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:
20 July 2015
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 At the Movies with Simon Morris (RNZ); 1:05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2:30 NZ Music Feature (RNZ); 3:05 Swamp Fever, written and told by Gerard Hindmarsh (6 of 10, RNZ); 3:30 Science (RNZ); 5:10 War Report (RNZ)
===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, including: 6:18 Pacific News 6:22 Rural News 6:27 and 8:45 Te Manu Korihi News 6:44 and 7:41 NZ Newspapers 6:47 Business News 7:42 and 8:34 Sports News 6:46 and 7:34 Traffic
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06:00
Top Stories for Monday 20 July 2015
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Confidence in the economy takes a sharp dive -- we'll ask John Key if he's worried, and whether you should be too. The Cissy Chen case highlights concerns about a lack of translators at the 111 call centre and an Australian surfing champion escapes a shark attack in South Africa -- live on tv.
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Duration: 30'05"
06:06
Sports News for 20 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 2'16"
06:19
Pacific News for 20 July 2015
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The latest from the Pacific region.
Topics: Pacific
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Duration: 2'40"
06:24
Morning Rural News for 20 July 2015
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News from the rural and farming sector.
Topics: rural, farming
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Duration: 4'11"
06:28
Te Manu Korihi News for 20 July 2015
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A Māori coporate dairy farmer says it's having to cut costs as dairy prices plunge; Four Ngai Tahu tribal entities are welcoming the decision stopping the Christchurch City Council from discharging treated wastewater into the coastal marine waters of Akaroa Harbour; Lawyers for claimants to the Waitangi Tribunal wanting an inquiry into the Crown's handling of negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement say they are disappointed with the Crown's refusal to guarantee no deal will be signed before a hearing can be held; The Māori Party is demanding the Government provide more effective policies to solve Auckland's overheated housing market.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'34"
06:42
Union says report last year proves Fight Club existed
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The Union representing Prison officers says a corrections report from last July proves an inmate Fight Club, has existed at Mount Eden Prison for a long time.
Topics: crime
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Tags: MT Eden prison
Duration: 2'54"
06:49
Economists certain OCR will fall this week
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Analysts are not expecting the Reserve Bank will act dramatically this week, and cut the official cash rate by more a quarter of a percentage point.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Reserve Bank
Duration: 2'40"
06:52
Firms and investors in danger of becoming too pessimistic
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A partner at Grant Thornton says New Zealand businesses and investors are in danger of becoming too pessimistic about the economy, when there's still plenty to be positive about.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Paul Kane
Duration: 1'43"
06:54
Steel & Tube says further consolidation of the sector is needed
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The chief executive of Steel and Tube Holdings, Dave Taylor, says further consolidation of the sector is needed.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Steel and Tube Holdings
Duration: 1'20"
06:55
Jim Parker in Australia
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Across the Tasman, and the Reserve Bank of Australia has questioned whether generous tax breaks on property investment are fuelling a housing bubble.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: Australia
Duration: 1'56"
06:57
Week ahead
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The Reserve Bank will dominate the week, with a decision on the level of the official cash rate due out on Thursday ... as you may have heard earlier all analysts are expecting its governor, Graeme Wheeler, to shave the benchmark rate from 3 point 25 percent to 3 percent, and signal more cuts will follow.
Topics: business, economy
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Duration: 46"
06:58
Morning markets for 20 July 2015
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On Wall St, a strong showing from Google pleased investors, and propelled the tech-heavy Nasdaq to a new record high for the second successive session.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'06"
06:59
Business briefs
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Google shares have soared to an all-time high, with the tech giant adding about 60 billion US dollars to its market value.
Topics: business
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Tags: Google shares
Duration: 19"
07:07
Sports News for 20 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
Topics: sport
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Duration: 1'42"
07:11
Prime Minister John Key on the issues of the week
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The fallout from the drop in dairy prices is being blamed for a slump in economic confidence.
Topics: politics, economy
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Tags: John Key
Duration: 5'43"
07:16
Struggle to communicate with the police highlighted
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A 12 minute-long phone call to police on the night Cissy Chen went missing is highlighting the difficulty people, who don't speak English well, have when they dial 111.
Topics: language
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Tags: 111 calls, emergency services
Duration: 3'55"
07:20
Australian surfer has survived a shark attack
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An Australian surfer has survived a shark attack while taking part in a competition in South Africa's Jeffery's Bay and it was all shown live on television.
Topics: sport
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Tags: surfing, shark attack, Australia
Duration: 3'50"
07:24
Union says report last year proves Fight Club existed
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The Union representing Prison officers says a corrections report from July last year proves an inmate Fight Club has existed at Mount Eden Prison for a long time.
Topics: crime
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Tags: Mt Eden prison
Duration: 3'26"
07:28
Claim Corrections knew of Mt Eden prison fights
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And listening to that is Corrections chief executive Ray Smith.
Topics: crime
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Tags: MT Eden prison
Duration: 4'56"
07:37
Donald Trump's popularity surges
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American presidential candidate Donald Trump is refusing to apologise for saying Senator John McCain was no war hero, despite a growing firestorm among fellow Republicans.
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Tags: USA, Donald Trump
Duration: 4'13"
07:41
Ngai Tahu furious with Sonny Tau for taking Kereru
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At the end of the week, Ngapuhi leader Sonny Tau will appear in court on charges of hunting and possession of a native species.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Tags: Sonny Tau, Ngai Tahu
Duration: 3'23"
07:44
Union slams Immigration NZ over illegal workers
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Immigration New Zealand has admitted foreign workers aboard a Philippine ship were allowed to work at Port Taranaki last month without the correct paperwork.
Topics: law
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: Immigration New Zealand
Duration: 3'05"
07:50
Australia and New Zealand have agreed to share more information
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Australia and New Zealand have agreed to share more information about deported offenders.
Topics: politics, crime
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Tags: deported offenders, Australia
Duration: 3'08"
07:53
Auckland commuter rail enters all-electric era
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A handful of diesel units will shuttle between Pukekohe and Papakura at the southern end of the network, but for everyone else, it's a new era of rail commuting following a billion dollar-plus upgrade.
Topics: transport
Regions: Auckland Region
Tags: trains
Duration: 2'50"
07:56
Australia crush England in second Ashes test
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Australia has crushed England to level the Ashes series at Lord's.
