Nine To Noon for Tuesday 19 July 2022

 

 

09:05 HRT shortages cause headaches for doctors

Doctors say that Pharmac is refusing to accept its created a problem by mishandling supplies of 50 microgram Estradot patches, a Hormone Replacement Therapy for menopause, by not notifying doctors that doses were about to run out. Women who've relied on the HRT patches are now forced to use alternatives until Pharmac can restock pharmacies. On its website the drug-buying agency says it expects stock to be available again by late July. In the meantime its sourced limited supplies of an alternative patch - Climara. But doctors say trying to reorganise prescriptions is proving to be a nightmare. And they warn that changing or suddenly stopping medication can cause a lot of anxiety. Kathryn speaks with Endocrinologist Dr Stella Milsom and Professor Beverly Lawton, Director of the Centre for Women's Health Research at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.

09:15 Paying for it now: Stats NZ on cost of living rise
        

Annual inflation has increased 7.3 percent since the June 2021 quarter, the largest year-on-year increase for 32 years, driven by more expensive fuel, building materials, food and housing costs.  Petrol prices leapt 32% over the year while diesel prices were up an eye-watering 74%, Stats NZ reported.  Grocery food prices were up by marginally less than the overall inflation rate, rising 7.1%, rents were up 4.3%.  Combined this has pushed the annual rate to a record 7.3 pct, the highest since June 1990.  The increase cements a further hefty rate rise by the Reserve Bank next month.  General Manager, Economic and Environment Insights at Statistics NZ Jason Attewell joins Kathryn Ryan to slice and dice the CPI numbers.

09:30 How the free period products initiative is working, one year on

It's been a year since New Zealand schools were able to sign up to an initiative that offered free period products to students who needed them. As of June 2022, 2,062 schools and kura are participating in the initiative, with over 650,000 packets of product provided since June 2021.  The Ministry of Education says many schools have reported improved uptake of product and that students are getting involved in decision making and delivery of the initiative. Danika Revell is founder of The Period Place, an advocacy group for period equity. She says the initiative is great, but not without delivery challenges. And she points out - period poverty exists outside school hours of 9am - 3pm.

09:45 US: Indiana shooting, Ulvade investigation, deleted Jan 6 texts

US correspondent Kelsey Snell details another mass shooting - this time in Indiana - which was thwarted by a bystander who shot the 20-year-old gunman dead. Meanwhile it's been revealed 400 police officers were at the scene of the Ulvade school shooting - but didn't intervene. Kelsey will also update us on the January 6 hearings - which wants deleted text messages from the Secret Service that day, and President Biden's controversial trip to Saudi Arabia.

Kelsey Snell is a congressional correspondent for NPR, based in Washington DC.

10:05 Eminent cartographer of the brain pens eco-novel

World renowned Greek-Australian neuroscientist George Paxinos is described by his colleagues as one of the Australia's greatest thinkers. He's also published 57 books in the field of neuroscience. George Paxinos is a professor at the University of New South Wales and a former President of the Australian Neuroscience Society and the World Congress of Neuroscience. During his spare time out of the lab, he's written his first novel in the environmental genre,  A River Divided. George Paxinos says he's had two main goals in life, the first to produce the atlas of the rat brain, and the second to write this novel. Quite simply, Professor Paxinos who is 78 says he forgot to retire!.

 

10:35 Book review: After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

 

Quentin Johnson reviews After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz, published by Text Publishing

10:45 The Reading

Part seven of Baby No Eyes by Patricia Grace.

11:05 Business: Trouble at the mega-polytech, review of the screen sector

Business correspondent Pattrick Smellie joins Kathryn to talk about the mega-polytech Te Pukenga , the problems it's been having and what it means for skills training during a skills crisis. He'll also talk about the review of the screen sector.

Pattrick Smellie is the editor and co-founder of BusinessDesk and has reported on the New Zealand economy and business since 1983.

11:30 Reo inspired bushwear for all of Aotearoa

 

Tāmati Rakena was on track for a career in the Moerewa meatworks, but ended up with a Masters degree and founding a bush clothing business. He left school with no particular direction and AFFCO was beckoning. Many of his Kaikohe based family have been employed there and for a time he worked as a meat processor. His direction changed when he met his partner who inspired him to enrol in University to train as a teacher. In 2019, Tāmati was awarded a University of Auckland Kupe Leadership Scholarship. With a Master of Education under his belt, he's now changed direction again - founding the My Taiao Clothing brand along with his partner Huri Kāmira. Tāmati Rakena runs the business from Kaihohe - and spoke to Kathryn Ryan about his start-up business and the journey to get there.

11:45 Media: Nobel winner's harassment, Fiji journalist's utu, new ABC funding model

Media commentator Andrew Holden joins Kathryn to look at the harassment experienced by Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa in the Philippines, while her fellow winner Dmitry Muratov also had his independent newspaper shut down. A Fijian journalist expelled from a press conference during a visit of the Chinese foreign minister spotted two Chinese embassy officials pretending to be reporters at the Pacific Islands Forum, and ABC in Australia is to get a five-year funding model that the new Government says will make it 'safe' from political interference and manipulation. 

Andrew Holden is a journalist for more than 30 years including five as Editor of The Press (in Christchurch) and four as Editor-in-Chief of The Age in Melbourne. 

Music played in this show

Artist: Miles Calder
Track: Pushing and Pulling
Time played: 9:36

Artist: Laura Viers
Track: Winter Windows
Time played: 10:43