the author of "Neighbour Power: Building Community the Seattle Way".
0930 The 'soccernomics' of Leicester City's EPL win
How will Leicester City's victory effect the big money clubs? Is money still the best predictor of a football team's placing? Stefan Szymanski is the author of Money and Football: A Soccernomics Guide
09:45 Asia correspondent Charlotte Glennie
North Korea holds its first party congress in 36 years and the colourful Philippines election.
10:05 Noam Chomsky on the death of the American Dream
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Famed scholar, activist and political theorist Noam Chomsky talks frankly to Nine to Noon's Katherine Ryan about politics, society and his new film, 'Requiem for the American Dream'.
Filmed over five years, the 87 year old unpacks the US policies of the past half-century which have lead to an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of the select few.
The documentary gets its New Zealand premiere at this years Documentary Edge International Film Festival It screens in Wellington today and on Sunday and in Auckland on Tuesday May 24th and Saturday May 28th.
10:35 Unity Books Review: The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
reviewed by Kiran Dass, published by Canongate
10:45 The Reading
Where The Rekohu Bone Sings by Tina Makereti (Part 10 of 15)
read by Maria Walker, George Henare and Kura Forrester
11:05 New music with Grant Smithies
Grant Smithies ransacks his thesaurus for superlatives after being faced with spectacular new releases from local songwriters Roy Irwin and Joe Blossom, and gets a tad misty-eyed over an older track from Cat Power, who tours here next week.
Artist: Roy Irwin
Song: Demon's Cave
Comp: Irwin
Album: S.O.D.A.
Label: 1: 12 Records
Broadcast Time: 2'18"
Artist: Roy Irwin
Song: Broken Mind
Comp: Irwin
Album: S.O.D.A.
Label: 1: 12 Records
Broadcast Time: 3'03"
Artist: Joe Blossom
Song: The Breaking
Comp: Sean O'Brien
Album: All Of The Above
Label: Cabbage Tree Records
Broadcast Time: 4'29"
Artist: Cat Power
Song: Lived In Bars
Comp: Chan Marshall
Album: The Greatest
Label: Matador
Broadcast Time: 3'44"
11:30 Sports commentator Brendan Telfer
11:45 The week that was with Te Radar and Alice Brine
===Noon | Midday Report===
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RNZ 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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Midday News for 6 May 2016
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In today's programme, a child abductor could be jailed indefinitely, and a guilty verdict for the first person charged under new drone operation rules.
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12:17
Sky TV says core subscriber numbers down
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The pay TV company, SKY Network Television, has seen its share price fall by more than 14 percent this morning, after announcing that it's lost 45,000 core residential subscribers over the past few months.
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12:19
Business NZ says changes to RMA worse, not better
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An industry organisation, Business New Zealand, says the Government's proposed changes to the Resource Management Act won't address problems with the legislation and will make matters worse, not better.
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12:21
Commerce Commission says no excuses for unfair lending
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A financial services company, Turners, is pleased the Commerce Commission is cracking the whip on unfair lending practices.
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12:22
More rate cuts expected in Australia
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The Reserve Bank of Australia could slash its benchmark rate again after a surprise move earlier this week.
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12:24
Midday Markets for 6 May 2016
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The latest on the markets with Melika King at Craigs Investment Partners.
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12:26
Midday Sports News for 6 May 2016
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The Kangaroos single out Kiwis forward Jason Taumalolo ahead of tonight's test.
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12:28
Business Briefs
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The online search firm, SLI Systems, says it expects operating revenue to hit a record in the 2016 financial year.
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12:35
Midday Rural News for 6 May 2016
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
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===1:06 PM. | Jesse Mulligan, 1–4pm===
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An upbeat mix of the curious and the compelling, ranging from the stories of the day to the great questions of our time (RNZ)
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15:30
Shoes cost more than the latest tech gadget
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How much attention do you pay to your feet and what is the cost of wearing bad shoes? Footwear designer Takano Keitaro says he sees more damage today to people's feet than ever before. Sonia Sly with this story.
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How much attention do you pay to your feet and what is the cost of wearing bad shoes? Shoes have been getting cheaper and shoddier and according to a Japanese master cobbler our feet are paying the price. Footwear designer Takano Keitaro says he sees more damage to people’s feet today than ever before.