Topics: sport
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Tags: cricket
Duration: 3'31"
08:07
Sports News for 20 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 2'10"
08:11
Local councils push to ban smoking outside bars
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Local councils have used their annual general meeting to call for a ban on smoking outside cafes, bars and restaurants.
Topics: politics, health
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Tags: local councils, smoking
Duration: 5'10"
08:16
Smoking ban could affect cafes, bars
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With his take on the smoking proposal, Hospitality Association chief executive Bruce Robertson is with us.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Hospitality Association, smoking
Duration: 2'59"
08:20
Shipping agent let off hook for lack of work visas
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A shipping agent was let off the hook by immigration officials after they found out the crew of one of its vessels didn't have the necessary visas to work in New Zealand waters.
Topics: law
Regions: Taranaki
Tags: immigration
Duration: 3'45"
08:24
Sun criticsed for publishing footage of Queen
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Britain's Sun newspaper has been criticised by Buckingham Palace for publishing footage of the Queen giving the Nazi salute as a child.
Topics: history, media
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Tags: UK, Queen, the royals
Duration: 4'04"
08:28
Play continues at the British Open golf championship.
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A young Irish amateur golfer is grabbing the headlines on day three of the British Open golf championship at St Andrews in Scotland.
Topics: sport
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Tags: golf
Duration: 3'20"
08:31
Markets Update for 20 July 2015
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A brief update of movements in the financial sector.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: markets
Duration: 1'10"
08:37
Basion Reserve flyover controversy heads back to court
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A controversial plan to build a 90-million dollar flyover near Wellington's Basin Reserve heads to the High Court today.
Topics: transport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Basin Reserve Flyover
Duration: 2'19"
08:39
Save the Basin group disappointed
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And listening to that is Tim Jones; a spokesman for the Save the Basin campaign.
Topics: transport
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Basin Reserve Flyover
Duration: 1'55"
08:41
Climate extremes around the world in 2014
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Is the climate broken, or just breaking new records?
Topics: climate
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Tags: NIWA, International State of the Climate report
Duration: 2'55"
08:46
Te Manu Korihi News for 20 July 2015
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A Māori coporate dairy farmer says it's having to cut costs as dairy prices plunge; Four Ngai Tahu tribal entities are welcoming the decision stopping the Christchurch City Council from discharging treated wastewater into the coastal marine waters of Akaroa Harbour; Lawyers for claimants to the Waitangi Tribunal wanting an inquiry into the Crown's handling of negotiations for a Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement say they are disappointed with the Crown's refusal to guarantee no deal will be signed before a hearing can be held; The Māori Party is demanding the Government provide more effective policies to solve Auckland's overheated housing market.
Topics: te ao Māori
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Duration: 3'33"
08:50
Annual blessing of Nelson's fishing fleet
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Several hundred people gathered at Nelson's waterfront yesterday for the annual blessing of the city's fishing fleet.
Topics: spiritual practices
Regions: Nelson Region
Tags: fishing fleet, blesing
Duration: 3'40"
08:53
Thousand of geeks descend upon Wellington
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Where would you see Dr Who, Darth Vader, Catwoman, zombies and the Iron Throne all under one roof? At Armageddon of course. The pop culture festival attened at the weekend by thousands of self-proclaimed geeks.
Topics: arts, media
Regions: Wellington Region
Tags: Armageddon
Duration: 2'53"
08:56
Phil Kafcaloudes with news from Australia
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Time to chat to our Melbourne correspondent Phil Kafcaloudes.
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Tags: Australia, Phil Kafcaloudes
Duration: 2'49"
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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: Five Sons and 100 Muri of Rice, by Sharyn Steel and Zoe Dryden The life of Kharika Devkota, raised as a five year old bride in rural Nepal (1 of 12, RNZ)
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09:07
Calls for the government to take forestry seriously
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Is the government taking the forestry industry seriously enough? The Forestry Institute says keeping agriculture out of the Emissions Trading Scheme has resulted in unintended subsidies to farming - with more and more marginal land being removed of scrub and forest and turned into grass. Forestry Institute President James Treadwell says the industry is in the process of forming a national policy for the next 100 years and wants the government to be part of that. But getting political buy-in is proving hard. The Minister responsible for Forestry, Jo Goodhew, responds.
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A logstacker lifting logs off a truck at Port Chalmers wharf Dunedin New Zealand. Photo CC BY 3.0 Benchill.
Is the government taking the forestry industry seriously enough?
The Forestry Institute says keeping agriculture out of the Emissions Trading Scheme has resulted in unintended subsidies to farming - with more and more marginal land being removed of scrub and forest and turned into grass.
Forestry Institute President James Treadwell says the industry is in the process of forming a national policy for the next 100 years and wants the government to be part of that. But getting political buy-in is proving hard.
The Minister responsible for Forestry, Jo Goodhew, responds.
Topics: farming, rural
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Tags: forestry, ETS, Emissions Trading Scheme, flooding, erosion, Goodhew, Forestry Institute
Duration: 27'26"
09:35
Great Barrier pandemic scenario
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Picture this…. A major viral epidemic is sweeping the world, leaving no survivors. Services are breaking down, populations are dying and chaos ensues. Despite a lock-down, the virus enters New Zealand and spreads rapidly around the country and the Government isolates Great Barrier Island. That is the scenario a group of experts will explore at an event on Great Barrier, in September. It's organised by the island's Awana Rural Women. Kathryn Ryan speaks with president Gendie Somerville-Ryan.
Topics: health, rural
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Tags: influenza
Duration: 10'35"
09:50
Middle East correspondent Kate Shuttleworth
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Kate Shuttleworth discusses reaction in Israel to the historic nuclear deal reached between the US-led coalition and Iran last week.
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Duration: 9'43"
10:07
When aid does more harm than good
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Dr Simon Singh is a Professor of Social Ecology at the University of Waterloo, just outside Toronto. He lived and worked for five years on the remote Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal - 12 hundred kilometers from the Indian mainland, studying the unique culture and people, before and after the boxing day tsunami in 2004. He says the subsequent humanitarian aid that came flooding into the islands caused the breakdown of the traditional culture.
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Dr Simon Singh lived and worked for five years on the remote Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal - 12,000 kilometres from the Indian mainland, studying the unique culture and people.
