Nine To Noon for Tuesday 15 November 2022

09:05 Concern over cruise passengers on public transport  

Cruise ships are back in our ports, but concerns have been raised in Christchurch and Dunedin over visitors clogging up public buses and potentially spreading Covid 19. Many cruise liners visiting here are struggling with Covid cases - a ship which just spent two weeks in New Zealand ended its tour with 800 cases on board. Christchurch City councillor Sara Templeton says there aren't enough public buses to meet cruise ship demand and she believes some locals are choosing not to travel because of overcrowding and fears cruise ship passengers may be spreading Covid. She tells Kathryn believes cruise companies should be providing transport for their passengers.

09:20 Fairfax photo archive up for public sale 

A massive and irreplaceable archive of historically significant photographs is up for sale on the open market, after a lengthy ordeal abroad that almost saw them destroyed. Dubbed the Fairfax Archives, in 2013 the collection of 1.4 million photographs was sent by Fairfax Media to the United States to be digitised. However the company carrying out the digitisation later became linked to sports memorabilia fraud, was raided by the FBI and later bankrupted. The collection of images, as well as others from Australian newspapers, were seized and held as collateral on a US$14 million loan, and were in danger of being destroyed. An L.A-based gallery has since bought the entire archive, and is putting some of the photos up for sale. Described by historians as the country's "national photo album", the archive spans from 1840 to 2005. It includes historic moments like the 1981 Springbok Tour protests, the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the aftermath of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake and Sir Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mt Everest - as well as royal visits, Auckland's Queen St and 40,000 pictures of the All Blacks. So where should the Fairfax Archive ideally end up? And what does the sale of the collection mean for the preservation of our history? Kathryn speaks to Daniel Miller, the owner of Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles and Dr Paul Moon, a professor of History at AUT who was asked by Duncan Miller Gallery to help identify the images. 

09:30  Porirua skills hub: helping families by removing barriers and judgement

Families who've spent months and even years in emergency housing in Porirua are among those being assisted by a new job and skills hub in Cannons Creek. Le Fale job and skills hub opened last month, established as part of the Porirua Development Project. It's being run by the community services arm of Whānau Manaaki Kindergartens. The hub is open to all with community navigators helping to connect people with training, advice, job opportunities and financial skills as well as practical things like childcare, the right clothes to wear or assistance with driver training. Kathryn speaks with community services senior lead Caroline Mareko, and Le Fale community navigator,
Fala Tavita.

09:45 USA correspondent Ron Elving - US midterms

Ron takes an in depth look at the US mid-term election results. Republicans will have a slim majority in House of Representatives, not what they had expected at all.  At least 20 seats fewer, maybe more like 25 fewer than forecast. The Senate will be 50-50 or possibly could have 51 Democrats, depending on a runoff in Georgia next month.  If it's 50-50 it will be what it's been the past two years. Ron says there's been an unexpected boost for President Joe Biden, who is now more likely to run again, while heavy blows are raining down on Donald Trump, whose hand-picked candidates mostly lost in the important races. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis won re-election by 20 points and emerges as strong rival to Trump for 2024 .

Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News.

 

 

10:05 The dad who turned his brain injury into a children's book 

A question from his daughter about why he couldn't play with her led a New Plymouth father down the unexpected path of children's writer. Shaan Caskey has a brain injury after suffering multiple concussions and struggles with intense fatigue. His book Daddy Needs to Sleep Today was written for his four year old daughter Willow to help her understand why he couldn't play sometimes. Written from a child's perspective it's an engaging personal story which Shaan hopes might help others who have suffered head injuries or have a family member with one.

10:35 Book review: The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy

David Hill reviews The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy, published by Macmillan

10:45 The Reading

11:05 Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson

Rebecca talks to Kathryn about yet another crypto washout, this time FTX. Can the last crypto exchange turn off the lights?. And all the things Elon Musk has done since he took over Twitter.

Rebecca Stevenson  is a senior writer at interest.co.nz

 

11:30 How to raise healthy happy hens

If you're interested in keeping health happy chickens, Dr Andrea Graves has written an ideal handbook to help you along the way. Using her knowledge from a PhD in animal behaviour and her practical experience with keeping chickens, Andrea describes how we can satisfy chickens' foraging obsessions, house them well and manage their interesting social lives. She also describes how to use them to grow healthy food. She joins Kathryn to share her chicken-whispering secrets.

11:45 Spotlight on sport with Steve Holloway

Sports commentator Steve Holloway with what the Black Ferns' Rugby World Cup victory means for their brand, commercial opportunites and women's rugby in general. He also looks at the contenders and controversies already surrounding the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

Steve Holloway is a sports reporter with NZME, former NZ national league footballer and co-host of the Between Two Beers podcast.    
 

 

Music played in this show

Track: Forget Me Nots
Artist:Patrice Rushen
Time played: 10:08

Track: Remember where you are
Artist: Jessie Ware
Time played: 10:31

Track: Back, baby
Artist: Jessica Pratt
Time played: 10:41