Nine To Noon for Wednesday 3 November 2021

 

09:05 Principals under pressure as teacher vaccine deadline approaches

As a deadline looms for teachers to be vaccinated to be allowed in school, some principals are being presented with questionable exemption certificates, causing much confusion. Homeopaths and midwives are signing off on medical exemptions for teachers who won't be vaccinated. Some are paying $100 for these exemptions. The Post Primary Principals Association says principals have inadequate information, are under pressure and confused as to how to deal with staff who choose not be vaccinated. The cut off is November 15th, two weeks away,  for school and early childhood staff who have contact with children to get their first vaccination or be banned from coming on site. Principals estimate several thousand teachers are resisting a government order to get vaccinated.  Kathryn speaks with PPTA president Melanie Webber and Vaughan Couillault is the President of the Secondary Principals Association and the Principal of Papatoetoe High School.

09:20 GPs coming under pressure to issue vaccine exemptions

Family doctors say they're coming under pressure from some patients to issue vaccine exemption certificates. President of the College of GPs, Samantha Murton, speaks with Kathryn Ryan.

09:30 The risk of slow adoption of AI by NZ business

The country's largest data specialist business, Qrious has the results from its inaugural State of AI report. It reveals that the adoption and use of AI in New Zealand businesses could be a lot quicker off the mark. Only one in five organisations have gone beyond AI trials and currently have the ability to achieve scale and impact from using AI technology. Qrious' acting CEO, Stephen Ponsford, says it's the most complete picture of artificial intelligence maturity in business and provides not only benchmarking, but a path for future progress. It shows some businesses risk being left behind in a post-Covid economic recovery.
 

09:45 Australia: PM's text tension, and COP26 contribution

Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to detail the extraordinary exchanges at COP26 between the French president Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Scott Morrison - where Macron accused Morrison of lying about when he was told about Australia exiting a submarine contract and a text seeming to show the opposite was leaked to the media. Meanwhile the PM has used his set piece in Glasgow to tell his peers Australia would exceed its emissions targets.

10:05  The majesty of museums

Architectural historian Owen Hopkins book The Museum takes the reader on a tour of the world's most celebrated cultural institutions and museums, from origins to the 21st century. Museums not only display scientific and cultural achievements of the past, but are also a barometer of what is valued in the present. Owen Hopkins is currently the director of the Farrell Centre at Newcastle University, and was previously a senior curator at London's Sir John Soane's Museum, and also worked as architecture programme curator at the Royal Academy of Art.

 

10:35 Book review: After Dark: Walking Into the Nights of Aotearoa by Annette Lees

Bronwyn Wylie-Gibb of University Book Shop Dunedin reviews  After Dark: Walking Into the Nights of Aotearoa by  Annette Lees, published by Potton & Burton.

10:45 The Reading

A Change of Diet, by Paddy Richardson.   

11:05 Music with RNZ's Charlotte Ryan

Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan plays a new single from local singer-songwriter Benee, which is her first solo material since she released her debut album last year. She'll also feature a song from Nightmares on Wax's ninth studio album and something from DJ Julian Dyne's new album that's full of local heavy hitters!

11:30 Bruce Hunt captures Aotearoa's timeless tussock grasslands in new book

The tussock grassland is a landscape unique to Aotearoa - once covering over 30 percent of the mainland about the time of European settlement. It's been used in innumerous paintings by Dunedin-based artist Bruce Hunt, and now in a book of his photography, simply entitled 'Tussock'. Bruce spends his time tramping into the heart of central Otago and the Mackenzie Basin for his work, capturing its beauty but also the impact humans have had on the landscape. Although primarily a painter, Bruce's passion for photography developed during the time he spent in Brazil - when he became an object of fascination as the gringo-with-a-camera in a small village in the country's north.

11:45 Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles

This week, Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles tells us about a new study that shows the risk of neurological complications is higher after catching COVID-19 than getting vaccinated and answers listener’s questions. 

Associate Professor Dr Siouxsie Wiles is the head of Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland.

 

Music played in this show

Artist: Emily Weisband

Track: Butterfly

Time played: 9:35

 

Artist: Rosie Lowe

Track: Paris Texas

Time played: 10:30

 

Track: Monkey Man

Artist: The Specials

Broadcast time: 11:45