A largely subsistence economy – the culture was inextricably tied to the islands' ecosystem. The Nicobarese fished, grew coconuts, and raised pigs and chickens. They lived in coastal villages and built their canoes and thatched houses from materials found along the coast and in the interior rainforest.
Then, the Boxing Day tsunami, just over 10 years ago, devastated the archipelago.
Dr Singh talks to Kathryn Ryan about how the subsequent humanitarian aid that came flooding into the islands caused the breakdown of the traditional culture.
Dr Simon Singh is a Professor of Social Ecology at the University of Waterloo, just outside Toronto. His research before and after the tsunami are featured in a new documentary called Aftermath: The second flood.
Pictures of Nicobar islands pre and post the Boxing Day tsunami.
Topics: aid and development
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Tags: Nicobar Islands, Boxing Day tsunami
Duration: 32'09"
10:39
Book review: 'Something to Hide' by Deborah Moggach
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Published by Chatto & Windus, RRP$38.00. Reviewed by Jane Westaway.
Topics: books
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Duration: 4'58"
11:06
Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
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Continued debate over the issue of sale of Auckland houses to asian buyers. The latest polls.
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Continued debate over the issue of sale of Auckland houses to asian buyers. The latest polls.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Auckland housing, political poll
Duration: 20'39"
11:31
Nelson-based company making miso, Urban Hippie
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Miso - fermented, unpasterised soybean paste is packed with protein and beneficial micro organisms, as well as amino acid and also adds flavour and depth to soups, stews and marinades. Japanese chef Takehito Maeda came to New Zealand for the skiing and settled in Nelson in 2007. Four years ago he and his Japanese wife set up Urban Hippies and began making miso and other 'live' products that include an alternative toast spread to marmite - misomite. Takehito makes a new batch - which takes six months to mature - every week, producing over 10 tonnes a year.
Topics: food
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Tags: miso, Nelson
Duration: 13'58"
11:48
Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
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Kennedy discusses why it may not be long before features on the dwarf planet Pluto are named after New Zealand adventurers.
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Kennedy Warne
I attended a marine sciences conference last week, and heard the latest update on Maui’s dolphin from University of Otago dolphin expert Liz Slooten, and it was not pleasant listening.
If a movie were to be made about Maui’s dolphin, it could be called “Ocean’s Eleven,” because that’s roughly how many Maui’s dolphin mothers remain in the ocean. The latest population estimate is between 43 and 47 adults—less than half what it was a decade ago. The sex ratio in Maui’s dolphins is assumed to be 50:50, so that means perhaps 22-23 adult females, of which only half will be of reproductive age. So, about 11 mothers. And the number is declining all the time. The latest estimate of the number of dolphins being killed by fishing activities (commercial and recreational) is between 3 and 4 a year. To stop the population declining still further requires this human-induced mortality to drop to 1 death every 10 to 23 years!
We all know the story of “Old Blue,” the female black robin that reproduced her species out of the jaws of extinction, and the reason she could do that is that she was out of harm’s way on a predator-free island. Maui’s dolphins are very much still in harm’s way, because the government is reluctant to extend the current netting bans to cover the full range of the dolphins, which is to say from the coast to the 100-metre depth contour. Liz Slooten says less than 20% of the dolphins’ range is protected from gillnets and trawling, which are estimated to be responsible for 95% of Maui’s dolphin deaths.
Government and industry have said more research is needed to show the extent to which dolphins use their assumed range, but the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission disagrees. In a report released last month, it says what is needed is not more research but immediate regulatory action. (And let’s be clear: often a call for “more research” can be a stalling tactic, or an excuse for inaction, as it has been with climate change.)
It’s hard not to conclude that we’re taking a pretty big risk with this animal, gambling that we can magically avoid the fishing-related deaths that will propel the subspecies into an extinction spiral—as happened with the baiji, the Yangtze River dolphin, which is now considered extinct. Like many marine mammals, Maui’s dolphins are not prolific breeders. Females start to breed at age seven and, on average, produce one calf every two years. So recovery of the population is a long-term process, and it can only start when fisheries mortality (and preferably all human-caused mortality) is reduced to zero.
Compare our government’s reluctance to take more aggressive protection measures for Maui’s dolphin with the decisive action Mexico just took over another extremely rare, tiny cetacean, the vaquita. Faced with a similar situation of fishing interests vs survival of a species, earlier this year the Mexican government introduced a two-year gillnetting ban covering the entire area the vaquita is known to occupy, in the upper Gulf of California, to be policed by the Mexican navy.
Part of the Mexican approach is to pay fishers to switch to vaquita-safe fishing gear. Difficult as that would be here—or anywhere—I wonder how seriously it has been considered. I was interested to learn that the number of commercial fishers that would be affected by a comprehensive net ban is relatively small. In 2007, the last time a survey was conducted, there were only eight commercial fishers who caught more than 6% of their total catch using gillnets or trawl gear in the affected area (off the west coast of the North Island), and an additional 120 fishers who used nets to catch 1-5% of their catch. Their combined catch was a quarter of the total fish caught on the North Island west coast.
And the point is, no one is arguing for a fishing ban, just a netting ban. Fishers are welcome to use lines, fish traps and other dolphin-safe fishing gear throughout the entire area.
A much greater number of recreational fishers use gillnets to catch fish in harbours in the region—harbours that are also frequented by Maui’s dolphins. Yes, there are longstanding social and cultural traditions concerning the use of set nets, but if the continuance of a species is at stake—and you can catch fish using another method, a less wasteful, indiscriminate method . . . well, do we want to see another baiji on our watch?
Is it feasible to pay fishers to change? I don’t know, but we’ve just had an example on land of a similar approach: funding a shift in how an economic activity is pursued to achieve an environmental good. I’m talking about the effort to reduce nitrogen levels in Lake Taupo. A combination of buyouts and spending from an $80 million fund to help farmers shift from dairying and to farm less intensively has proved effective, with farmers signing up three years ahead of the expected schedule.
Environment minister Nick Smith praised the Taupo strategy and said it is the sort of approach that will need to be taken for other waterways, and I agree with him. But it should also be considered for other situations where a demonstrable public good—or in Maui’s dolphin’s case an existential good—relies on a change in human activity.