“In Japan there has been a history of wearing Geta [wooden sandals] and the little toe sticks out, so that has been a problem,” he says.
Takano cites swelling as a repercussion of wearing poorly made or fitted shoes. His apprentice Chiemi Chiba adds, “Bad shoes create pain and the person compensates in the way that they walk, which can add to the problem.”
The Tokyo-based designer works alongside his apprentice and produces collections that can be bought off the rack. He also makes bespoke orders, but if you want the perfect pair of shoes tailor-made to fit your feet then you could be waiting for up to a year. The designer works on several pairs of shoes at once, as well as running his business, Clematis Ginza.
When producing custom orders Takano makes an initial pair of 'trial shoes' as a mock-up to ensure the correct fit, because any mistakes in the final pair can be costly.
While training under a master craftsman 18 years ago, Takano says he ruined a pair of shoes: “ I once cut the insole leather and that was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made.” Takano has never repeated the mistake again, but his absolute attention to detail and the application of finely honed traditional craftsmanship comes at a cost.
In the game of luxury where money is no obstacle, you get what you pay for.
Clematis Ginza shoes sell upwards of $1,300 and reach $13k, which is more than the cost of the latest tech gadget, but if, as Takano Keitaro says, buying a pair of bespoke shoes will ensure the preservation of your feet and maybe even your health, then your feet might thank you for it.
Listen to the audio story where Sonia Sly talks more in-depth with Takano Keitaro and Chiemi Chiba about the craft of shoemaking.
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13:25
Critter of the Week: the tusked weta
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Nicola Toki, DoC's threatened species ambassador features the Middle Island (or Mercury Island) tusked weta.
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The Middle island (or Mercury Island) tusked weta may look scary, but they’re “quite docile” says Nicola Toki from the Department of Conservation.
“They’ll walk on your head, they’ll sit in your hands, they’re one of the most beautiful we’ve got.”
The Mercury Island tusked weta was discovered in 1970, which is quite late considering their enormous size, and Nicola agrees they’re one of the largest insects we have. Once on the brink of extinction, they have now bounced back. And they're hungry. According to Nicola, not only do they eat other insects they also eat cat food...
“The males have these big, big tusks, like horns. The females don’t and the males tip each other over like WWE wrestling, it’s really cool, so if there is some fancy business out there that wants to sponsor tusked wetas..."
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13:27
Will robots replace GPs?
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New Zealand health experts have been looking at the idea that artifical intelligence could be used in the place of expensive humans in the healthcare system. In a viewpoint published today by New Zealand Medical Journal two experts from Whangarei hospital have explored ways in which the role of a doctor will be challenged by tec hnology. One of those authors, William Diprose, explains why it could work and how it will impact patients.
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New Zealand health experts are looking at how artificial intelligence could replace humans in healthcare.
Two experts from Whangarei Hospital explore how artificial intelligence may, in the future, be used for diagnostic and treatment decision-making in a viewpoint published by the New Zealand Medical Association Journal on 6 May.
One of the authors, William Diprose, explains more to Jesse Mulligan:
Read an edited snapshot of their conversation:
You're a doctor – are you trying to put yourself out of a job here?
What we’re trying to do is let our colleagues know that this is the type of thing that could happen in our career. We’re only 25, we’re junior doctors, and we’re by no means experts, but we’ve got interested in the topic since starting working, and we thought we’d share it with our colleagues in the New Zealand Medical Journal. We didn’t really expect it to get to the media… We [doctors in our 20s] are going to see the face of healthcare change significantly because of AI and related technologies.
AI is obviously cheaper than people. What other advantages are there?
The movement is driven by two things. The main one from our point of view is patient benefit. Economic benefits have seen automation take over human jobs for the last 100 years. Humans don’t necessarily build cares anymore because it’s cheaper. From a patient point of view, doctors make a lot of errors. A study published recently in the [British Medical Journal] showed that medical error – or human error – was the third leading cause of death in the US behind cancer and heart disease. So it actually kills twice as many people as motor vehicle accidents, guns and suicide all put together. That’s a pretty big issue and the only way you really solve that is either take humans out or support them with appropriate software.
Why don’t you just stop making the errors, William?
Well, we’ve been practising medicine for a long time and if anything we’re just making more errors.
I’ve gotta say, though, if someone is going to tell me that I’ve got diabetes I’d rather hear it from a human being than from a robot.
Definitely. We’re not really talking about robots per say. We’re talking about software that interprets information and generates a diagnosis or a treatment plan. I think humans will always be part of health care. That’s one of the major limitations of AI – in healthcare you need to be empathic. And also gathering information from people… It’s actually quite hard interpreting what people mean and so on. But you don’t necessarily need to be a doctor that has trained for ten years to gather the information or to relay it to the patient. A lot of [doctors] aren’t necessarily good at being empathetic or at explaining bad diagnoses to people...
So in fact they become more like counsellors than diagnostic scientists.
Exactly. You’ve got the software doing the science or doing the analysis. It might even be better. If you’ve got humans who trained specifically to communicate with people or to gather information from people, they might actually be beter than us because a lot of us get into medicine because we like the problem-solving aspect, not necessarily because we like talking to people. I’m talking about myself, of course. I love people.
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13:35
There's nothing to go back to
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A New Zealand man and his wife and small children are in Calgary waiting to hear if their home has burnt to the ground after fleeing a wildfire in Alberta. The entire population of the city of Fort McMurray, more than 60,000 people, has been evacuated from their homes. Former Oamaru man Craig Rowland is a New Zealander who's made his home in the oil city is now in Calgary after being ordered to leave by authorities.
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A New Zealand man and his wife and small children are in Calgary waiting to hear if their home has burnt to the ground after fleeing a wildfire in Alberta. The entire population of the city of Fort McMurray, more than 60,000 people, has been evacuated from their homes.
Former Oamaru man Craig Rowland is a New Zealander who's made his home in the oil city is now in Calgary after being ordered to leave by authorities.
He says as he and his wife packed their car they could see the flames reach nearby homes.
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13:50
Favourite Album - Bleeding Star by JPS Experience
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Favourite Album - Bleeding Star by JPS Experience.
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14:10
Luxury at Clematis Ginza
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When it comes to luxury, money is no object. And for Tokyo-based designer, Takano Keitaro of Clematis Ginza, making luxury shoes is an art form that requires the investment of a time-honoured craft. But if you want to buy a pair of his bespoke shoes you could expect to pay more than the cost of the latest iPhone. Sonia Sly met the designer during an event held as part of iD Fashion Week in Dunedin.
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14:20
New Zealand Live - Auckland Indie/Pop Band Mice On Stilts
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Mice On Stilts is a seven-piece collaboration from Auckland which challenges genre description through creating their own brand of cinematic "doom folk."
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Mice On Stilts is a seven-piece collaboration from Auckland that challenges genre description with their own brand of cinematic 'doom folk'.
Their debut album Hope for A Mourning has its genesis in ideas of darkness, even deep sorrow, but is beautifully crafted by skilled musicians, collectively capable of capitalising on the use of a diverse range of instruments.
Listen to Mice On Stilts performing in our Auckland studio:
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15:08
Food writer, Delaney Mes on the grazing table trend
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Delany Mes is here to talk about the trend of the 'grazing table' and shares her recipe for Honey Thyme Walnuts.
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Film Reviewer, Dr Richard Swainson
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Dr Richard Swainson from Auteur House in Hamilton reviews Eddie The Eagle and Mother's Day.
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Big Red Wines for Winter
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Wine writer and educator Joelle Thomson suggests some big red wines for winter.
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15:30
Music 101 preview with Yadana Saw
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Yadana Saw drops in to preview what's on Music 101 this weekend.
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The Panel pre-show for 6 May 2016
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1:10 First song - Midnight Oil: Beds are Burning
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1:20 New Zealander among those evacuated from Alberta City fires
New Zealand man and his wife and small children are in Calgary waiting to hear if their home has burnt to the ground after fleeing a wildfire in Alberta. The entire population of the city of Fort McMurray, more than 60,000 people, has been evacuated from their homes.
Former Oamaru man Craig Rowland is a New Zealander who's made his home in the oil city is now in Calgary after being ordered to leave by authorities.
1:27 Will Robots replace GP's?
New Zealand health experts have been looking at the idea that artifical intelligence could be used in the place of expensive humans in the healthcare system. In a view point published today by New Zealand Medical journal two experts from Whangarei hospital have explored ways in which the role of a doctor will be challenged by technology.The authors have looked at how artificial intelligence may, in the future, be used for diagnostic and treatment decision making. One of those authors, William Diprose explains why it could work, and how it will impact patients.
