Nine To Noon for Tuesday 27 March 2018

 

 

09:05 Cattle and Oysters. A catalogue of issues: Damien O'Connor

Minister for Agriculture and Biosecurity Damien O'Connor speaks with Kathryn Ryan about the cattle cull on 28 affected farms to put a halt to mycoplasma bovis disease. The Minister has acknowledged the failures in the national reporting system - NAIT - that is supposed to track animals from birth to slaughter, or live export. The disease outbreak is just one of a catalogue of major issues for MPI, including the discovery of the Bonamia Ostreae parasite in farmed oysters on Stewart Island, which has seen all farmed oyster beds on the island being pulled up - again in a bid to try to avoid the spread to wild oyster stocks.

09:20 On your bike: barriers to cycling to school

A new study suggests a rethink is needed of how we teach cycling skills if more children are to bike to school.  Associate Professor in Sport and Exercise Sciences at the University of Otago Sandy Mandic also outlines to Kathryn Ryan the five year Built Environment and Active Transport to School (BEATS) study, which investigates transport to school habits, the neighbourhood environment and physical activity of high school students living in the Otago region.

09:45 USA correspondent Susan Milligan

Our US correspondent, Susan Milligan, joins Kathryn to talk about the March for Our Lives, more upheavals at the White House and what Stormy Daniels said.

10:05 Tom Peters - thriving in the tech tide

Tom Peters has variously been described as an influential business thinker, leadership guru and 'The Red Bull of Management'. He's the author of more than 30 management books, a former partner with international consultancy McKinsey, his best selling 1982 co-authored title In Search of Excellence is regarded by many as a seminal text. Tom Peters is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Auckland Business School. His latest book is The Excellence Dividend - Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last.

10:35 Book review

Phil Vine reviews Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon, published by HarperCollins.

10:45 The Reading

Baby No Eyes by Patricia Grace (Ep. 17 of 17)

11:05 Business commentator Rod Oram

Rod Oram has been gauging the mood of shareholders at Fonterra's roadshow events this week; how do they think the coop and its board are performing?

11:30 Chris Maclean: A way with words

Historian, writer, photographer and publisher Chris Maclean, looks back at more than 40 years in the book business. He has books in his bones - his great-grandfather was George Whitcombe, the founder of Whitcombe & Tombs and Chris keeps the family tradition alive through his own publishing imprint, The Whitcombe Press. His latest book, A Way With Words, recalls the challenges and rewards of writing and publishing a dozen titles over the past four decades.

11:35 Carol Hirshfeld resigns over meeting with Minister

RNZ Senior Manager, Carol Hirschfeld, has resigned over a meeting she had with the Broadcasting Minister Clare Curran last December. The meeting has already attracted political criticism from National, as it was not included in the minister's diary. The RNZ Chief Executive Paul Thompson says Ms Hirschfeld had repeatedly assured him that as Head of News, her meeting with Clare Curran last December was coincidental and that she and the Minister had talked after bumping into each other by chance in a Wellington cafe.  Mr Thompson says however, Ms Hirschfeld told him on Sunday the meeting had been pre-arranged. RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson discusses the implications.

11:45 Media commentator Gavin Ellis

Gavin has been looking at the proposed Information Authority  suggested by constitutional lawyers Geoffrey Palmer and Andrew Butler in their follow-up book on a written constitution; Stuff's latest diversification scheme - Stuffpix - takes it into the already crowded market for streamed video and he's has been watching Stan Walker's documentary, which is simply titled, Stan.

Gavin Ellis is a media commentator and former editor of the New Zealand Herald.  He can be contacted on gavin.ellis@xtra.co.nz