The Pluto spectacle
Whenever there’s a hint of an aurora in New Zealand skies (always in the deep south—worse luck for this Aucklander) or a supermoon is rising, or an interesting conjunction of heavenly bodies occurs (Jupiter and Venus this month), the event makes headlines. The universe fascinates us—and so it should.
This last week it has been Pluto’s turn to shine. Maybe we have a soft spot for the littlest, farthest planet—or “dwarf planet” as it is now classified—but the images beamed Earthward from the New Horizons spacecraft have captured the world’s attention.
A big surprise—and an understandable crowd favourite—was the revelation of a vast heart-shaped plain about 1600 km across, which is more than the distance from North Cape to Bluff. Rising out of one part of that plain (named Tombaugh Regio after Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930) are mountains almost as high as the highest peaks in the Southern Alps, but made not of rock but ice. Bear in mind that the average temperature on Pluto’s surface is -230 degrees C—cold enough to turn nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide into a solid, and all these types of ice are present on Pluto.
The mountain ranges were promptly named after Tenzing Norgay. And it may not be long before a couple of Aotearoa/New Zealand names are applied to Pluto’s landscapes. A few months ago NASA crowdsourced potential names to be used when the new Pluto pictures showed what the surface was like. They received about 40,000 submissions, which shows just how popular the thought of having your brilliant suggestion adopted as a celestial landmark must be.
In the category of “names for historical explorers”, the short list includes Hillary, our most famous climber, and Kupe, our most illustrious navigator. Of course, call a mountain range “Hillary” today and a large percentage of Americans will think it’s named for Hillary Clinton, and no doubt think there’s a conspiracy afoot. And speaking of conspiracies, yes, there has been some contrarian activity claiming that the photos, and indeed the entire mission, have been faked by NASA, which is in cahoots with aliens.
On a lighter note, some people have seen in the heart-shaped plain a similarity to the head and ears of Walt Disney’s famous dog.
On the subject of names, Charon, Pluto’s largest moon, is the name of the ferryman of the dead in Greek mythology. And that’s a logical choice, because Pluto, like Hades, is one of the mythological names for the underworld. But that’s not why Charon got that name—or at least only in part. According to moon’s discoverer, James Christy, he suggested the name Charon to honour his wife Charlene, who went by the nickname Char. Her reaction to having her (slightly modified) name immortalised in space was: “A lot of husbands promise their wives the moon, but mine delivered.”
Charon is so large (relative to Pluto, which itself is less than twice the length of NZ in diameter) it forms a binary planet with Pluto, and that’s in fact how it was discovered: it was causing Pluto to wobble in its orbit. Think of the hammer throw athletics event—the weight of the hammer causes the thrower to move around in the throwing circle. Photos of Charon from the mission have shown it to be a beautiful orb reminiscent of our own moon. Nix, on the other hand—one of Pluto’s four other moons—looks like an orbiting potato.
One nice moment in the excitement of the Pluto flyby was that a daughter of Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer, was invited to witness the first photographs as they came through at the NASA control centre. When she learned that the heart-shaped plain was to be named after her father, she said: “He loved astronomy, and what better way to say it than to have a heart named after you.”
Topics: rural, environment, life and society
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Tags: Kennedy Warne, Pluto, Maui Dolphin
Duration: 11'40"
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09:05 Calls for the government take forestry seriously
Is the government taking the forestry industry seriously enough? The Forestry Institute says keeping agriculture out of the Emissions Trading Scheme has resulted in unintended subsidies to farming - with more and more marginal land being removed of scrub and forest and turned into grass.
Forestry Institute President James Treadwell says the industry is in the process of forming a national policy for the next 100 years and wants the government to be part of that. But getting political buy-in is proving hard. The Minister responsible for Forestry, Jo Goodhew, responds.
09:30 Great Barrier pandemic scenario
Picture this…. A major viral epidemic is sweeping the world, leaving no survivors. Services are breaking down, populations are dying and chaos ensues. Despite a lock-down, the virus enters New Zealand and spreads rapidly around the country and the Government isolates Great Barrier Island. That is the scenario a group of experts will explore at an event on Great Barrier, in September. It's organised by the island's Awana Rural Women. Kathryn Ryan speaks with president Gendie Somerville-Ryan.
09:45 Middle East correspondent Kate Shuttleworth
10:05 When aid does more harm than good
Dr Simon Singh is a Professor of Social Ecology at the University of Waterloo, just outside Toronto.
He lived and worked for five years on the remote Nicobar islands in the Bay of Bengal - 12 hundred kilometers from the Indian mainland, studying the unique culture and people, before and after the boxing day tsunami in 2004.
He says the subsequent humanitarian aid that came flooding into the islands caused the breakdown of the traditional culture.
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10:30 Book review: 'Something to Hide' by Deborah Moggach
Published by Chatto & Windus, RRP$38.00. Reviewed by Jane Westaway.
10:45 The Reading: 'Five Sons and 100 Muri of Rice', by Sharyn Steel and Zoe Dryden
The life of Kharika Devkota, raised as a five-year-old bride in rural Nepal (1 of 12, RNZ)
11:05 Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
11:30 Nelson-based company making miso, Urban Hippie
Miso - fermented, unpasterised soybean paste is packed with protein and beneficial micro organisms, as well as amino acid and also adds flavour and depth to soups, stews and marinades. Japanese chef Takehito Maeda came to New Zealand for the skiing and settled in Nelson in 2007. Four years ago he and his Japanese wife set up Urban Hippies and began making miso and other 'live' products that include an alternative toast spread to marmite - misomite. Takehito makes a new batch - which takes six months to mature - every week, producing over 10 tonnes a year.
Recipes: Tonjiru (Pork & Veggies Miso Soup), Basic Miso Soup and Miso Marinade Salmon
11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne
Kennedy discusses why it may not be long before features on the dwarf planet Pluto are named after New Zealand adventurers.
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===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 20 July 2015
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Urgent talks on tackling illegal activities at Mt Eden prison and John Key appears to rule out stopping foreigners buying residential property.
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Duration: 15'10"
12:17
Services sector continues to expand in June
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Senior economist at BNZ Craig Ebert says the latest survey paints a picture of robust economic expansion.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: services sector
Duration: 1'18"
12:19
A2 Milk knocks back a potential takeover offer
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A2 Milk does not consider the offer from its largest shareholder; Australia's Freedom Foods and the American Deans Foods, is compelling enough.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: A2 Milk
Duration: 1'14"
12:20
Summerset buys land to expand Warkworth property
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The retirement village operator Summerset says it's bought some land next to to the soon-to-be-completed Warkworth Village, in order to increase the number of retirement units by nearly 60%.
Topics: business, economy
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Tags: retirement village
Duration: 47"
12:24
Midday Markets for 20 July 2015
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For the latest from the markets we're joined by Belinda Stanley at Craigs Investment Partners.
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Duration: 3'16"
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Midday Sports News for 20 July 2015
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It's a waiting game for New Zealand's three cricketers caught up in the suspension of two Indian Premier League franchise owners. The Oceania Football Confederation have released their written reasons for the decision to disqualify the Under-23 New Zealand men's team from the recent Olympic qualifying tournament in Papua New Guinea.
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Duration: 2'55"
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Midday Rural News for 20 July 2015
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News from the rural and farming sectors.
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Duration: 7'46"
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Your song - 93 Million Miles
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Bernie Gunn from Hawkes Bay has chosen "93 Million Miles" by song by singer-songwriter Jason Mraz.
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Duration: 15'50"
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NZ Retro - Ghosts
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It's a history of ghosts on afternoons and to guide us through the world of the paranormal we're joined in the studio by James Gilberd of Strange Occurences - a group of paranormal investigators.
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A history of ghosts and a trip through the world of the paranormal.
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Duration: 33'43"
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Josh Groban - Stages
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He's an internationally renowned singer, songwriter, and actor. With an instantly recognisable voice and he's sold 30 million records. Multi-platinum recording artist Josh Groban has just released his seventh studio album called STAGES. Josh Groban has been in Auckland today and spent a few minutes with Jesse Mulligan.
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US singer-songwriter-actor Josh Groban has an instantly recognisable voice - and has sold 30 million records.
The multi-platinum recording artist has just released his seventh studio album, Stages.
While he was in Auckland he joined Jesse Mulligan in Radio New Zealand's studio to talk about his rough start in high school, Ally McBeal and his music career.
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Duration: 25'28"
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Feature Album - Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
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Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 from 1988 - the debut LP by the supergroup of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty.
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Duration: 12'21"
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EMERGENCY: Dr Anthony Cross
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There's a reason why shows about Emergency departments are a television staple. Just about every imaginable human drama plays out in the ED. Emergency physicians see it all: traumatic accidents, violence, end of life care, addiction issues. No one wakes up in the morning and expects to end up in the emergency department that day. The Doctors who choose to work in emergency have to manage the medicine and the emotion. Their experiences are collected in a new book called EMERGENCY: real stories from Australia's Emergency department doctors. The book is written in collaboration with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Dr Anthony Cross is the President of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
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From the time Dr Anthony Cross was in Year 10, he knew exactly what he wanted to do as a career. He wanted to be a doctor in the emergency department. “In some senses I reckon it is the real essence of medicine. We see people who haven’t been treated before, we see chronic problems, eating problems; it’s a real mix.” Dr Cross tells Afternoons.
Now he’s the president of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM). Dr Cross and some of his fellow emergency department colleagues have written about their experiences in a new book called EMERGENCY: Real Stories from Australia's Emergency Department Doctors. “Many of us have these stories and they have an affect on us all. We talk about them amongst ourselves and it seemed like a good idea to put them together and give the wider population an understanding of what it’s like in an emergency department if you’ve never had the misfortune to visit one” Cross says.
The people who work in the ED have to be able to cope with uncertainty and pressure according to Dr Cross. “I think of it as focusing on the problems in front of you. You have to be able to consider the whole spectrum of what’s going on around you all the noise and light all the problems and focus on priorities. What are the things that most matter now? What’s the thing I need to address first of all to keep this patient alive and the second thing and the third thing and then later on the diagnostic process?”
The story Dr Cross shares in the book is called Close to the Bone. It’s about a motorcyclist struck by a truck whose life was eerily similar to his own. Both men were keen motorcyclists. Both men were of a similar age. Both men had sons of a similar age and both men had pregnant wives at the time. “This was a man whose life was irrevocably changed by a terrible accident and yet in so many ways he was so similar to me and that really hit home,” says Cross.
It’s one of the hardest things ED staff need to do, says Cross, balancing emotion and medical skill. “I think of the difference between sympathy and empathy. With sympathy, you take on the emotions of other people. With empathy you understand those emotions. You remain empathetic but you can’t allow it to cloud your own judgment.”
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Freedom from Calcutta's sex slave trade - Freeset, India
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From a life in broadcasting in New Zealand to living in Kolkata (Calcutta) helping women to be free from the sex trade in India, social innovator John Sinclair meets Lynda Chanwai-Earle on a flying visit back home.
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By Lynda Chanwai-Earle
Freeset women making apparel - photos courtesy: Freeset, John Sinclair
At thirteen, Sonali* was stolen from her village, dragged to the back streets of Sonagacchi and sold into prostitution. Her first customer drugged and raped her unconscious body.
Bashanti*, a daughter of poverty-stricken parents, was sold into the sex trade by her mother, sacrificed so the rest of the family could eat.
– from the Freeset website (*not their real names)
Ever wondered about where your organic jute and cotton bags and apparel came from and the story behind the woman on the sewing machine?
In 1999 Kerry and Annie Hilton left New Zealand with their four children and moved to Kolkata to work and live amongst the poor. Naively, they signed up for an apartment in the middle of the day. It was only when Kerry was taking a walk at night that he discovered they had moved into the largest red light area in the city, Sonagacchi. Their new neighbors were thousands of women forced into prostitution through trafficking and poverty.
To make a difference, that would bring real freedom for these women, the Hiltons understood there needed to be a business alternative. Initiated by the Hiltons,this social innovation business in India is called Freeset.
Freeset opened its doors in 2001 with twenty women brave enough to trust a couple of foreigners and seize the opportunity to leave the sex trade behind.
... And then another New Zealander left his life of broadcasting here and decided to dedicate his time to this altruistic organisation.
The flickering images from the trailer of the documentary Calcutta Hilton show Indian women of all ages standing in an endless line on the side of the road in the infamous red light district of Sonagacchi, waiting to be bought for the night. Similar images are used in the promotional videos for Freeset and the message is the same – Sonagacchi is hell on earth if you are a woman and you are trapped in the sex industry.
