A 24-hour recording of RNZ National. The following rundown is sourced from the broadcaster’s website. Note some overseas/copyright restricted items may not appear in the supplied rundown:
11 September 2016
===12:04 AM. | All Night Programme===
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Including: 12:05 Music after Midnight; 12:30 Te Wherowhero by Pei Te Hurunui Jones (RNZ); 1:05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 1:45 Drawl & Twang 2:05 Heart and Soul (RNZ); 2:35 Hymns on Sunday; 3:05 Classical Music by Joy Cowley read by Peta Rutter (5 of 15, RNZ); 3:30 Te Waonui a Te Manu Korihi (RNZ); 4:06 Met Service Coastal Weather Forecast (RNZ) 4:30 Science in Action (BBCWS); 5:10 Mihipeka: Time of Turmoil by Mihipeka Edwards (13 of 14, RNZ)
===6:08 AM. | Storytime===
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Hip Bath, by Maryann Moss, told by Dulcie Smart; Practice Makes Perfect, by Mariao Hohaia, told by Willie Davis; The Old Woman's Nose, by Joy Cowley, told by Jane Waddell; Jellybean, by Tessa Duder, told by Helen Jones; Beans, by Patricia Grace, told by Kirk Torrance; Ishmaal and the Glass Horse, by Pauline Cartwright, told by Grant Tilly
===7:10 AM. | Sunday Morning===
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A fresh attitude on current affairs, the news behind the news, documentaries, sport from the outfield, politics from the insiders, plus Mediawatch, the week in Parliament and music 7:43 The Week in Parliament An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house 8:10 Insight An award-winning documentary programme providing comprehensive coverage of national and international current affairs 9:06 Mediawatch Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)
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Karl Kane and Richard Bartlett - E-Democracy
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With voter participation at an all time low among digital natives is there a digital fix to a growing crisis of democratic participation? Richard Bartlett is a co-founder of group decision making tool Loomio and Karl Kane is a Massey University lecturer in visual communication design and the director of the Design+Democracy Project
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With voter participation at an all time low among digital natives is there a digital fix to a growing crisis of democratic participation? Richard Bartlett is a co-founder of group decision making tool Loomio and recently spent time in Taiwan where e-democracy is flourishing. Karl Kane is a Massey University lecturer in visual communication design and the director of the Design+Democracy Project which recently developed Vote Local to help young people identify mayoral candidates with similar priorities to themselves.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Loomio, Karl Kane, Richard Bartlett, Taiwan, e-democracy
Duration: 22'53"
07:30
The Week In Parliament Sunday 11 September 2016
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Week in the House dominated by urgency, which was accorded on Tuesday for the passing through all stages of the Housing Legislation Amendment Bill. However, the Government's plans to see the bill passed quickly were dealt a blow when the Opposition put up a series of amendments to it during its committee stage - all of which had to be debated before the third reading. While none of the opposition's proposed amendments managed to pass, the bill itself did just before 11pm on Wednesday night - the National Party joined by ACT and United Future to see it sent off for royal assent with a one-vote majority.
Back on track on Thursday, the Government managed to pass the final readings of two more bills: the Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Government Agency Registration) Bill passed by 107 votes to 14 with only the Greens opposed, while the Smoke-free Environments (Tobacco Standardised Packaging) Amendment Bill passed by 108 votes to 13 with New Zealand First and Act opposed. Select committee meetings were rescheduled several times due to urgency, though the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee met to hear submissions on the Maritime Crimes Amendment Bill, with submitters including Feroze Brailsford expressing concern that peaceful protesters could be charged as terrorists; Leader of the House Gerry Brownlee gives a preview of the week ahead.
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Duration: 15'08"
07:47
Local Elections - Coromandel
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Each week we will visit a region in New Zealand to find out what the big issues are in the upcoming local body elections. This week we speak to editor of the Mercury Bay Informer, Stephan Bosman.
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Each week we will visit a region in New Zealand to find out what the big issues are in the upcoming local body elections. This week we speak to editor of the Mercury Bay Informer, Stephan Bosman.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Local Body Elections, Coromandel
Duration: 10'15"
08:12
Insight: cleaning franchises - business opportunity or dirty business?
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Teresa Cowie delves into the complicated world of cleaning franchises amid accusations that wages are being driven down, workers are losing their jobs, clients are confused and some franchisees are losing out.
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Franchises are often promoted as a great way to get into business with lots of back-up from a bigger company, but some argue that, in the cleaning industry, both workers and some owner-operators are losing out.
Workers say they are being pushed out of their jobs by the aggressive tactics of commercial cleaning companies and the law that should be protecting them isn't working.
At the same time, some smaller owner-operators further down the food chain complain the business model is putting such a squeeze on their earnings they are paying themselves less than the minimum wage.
Allanah Lawer is a cleaner. She is 64 and out of work.
As she organises her partner to take the dogs off for their morning walk, and makes me a cup of tea, she tells me the long history of all the cleaning companies she has worked for - at only one school. But towards the end of the long list she's hazy on who she was actually working for.
"I worked at Avalon Primary for 17 years, but then I was made redundant; it was a very very sad day because we were told we were no longer wanted, but just had to carry on with our work."
Ms Lawer worked at the school site in the Lower Hutt suburb not far from her home until the end of 2015, when the New Zealand arm of the multi-national Jani-King took over the cleaning contract from another company.
It gave the contract to its franchisee, Phagura Limited. Ms Lawer was later sacked.
"She said [Phagura's director] she no longer can keep us because she can't afford it, and her and her husband had to take the job over."
The Employment Relations Act has a special section often called the "vulnerable workers' clause".
It was designed to protect workers in industries like cleaning and food catering where contracts for service frequently change hands. It gives those vulnerable workers the right to transfer to the new owner-operator of the business on the same terms and conditions when their employer loses a contract to another company.
Ms Lawer acknowledged that under the law the small family-owned business had a right to make her redundant.
But an agreement for a redundancy payment was in her original contract, and Ms Lawer said that should have been passed along as contracts changed hands. She has never received one.
She wants either Jani-King or Phagura Limited to pay her out $6804, or the equivalent of 30 weeks' wages.
As is often the case, several companies are involved and following the trail of who is responsible for what becomes increasingly complicated, adding to the difficulties workers can face.
In this example, Jani-King was bought by JK Limited several months ago.
Its managing director, Roger Washbourne, declined to be interviewed by Insight until after the employment dispute was concluded, but in an email he said:
"As part of our due diligence this matter was disclosed to us by the previous owner and we are satisfied the matter has been dealt with properly and legally by the previous owner."
I also contacted one of the owners of the franchisee, Phagura Limited, that took over the cleaning contract at the school.
The Phagura Limited director said that she shouldn't have to pay the redundancy because Jani-King promised, when it gave her the contract, that her business would get to do the work itself, rather than have to pay someone else. She felt Jani-King had misrepresented the deal.
The director said she had paid Jani-King more than $50,000 to be a franchisee and said, with a family and rent to pay, she was at a loss as to how the responsibility to pay the redundancy could ever fall at her feet.
The case is now with the Employment Relations Authority.
Financial distress
It's not just wage-earning cleaners who may believe they have missed out.
The E Tū union's assistant national secretary, John Ryall, said it had been approached by owner-operator franchisees who said they often made less than the equivalent of the minimum wage after costs.
Some parent companies appeared to just be collecting their fees and turning a blind eye to what their franchisees had to deal with, he said.
Insight has obtained documents that outline the financial distress faced by one franchisee.
They show the franchisee believed its parent company was under-quoting on jobs, so it could win contracts. But the quotes were so low the franchisee couldn't make a living because it took more time to do the cleaning than was promised.
Several of the cleaners who Insight spoke to said they believed the franchisees they worked for were struggling.
Ms Lawer said skimping on cleaning products made it almost impossible to get the job done well.
"The products were watered down or we weren't allowed to have them, there were times when I was told 'just use the school's'."
The arrangement was that the franchisee should pay for equipment and not the school, Ms Lawer said.
Severe rationing of equipment often caused conflict between cleaners, companies and the clients they worked for, Insight was told, in the process of speaking to several cleaners. Some said they were upset that hygiene standards were not met and that they were sometimes blamed; they felt caught in the middle of a situation they could do nothing about.
E Tū industry coordinator Jill Ovens said she believed not providing proper equipment could be part of a strategy to undermine cleaners' work, garner complaints and make it easier to get rid of them and put in a franchisee, so that parent companies could then charge licensing fees and avoid the costs of having wage-earning employees.
Buyer beware
Lillian Small, the chief executive of commercial cleaning company lobby group Building Service Contractors, said its members had to sign up to an agreement to meet standards of minimum pay, and anyone abusing that would have their membership withdrawn.
"If a contract has changed hands at a significantly reduced price, it does bring cause for concern on pay rates and conditions. In a nutshell, if the price is too good to be true, then it probably is."
Business New Zealand chief executive Kirk Hope said anyone taking on a cleaning franchise should get serious about doing their homework and getting independent advice on whether it was a good business deal.
"If you're going to buy a cleaning franchise or any business, you need to be really clear about the value in that business, and how you're going to meet not just the expectations of your franchisor, but how you are going to make your minimum earnings requirement."
So are cleaning franchises a good business to get into?
For Mr Hope, the message was clear: you can't know if it's a good option until you do the checks on the business you want to buy.
Topics: economy, business, money
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Tags: franchises, cleaning companies, school trustees, unions
Duration: 27'15"
09:07
Mediawatch for 11 September 2016
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Mock shock over fake coke joke; the NZ story which really went viral this week; stuff of substance in the time of clickbait; spreading the word when quakes strike.
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Duration: 34'57"
09:40
Douglas Osto - Psychedelic Spirituality
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Massey University's Dr Douglas Osto joins Wallace to talk about how the pursuit of enlightenment has often intersected with mind-altering drugs. His new book, Altered States - Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America, looks at claims that hallucinogens like LSD have opened the door to higher states of consciousness.
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Massey University's Dr Douglas Osto joins Wallace to talk about how the pursuit of enlightenment has often intersected with mind-altering drugs. His new book, Altered States - Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America, looks at claims that hallucinogens like LSD have opened the door to higher states of consciousness.
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Tags: Buddhism, spirituality, psychedelic drugs, Douglas Osto
Duration: 21'32"
10:03
The New Torchlight List - Jim Flynn's Search for the Best Modern Authors, Part 2
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Jim Flynn discusses North American authors and tells Wallace Chapman that everyone must read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. He also highly rates Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, but Wallace and Jim agree that Don DeLillo's Underworld, which received "extravagant praise", isn't really up to snuff. As Jim says: "It is hard to write the great American novel when you are trying to write the great American novel."
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Duration: 14'37"
10:07
The new culture of narcissism
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Why are narcissists not doing anything about climate change? Why are they pushing up house prices? Social philosopher Anne Manne ponders these questions in her book, The Life of I - The New Culture of Narcissism. She joins Wallace to explore this new culture that celebrates the 'I' - a culture that helps create narcissists such as Anders Breivik.
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It doesn’t take much convincing to see the world is increasingly focussed on the self. Wherever you turn it appears at least to be a self-absorbed society, oversharing on Facebook and Twitter… but how does that cross over to the world of narcissism?
Writer Anne Manne in her new book looks at narcissism in the pursuit of fame and our obsession with ‘making it’. It examines the deeper roots how a narcissistic character type is being fuelled by a cult of the self.
She joins Wallace to explore this new culture that celebrates the 'I' - a culture that helps create narcissists such as Anders Breivik.
Read an edited excerpt from the interview below:
Tom Wolfe wrote ‘The me decade’ in 1976, which labelled baby boomers as the most ludicrous, self-absorbed and spoiled generation in the history of mankind, so what, Anne, is different now?
It turns out that it was just the beginning of the narcissistic era. Since 1979, scholars have found that narcissism has increased by about 30 percent from 1979 to the 2000s. It increased the most during the 2000s. They showed that these youngsters were becoming more narcissistic, rather than less.
So is narcissism an epidemic?
I would certainly say that is in on the increase. Because narcissism is such an obnoxious quality, it is worth thinking about if it is becoming much more common.
I probably should just define narcissism. A lot of people think it is an excess of selfishness or egotism, but it is much more than that. It is actually a whole personality that rests on a form of emotional regulation, such that they are always constructing a self, as if it is kind of on quicksand. So they’re always looking for admiration.
They react extremely negatively to criticism. They can become quite rage-filled. Studies have found that if someone with higher levels of narcissism is criticised, in a laboratory experiment, they will actually be more willing to give a blast of very loud noise or even an electric shock.
It is a condition that means that the person is quite grandiose. But the grandiosity, the grand ideas about the self is not born out of reality. So this is not a Nobel Prize winner who actually has some reason to think quite well of themselves, this is a person who probably has quite a bit to be modest about.
One of your definitions of narcissism in the book says that narcissists hog the conversational limelight, making little or no room for others. The inability to listen to others does seem quite common these days!
Yes, well I’m sure all of us have experienced a situation where you say, “I’m just back from New Zealand” and someone says, “Let me tell you about my holiday there,” and off they go. It’s actually called conversational narcissism, where conversation is just used as a source of supply of narcissistic adulation, where the conversation is really just serving the needs of one person. I always had this policy, after doing all of this research, when I go out to dinner, that my plate is not emptying much less quickly than my companion, because what that means is if we are eating at roughly the same rate…
Is narcissism a recognisable psychological trait? Can you be diagnosed with narcissism disorder?
Yes. It really is on a continuum. A lot of psychologists think that everyone has a degree of narcissism in us and we actually need that to make sure we’re not down trodden or pushed aside. You need a healthy sense of self.
I actually argue in my book that we shouldn’t use the word healthy narcissism, we should instead use concepts like self-confidence or self-respect or self-efficacy. Something where there is enough of a sense of self that you are not a pushover in the circumstances where you really shouldn’t allow yourself to be exploited. So everyone needs some sense of self.
But in narcissism it goes through a continuum to being higher in narcissism, but still sub-clinical as you might call it. In those cases, people are in the wider community and operating perfectly well, but they are just unpleasant characters to be around.
It goes all the way to people who have a real clinical disorder called the Narcissistic Personality Disorder and that is marked by extreme forms of a desire for attention, grandiosity, lack of empathy, sense of entitlement, a willingness to exploit others and so often a sense of fragility, so that underneath the narcissism is quite an unstable sense of self or self-esteem, so the person is quite brittle and can be easily ashamed and that is when they begin to lash out in rage. There is the grandiosity on the surface, but there can be underneath an underlying fragility or vulnerability and a panic where they are really worth as much as they say.
Topics: life and society
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Tags: narcissism, Anne Manne, author interview, Anders Breivek, Lance Armstrong
Duration: 36'08"
10:42
Petra Bagust and Ido Drent - Witnessing Human Trafficking
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Television presenters Petra Bagust and Ido Drent have been in Thailand and Cambodia getting a first hand experience of one of the world's fastest growing criminal industries: Human trafficking. They tell Wallace what they saw, what they learnt and why we should all care.
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Television presenters Petra Bagust and Ido Drent have been in Thailand and Cambodia getting a first hand experience of one of the world's fastest growing criminal industries: Human trafficking. They tell Wallace what they saw, what they learnt and why we should all care.
Topics: aid and development
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Tags: Tearfund, human trafficking, Petra Bagust, Ido Drent, Thailand, Cambodia, charity
Duration: 17'20"
11:06
Fiji opposition leaders detained
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The leaders of Fiji's two opposition parties and a prominent trade unionist were being held at separate police stations in the capital, Suva, last night after an afternoon of questioning over an apparently illegal public meeting. RNZI reporter Jamie Tahana updates the situation.
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Duration: 4'18"
11:10
Mark Engler - Non Violent Revolts
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Mark Engler is the co-author, with his brother Paul, of This is an Uprising: How Non Violent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century. He's a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy.
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Mark Engler is the co-author, with his brother Paul, of This is an Uprising: How Non Violent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century. He's a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy.
Topics: politics
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Tags: Mark Engler, non violence
Duration: 13'24"
11:35
Emily Rapp Black - Paralympic Blues
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Writer Emily Rapp Black was born with a congenital defect which led to the amputation of her left foot at age four. She tells Wallace Chapman that in reality people with disabilities are more ordinary than extraordinary – and would like to be recognised as such.
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Even though one in five Kiwis has a disability, some would say it's only once every four years the media sits up and take notice. Paralympians become heroes, “overcomers” and inspirations to the rest of us.
Writer Emily Rapp Black was born with a congenital defect which led to the amputation of her left foot at age four. She tells Wallace Chapman that in reality people with disabilities are more ordinary than extraordinary – and would like to be recognised as such.
Wallace Chapman: You write that as a child it seemed your body was put together by elves, you were given magical body parts. I suppose that’s the way it must have seemed to a four year old.
Emily Rapp Black: Yeah, prosthetics have really advanced. When I was first getting my leg made I used to hold the ashtray for my prosthetist, and he would signal for me to hold it up so he could ash his cigarette. The rooms were filthy. I’d go back there and he was literally like this short bald man cobbling away on a wooden foot on a saw. It did feel like the elves workshop – something out of Disney, only not as fun. And I certainly didn’t feel like a princess.
I wore a wooden leg until 1990 and people are always mystified. Probably because that’s because the Paralympics have changed our view of what prosthetics are and how they look.
But I just didn’t have access to it – I’m from a small town in a rural area in the western United States and we didn’t have any other amputees to ask.
So I didn’t know much about athletic gear for people with disabilities. Then I met a woman who is one of the top disabled athletes in the world. And she was like ‘Why do you have this stick of wood?’ and got me in touch with someone who could make me something more modern.
Also, the ‘90s is when Americans started going to war and people started coming back without limbs. If you come back from the war without your leg the government will do everything can here to make you mobile – as well it should.
Because of this influx of army technology and military technology, prosthetics have changed.
Wallace Chapman: You say that as much as this prosthetic gave you life and is great, it also failed you, as well… it wouldn’t fit right.
Emily Rapp Black: Yeah, that wasn’t great. I also wore a man’s foot - they didn’t have feet for women until the early ‘90s. So I had this big man’s foot and I’d have to buy two pairs of shoes. It was so uncool, that’s how I felt.
