Nine To Noon for Friday 10 March 2023

 

09:05 Stronger vape regulation urgently needed: public health researchers

A group of health professionals and educators is calling for New Zealand to follow Australia's lead and make vapes prescription only. According to a study by the anti smoking group ASH, over 250,000 New Zealanders vape daily.  Another survey of 19 thousand secondary school students,  by the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation, found that more than a quarter of them had vaped in the last week - nearly 20 per cent vaping daily or several times daily - and the majority with high nicotine doses. In Australia vapes are prescription only - for people trying to quit cigarettes. However experts there say the system has many loopholes and further regulation is urgently needed. Kathryn speaks with Curtin University Professor of Public Health Jonine Jancey,  whose latest research looks at the slick marketing tactics and claims by online vape retailers; and University of Sydney School of Public Health associate professor Becky Freeman who leads the Generation Vape research project. The interview discusses this article in The Lancet.

09:30 Should Auckland let its hidden waterways see daylight?

The unprecedented rainfall that hit Auckland on January 27 was, for many, a shock introduction to the city's old streams and waterways. Before urbanisation Auckland was a complex system of streams, rivers and wetlands  - and the January flooding brought some to the surface with a vengeance.  With climate change likely to bring more severe rain events, is now the time to think seriously about building up rather than spreading out into more green space, and daylighting more of the city's streams? Matthew Bradbury is a landscape architect, an associate professor at Unitec and author of Water City: Practical Strategies for Climate Change.

09:45 Pacific correspondent Koroi Hawkins

Former Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama is due to appear for a special hearing in a Suva court this morning after spending the night in a police cell alongside the suspended police chief Sitiveni Qiliho.The pair were charged with one count each of abuse of office following the sanctioning of charges by the Public Prosecutions director (DPP) Christopher Pryde yesterday. The two are alleged to have interfered in an active investigation into a financial mismanagement case involving former staff of the University of the South Pacific almost four years ago. Also, the initial estimate of the recovery cost following Vanuatu's twin cyclone disaster is estimated at six billion vatu, or just under $US50 million. And after four years of disruption, Polyfest has kicked off, with live audiences, in Tāmaki Makaurau.

RNZ Pacific Journalist Koroi Hawkins 

10:05 Awe: transforming minds and bodies - Dacher Keltner

Awe is one of the least-studied emotions.  It's that tingling, compelling moment psychologist at the University of California, Berkeley Dacher Keltner describes as "the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your understanding of the world".  Dacher's new book is Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.  In it he explores how emotions such as awe, compassion, desire, and pride shape our relationships, physical environment, mental health and sources of pleasure. It's science and it's history.  And it's also a deeply personal inquiry. Dacher Keltner tells Kathryn cultivating awe in our everyday life can be life enhancing.

 

10:35 Book review: Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh

Martene McCaffrey of Unity Books Auckland reviews Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh, published by Hamish Hamilton

10:45 Around the motu: Mary Argue in Wairarapa 

The Tinui community was hard hit by Cyclone Gabrielle and the local school is  still operating from playcentre and community hall amid talk of managed retreat. Carterton council has unanimously decided to name a road in a new development 'Georgina Beyer Way' after the former MP and mayor died this week. And Mary has a wrap of local events including the just held Golden Shears.

Mary  Argue is the Chief reporter at Wairarapa Times Age 

11:05 Music reviewer Grant Smithies​

Electrified is a spanking new double album of new and collected tracks by mighty French psych-rock duo, The Liminanas. We'll hear two tracks from that today, plus something from a new EP from Auckland's Leonard Charles and a freshly reissued gem from De La Soul.  
 

11:30 Sports commentator Sam Ackerman

Sam breaks down the Black Caps latest headache against Sri Lanka - spoiler alert, it’s quite similar to their last one - and we look at the weekend sporting forecast for the Warriors, Breakers and mens and women’s Super Rugby
 

11:45 The week that was

Comedians Elisabeth Easther and Donna Brookbanks with a few laughs

 

Music played in this show

Track: Finger Tips 
Artist: Stevie Wonder 
Time played: 10:32am 

Track: Buffalo Stance
Artist: Neneh Cherry 
Time played: 10:35am