“It was a very painful life in the line, there were days when I didn’t eat,” says one. So many girls and women trafficked from rural India, Bangladesh and Nepal, driven into the sex-slave trade in India. There are around 10,000 of them.
Thousands of miles away in Christchurch, the Asia New Zealand Foundation is celebrating leaders in social innovation at a hui. Social innovation by definition is a broad creative process of problem solving for society and can be applied to NGO - not for profit work but also to private and public sectors.
John Sinclair is one such leader presenting at the hui. Right now we're sitting in the sun far from the reality of life for the women of Sonagacchi.
John tells me that he started in TV3 as an editor for the news before reviewing movies and eventually making documentaries and producing for Campbell Live. John tells me that he is sad about the programme's demise but he is in the manufacturing business now.
John Sinclair, Social Innovation Leader at the Asia NZ Foundation Hui
Broadcasting to manufacturing, a radical change, how did that come about?
John has been involved with Freeset since 2003, two years after it's initiation and opening. John had heard about Freeset and the Hilton's (and their 4 children!) trying to make a difference in Kolkata, so he and presenter Evie Ashton decided to travel there to make the documentary Calcutta Hilton for TV3. After filming in 2003, John lived and worked in Kolkata for 12 months over 2004, editing the documentary before premiering the finished piece in 2005.
Since 2006 John has lived in Kolkata fulltime - coming back to home for a month each year to catch up with family.
John explains that Freeset and the work of the Hiltons grabbed his heart. He had started out wanting to make a substantial documentary, but then Freeset became something he wanted to invest his life in. He moved from the role of communications Manager to the General Manager of Freeset bags and apparel.
It's a social enterprise - so a lot of things come with that which are unconventional.
"Unconventional" to say the least. For a start the location of the Freeset manufacturing building stands right on the edge of Sonagacchi. I ask if the pimps and brothel owners see their presence as a threat? "Yes." says John, "Some of them do, and now Freeset is expanding, purchasing a new building right in the heart of the red light district - which might ruffle a few more feathers."
"My parents were very poor, so I never learned to read and write as a child," says one woman. "I couldn’t write my name, I couldn’t do that before I came here ... I’m so happy I can do this, now I want to learn more..."
What about the issue of child labour?
"You can't just expect these desperately poor people to not send their children to work rather than starve, but as a global community we need to find ways of ending child labour. There's got to be an alternative. You've gotta have education and then opportunity, otherwise what are they going to do?"
John still struggles with the concept of a family in such dire poverty that they will sell one of their young daughters into the sex trade. "Sometimes it's ignorance, especially in the rural areas with pimps looking for vulnerable families - offering to take daughters for a jobs as "maids" doing housework in the city - it sounds good until the girl is gone, and then it's too late."
13 year old girls are imprisoned in small rooms in the "prime" of their earning potential - these girls are highly controlled, literally caged. The girls that are forced into the sex trade at 13 are really locked in - they start off in a real prison which then becomes a psychological cage, so that they are scared to step outside of the confines of that. It's heartbreaking.
"This one moment will change these girls lives radically forever and then they are trapped. Even years later when these women keep sending money home, they are shunned by their family and treated so badly that sometimes they don't even want to go home to visit."
But what if a girl of 13 is going to be sold to the sex trade and put to work? Would Freeset take her in and give her work?
"No," says John, "Freeset tries to step-in to send the child to school instead. However they aren't an agency that performs child rescue, there are many other agencies that perform these roles and plenty of inter-agency co-operation to deal with these problems."
John explains that even Freeset as a business is not "the" answer. "A lot of things seem black and white coming from middle class New Zealand until you're confronted by the reality of a place like Sonagacchi. Then you understand there is a lot more grey to life."
Freeset look at helping the women who are trying to leave the sex industry - to find an alternative to this work. This process can take years John tells me; it's about overcoming the psychological cage. "We see the pain that's there and we want to offer them a different option - but do they really want that? They've gotta want to step away from the sex trade."
What's the minimum working age in India? "Legally children should be in school up to the age of 14," says John, "From the age of 16 to 18 Freeset will consider taking young women on but Freeset would prefer getting them into school first. We work through these process - it's important not to legally compromise ourselves."
What about the children of sex-workers or women with HIV or TB and other diseases who need health care plans? Freeset offers this:
The women are paid around twice the going rate for an equivalent job elsewhere and as part of their employment package have health insurance and a pension plan. A woman is employed full-time to ensure that staff are able to access their health insurance entitlements.
Sustainability is their biggest challenge in being a social innovation business. Freeset is becoming different entities - 190 staff and growing. There are at least 10,000 women in Sonagacchi alone - so Freeset has started a business 'incubator" to encourage other businesses to come in, to create more alternatives for the sex workers.
How do you sustain yourself? I ask. All the foreigners like John are voluntary workers - funded by donations. He explains that it's the generosity of donations that help to fund his role as General Manager of the business.
"It's important to let the women know that once they start at Freeset then they must give up sex work. It's not freedom unless they step away from the sex trade. Some of them face real issues - education of their children, expensive rent (red light district rates are crippling), or addiction."
Addiction is serious challenge - one woman worker is a recidivist addict who regularly falls of the wagon. John recalls scary moments when this woman would end up chasing others around with a knife, but ever positive, he celebrates the couple of years that she is sober.
"Maybe she'll celebrate 3 years off addiction this time." John has known this woman for 11 years. He tells me that it's important to see the progress, this woman can now tell others that she is struggling - this is a great step forward.
"Even in the despair you have to look at the positive - you know you can't "save" 10,000 women at once. It becomes over whelming if you think of it like this. You have to deal with [the problem] one relationship at a time, one person at a time - and then each of these women can input into others' freedom. The community then becomes self supporting."
Every woman who finds freedom through Freeset also brings freedom to her family. They find hope for a brighter future and the means to make it a reality. As the business has grown, a positive community has emerged calling itself the "Freeset family. This family not only supports its own members, but impacts on the wider community. The common understanding is "we're in this together".
John tells me that when they first start many women struggle to sew or do simple tasks. Lots of new trainees produce bags sewn inside out and upside down. Post traumatic stress makes them forget training easily and learn with difficulty.
John tells me that these problems are gradually over-come with training, a lot of patience and quality control systems. While many of the women are still not the fastest sewers, the business now produces around 1000 bags a day. "Consistent quality is important for Freeset to be a competitive, self sustaining business that's able to break the cycle of poverty and exploitation for these women once and for all."
