Lately for Monday 2 August 2021
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Word: salt and pepper - not pepper and salt
10:39 PM.On tonight's Word segment one of our regulars, Professor Jen Hay from the University of Canterbury, joins Karyn to talk binomial pairs and name ordering - she'll explain why we call it salt and… Read more Audio
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DHB's take nurse union to court
10:32 PM.Nurses are complaining they've been blindsided by a district health board move to take them to court over their next lot of strike action. Last week they rejected the latest pay offer by the district… Read more Audio
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Calling London: France's vaccine plan and famine in Ethiopia
10:22 PM.Audrey Tinline from the BBC reports on whether the French President's 'vaccine passport' plan can go ahead. France holds a donors conference in Lebanon, a year after the deadly Beirut port blast which… Read more Audio
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Showtime for weightlifter Laurel Hubbard
10:18 PM.It's a huge night for New Zealand weight lifter, Laurel Hubbard, who competes in the women's plus 87kg category. The defending Olympic sailing champions Peter Burling & Blair Tuke have to wait til… Read more Audio
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10:20 Showtime for weightlifter Laurel Hubbard
It's a huge night for New Zealand weight lifter, Laurel Hubbard, who competes in the women's plus 87kg category. The defending Olympic sailing champions Peter Burling & Blair Tuke have to wait til tomorrow for their medal race, but Lisa Carrington has had a huge day in the water. Our reporter, Maja Burry joins Karyn Hay live from the weightlifting.
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10:25 DHB's take nurse union to court
Nurses are complaining they've been blindsided by a district health board move to take them to court over their next lot of strike action. Last week they rejected the latest pay offer by the district health boards and have now told them they will strike for eight hours on Thursday, August the 19th. The DHBs want the Employment Court to ensure they have guaranteed staffing levels to keep patients safe when nurses walk off the job. Glenda Alexander from the Nurses Organisation chats to Karyn about the latest move.
Photo: Supplied / NZNO
10:30 Calling London: France's vaccine plan and famine in Ethiopia
Audrey Tinline from the BBC reports on whether the French President's 'vaccine passport' plan can go ahead. France holds a donors conference in Lebanon, a year after the deadly Beirut port blast which killed at least 204 people. There is impending famine in Tigray, Ethiopia. There's a new push by the UN and the US to get access to this region of Ethiopia, where hundreds of thousands of people in the war-battered region face the world's worst famine crisis in 10 years.
For the third week in a row, anti-vaccine and anti-health pass demonstrations continued in France amid rising COVID-19 infection rates. Saturday's protests, according to the Interior Ministry, saw an estimated 184 rallies with 204,090 demonstrators across the country, a figure higher than the previous weeks. Photo: Alaattin Dogru / ANADOLU AGENCY / Anadolu Agency via AFP
10:45 Word: salt and pepper - not pepper and salt
On tonight's Word segment one of our regulars, Professor Jen Hay from the University of Canterbury, joins Karyn to talk binomial pairs and name ordering - she'll explain why we call it salt and pepper, not pepper and salt, and why in a couple some names come before others.
Professor Jennifer Hay with researchers at the New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour Photo: Jennifer Hay