09:05 Online dating and sex: who's doing it safely?

woman looks at online dating profile

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A new survey into online dating and sex finds that older people using dating apps are taking more risks than younger users. The survey of 823 people across New Zealand was conducted by Project Gender, which describes itself as a social change and research agency. The survey finds nearly half of heterosexual women over the age of 50 say they never use protection against sexually transmitted infections, compared with 16 per cent of under 30s. Older users were also far less likely to tell friends and family where they were going on a date, compared with younger people. The survey also shines a light on sexual behaviours finding high numbers of young heterosexual women experiencing sex acts like choking and suffocating, many of them non-consensually.  Kathryn speaks to Tania Dommet, research director of Project Gender and Associate Professor Terryann Clark from Auckland University, lead researcher in the Youth2000 survey series and co-lead of the Youth19 rangatahi smart survey of New Zealands young people.

 

09:30  Crypto crashes: impact on investors

Gold bitcoin and stacked dice -- cryptocurrency investing and risk concept

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There is constant volatility across the crypto currency spectrum, with values often fluctuating quite markedly over short periods of time. Two of the more popular coins, Terra and Luna recently crashed. University of Auckland Associate Professor Alex Sims teaches commercial law and is an expert on crypto currencies and their regulation, and she is a member of the executive committee of Block Chain NZ.  She says the failure of Terra and Luna are not indicative of the stability of others, but it does highlight the increasing use of stable coins, adding the crashes are not the first and won't be the last. Dr Sims says greater regulation is desirable but is not necessarily the panacea and investors need to always be wary.

09:45 UK: More no-confidence letters for PM, travel chaos and Jubilee parties

UK correspondent Matthew Parris joins Kathryn to talk about the mounting number of letters expressing no confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson, with some Tory MPs openly calling for him to go. There's been travel chaos across the country with one in five flights disrupted and claims some travel firms have oversold holidays. As the UK gears up to celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee this weekend, who'll be on the balcony at Buckingham Palace? 

Queen Elizabeth II visits the headquarters of British Airways in Heathrow, west London on May 23, 2019.

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10:05 "It's a slow motion genocide" - attorney and Uyghur activist

Nury Turkel

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Nury Turkel was born in a Chinese re-education camp in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, managing to flee China in 1995 to attend university in the United States. Becoming the first Uyghur to receive an American law degree, Nury Turkel went on to become a human rights attorney and activist for Uyghur people. In recent years, China's repression of Uyghur Muslims has intensified, most visibly through the construction of a series of re-education centres in Xinjiang. This was further exposed last week, when a cache of hacked data and photographs from police computers, now called the Xinjiang Police Files, were published online. It revealed in unprecedented detail, China’s brutal use of re-education camps and prisons as a system of mass detention for Uyghurs. It's estimated between one and two million Uyghurs are detained in the Xinjiang facilities. The documents also uncovered a "shoot to kill" policy for those who try to escape. Nury Turkel is a co-founder and chair of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He's just published No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs. He tells Kathryn how the unfolding Uyghur crisis is turning into the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.

10:35 Book review: The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn

The Whalebone Theatre

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Carole Beu of the Women's Bookshop in Ponsonby reviews The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn, published by Penguin Random House UK

10:45 The Reading

Mansfield, episode nine, written by C K Stead and read by Danielle Cormack.

11:05 Tech: Kiwi's action against Clearview AI, what came out of the PM's US tech mission?

Technology correspondent Peter Griffin looks at the action taken by former NZ Privacy Commissioner John Edwards against Clearview AI, now he's the UK's Information Commissioner. What was Clearview doing wrong and what precedent is being set for the UK and beyond? And where there any tech wins out of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's mission to the US, or has New Zealand been left out of some strategic collaborations because we're not in the right club?

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11:25 The advantages of starting school at six

Willow is one of a growing number of children starting school at the beginning or middle of the term rather than on their fifth birthday

Willow is one of a growing number of children starting school at the beginning or middle of the term rather than on their fifth birthday Photo: RNZ/ John Gerritsen

Neuroplasticity educator and parenting expert Nathan Wallis talks with Kathryn about the advantages of children starting school at six years old. The Education Review Office has just looked into the issue, and says starting in cohorts, rather than on the child's fifth birthday, eases the transition from early childhood centres to school for students, teachers and parents. Nathan Wallis supports that idea, saying that those children who start school when they are older than five may be doubly advantaged - by having more free play when their brains need it most, and by being older than their peers when they do start school.

11:45 Film & TV: The Responder, Under the Banner of Heaven, NZ Today

Film and TV correspondent Tamar Munch joins Kathryn to look at The Responder (TVNZ OnDemand), in which Martin Freeman plays a cop under pressure forced to work with a rookie on Liverpool's streets. Under the Banner of Heaven (Disney+) is based on a book by John Krakauer in which a devout detective investigates a murder at an esteemed Utah family and a new series of NZ Today (Three) with Guy Williams kicks off next week.

Posters for The Responder, Under the Banner of Heaven and NZ Today

Tamar Munch previews The Responder, Under the Banner of Heaven and the new series of NZ Today. Photo: IMDb, Three

Music played in this show

Track: Next to Normal
Artist:  Lucius  
Time played: 10:30am 

Track: Just Cos You Don't Want Me
Artist: Mel Parsons 
Time played: 11:45am