1:35 Critter of the Week: the tusked weta
Nicola Toki, DoC's threatened species ambassador features the Middle Island (or Mercury Island) tusked weta
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1:40 Favourite album: Bleeding Star by JPS Experience
2:10 NZ Live - Mice on Stilts
Mice on Stilts are a seven piece collaboration from Auckland which challenges genre description through creating their own brand of cinematic style "doom folk."
Their debut album "Hope for A Mourning" has its genesis in ideas of darkness, even deep sorrow, but is beautifully crafted by skilled musicians, collectively capable of capitalising on the use of a diverse range of instruments.
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2:20 New Zealand Society
Tales of life in Aotearoa.
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3:10 Food writer, Delaney Mes on the grazing table trend
Delany Mes also her recipe for Honey Thyme Walnuts.
3:15 Big Red Wines for Winter
Wine writer and educator Joelle Thomson suggests some big red wines for winter.
3.25 Film Reviewer, Dr Richard Swainson
Dr Richard Swainson from Auteur House in Hamilton reviews Eddie The Eagle and Mother's Day.
3.35 Music 101 preview with Yadana Saw
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
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JESSE MULLIGAN 1- 4pm
Friday May 6th
JESSE'S SONG:
ARTIST: Midnight Oil
TITLE: Beds Are Burning
COMP: Martin Rotsey, Peter Gifford, Robert Hirst, James Moginie, Peter Garrett
ALBUM: Diesel and Dust
LABEL: Columbia
FEATURE ALBUM:
ARTIST: JPS Experience.
TITLE: Into You
COMP: David Yetton, Dave Mulcahy, Gary Sullivan, James Laing, Russell Baillie, Matt Heine
ALBUM: Bleeding Star
LABEL: Flying Nun
ARTIST: JPS Experience.
TITLE: Bleeding Star
COMP: David Yetton, Dave Mulcahy, Gary Sullivan, James Laing, Russell Baillie, Matt Heine
ALBUM: Bleeding Star
LABEL: Flying Nun
NEW ZEALAND LIVE:
ARTIST Mice On Stilts
TITLE: Hope For A Mourning
COMP: Ben Morley
ALBUM: Hope For A Mourning
LIVE: RNZ Auckland
ARTIST: Mice On Stilts
TITLE: Orca
COMP: Ben Morley, Brendan Zwann
ALBUM: Hope for a Mourning
LIVE: RNZ Auckland
ARTIST: Mice On Stilts
TITLE: Khandallah
COMP: Ben Morley, Brendan Zwann
ALBUM: Hope for a Mourning
LIVE: RNZ Auckland
ADDITIONAL MUSIC:
ARTIST Headless Chickens
TITLE: Cruise Control
COMP: Chris Matthews, Michael Lawry
ALBUM: Body Blow
LIVE: Flying Nun
ARTIST: Yumi Zouma
TITLE: Haji Awali
COMP: Yumi Zouma
ALBUM: Yoncalla
LABEL: Cascine
THE PANEL - HALF TIME SONG:
ARTIST: Rolling Stones
TITLE: Start Me Up
COMP: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
ALBUM: Tatoo You
LABEL: Rolling Stones
===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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The Panel pre-show for 6 May 2016
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Duration: 14'21"
16:10
The Panel with Ellen Read and Tony Doe (Part 1)
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Farmers department store has said sorry for causing hurt over a Mother's Day email; The Greens aren't taken by the government's electric cars policy. How much trouble will they cause in bus lanes?; Police spokesman Inspector Dave Glossop talks about what's being done to help dairy owners deal with robberies; Listener reaction to our discussion about logging truck crashes.
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The Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Ellen Read and Tony Doe have been thinking about.
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Famers apologises for Mothers' Day message
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Farmers department store has said sorry for causing hurt over a Mother's Day email.
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Electric cars
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The Greens aren't taken by the government's electric cars policy. How much trouble will they cause in bus lanes?
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Shop robberies
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Police spokesman Inspector Dave Glossop talks about what's being done to help dairy owners deal with robberies.
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16:29
Truck crashes
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Listener reaction to our discussion about logging truck crashes.
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The Don asked to stop using Stones music
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The Rolling Stones have asked Donald Trump to not use their music at rallies.
