Nine To Noon for Monday 31 October 2022

09:05 NZ casinos operating online gambling sites from Malta

New Zealand-based casinos are launching unregulated online gambling platforms out of Malta, which bypass local regulations. In New Zealand, it's illegal for casinos to provide online gambling services, but it is legal for people to gamble on offshore websites. Moving operations to Malta means these casinos still reach New Zealand customers -- however our laws and regulations do not apply, and communities do not benefit from taxes and levies. Christchurch Casino's new online operation out of Malta follows Sky City's launch from the same country back in 2019. Under the Gambling Act, government-owned Lotto and the T.A.B are the only operators able to offer online services. The Department of Internal Affairs is looking to update and modernise the two-decade old legislation for a more online world, which may allow more online gambling platforms to operate here legally. Kathryn speaks to Maria Bellringer, the director of AUT's Gambling and Addictions Research Centre. 

09:30 New chemicals add to ecosystem contamination

Environmental Toxicologist warns the risk to Aotearoa's marine life from chemical contaminants in the sea, river and streams are intensifying. Local and global research has found an unprecedented number of diverse chemicals in waterways which threaten the health of New Zealand's unique ecosystems. University of Auckland and Cawthron Institute ecotoxicologist, Louis Tremblay says on top of 100 million registered chemical compounds, a large number of new ones are added daily. Dr Tremblay is looking into  the risk such chemicals pose on the health of eco-systems in Aotearoa.

09:45 Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney

Can the European Union expect a reset with Britain under new PM Rishi Sunak? Hopes that Northern Ireland would finally get a power-sharing government after months of political deadlock appear to have been dashed and why is there a growing list of differences between the French and German governments?

10:05 Brian Cox: Entangled States and Black Holes

What's the future of our galaxy? How did we come to be? What does it mean to live a small, finite life in a vast, eternal universe? Rock-star English professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester, Brian Cox CBE is bringing his new show Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey, to New Zealand in December.  Backgrounded by this year's Nobel Prize in Physics going to Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their research into Entangled States, essentially their experiments in quantum mechanics that lay the groundwork for Space computation, Kathryn spoke with Brian Cox to discuss the latest advances in our understanding of black holes, quantum theory, planetary science, biology, astronomy and cosmology, and how he covers these off in his new show.

 

10:35 Book review: The Romantic by William Boyd

Harry Ricketts reviews The Romantic by William Boyd, published by Penguin

10:45 The Reading

11:05 Political commentators Lamia Imam & Trish Sherson

Kathryn, Lamia and Trish discuss the marathon debate that has marked the passage of the Fair Pay Agreement law. It's a fundamental shift in employment relations, but could it be first on the chopping block if National gets into power and what else would National scrap? Also they take a look at some interesting candidate selections within National and touch on the size of the economic challenge ahead for the government.
 

Lamia Imam worked for two years for the Labour Party in the Leader of the Opposition's office under Phil Goff and David Shearer. She also worked for the Ministry of Justice, before gaining a Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently works for a large technology company in Wellington.

Trish Sherson is from corporate affairs firm Sherson Willis, and a former ACT press secretary. 

11:30 Christall Lowe on stories and recipes from her family table

Christall Lowe is a photojournalist with a love of food who's used her skills to create a visually stunning book celebrating kai, whakapapa and whanau. She begins by sharing her first food memory - of her nana feeding her kamokamo mashed with butter - and writes about how her family shaped her experiences with food...particularly her grandad's "master hangi".She describes herself as a home cook and the book - Kai: Food stories and recipes from my family table -  as 20 years in the making. She shares two recipes: Feijoa icecream and Honey-roasted yams with feta whip.

11:45 Off the beaten track with Kennedy Warne

Kennedy Warne highlights the efforts of a young Australian attempting to row solo across the Pacific. Tom Robinson has been rowing for 4 months, having left Peru on 1 July. The 23 year old is almost half way, about 400 km north of the Marquesas, but it's a tense time. The current keeps pushing him north, and there are very few islands, inhabited or uninhabited, in those latitudes. He will run short of food in another month or so, and the cyclone season is about to begin.  Kennedy has been tracking his progress, reading his blog and listening to a satellite phone conversation he made in mid-October with a boating website in Maine, only the third conversation he's had with anyone since the voyage began.

Music played in this show

Track: Sweet Disorder
Artist: Strawpeople
Time Played: 09:27

Track: Dub be good to me
Artist: Beats International
Time Played: 09:43

Track: Soaked Oats
Artist: Headline Opinion
Time Played: 10:44

Track: Us Three
Artist: Cantaloop
Time Played: 11:34