Nine To Noon

09:05 Earthquake building standards dumped - Building Minister explains

The Government's changes to earthquake strengthening standards will see it scrap the current NBS system - where buildings below a certain percentage are deemed earthquake prone, and focus on those deemed to pose genuine risk to human life. It's estimated more than half the buildings currently on the earthquake prone register will come off it. Others will need to spend less on remediation. Just 80 buildings around the country still need a full retrofit. Overall it will save property owners $8.2 billion in remediation costs. Auckland, Northland and Chatham Islands are being exempted from the system altogether and Dunedin is being upgraded to a medium risk seismic zone. The Building and Construction Minister is Chris Penk. 

09:25 The space operations growing in Southland

The government is backing Southland's the space industry - and a company set up indirectly by local councils. Southland's Space Operations New Zealand - or SpaceOps - is receiving a loan of up to $2.25 million to help with development. It was the brainchild of  the economic development agency of  Southland councils made up of Invercargill City Council, Southland District Council, Gore District Council, and Environment Southland. SpaceOps describes it's Awarua Satellite Ground Station, outside of Invercargill, as an important location for supporting low orbiting satellites and says Southland is ideally located for antennas given its proximity to the South Pole, flat land with excellent horizon sightlines and lack of radio interference. But how did local authorities get involved in the space industry? Kathryn speaks to Steve Canny who is in charge of Strategic Projects at  Great South and was a driving  force behind the space venture and Robin McNeil who is SpaceOps CEO.

09:40 Majority of NZ trained doctors staying here for eight years

New research has found the vast majority of doctors trained at Otago and Auckland Medical Schools were working in New Zealand eight years after graduating. The report out of Auckland and Otago Universties also found that  general practice was the most popular specialty. The National report on doctors eight years after graduating from New Zealand medical schools in 2011 to 2015 shows about 90 per cent of respondents were working in New Zealand.
 Nearly 36 per cent of them are training or registered in general practice, including those with multiple specialisations. The data comes out of the Medical Schools Outcomes Database and Longitudinal Tracking Project, which has been running in New Zealand since 2005. Kathryn speaks to Professor Warwick Bagg, Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland 

09:45 US correspondent David Smith

US President Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announce a Gaza peace plan. That as military generals and admirals attend a gathering with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Quantico. And David updates what is happening with the looming Government shutdown with the threat of mass federal layoffs. 

Washington bureau chief for The Guardian, David Smith. 

10:05 Debut novel draws inspiration from little-known Kiwi colonial adventuress

Vanessa Croft was born in Australia to expat parents, and was raised in Nigeria and Papua New Guinea. That time in Africa helped flavour her novel Where in All the World, which follows a young colonial New Zealand woman who makes a poor match in marriage to a flagrant British explorer. Although fiction, the heroine's experience's are similar to that of a real New Zealand woman, Gertrude Edith Grogan, who lived in Kenya after her marriage to Ewart Grogan - a British colonel who traversed Africa on foot. She talks about the themes of gender, betrayal and exploration - and the unexpected way she came to know Gertrude's story.

10:30 Scientists explore new way to rid land of wilding pines

Scientists are hoping a recent 50-hectare controlled burn of wilding conifer pines in Central Otago will help develop new ways to rid land of the pest. Wilding pines are invasive weeds that take over farmland and conservation areas, locking up land that could be productive. The burn was scientifically monitored by Scion Group, as part of the Bioeconomy Science Institute and the National Wilding Conifer Control Programme's ongoing research work. The objective is to get the burn hot enough and last long enough to destroy the cones on the trees and any wilding seed already in the soil. Shana Gross is a fire ecologist at the Bioeconomy Science Institute.

10:35 Book review: Good Things by Samin Nosrat

David Hill reviews Good Things by Samin Nosrat, published by Penguin Random House.

10:45 Around the motu: Kelly Mahika from the Rotorua Daily Post

Kelly discusses the re-opening of a popular Rotorua restaurant, a murder charge following a car crash, and Rotorua teen offered a job after video of him helping elderly shoppers go viral.

11:05 Business commentator Rebecca Stevenson

Listed restaurateurs Savor Group are ditching lamb cutlets for the first time in 14 years due to rising costs. Rebecca also discusses how Auckland med-tech firm Aroa could be set to benefit from United States' Medicare changes. And the fintech Xero founder, Rod Drury has taken a 20 per cent stake in startup Volley Payments . 

11:30 Mark Broatch on the mammoth task of finding the 100 words that make us Kiwi

If you had to take your pick of quintessential Kiwi words - what would you pick? Kiwi wordsmith Mark Broatch has taken on the mammoth task of choosing the top 100 words - and phrases - that really represent what it means to be from this land. From the classics like "she'll be right", "yeah nah" and "bugger", to the insults like "egg", "hua" and "skody". Mark's also included words with big ideas, events or themes behind them, things like "1080", "nuclear free" and "Think Big". He joins Kathryn to talk about the different ways these words, phrases and expressions have come to encompass our history, culture and sense of national pride.

11:45 Sports commentator Sam Ackerman 

The All Blacks fend off a spirited Wallabies side at Eden Park, as the Black Ferns secure third at the Rugby World Cup. Sam also talks about the ugly scenes at the golf's Ryder Cup with insults and beer thrown at Rory McIlroy.