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16:40
Panel Says
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What the Panelists Ellen Read and Tony Doe have been thinking about.
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16:40
Gym bans selfies
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Privacy lawyer Kathryn Dalziel discusses CityFitness banning selfies.
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The Panel with Ellen Read and Tony Doe (Part 2)
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What the Panelists Ellen Read and Tony Doe have been thinking about; Privacy lawyer Kathryn Dalziel discusses CityFitness banning selfies; Lawyer Kathryn Dalziel talks about a first-of-it's kind case. A man charged over possessing video of Islamist beheadings; NZ First MP Ron Mark says foreigners who lie in Overseas Investment Office applications should have to forfeit the land they've bought; Fast food outlet Wendy's isn't giving up in getting a liquor license for one of its Christchurch stortes; Labour says National MPs are salespeople for the dairy industry.
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16:45
Guilty plea for beheading vids
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Lawyer Kathryn Dalziel talks about a first-of-it's kind case. A man charged over possessing video of Islamist beheadings.
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Wine at Wendy's
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Fast food outlet Wendy's isn't giving up in getting a liquor license for one of its Christchurch stortes.
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MPs selling dairy to China
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Labour says National MPs are salespeople for the dairy industry.
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===5:00 PM. | Checkpoint===
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RNZ's weekday drive-time news and current affairs programme
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17:00
Checkpoint with John Campbell, Friday 6 May 2016
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Watch Friday's full programme here.
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17:08
Canadian wildfire burns equivalent of 850sqkm
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The wildfire that began in Fort McMurray is now burning ferociously across an area of 850 square kilometres and has forced 88,000 people from their homes and into evacuation centres.
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Syrian refugees step up to help McMurray fire evacuees
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A group of new Canadians - Syrian refugees who came to the country at the end of last year - have stepped up to help those evacuated by the wildfire.
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Duration: 3'57"
17:19
Tourist couple alone as they wait for sentence on crash
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A Northland judge has delayed sentencing an American tourist who caused a fatal crash, to give the families of the victims time to consider restorative justice.
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17:24
Senior Republicans eschew Trump for candidate
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A growing number of senior Republican politicians in the United States say they are not ready to support Donald Trump in his bid for the Presidency, even though he is now the party's presumptive candidate in November's election.
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17:27
Waikato DHB shows off its popular meals
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Amid complaints about the Compass meals served by the Southern District Health Board, the Waikato DHB's food has received outstanding praise, with some patients asking to take menus home
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17:35
Evening Business for 6 May 2016
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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17:39
World's greatest freediver
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At the London Olympics, in 2012, New Zealand won six gold medals, five of them on the water. But it's below the surface where William Trubridge is the best in the world.
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Duration: 6'15"
17:45
Council accused of witholding info about Waihi Dam
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Hawkes Bay Regional Councillors are accusing council officials of witholding information over the failure of the Waihi Dam.
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17:50
Drone pilot convicted in landmark case
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A Canterbury man who flew a drone over a forest fire has been found guilty of breaching new Civil Aviation Authority rules in the first prosecution of its kind.
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Duration: 3'27"
17:53
Major effort underway to save Akld mosaic.
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A rescue effort is underway to save a 60-year-old mosaic by architect Maurice K Smith in Auckland's Odeon Theatre.
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18:20
Weekly playgroup tackles loneliness of city parents
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Lonely new mothers living in central Auckland have joined together to set up a weekly playgroup in the CBD.
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Duration: 3'28"
18:23
Sheep dog trial enthusiasts descend on Taranaki
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Hundreds of sheep dog trial enthusiasts have descended upon a remote valley in Taranaki for the North Island Sheep Dog Trial Championships this week.
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18:27
Sports chat for 6 May with Joe Porter
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The Kiwis rugby league team are heavy underdogs to win tonight's test against Australia in Newcastle with a week of off-field drama leaving them rank outsiders to extend their 3-match winning streak over the Kangaroos.
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18:38
Focus on Politics for 6 May 2016
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The fallout from the Panama Papers has continued to dog the Government this week. It's been just over a month now since the millions of documents from a Panamanian law firm showed how the world's rich and famous, including world leaders, hide their money offshore.
