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Nine To Noon for Monday 24 August 2009

  • Pita Sharples

    9:08 AM.Cabinet is expected to reject having reserved Maori seats on the Auckland supercity council Audio

  • Discrimination of international students

    9:20 AM.Dr Helen Szoke, chief conciliator and CEO of Victoria Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission in Australia. Audio

  • Hugh Evans

    9:35 AM.26-year-old Hugh Evans has earned a reputation as an international humanitarian. He was awarded 2004's Young Australian Of The Year for founding the philanthropic Oaktree Foundation in 2003, which is… Read more Audio

  • Europe correspondent - Seamus Kearney

    9:54 AM.Wildfires in Athens, and Switzerland's President apologies to Libya for arresting Libya's leader's son and his wife. Audio

  • Feature guest - Alison Lapper

    10:09 AM.Born without arms and with truncated legs due to a congenital condition phocomelia, the first 19 years of Alison Lapper's life were spent in residential institutions for people with impairments - she… Read more Audio

  • Book review - How We Saw the War

    10:40 AM.Harry Ricketts reviews 'How We Saw the War' by Ron Palenski. Published by Hodder Moa. Audio

  • Politics

    11:08 AM.With Andrew Campbell and Matthew Hooton. Audio

  • Food and wine

    11:30 AM.Three Cheese Silverbeet Cannelloni (bacon optional) and Feijoa and Apple Shortcake. Audio

  • Urbanist Tommy Honey

    11:47 AM.Dinky tools for the regular traveller. Audio

09:05 Auckland supercity council Maori seats

Pita Sharples, Maori Party co-leader

09:20 Racial attacks/discrimination of international students

Dr Helen Szoke, Chief Conciliator and CEO of Victoria Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission in Australia.

09:30 Young international humanitarian

Hugh Evans, who is only 26 but has already earned a reputation as an international humanitarian. He was awarded 2004's Young Australian Of The Year for founding the philanthropic Oaktree Foundation in 2003, which is staffed by 15,000 youth volunteers and supporters. He also founded the Global Poverty Project (which has support from the likes of Hugh Jackman).

10:05 Alison Lapper, disabled UK artist

Born without arms and with truncated legs due to a congenital condition phocomelia, the first 19 years of Alison Lapper's life were spent in residential institutions for people with impairments - she went on to gain a first class honours degree in art, raise a healthy son, and has carved herself a successful career as an artist.

10:30 Book Review with Harry Ricketts

How We Saw the War by Ron Palenski
Published by Hodder Moa

10:45 Reading: Landings by Jenny Pattrick

(Part 6 of 15)

A vivid tale of the early 20th-century Whanganui River community.

11:05 Politics with Andrew Campbell and Matthew Hooton

11:30 Guest chef and wine commentator Stephen Morris

Recipes: Three Cheese Silverbeet Cannelloni (bacon optional) and Feijoa and Apple Shortcake

11:45 Urbanist Tommy Honey

Dinky tools for the regular traveller.

www.tripit.com: Forward your electronic itinerary by email and a completely formatted one comes back to you complete with maps and weather details of the places you are going to visit. You can add in places you are going to stay, car rental details, restaurants, websites - anything you will need. It stores it all in one place accessible from the web or your phone.

And Neat Receipts, a tiny scanner you carry with you to scan all your receipts while travelling. Not only does it keep copies but it also detects the details of the receipts (time, date, amount, item) and puts them in a spreadsheet so you can claim for them later.