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Nine To Noon for Tuesday 1 August 2017

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09:05 Is Andrew Little on his way out?

Andrew Little committed to staying on as Labour leader

Andrew Little committed to staying on as Labour leader Photo: RNZ / YouTube

Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams discuss the Labour Party leadership as a crunch meeting of the caucus is about to get underway.

09:20 Government to scrap school decile system

One of several low-decile schools where enrolments by Pākehā students have plummeted.

Education Minister Nikki Kaye joins Kathryn Ryan to discuss the end of the decile rating system and the new "risk index" which would estimate the number of their students at risk of underachievement.That rating will stay private and be reviewed every year – and is expected to come into effect in 2019 or 2020.

09:45 Trump fires Scaramucci in massive White House shake-up

Kathryn Ryan talks to Susan Milligan about the latest moves in Trump's inner circle, Priebus and Scaramucci are out, and Kelly is in. Also, John McCain's thumbs-down to a GOP plan to repeal Obamacare, the President's tweet undoing the US policy on transgender people in the military.

10:05 From campfire tales to book award shortlist

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Far north school principal Fraser Smith often struggled to find material to engage the Maori children in his rural community, particularly boys. So he did something about it, with his debut novel Awatea's Treasure, which has been shortlisted for the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults best first book award. The book grew from stories told to children on school camp and in classrooms.

10:35 Book review

Lisa Finucane has been reading See You in September by Charity Norman.

10:45 The Reading

11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram

Rod Oram talks to Kathryn Ryan about the immigration and tourism set records in the latest month and the World Bank launches the first NZ$ denominated green bond.

11:30 Spring-time gardening with Xanthe White

spring flowers

Landscape designer and gardener Xanthe White with a warning of Spring fever – what you should and shouldn't do in the garden in the first month of spring.

11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis

Media Commentator, Gavin Ellis on the mass withdrawal of entries from the EY business journalism awards after an entry about one of the consultancy firms's clients was removed.

Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald.  He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz