Nine To Noon for Friday 25 March 2022

 

09:05 Australia backs down over refugee resettlement

After nearly a decade languishing in off-shore detention centres, 450 refugees in Australia will be resettled in this country over three years.  The Australian government agreed to the deal yesterday - nine years after it was first offered by the then National Prime Minister John Key. Kathryn speaks with Melbourne based human rights lawyer Alison Battisson who has acted for many of the refugees.

09:15 More support needed for Asian mental health 

Demand for mental health support amongst Asian New Zealanders has soared since the beginning of the pandemic, but the community remains underserved. One provider, Asian Family Services, is trying to meet the demands of the Asian population, but says its funding is limited and is managing a three week long waitlist. In a recent 2021 survey commissioned by the health provider, 44 percent of respondents reported symptoms of depression, increasing to 61 percent for those under 30 years of age. Asian Family Services is working to fill the gap in support; it runs an 0800 helpline operating in ten different languages, and also provides support for mental health issues, problem gambling, and home isolation help. But its national director Kelly Feng tells Lynn how more funding and a clearer national strategy is needed to support Asian mental health.

09:30 The polar bear, the honey badger and the moose: Dunedin's taxidermy auction

A 6 foot 5' Alaskan polar bear is making a star appearance at an auction of taxidermied animals in Dunedin on Sunday.  Some of the other museum-quality mounts going under the hammer include a North American Stone Sheep, three species of Moose, five species of Caribou, Bison, a Kodiak Island Blue Fox, a Zebra Skin,  and a Honey Badger.  Kathryn Ryan speaks with auctioneer Ronnie Proctor, who's seen a few things in the forty years and three generations his family have run Proctors Auctions.  Their stock-in-trade is Georgian and Victorian era antiques and furniture. But this Sunday's auction might just steal the show.  Last time they had a polar bear it fetched $40,000.

09:45 Pacific correspondent Susana Lei'ataua

Pacific countries have Covid community transmission for the first time since the pandemic began in 2020, Susana looks at how well are they coping. Lockdown is a significant option as their medical resources, staff and facilities are limited. And Polyfest is underway in Manukau, with  hundreds of students taking to the stages,  but no live audiences. Covid safety protocols has meant everyone is instead watching online.

Susana Lei'ataua is RNZ Pacific's news editor

10:05 How the Holocaust had its roots in eastern European pogroms

The eyes of the world may be on Ukraine right now, but Dr Jeffrey Veidlinger has focused on a largely forgotten period of history that once captured international attention there too. At the end of the first world war a wave of anti-semitic violence rocked the eastern European region as the Russian empire fell apart. It's thought over 100,000 Jews died in hundreds of localised attacks and forced hundreds of thousands more to flee. The violence itself was carried out by those of varying political, military and class persuasions: the Jew seemed to be the one enemy they could all agree on. Despite alarm raised at the time, the deadly pogroms have come to be overshadowed by the horrors of the Holocaust. Dr Veidlinger argues in his new book, In the Midst of Civilised Europe, that the Holocaust's roots can be found in these pogroms.

10:30 Tairawhiti flooding latest

RNZ journalist Andrew McRae with the latest on flooding in Tairawhiti.

10:35 Book review: Remember Me by Charity Norman

Melissa Oliver from Unity Books Wellington reviews Remember Me by Charity Norman, published by Allen and Unwin

10:45 The Reading

11:05 Music reviewer Grant Smithies​

Today we’ll hear two key songs from the revolutionary 1968 album that served as a musical manifesto for Brazil’s Tropicalia movement, alongside gems from Liverpool “sedated urban blues” duo King Hannah and Nigerian afro-disco star, General Ehi Duncan.

11:30 Sports commentator Sam Ackerman -  spectators back to stadiums 

Sam talks to Kathryn about the long-awaited return of spectators to sports games this weekend, after two years of empty or sparsely populated stadiums. Also the White Ferns impending Cricket World Cup exit, and will Ross Taylor's farewell will be a bang or a whimper?

11:45 The week that was

Comedians Te Radar and James Elliott with a few laughs.

 

Music played in this show

Title: Buttercup
Artist: Anika Moa 
Time: 9.30am

Title: You (Man Like) 
Artist: Bonnie Vear 
Time: 10:32am