I’ve since gotten legs that I feel more comfortable with, that are more aesthetically pleasing. It’s still difficult at times, it’s still inconvenient at times and it’s still a daily reality that isn’t going to go away.
Wallace Chapman: When you go out now, do you get a lot of questions – for example, what happened to you?
Emily Rapp Black: Oh, all the time. I get a lot of condescending things like ‘Hey, little lady’. I don’t know why but five people in tehlast two weeks have called me ‘little lady’.
Also ‘You inspire me’. And I’m getting coffee. I don’t understand why I’m inspiring you in this moment. “So are you! Good job getting your coffee!”
I had some guy in the back of line who was like ‘Hey, do you play table tennis?’ I was like ‘No, otherwise I’d be in Rio, dude. I wouldn’t be here in Palm Springs. No, I’m not in the Paralympics.’
My very favourite – not – is ‘Seeing you puts my life into perspective’. People with disabilities get that all the time and it’s just so offensive. It presumes several things – that they know anything about the other person’s life (which they don’t) and also that every person must be miserable and snivelling in a corner, except when they wander out and have lunch.
Wallace Chapman: You say your story is not inspirational. You say you will not overcome your disability, you never will. Your body is a source of shame and pride just like anyone else’s.
Emily Rapp Black: Yes. I think women’s bodies, in general, are so pathologised that most women – I don’t know a single woman that doesn’t have something about her body that makes her feel ashamed. When you add to that a body that is outside the category of normative it creates some deep psychological issues.
I feel like the only overcoming I can do is not give in to the rhetoric about people with disabilities, especially women with disabilities.
I think people really have this idea that people who have disabilities are sexless. They get that from cultural messages, from really terrible movies – many of which indicate that it’s better to be dead than have a disability. It’s extreme. It’s the final frontier of human rights.
People with disabilities are referred to very often as ‘the disabled’. You would never say ‘the black people’ or ‘the gay guys’. No-one would speak that way about another group of people. That, to me, is very indicative of how we’re all lumped together in this sad sum – and it’s simply not true.
You write that sex presents a particular dilemma. For example, what to do with the leg?
Emily Rapp Black: Such a pain in the butt. My solution for a long time was to do what a lot of people who feel ashamed about their bodies to – just to get really drunk so I couldn’t think about it, which isn’t healthy. And I did that for a long time. The fear of rejection was so great.
But I came to realise it was usually more my issue than the other person’s. By and large at least in my adult relationships I feel like the person has loved me not in spite of it, but just the whole person that is me.
When we watch an event like the Paralympics is that what we overlay on people they – for a couple of weeks – became our heroes or inspirations?
Emily Rapp Black: I think so. People are so afraid of becoming disabled. It’s like everybody’s biggest fear. Because part of us, I think, knows that that that is going to happen.
You’re going to get old or you’re going to get a disease, eventually you’re going to die. But rather than addressing those kinds of primal fears there’s this effort to say ‘Wow, you are almost just like me because you are so super. You must be almost normal.’
Rebecca Chopp, this amazing sociologist, talked about this phenomenon – these stories about people with disabilities often fall into athletics or sob stories. There’s never a middle ground of just people living their lives.
There’s an effort to say ‘look at those people, I could never do that. They’re so extraordinary. Let me put them on this literal pedestal. I could never run 26.2 miles ever so they’re not like me at all, so I’m safe.
I also think the Paralympics is awesome. I know a lot of people who are Paralympians. They’re athletes, they’re incredible athletes, but they’re elite athletes. Nobody is like those people. They’re a whole different echelon.
I love that there are people with disabilities on TV that we’re seeing. I just worry that there’s only one kind.
The majority of people with disabilities live normal lives, whatever that means. They go to work, they have sex, they have kids, they grieve, they love, they bleed. They’re people!
*This interview has been condensed and edited.
Emily Rapp Black recently wrote written a piece called My Paralympic Blues for the New York Times.
She is the author of Poster Child, a book which detailed her life as an amputee and poster child for the March of Dimes. She also wrote a haunting memoir, The Still Point of the Turning World, about her son Ronan's battle with Tay-Sachs disease, which eventually claimed his life.
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Duration: 19'37"
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7:08 Karl Kane and Richard Bartlett - E-Democracy
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With voter participation at an all time low among digital natives is there a digital fix to a growing crisis of democratic participation? Richard Bartlett is a co-founder of group decision making tool Loomio and recently spent time in Taiwan where e-democracy is flourishing. Karl Kane is a Massey University lecturer in visual communication design and the director of the Design+Democracy Project which recently developed Vote Local to help young people identify mayoral candidates with similar priorities to themselves.
7:30 News headlines
7:32 The Week in Parliament
7:47 Local Elections - Coromandel
Each week we will visit a region in New Zealand to find out what the big issues are in the upcoming local body elections. This week we speak to editor of the Mercury Bay Informer, Stephan Bosman.
8:12 Insight: Cleaning Franchises - Business Opportunity or Dirty Business?
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Cleaners says they are being pushed out of their jobs by aggressive tactics from cleaning franchise companies and the law that should be protecting them isn't working. But the country's biggest franchisor says most cleaners don't want the jobs once their employer changes Teresa Cowie investigates cleaning franchises and claims the business model is being used as a way to get cleaning work done for less than the minimum wage.
8:40 The New Torchlight List - Jim Flynn's Search for the Best Modern Authors
Episode 2 - North America
For the book, The New Torchlight List - In Search of the Best Modern Authors, Otago University Emeritus Professor of Politics Jim Flynn read and rated 400 books, mostly by modern novelists. In this episode of the RNZ podcast series based on his book, Jim discusses North American authors and tells Wallace Chapman that everyone must read Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. He also highly rates Philip Roth and Toni Morrison, but Wallace and Jim agree that Don DeLillo's Underworld, which received "extravagant praise", isn't really up to snuff. As Jim says: "It is hard to write the great American novel when you are trying to write the great American novel."
9:06 Mediawatch
Is serious journalism being swamped by clickbait? Mediawatch asks an award-winning reporter about its future in tough times. Also: more tsunami drama on the East Coast; and two very different New Zealand stories which went viral online.
Produced and presented by Colin Peacock and Jeremy Rose.
9:40 Douglas Osto - Psychedelic Spirituality
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Massey University's Dr Douglas Osto joins Wallace to talk about how the pursuit of enlightenment has often intersected with mind-altering drugs. His new book, Altered States - Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America, looks at claims that hallucinogens like LSD have opened the door to higher states of consciousness.
10:06 Anne Manne - The Life of I - The New Culture of Narcissism
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Why are narcissists not doing anything about climate change? Why are they pushing up house prices? Social philosopher Anne Manne ponders these questions in her book, The Life of I - The New Culture of Narcissism. She joins Wallace to explore this new culture that celebrates the 'I' - a culture that helps create narcissists such as Anders Breivik.
10:42 Petra Bagust and Ido Drent - Witnessing Human Trafficking
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Television presenters Petra Bagust and Ido Drent have been in Thailand and Cambodia getting a first hand experience of one of the world's fastest growing criminal industries: Human trafficking. They tell Wallace what they saw, what they learnt and why we should all care.
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11:05 Mark Engler - Non Violent Revolts
Mark Engler is the co-author, with his brother Paul, of This is an Uprising: How Non Violent Revolt is Shaping the 21st Century. He's a contributing editor at Yes! Magazine, and author of How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy.
11:35 Emily Rapp Black - Paralympic Blues
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Emily Rapp is the author of Poster Child, a book which detailed her life as an amputee and poster child for the March of Dimes. She also wrote a haunting memoir, The Still Point of the Turning World, about her son, Ronan's battle with Tay-Sachs disease, a disease which eventually claimed his life. As an amputee, Emily has to put up with all kinds of insensitive comments about her disability - particularly when the Paralympics are on. She joins Wallace to talk about her experiences.
===12:12 PM. | Standing Room Only===
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It's an 'all access pass' to what's happening in the worlds of arts and entertainment 1:10 At the Movies with Simon Morris A weekly topical magazine programme about current film releases and film-related topics. (RNZ) 2:05 The Laugh Track
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12:16
The Art of the Whare
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Lynn Freeman talks to Damian Skinner, and also visits what's certainly the country's most visited meeting house at Te Papa, and the new Whare Whakaira of Victoria University. She meets Te Papa's Arapata Hakiwai, the Māori Co-leader there, and master carver Dr Takirirangi Smith.
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In rural and urban centres around the country, Whare Whakairo - decorated Māori meeting houses of all different kinds - contain traditional and sometimes contemporary artistic taonga.
Now the history, significance, and art of many of these Whare Whakairo are explored in a new book by art historian and curator Damian Skinner, The Māori Meeting House, introducing the Whare Whakairo, published by Te Papa Press.
Lynn Freeman talks to Damian, and also visits what's certainly the country's most visited meeting house at Te Papa, and the new Whare Whakaira of Victoria University.
She meets Te Papa's Arapata Hakiwai, the Māori Co-leader there, and master carver r Dr Takirirangi Smith.
Read an edited excerpt of the interview below:
Tell us about the book.
Damian Skinner - I started the book by talking about this problem, which was really this great problem that was the reason why I wrote the book. The problem is this. When I approach taonga Māori, whether it is a carving or a meeting house, whatever it might be, I always talk to the taonga. I introduce myself, I tell them why I have come and ask if it is okay for me to do some work, some writing.
I’ve done this for a long time now, ever since going to see Pukaki, who is a very famous ancestor of people in Rotorua. This was just how I did it. Then I realised this didn’t have anything to do with the way that I wrote about these taonga.
So this whole process would happen in the approach and this conversation – although they never spoke back – but when I came to write, I would write as though they were just artworks in a Pākehā sense.
I thought, that’s a real problem, what is the nature of this disconnect between the way I behave and what I think is the right way to behave and then what I actually do when I am writing.
In 2007, something brought you further down this path that has led to this book, which was a meeting with an elder.
Damian - One of the interesting moments along this journey of thinking, ‘I’ve got to do something different’, was going to see an elder of the Ngati Rakaipaaka people, there is a meeting house called Kahungungu, he stands in Nuhaka and I was keen to do some work about him.
The local people sent me to talk to Paora Whaanga, he lives in Gisborne, so I rocked up to his house and we were talking about various things and I asked him if it was okay for me to do this work. He said, ‘Go to the paepae, the area in front of the meeting house, just before dusk and just sit there and see what happens.’
It was the most amazing moment to me, because I knew exactly what he meant and why that was an important thing to do. Because basically you were going, you were presenting yourself, and you were listening to what he might have to say and acknowledging all of the ancestors inside of the meeting house and seeing what they might have to say, feeling that it was okay.
But I also knew it was immensely different to any advice I had ever been given when I was trained to be an art historian. None of my lecturers at university had ever said anything like that. And so that was another wake up call of thinking – again - something isn’t connecting here. I’m getting all of this advice and I am understanding exactly why it is important, but when I write, I write about these meeting houses, that quality, that character, that event, that idea is not coming into what I do.
What is the definition of a Māori meeting house?
Damian - I think you have got to distinguish between the meeting house and the Whare Whakairo. My book is very much about the Whare Whakairo, which is… well, a clumsy way of saying it, but, a meeting house with artworks. A meeting house is a building, a piece of architecture, which is a hugely tapu, symbolic and significant space for Māori people. The descendants of a meeting house belong to the meeting house, in the sense that it is their ancestor.
A Whare Whakairo, the meeting house of the kind that I am writing about in the book is one that features that features the art forms of carving, weaving in the tukutuku panels that line the walls and then kowhaiwhai, which are the paintings on the rafters, on the roof.
There is multiple kinds of art forms, some Whare Whakairo have all of those art forms, some don’t have those art forms, and some just have one. There is a sense of distinction. ‘Whakairo’ is a word that is naming something like art, but it is also to decorate, to adorn, and to embellish, so it is an action as well. So a Whare Whakairo, is a meeting house that has been embellished and adorned with arts that belong to the meeting house.
Would most of Whare Whakairo have artworks in them?
