Nine To Noon for Wednesday 30 November 2022

 

09:05 Court staff industrial action slowing down already swamped system

Lawyers say industrial action by court staff is slowing down proceedings by up to 50 per cent - affecting victims, witnesses, jurors, defendants, family members, lawyers and judges in a system already battling huge backlogs. Court staff have been working to rule for nearly three weeks, as they negotiate a collective agreement. This involves taking stipulated breaks at times when the court would normally be in session and finishing on the dot of 5pm - or sometimes earlier. The justice system is still dealing with a massive backlog of thousands of cases delayed by the pandemic. Vice President of the Criminal Bar Association, Chris Wilkenson-Smith, says the current industrial action is making things significantly worse. Kathryn also speaks with PSA national sector justice lead Willie Cochran

09:30 Inspiring teachers to grow and develop their skills

Lizzie Bayliss is an Auckland teacher on a mission to inspire others in the classroom who may be wading through exhaustion and red tape. She's founded a journal - called everyday, containing articles from practitioners across the sector and designed to be dipped in and out of to help teachers who want to grow and develop their skills in the classroom. Lizzie Bayliss says it's not that teachers don't want to develop professionally - they're often just ground down

09:45 Australia: Govt confident on passing IR bill, Nationals to oppose Indigenous Voice

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to talk about how the Government's industrial relations reforms look set to pass, and how they'll be a big win for workers and higher wages. The rural-based National Party is to oppose the Indigenous Voice for Parliament and the election result in Victoria confirms the Liberal Party is in deep trouble with a collapsed vote and inability to appeal to female voters, voters under 35 and renters.

10:05 Concussed 30 times: former rugby international wants rules changed

Michael Lipman is a former rugby international who played 10 test matches for England,  before playing professionally for Bristol and Bath, before joining the Melbourne Rebels .In that sporting career he was concussed 30 times, eventually retiring from the game a result. Then came the devastating diagnosis two years ago that Michael has chronic traumatic encephalopathy or (CTE) and early onset dementia. Michael Lipman is one of the initial group of former players to take a concussion lawsuit against World Rugby. He and his wife Frankie have written a book detailing how Michael's traumatic brain injuries have impacted their lives and making the case for urgent changes to concussion protocols in contact sports. It's simply called Concussion.

10:30 Around the motu: Tim Brown in Otago

RNZ journalist Tim Brown joins Kathryn to talk about the controversy surrounding Gore's new Mayor Ben Bell and the attempt by seven councillors to oust his choice of deputy, Queenstown's vulnerable migrants are being squeezed more than ever by rental prices and the mystery of the missing albatross eggs is still unsolved, three weeks later.

10:35 Book review: Whatever Next? by Anne Glenconner

Paul Diamond reviews Whatever Next? by Anne Glenconner, published by Hachette

10:45 The Reading

Part three of Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly told by Neenah Dekkers Reihana and Reon Bell.

11:05 Music with Charlotte Ryan

Charlotte plays new local music and features the latest acts to be announced for Womad 2023.

11:20 The making of Te Papa's 'Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War'

It's Te Papa's most successful exhibition ever - so popular in fact, it's been extended twice and will be on display until at least 2025. Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War opened on April 18 2015 to mark one hundred years since the Anzacs' campaign and more than 3.5 million people have now seen it - many of them repeat visitors. Wētā Workshop helped build the exhibit, which is centred around eight giant figures - each of them based on a real person who experienced Gallipoli in 1915. A new book of the same name, out tomorrow, looks at the how the exhibition was pulled together by Te Papa, Weta and guided in detail by military historian Christopher Pugsley. Kathryn is joined by Sir Richard Taylor, head of Wētā Workshop - and one of the book's authors.

11:45 Science: Bedtime procrastination, 'splash-free' urinal

Science commentator Laurie Winkless joins Kathryn with three quirky recent studies: procrastinating before bedtime might be bad for you, the tiny jelly-fish relative that jets through water and physicists have designed a 'splash-free' urinal. Laurie Winkless is a physicist and science writer.