And what's the personal driver for John?
They richly invest into my life. Continuing to mentor them is really special, it helps you to stay in there when it gets pretty darn hard. It's really beautiful when you see women step out of the sex industry - when they are training with Freeset. There are amazing stories of women finding solidarity with one another. You see that actually there is hope for something different.
The Freeset Trust is a charitable organization which operates alongside the business providing literacy classes, child care, budgeting and debt management services. Today more than 190 women are on their journey to freedom at Freeset.
Calcutta Hilton is a widely acclaimed documentary that tells the story of Freeset. Check it out at Calcutta Hilton
Topics: international aid and development, life and society, education
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Duration: 34'57"
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The Panel pre-show for 20 July 2015
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1:10 Your Song
Bernie Gunn from Hawke's Bay has picked 93 Million Miles by Jason Mraz.
1:20 New Zealand Retro: Ghosts
A history of the paranormal.
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Archival audio supplied by Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
2:10 Stages - Josh Groban
He's an internationally renowned singer, songwriter, and actor. With an instantly recognisable voice ... he's sold 30 million records.
Multi-platinum recording artist, Josh Groban, has just released his seventh studio album, called STAGES. Josh Groban has been in Auckland today and spent a few minutes with Jesse Mulligan.
2:30 NZ Reading - How To Make Your First Billion
How To Make Your First Billion is a fictionalised insight into internet start-ups in Silicon Valley, the home of the global communications revolution. But although it's a fiction, from time to time you'll hear the voices of real Silicon Valley business people adding to fact to the background.
2:45 Feature album
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1
3:10 Emergency: Real stories from Australia's emergency department doctors - Dr Anthony Cross
There's a reason why shows about Emergency departments are a television staple. Just about every imaginable human drama plays out in the ED. Emergency physicians see it all: traumatic accidents, violence, end of life care, addiction issues. No one wakes up in the morning and expects to end up in the emergency department that day. And the Doctors who choose to work in emergency have to manage the medicine and the emotion. Their experiences are collected in a new book called EMERGENCY: real stories from Australia's Emergency department doctors. The book is written in collaboration with the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. Dr Anthony Cross is the President of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
3:30 Voices - Lynda Chanwai-Earle
From a life in broadcasting in New Zealand to living in Kolkuta helping women to be free from the sex trade in India, social innovator John Sinclair meets Lynda Chanwai-Earle on a flying visit back home.
3:45 The Panel Pre-Show
What the world is talking about. With Jim Mora, Julie Moffett, Rosemary McLeod and Sam Johnson.
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The Panel pre-show for 20 July 2015
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Duration: 13'46"
16:05
The Panel with Rosemary McLeod and Sam Johnson (Part 1)
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Topics - Criminal and social justice advocate Kim Workman joins the Panel to discuss the so-called Fight Club at Mt Eden prison in Auckland. He's calling for a ministerial inquiry. There's a new $3 million ACC vehicle rating system. Farmers department store is introducing gender neutral changing rooms after a transgender woman was treated insesitively. The Auckland Council is considering re-naming Dominion Road - Chinatown.
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The Panel with Rosemary McLeod and Sam Johnson (Part 2)
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Topics - The new monopoly champion has been crowned. She's 24 year-old Natalie Fitzsimons. Hospitality NZ says a call to ban smoking at outdoor areas in bars and restaurants is social engineering. The CEO of the association Bruce Robertson is on to discuss. Amy Adams, Nathan Guy and Tariana Turia ate the protected kereru at a hui two years ago. Is it possible they didn't know this was on the menu? Federated Farmers says that some dairy farmers will not survive the plunge in dairy prices.
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Panel Intro
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What the Panelists Rosemary McLeod and Sam Johnson have been up to.
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Mt Eden prison fights
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Criminal and social justice advocate Kim Workman joins the Panel to discuss the so-called Fight Club at Mt Eden prison in Auckland. He's calling for a ministerial inquiry.
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ACC vehicle rating system
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Owners of cars that are considered safer will pay less in the ACC levy portion of their vehicle registration.
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Gender neutral changing rooms
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Farmers department store is introducing gender neutral changing rooms after a transgender woman was treated insesitively.
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Dominion Rd or Chinatown?
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A stretch of Dominion Rd could become known as Chinatown.
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What the Panelists Rosemary McLeod and Sam Johnson have been thinking about.
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16:38
Monopoly Champ
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The new monopoly champion has been crowned. She's 24 year-old Natalie Fitzsimons.
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Smoking ban for outdoor bar areas
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Hospitality NZ says a call to ban smoking at outdoor areas in bars and restaurants is social engineering. The CEO of the association Bruce Robertson is on to discuss.
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Duration: 8'39"
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Kereru served to MPs
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Amy Adams, Nathan Guy and Tariana Turia ate the protected kereru at a hui two years ago. Is it possible they didn't know this was on the menu?
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Plunging dairy prices
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Federated Farmers says that some dairy farmers will not survive the plunge in dairy prices.
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Outrage at fitness guru's pregnancy claim
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Is "outrage" overdone?
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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 Monday 20 July 2015
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Three Cabinet ministers served kereru at a North Island hui, Officials fail to pass year old report on Mt Eden prison, Govt rejects Labour's push to stop foreigners buying homes, Player cops hefty ban though he wasn't even at the game, Big rise in the cost of to all-day parking, Vietnam vet caught in drug scam and Patient dies, hospital's food plan failed.
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Three Cabinet ministers served kereru at a North Island hui
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Three cabinet ministers and dozens of iwi leaders were served kereru at a central North Island hui; an iwi leader who attended the meeting in Ohakune says kereru is the kai of the chiefs.
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Duration: 2'40"
17:11
Officials fail to pass year old report on Mt Eden prison
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Top prison officials had a hard hitting report into fight clubs at Mount Eden prison a year ago but didn't pass it onto the company that runs the facility until May this year.
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Duration: 4'49"
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Govt rejects Labour's push to stop foreigners buying homes
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The Government rejects the Labour Party's view that stopping foreigners buying existing homes will help take some of the heat out of the property market.
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Duration: 2'47"
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Player cops hefty ban though he wasn't even at the game
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A Manawatu rugby club is investigating the deliberate ploy to incriminate a player who was handed out a hefty ban for abusing a referee when he wasn't even at the game.