Damian - That’s a good question. It’s hard to answer ‘most’, because there are so many meeting houses all around the country and I have visited hardly any of them in the big scheme of things. I would say that it is very common for people to know the meeting house as a Whare Whakairo, for a meeting house to be a Whare Whakairo with the art forms, but there are many examples that don’t have any art forms at all. Certainly it doesn’t mean that those meeting houses are any less than one that does have all of the art forms, because the meaning doesn’t come from the art itself, although that is part of the richness and the glory of the meeting house, it comes from the way that people have belonged to this particular place and this piece of architecture and the genealogical connection.
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Duration: 40'51"
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Wanted: Hit Movie Script
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Simon Morris talks to Vendetta General Manager Jill McNab and South Pacific Pictures Head of Development Rachel Jean about their film-script callout.
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A home for Invercargill's art collection
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Lynn Freeman talks to David Kennedy, president of the Gallery governing committee, and to Angela Newell, from Venture Southland.
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Te Waka Toi Awards
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Honouring contributions to Maori arts with the Creative New Zealand 2016 Te Waka Toi Awards, Lynn Freeman speaks to Hotorua Barclay-Kerr,the winner of the Te Tohu Toi Ke - or Making a Difference to Maori Arts award.
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Duration: 19'50"
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Publisher Scott Pack
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Lynn Freeman talks to Scott on the eve of his appearance at the National Writers Forum in Auckland.
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Tongan dancer and choreographer Hai Tuiafitu
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Lynn Freeman speaks with Hai and his aunt Sisiuno Helu - first asking Hai whether he's pushing the traditional dance forms in new directions or sticking to the rules.
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Duration: 11'11"
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Screen Gems - Absolutely Fabulous
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In a new feature, Irene Gardiner - formerly Content Director of NZ On Screen - looks back on a theme, using screen material from a variety of websites - local and overseas. The theme for her first "Screen Gems" is TV show turned movie, Absolutely Fabulous. Episode One! Lulu sings! and Joanna Lumley's memorable stint as Ken Barlow's girlfriend on Coronation Street!
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12:16 The Art of the Whare
In rural and urban centres around the country, Whare Whakairo - decorated Maori Meeting Houses of all different kinds - contain traditional and sometimes contemporary artistic taonga. Now the history, significance, and art of many of these Whare Whakairo are explored in a new book by art historian and curator Damian Skinner, The Maori Meeting House, introducing the Whare Whakairo, published by Te Papa Press. Lynn Freeman talks to Damian, and also visits what's certainly the country's most visited meeting house at Te Papa, and the new Whare Whakaira of Victoria University. She meets Te Papa's Arapata Hakiwai, the Māori Co-leader there, and master carver r Dr Takirirangi Smith.
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12:50 Wanted: Hit Movie Script
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South Pacific Pictures has dominated our TV drama scene for ages - shows like Outrageous Fortune, Nothing Trivial, Step Dave and The Brokenwood Mysteries. Now SPP is taking its story-telling smarts to the big screen. In partnership with film distributor Vendetta, SPP is moving into the feature film business. Now all they need is some scripts, and they're opening that up to... well, just about everyone. Simon Morris talks to Vendetta General Manager Jill McNab and SPP's Head of Development Rachel Jean about their film-script callout
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1:10 At The Movies
This week Simon Morris looks at Richie McCaw Chasing Great, David Brent Life On The Road and Free State of Jones.
1:34 A home for Invercargill's art collection
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Invercargill's art collection hasn't had a permanent home for almost three years, as the Invercargill Art Gallery's earthquake strengthening conitinues uninterrupted. The collection of more than a thousand artworks includes paintings by Goldie, Rita Angus, Colin McCahon and Ralph Hotere, as well as many contemporary artists from around the country and overseas. People's patience is running out, particularly tourism operators who are concerned at the loss of a local attraction. Lynn Freeman talks to David Kennedy, president of the Gallery governing committee, and to Angela Newell, from Venture Southland.
1:49 Te Waka Toi Awards
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Honouring contributions to Māori arts with the Creative New Zealand 2016 Te Waka Toi Awards, Lynn Freeman speaks to the winner of the Te Tohu Toi Kē - or Making a Difference to Māori Arts award.
2:06 The Laugh Track - Jackie Van Beek
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Funny girls star Jackie picks Flight of the Conchords, comedian Stewart Lee and the movies Trainwreck, Ghostbusters and The Big Lebowski.
2:25 Publisher Scott Pack
Neglected and forgotten books are finding a saviour in ebook publisher Scott Pack. He moved from traditional British bookshop chain, Waterstones to move - first into publishing, then to set up Abandoned Bookshop, an ebook imprint that ferrets out books that might otherwise not see the light of day. On the side, Scott has published New Zealand writers including Fiona Kidman, Damien Wilkins, Tracy Farr and Janina Matthewson, and he's also Associate Editor of Unbound, the world's first crowdfunding publisher. Lynn Freeman talks to Scott on the eve of his appearance at the National Writers Forum in Auckland.
2:39 Tongan dancer and choreographer Hai Tuiafitu
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Tongan dancer and choreographer Tuiahai Tuiafitu is helping to keep his nation's traditional dance forms alive, against the onslaught of hip hop on the islands. Hai has just been in New Zealand as the Pacific Dance Artist in Residence in Auckland, taking workshops and sharing his love of Tongan dance. His grandfather - an authority on Tongan history, tradition and culture - encouraged his grandson to dance from an early age. Lynn Freeman speaks with Hai and his aunt Sisiuno Helu - first asking Hai whether he's pushing the traditional dance forms in new directions or sticking to the rules:
2:49 Screen Gems - Absolutely Fabulous
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In a new feature, Irene Gardiner - formerly Content Director of NZ On Screen - looks back on a theme, using screen n material from a variety of websites - local and overseas. The theme for her first "Screen Gems" is TV show turned movie, Absolutely Fabulous. Episode One! Lulu sings! And Joanna Lumley's memorable stint as Ken Barlow's girlfriend on Coronation Street!
3:06 Drama at 3
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An epic futuristic tale of the tragic maiden voyage of the gargantuan strarship, The Nightingale, captained by the enigmatic and fatally flawed, Jon Wilberfoss. (Part 8 of 10, RNZ)
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Classic radio crime drama from the Police files of New Zealand. (RNZ)
===4:06 PM. | Smart Talk at the Auckland Museum===
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The internet has increased opportunities for large-scale online social participation. Visibility of national and international priorities such as public health, political unrest, disaster relief and climate change has increased. Rebellion is trending. But how is online awareness transformed into action on the ground?