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===6:30 PM. | Worldwatch===
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The stories behind the international headlines
===6:43 PM. | Focus on Politics===
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Analysis of significant political issues presented by RNZ's parliamentary reporting team (RNZ)
===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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RNZ's weeknight programme of entertainment and information 7:45 The Why Factor (BBC)
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20:15
Nights' Sport - United States of America
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Every major sports league now relies on replays and reviews. These take time, leaving spectators restless. Is it better to review many plays and make games go slower, or maybe let a mistake go and keep the game moving? We'll chat to LA Times sports journalist Helene Elliott.
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7:07 Sonic Tonic
Music with magic and mischief spun into an surreal sensation of mayhem and maybe magnificence
7:45 The Why Factor
How the Rest of the World Sees America. Mike Williams asks what the rest of the world thinks of the United States, one of the most recognisable nations on the planet in the second part of a two part series. In the first part he covered the inside view - Americans looking at themselves.
8:12 Nights' Sport - United States of America
Every major sports league now relies on replays and reviews. These take time, leaving spectators restless. Is it better to review many plays and make games go slower, or maybe let a mistake go and keep the game moving? We'll chat to LA Times sports journalist Helene Elliott.
8:30 Spotlight
The Secret Life Of Birth Music - Yadana Saw meets the mums and midwives, doctors and dads who push play on the soundtrack that welcome the newest babies into world
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9:07 Country Life
Ian and Heather Smith’s farm in Waimahaka is perched on the rolling green hills that overlook Foveaux Strait in Southland. Two years ago the Smiths, who have been farming sheep on the property for three generations, built a rotary milking shed, bought 450 cows and converted their best land into a dairy operation. It’s been a big learning curve for the couple and despite the current low pay out, they still believe they have made the right decision
10:17 Late Edition
A round up of today's RNZ News and feature interviews as well as Date Line Pacific from RNZ International
11:07 The Friday Finale
David Bowie - Part 6: Flickering On and Off the Radar Years. David Bowie has been an innovator in popular music since the late 1960's, in this six part series presenter George Kay look's at Bowie's career and music. In the final episode of this series presenter George Kay focuses on Bowie's career from the early 1980's through to 2004.
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Sonic Tonic playlist - Friday 6 May, 2016
ARTIST: Simple Minds
TITLE: Speed Your Love to Me
ARTIST: Straight Jacket Fits
TITLE: She speeds
ARTIST: Daniel Johnston
TITLE: Speeding Motorcycle
ARTIST: Focus
TITLE: Hocus Pocus
ARTIST: Cake
TITLE: The Distance
ARTIST: Blackalicious
TITLE: Alphabet Aerobics
ARTIST: Eagles
TITLE: Life in the Fast Lane
===9:06 PM. | Country Life===
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Memorable scenes, people and places in rural New Zealand (RNZ)
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21:05
Fort McMurray Wild Fires Are Horror for Horses
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Clearwater Horse Club scrambled to find enough vehicles to evacuate over 100 horses, as fires sweeping through Northern Alberta came close to the equestrian centre where they lived. Some horses that couldn't be loaded onto trailers were left to find their own way to safety.
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The Clearwater Horse Club at Fort McMurray scrambled to find enough vehicles to evacuate over 100 horses, as fires sweeping through Northern Alberta, came close to the equestrian centre where they lived. Some horses that couldn't be loaded onto trailers were left to find their own way to safety. They are now being captured by first response rescue teams.
Horse owner Christina Lush says they had to use whatever vehicles they could find at short notice and drive up to six hours away from Fort McMurray, a city surrounded by forests.
Christina Lush has no idea what she'll be looking at when she gets home, which could be three weeks from now, because there's been little video footage from exactly where she lives. But looking behind as she was leaving town was "like an apocalypse".
For now she's staying hours away and has her horses and dogs with her. At least she says "we're all together."
Topics: rural, farming
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Tags: wild fires, horses, forest, Fort McMurray, evacuate
Duration: 5'23"
21:10
Regional Wrap
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Glorious rain has fallen in parts of the North Island. In Canterbury, drought conditions continue to bite.
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Glorious rain has fallen in parts of the North Island. In Canterbury, drought conditions continue to bite.