Topics: sport
Regions: Manawatu
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Duration: 5'05"
17:35
Evening Business for 20 July 2015
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News from the business sector including a market report.
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Duration: 2'03"
17:35
Big rise in the cost of to all-day parking
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The cost of all-day parking at Auckland's council-owned parking buildings is to rise by 40%, and some evening rates by 50%.
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Duration: 2'36"
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Vietnam vet caught in drug scam
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A 74 year-old US Vietnam vet told customs investigators he was emailed out of the blue and wired money before being sent tickets for a round trip from his home in Florida to Africa and Australia.
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Patient dies, hospital's food plan failed
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The health watchdog's alarmed that a patient spent nearly a fortnight in hospital without enough food and water.
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Duration: 3'38"
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Ex ACDC drummer Phil Rudd back in court again
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Phil Rudd has been granted bail on a charge of possessing and consuming alcohol while on home detention.
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Duration: 2'49"
17:48
Possibility of harm from cannabidoil - DHB
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A chief medical officer says Alex Renton may have been harmed when his mother gave him cannabidoil without Wellington Hospital knowing.
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Duration: 3'38"
17:52
Te Manu Korihi News for 20 July 2015
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The Ministry of Social Development is launching a full investigation after Work & Income employees used racist language outside a bar in Taupo. A study of inequality in education has found the percentage of Mori children attending higher decile schools has increased as the socio-economic status of Māori has improved. A Taranaki business is finding the Australian market for its hāngi cookers is really heating up.
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Mitsubishi apologises to former US and UK prisoners of war
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The Japanese company Mitsubishi has apologised for using American and British prisoners as forced labour during World War Two.
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Duration: 4'47"
18:05
Sports News for 20 July 2015
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An update from the team at RNZ Sport.
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Duration: 3'29"
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Turia surprised kereru was on menu
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Three Government Ministers and dozens of iwi leaders were served kereru at a central North Island hui.
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Duration: 3'43"
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Quick thinking of Australian surfer saves him from shark attack
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Champion surfer Mick Fanning says he'd be happy never to compete again after surviving a shark attack in South Africa broadcast on live television.
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Duration: 6'11"
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Dishonesty about rugby abuse snowballs
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Rugby players who deliberately named a player as abusing a referee when that player wasn't even at the game are now in the gun.
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Regions: Manawatu
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Duration: 3'29"
18:34
The worse atrocity you've never heard of
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Two New York times journalists have illegally snuck through the border into the Nuba mountains in North Sudan where the country's military is on a campaign of destruction.
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Duration: 6'23"
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AA says focus of Auckland parking fee rise wrong
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The AA says the Auckland Council won't stop people driving into the city by increasing the cost of parking.
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Duration: 3'56"
18:49
Te Manu Korihi News for 20 July 2015
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A Taranaki business is finding the Australian market for its hangi cookers is really heating up. Te Kohatu Hangi Cookers expects to triple its turnover inside two years as Māori across the ditch hanker after a taste of home.
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18:56
Coromandel circular walk takes step forward
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Nearly three million dollars is being pulled together by Thames-Coromandel District Council to kick off its plan for a walk track that will eventually circumnavigate the Coromandel Peninsula.
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Tags: tramping, Coromandel Peninsula, Coromandel
Duration: 3'50"
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===7:06 PM. | Nights===
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Entertainment and information, including: 8:13 Windows on the World: International public radio features and documentaries 9:30 Insight: An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs (RNZ)
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19:12
How To Survive Armageddon
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Founder of the Armageddon conventions Bill Geradts on the joys and challenges of running the Trans-Tasman pop culture event (which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary), also his obsession with comics and whether he can reveal if "Winter is coming" since visiting the Game of Thrones set.
Topics: arts
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Duration: 19'06"
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Computer Science
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Prof. Mark Apperley from University of Waikato spreads out the silicon chips to expose how computers switch us on. Data mining: exploiting the power of modern computers to extract useful information from some of these big data sets, and how one of the pioneers was Florence Nightingale.
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Duration: 16'31"
20:59
Conundrum Clue One for Monday 20 July
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Conundrum Clue One for Monday 20 July
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21:12
The Silences
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Growing up in a house of secrets: memories and mementoes of a childhood to understand the unhappiness of her parents, with Sydney-based filmmaker Margot Nash on her personal essay compilation documentary.
Topics: arts, history, identity
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Duration: 18'15"
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Conundrum Clue Two for Monday 20 July
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Conundrum Clue Two for Monday 20 July
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Duration: 23"
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7:15 How to Survive Armageddon
Founder of the Armageddon conventions Bill Geradts on the joys and challenges of running the Trans-Tasman pop culture event (which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary), also his obsession with comics and whether he can reveal if "Winter is coming" since visiting the Game of Thrones set.
7:35 Upbeat Feature: Julian Bliss: Clarinettist
Hotshot British clarinettist Julian Bliss played with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra last week in their 'Inspired by Jazz' programme. Julian made his television debut at the age of five. He talked with Eva Radich about his career and taste ahead of his perforrmance in Auckland last week.
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 Computer Science
Prof. Mark Apperley from University of Waikato spreads out the silicon chips to expose how computers switch us on. Data mining: exploiting the power of modern computers to extract useful information from some of these big data sets, and how one of the pioneers was Florence Nightingale.
9:10 The Silences
Growing up in a house of secrets: memories and mementoes of a childhood to understand the unhappiness of her parents, with Sydney-based filmmaker Margot Nash on her personal essay compilation documentary.
[video] https://vimeo.com/108751599
9:30 Insight
10:00 Late Edition
A review of the news from Morning Report, Nine to Noon, Afternoons and Checkpoint. Also hear the latest news from around the Pacific on Radio New Zealand International's Dateline Pacific.
11:06 Blues Unlimited
Exploring the wonderful world of the Blues and its history, heritage and rich cultural traditions (11 of 12, PRX)
===10:00 PM. | Late Edition===
=DESCRIPTION=
Radio New Zealand news, including Dateline Pacific and the day's best interviews from Radio New Zealand National
===11:06 PM. | None (National)===
=DESCRIPTION=
Exploring the wonderful world of the Blues and its history, heritage and rich cultural traditions (11 of 12, PRX)