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LATE at the Museum - #Slacktivism to Activism
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A panel discussion from the Auckland Museum about social activism in an era of social media. The internet has increased opportunities for large-scale online social participation. Rebellion is trending. But how is online awareness transformed into action on the ground? Chaired by journalist and media commentator Russell Brown, this session features director of campaigns at ActionStation Laura O'Connell Rapira, cartoonist and illustrator Toby Morris, environmental activist and senior campaign advisor for Greenpeace New Zealand Steve Abel and Sina Brown-Davis, activist and commentator on Indigenous rights.
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A panel discussion about social activism in an era of social media.
The internet has increased opportunities for large-scale online social participation. Rebellion is trending. But how is online awareness transformed into action on the ground?
Chaired by journalist and media commentator Russell Brown, this session features director of campaigns at ActionStation Laura O'Connell Rapira, cartoonist and illustrator Toby Morris, environmental activist and senior campaign advisor for Greenpeace New Zealand Steve Abel and Sina Brown-Davis, activist and commentator on Indigenous rights.
For Laura O'Connell Rapira, director of campaigns at ActionStation, getting supporters involved in an online petition is only the first step in the kind of campaign that she runs. “We call it a low floor and a high ceiling,” she says, explaining that the aim is to lower the barriers to initial participation, while encouraging further action like contacting decision-makers by email or in person, writing a letter to the editor, or donating to a crowdfunding campaign for placing full-page ad about the issue in the New Zealand Herald.
Nevertheless, she considers that online petitions can be useful in their own right too, both for increasing the sense of connectedness of those signing them, and for the evidence they provide of collective concern about the issue. “When you see that 50,000 other people have signed it,” she comments, “you realise that, hey, I’m not isolated and alone in this. I’m actually visible, and powerful, and more connected because I’m doing it with other people who care about this issue as well.
ActionStation may encourage participants in its petition to write in as well: “We curate those responses, pull out the themes that are on top, and then present that to Parliament saying that we represent a community.”
And the organisation doesn’t rest there. O’Connell Rapira describes the organisation’s approach as being like that of Netflix, suggesting that as an individual “took action on this thing which we think represents these values, maybe they’d like this (other) thing as well.” As a result, those who make contact with ActionStation on one issue will be exposed to others.
Not all of the online world is helpful, however. She feels that building an active community is harder to do on Facebook because it is “a tool is designed to polarise us. There’s nothing mindful about the interaction on Facebook. We’re there to troll and argue. That keeps people on the platform for longer which is in Facebook’s interests, so we can see more of their ads, right?”
As a consequence, ActionStation is deleting and curating comments very actively, or turning them off altogether.
For indigenous activist Sina Brown-Davis, social media is the fundamental way for her to keep in touch with her communities of interest. “The mainstream media will never be my friend,” she says, “because the mainstream media don’t want a bar of a Māori woman’s worldview.” As a result, she tweets, blogs, and is on Facebook.
It doesn’t concern her that her focus is on those who share her concerns and interests, adding “It’s not my role to persuade people outside my community. It’s not my role to dismantle racism, it’s the role of Pakeha who benefit from racism. In my view it’s their job to challenge that. My job is to stand up and fight for my people.”
And although the influence of tikanga means that there is less need for her to moderate bad online behaviour, she does worry about the preponderance of too much online kōrero. She regrets the loss of face to face meetings, often involving having a cup of tea and bringing a plate. “That was a tradition that I grew up with in this country,” she concludes, “and that seems to be diminishing.”
About the participants
Russell Brown - Moderator
Russell Brown is a broadcaster, journalist and web publisher. He is the host of Māori Television’s Media Take, the founder of the Public Address group blog website and a member of the Digital Media Trust Board, which oversees the cultural heritage websites NZ On Screen and Audioculture. He has been writing and publishing internet content for 21 years.
Laura O’Connell Rapira
Laura O’Connell Rapira is the director of campaigns at ActionStation – a community campaigning organisation, representing over 120,000 members, that combines digital tools and people power to drive a fairer, more just and sustainable Aotearoa. She is the co-founder of RockEnrol – a volunteer-driven organisation that uses popular culture and grassroots community organising to build and activate political power for young people. Laura is passionate about unleashing the power of the crowd through digital and community organising, effective collaboration, powerful storytelling and values-based campaigning.
Toby Morris
Toby Morris is an Auckland-based, Wellington-bred cartoonist, comic artist and illustrator. He writes and draws the regular non-fiction comic series ‘The Pencilsword’ for The Wireless, and is half of the Toby & Toby team that produces an award-winning weekly column for Radio New Zealand’s website www.rnz.co.nz. With ‘The Pencilsword’ series, Toby attempts to provide accessible introductions to political and social issues. Using comics, he finds ways to engage readers who usually consider themselves outside of the traditional political conversation.
Steve Abel
Steve Abel is a musician and environmental activist. He is senior campaign advisor for Greenpeace New Zealand and has a particular interest in movement theory in the context of fomenting people-powered change in the era of global warming. Steve has been part of campaigns to stop native logging, to bring about the abandonment of the Marsden B coal-fired power station, and to oppose deep sea oil drilling. He devised the Climate Voter alliance and debate at the 2014 election.
Sina Brown-Davis
Sina Brown-Davis is of Te Roroa, Te Uri-o-Hau, Fale Ula and Vava’u descent. A member of the Māori women’s group Te Wharepora Hou, Sina is a long-time activist and commentator on Indigenous rights in local, regional and international forums.
Smart Talk at the Auckland Museum is part of the Late at the Museum series. Click here for more information.
Topics: history, inequality, life and society, Pacific
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Participants: Laura O’Connell Rapira, Toby Morris, Steve Abel and Sina Brown-Davis. Moderator: Russell Brown
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The internet has increased opportunities for large-scale online social participation. Rebellion is trending. But how is online awareness transformed into action on the ground?