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Topics: rural, farming
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Tags: farm conditions
Duration: 8'26"
21:14
Down to the Wire and Let's Get 'Em Down Safety Campaign
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Two campaigns, 'Down to the Wire', and ' Let's Get 'Em Down', are encouraging farmers to remove unsafe wires, often electric fence wires strung across a gully, from their farms. Both campaigns are dedicated to a helicopter pilot, Peter Robb, who lost his life in a wire strike crash in October 2014. His daughter now has to run her father's business full time, and she's an ambassador for the Down to the Wire campaign. Let's Get 'Em Down is a private initiative by Peter Robb's friend and colleague pilot and farmer Dean Lithgow. 29 pilots have died in wire strike accidents in New Zealand.
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Two campaigns, ‘Down to the Wire’, and ‘ Let’s Get ‘Em Down’, are encouraging farmers to remove unsafe wires, often electric fence wires strung across a gully, from their farms.
Both campaigns are dedicated to a helicopter pilot, Peter Robb, who lost his life in a wire strike crash in the Wanganui region 18 months ago.
His daughter, Shannon Carr, now has to run her father’s business, Hill Country Helicopters, full time, and she says whenever she gets the chance she talks to farmers and organisations about the need to lower wires to fence height.
She says her story is personal and seems to hit home with farmers. It happened mid morning on October 28, 2014.
A reporter rang up asking if their firm had had an accident. She said no, their helicopters were fine, but looking at the spider tracking system realised her father's helicopter wasn't moving. "I rang his cell phone, dad's phone, and his loader driver answered the phone, and I knew then something wasn't right because he always has his phone in the helicopter.... .he handed me over to who I thought was the farmer but it was a police officer and he said there has been an accident. Your father's been involved and a police officer's on his way to your house now."
It was while driving home she heard the story on the radio saying a pilot had been killed.
That same accident hit fellow pilot and friend Dean Lithgow hard. He says he realised he'd never really educated farmers about wires. They talked about them a lot, always went with a farmer to look at where they were on a farm, but never told them when they were a bit ropey.
He's personally funding a massive "Let’s Get ‘Em Down" campaign, saturating rural media, rural stores and events, with posters, fliers and chilly bags. He has rugby legend Richie McCaw and racing driver Greg Murphy backing the advertising campaign.
Dean's sons Casey and Stafford are also right behind their father, producing a You Tube video highlighting how difficult wires can be to see on farms. Casey says " we want our dad to be able to come home to the family every night, just like other dads."
Click here to watch Casey and Stafford Lithgow's video
Topics: rural
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Tags: wire strike, helicopter, Hill Country Helicopters, You Tube, Wires, pilot
Duration: 12'21"
21:27
Coastal Conversion
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Ian and Heather Smith have been farming sheep and cattle on their Southland farm in Waimahaka for three decades. Two years ago they decided to build a rotary milking shed, bought 450 cows and converted their best land into a dairy operation. Switching to dairy has been a big learning curve for the couple and despite the current low payout, they still believe they have made the right decision.
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"Once you make a decision you run with it and that's the way we've done our life," Southland sheep and dairy farmer Ian Smith says.
Ian and his wife Heather have lived on Waimahaka's rolling hill country for more than 30 years. Ian is the third generation Smith to farm sheep and beef on the property. The farm has grown from 360 acres when his grandfather bought the land in 1927 to more than 1000 today.
When Ian and Heather's daughter and son-in-law showed an interest in coming on to the farm the decision was made two years ago to convert to dairying in the knowledge that sheep farming on the property couldn't sustain two families.
However along the way their son-in-law realised he really wanted to stay a dog and sheep man.
"We knew they were leaving before we really started the main bits of the conversion so we said 'this a family farm what do we want to do? We've got two choices, either sell or convert," and it was alot pig-headedness I suppose and not being finished with farming that drove us to carry on," Ian says.
Once the bank gave the heads up and hundreds of pages of resource consents were ticked off, the Smiths built a million dollar rotary milking shed, bought more than 400 cows, put in seven kilometres of laneways and got waterways and paddocks fenced off.
Sheep numbers have gone down from 5000 stock units to 1200.
The Smiths believe they've made the right decision to go milking but it's been a big learning curve for the couple and, after some initial staffing issues, finding a trustworthy and reliable farm manager has finally got the dairy operation running smoothly.
"All I can say is we've taken the best choices at the time and the future will prove if we are right or wrong".
Topics: rural, farming
Regions: Southland
Tags: Cows, dairy conversion, sheep, rotary shed, milk, payout, farm succession
Duration: 22'19"
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