Nine To Noon for Thursday 2 March 2023

 

 

09:05 Auckland's West Coast residents frustrated at lack of access to homes

Auckland's West Coast beach residents are demanding answers, and not to be forgotton, more than two weeks after Cyclone Gabrille devastated communites.  Red-zoned Muriwai residents - who have been out of their homes for two weeks - are desperate to hear about progress at a meeting being held tonight. They are losing patience at how long it's taking to even get a look inside their homes. Muriwai Beach township was devastated by slips caused by Cyclone Gabrielle. Residents of nearly 200 homes were evacuated and progress at getting them back is being described as "glacial". Kathryn speaks to one of the evacuees, Joe. She'll also get an update on the situation in remote West Coast communities including Bethell's Beach, Piha and Karekare from Auckland Emergency Management Controller Mace Ward and Waitakere Councillor Shane Henderson.

09:20 Why smart drink Ārepa is being studied by dementia experts

 A New Zealand blackcurrant drink seeking to challenge coffee's dominance as the "go-to" beverage for concentration and performance is also being studied for how it could help those with dementia. Ārepa drinks and capsules are made from blackcurrants and pine bark, and the company had help in the early years from Callaghan Innovation to fund research into its bio-active ingredients. Those are Enzogenol - a patented extract from pine bark and the Neuroberry blackcurrant, which has high levels of anthocyanins -  powerful antioxidants. The company won a second big supermarket contract in Australia last year - the products appear in both Coles and Woolworths. And Ārepa is also being used in a study for Dementia Australia run by the University of Wollongong. Kathryn speaks with Sam Dodd, a neuroscientist with the company.

09:45 UK: Veggie rationing amid shortages, new Northern Ireland deal

UK correspondent Lara Spirit joins Kathryn to examine what's driving a shortage of fruit and vegetables on UK shelves that's forced rationing of some items. And will Rishi Sunak's new trading regime for Northern Ireland get the backing of the local Democratic Unionist Party - or could it be pushed through anyway? Lara untangles the new framework and how it would work.

 

10:05 Making brave decisions and leading with courage 

Margie Warrell is the CEO and founder of bespoke leadership consultancy, Global Courage. At the core of Dr Warrell's work -  is helping people and firms to lead with courage and to have to tools to make brave decisions. She is on the board of Forbes School of Business & Technology and has consulted to many global organisations, including NASA, Dell, Morgan Stanley and Deloitte. The world stage is a long way from her childhood, growing up on a dairy farm in Australia and being the first in her family to go to University.

10:35 Book review: Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor

Carole Beu of the Women's Bookshop in Ponsonby reviews Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor, published by Hachette

10:45 Around the motu: Tess Brunton in Dunedin
 

Southland/Otago mayors have been divided over whether to challenge the Dunedin Hospital design cuts, Tess talks to Kathryn about the apology for the communications failure. Also an update on water shortages and drought in the region, and new information suggest Invercargill’s famous Tuatara, Henry may be older than originally thought.

11:05 Technology: Jack Dorsey's new social network, the rise of AI scams

Technology correspondent Peter Griffin joins Kathryn to talk about Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's new social media endeavour - Bluesky. A public launch could be near but it works on a similar open technology protocol and that's upset the fledgling group of social networks like Mastodon. The US Federal Trade Commission has issued a warning over inflated claims about AI tools following the ChatGPT hype and why is China trying to ban ChatGPT?

11:25 Children's wellbeing: How to help them feel safe and supported

There's been a number of challenges to children's wellbeing over the past few years - the pandemic of course,  and for many kids in the upper North Island at the moment - dealing with the aftermath of flooding and the Cyclone. So what IS wellbeing? And how can we ensure kids are doing ok, and are still able to learn? Dr Jean Annan is an educational psychologist and has worked as a university lecturer, researcher and a teacher. Her new book is '7 Dimensions: Children's Emotional Well-being' which is a simple framework for adults to make sense of the abundance of information about young people's thoughts and feelings.

11:45 Screentime: Not Dead Yet, Voices of the Pacific, Physical: 100

Film and TV reviewer Laumata Lauano joins Kathryn to talk about Not Dead Yet on Disney+ : about a journalist assigned to the obit section of her newspaper who's haunted by the ghost of each new assignment. She'll also review Voices Of The Pacific on Talanoa (NZ Herald) by the Pacific Cooperation Foundation (PCF) in partnership with HortNZ, a five part mini-documentary series on the RSE workers and Physical: 100 on Netflix a Korean reality fitness competition, one hundred contestants in top physical shape compete to claim the honour of best body.