For Laura O'Connell Rapira, director of campaigns at ActionStation, getting supporters involved in an online petition is only the first step in the kind of campaign that she runs. “We call it a low floor and a high ceiling,” she says, explaining that the aim is to lower the barriers to initial participation, while encouraging further action like contacting decision-makers by email or in person, writing a letter to the editor, or donating to a crowdfunding campaign for placing full-page ad about the issue in the New Zealand Herald.
Nevertheless, she considers that online petitions can be useful in their own right too, both for increasing the sense of connectedness of those signing them, and for the evidence they provide of collective concern about the issue. “When you see that 50,000 other people have signed it,” she comments, “you realise that, hey, I’m not isolated and alone in this. I’m actually visible, and powerful, and more connected because I’m doing it with other people who care about this issue as well.
ActionStation may encourage participants in its petition to write in as well: “We curate those responses, pull out the themes that are on top, and then present that to Parliament saying that we represent a community.”
And the organisation doesn’t rest there. O’Connell Rapira describes the organisation’s approach as being like that of Netflix, suggesting that as an individual “took action on this thing which we think represents these values, maybe they’d like this (other) thing as well.” As a result, those who make contact with ActionStation on one issue will be exposed to others.
Not all of the online world is helpful, however. She feels that building an active community is harder to do on Facebook because it is “a tool is designed to polarise us. There’s nothing mindful about the interaction on Facebook. We’re there to troll and argue. That keeps people on the platform for longer which is in Facebook’s interests, so we can see more of their ads, right?”
As a consequence, ActionStation is deleting and curating comments very actively, or turning them off altogether.
For indigenous activist Sina Brown-Davis, social media is the fundamental way for her to keep in touch with her communities of interest. “The mainstream media will never be my friend,” she says, “because the mainstream media don’t want a bar of a Māori woman’s worldview.” As a result, she tweets, blogs, and is on Facebook.
It doesn’t concern her that her focus is on those who share her concerns and interests, adding “It’s not my role to persuade people outside my community. It’s not my role to dismantle racism, it’s the role of Pakeha who benefit from racism. In my view it’s their job to challenge that. My job is to stand up and fight for my people.”
And although the influence of tikanga means that there is less need for her to moderate bad online behaviour, she does worry about the preponderance of too much online kōrero. She regrets the loss of face to face meetings, often involving having a cup of tea and bringing a plate. “That was a tradition that I grew up with in this country,” she concludes, “and that seems to be diminishing.”
About the participants
Russell Brown - Moderator
Russell Brown is a broadcaster, journalist and web publisher. He is the host of Māori Television’s Media Take, the founder of the Public Address group blog website and a member of the Digital Media Trust Board, which oversees the cultural heritage websites NZ On Screen and Audioculture. He has been writing and publishing internet content for 21 years.
Laura O’Connell Rapira
Laura O’Connell Rapira is the director of campaigns at ActionStation – a community campaigning organisation, representing over 120,000 members, that combines digital tools and people power to drive a fairer, more just and sustainable Aotearoa. She is the co-founder of RockEnrol – a volunteer-driven organisation that uses popular culture and grassroots community organising to build and activate political power for young people. Laura is passionate about unleashing the power of the crowd through digital and community organising, effective collaboration, powerful storytelling and values-based campaigning.
Toby Morris
Toby Morris is an Auckland-based, Wellington-bred cartoonist, comic artist and illustrator. He writes and draws the regular non-fiction comic series ‘The Pencilsword’ for The Wireless, and is half of the Toby & Toby team that produces an award-winning weekly column for Radio New Zealand’s website www.rnz.co.nz. With ‘The Pencilsword’ series, Toby attempts to provide accessible introductions to political and social issues. Using comics, he finds ways to engage readers who usually consider themselves outside of the traditional political conversation.
Steve Abel
Steve Abel is a musician and environmental activist. He is senior campaign advisor for Greenpeace New Zealand and has a particular interest in movement theory in the context of fomenting people-powered change in the era of global warming. Steve has been part of campaigns to stop native logging, to bring about the abandonment of the Marsden B coal-fired power station, and to oppose deep sea oil drilling. He devised the Climate Voter alliance and debate at the 2014 election.
Sina Brown-Davis
Sina Brown-Davis is of Te Roroa, Te Uri-o-Hau, Fale Ula and Vava’u descent. A member of the Māori women’s group Te Wharepora Hou, Sina is a long-time activist and commentator on Indigenous rights in local, regional and international forums.
Smart Talk at the Auckland Museum is part of the Late at the Museum series. Click here for more information.
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A roundup of today's news and sport
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The Making of a Saint
The Pope described Mother Teresa as a "gift from God to the poorest of the poor". To millions she is already a saint and an iconic saviour of the wretched of the Earth. To others, her approach to the most immediate medical and welfare needs of the poor was much more questionable. What is her legacy - not only in India but around the world? And, how is her once-so-famous charitable religious order doing today? Mike Wooldridge looks back at her life and death, which he covered first hand as the BBC’s former South Asia correspondent and Religious Affairs correspondent. (BBC)
===5:40 PM. | Te Manu Korihi===
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A round-up of the Māori news for the week with our Te Manu Korihi team (RNZ)
===6:06 PM. | Te Ahi Kaa===
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Jerome Cvitanovich returns with this series about pakeha whose work is largely associated with the maori language, education and customs. This week he talks to veteran actor Jennifer Ward-Lealand who embarked on a journey of learning the language ten years ago.
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Exploring issues and events from a tangata whenua perspective (RNZ)
===6:40 PM. | Voices===
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Highlighting the activities and experiences of people with different backgrounds (RNZ)
===7:05 PM. | TED Radio Hour===
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A crafted hour of ideas worth sharing presented by Guy Raz (NPR)
===8:06 PM. | Sunday Night===
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8:34pm
4 x 4 Ruth Richardson
4 questions in 4 minutes.
9:20pm
Midge Marsden
From his first guitar till now.
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An evening of music and nostalgia (RNZ)
===10:12 PM. | Mediawatch===
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Critical examination and analysis of recent performance and trends in New Zealand's news media (RNZ)
===10:45 PM. | In Parliament===
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An in-depth perspective of legislation and other issues from the house.
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An hour of music that's "shaken, not stirred" every week from the Underground Martini Bunker at Kansas Public Radio.