Nine To Noon for Wednesday 13 March 2024

 

09:05 Dunedin school principals team up to tackle porn

Principals at four Dunedin schools have pledged to work more closely together to tackle social media harm and pornography. The heads of Otago Boys' High School, King's High School, John McGlashan College and St Hilda's Collegiate School have agreed to a 'Community of Practice' to share what they're doing in their own schools to reduce the impact of sexual harm and harassment. The group says it's not just a high school problem, but one facing the whole of society. Research in this area has found most Kiwi teens have seen porn by the time they're 17 - a quarter had already seen it at the age of 12. Figures published in 2022 found a third of the 2000 people prosecuted for revenge porn over a five year period were aged under 19. The group's work will be facilitated by Melanie Beres at the University of Otago. Richard Hall, rector of Otago Boys' High School and Jackie Barron, Principal of St Hilda's Collegiate talk about what they hope to achieve.

09:25 Ihorangi Reweti Peters: the teenager striving for mental health support for youth in state care  

Ihorangi Reweti Peters is a young man with a mission to make sure children in state care get the mental health support they need. But he says it's a mission he shouldn't have to be on and crucial psychological support for children and young people should be a given. At just 18 years old Ihorangi has already played a major role on several key inquiries - he was co-chair of Te Hiringa Mahara - Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission's Expert Advisory Group. He's also been the chair of VOYCE Whakarongo Mai Te Wai Pounamu Regional Youth Council, a rangatahi advisor for Oranga Tamariki as well as an advisory role for the Abuse in Care Inquiry. He brings his trauma to his advocacy work after spending much of his life in state care. Ihorangi has committed himself to ensuring no young person faces the challenges he did. He's been nominated for Young New Zealander of the Year.

09:45 Australia: $4b NT housing deal, China wine tariff could be lifted

Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to talk about the $4b remote housing package for the Northern Territory that's aimed at building hundreds of homes in Indigenous communities. Tariffs imposed by China that have crippled Australia's wine industry could be removed shortly, aged care could be in for a shake up after a taskforce found it wasn't "optimal" that taxpayers pay so much for the bill.

Annika Smethurst is political editor at The Age

10:05 From Afghanistan to an Auckland prison to Muslim community leader, the inspirational story of Bariz Shah  

Afghan migrant Bariz Shah is well known for his work in the community in the aftermath of the 2019 terrorist attack in Christchurch. He and his wife raised money to return to Afghanistan and establish 51 small businesses in honour of those they lost. He has been awarded numerous accolades for his efforts, including a Christchurch Civic Award. He completed an engineering degree from Canterbury University, now works an engineer and is father to a two-year-old. However this is a remarkable turnaround from the dark times of Bariz Shah's past. He speaks to Kathryn Ryan about his new memoir, Beyond Hope and how he found the strength to change his life.

10:35 Book review: To The River by Vikki Wakefield 

Lisa Finucane reviews To The River by Vikki Wakefield published by Text Publishing

10:45 Around the motu : John Freer in Coromandel

John takes a look ahead to ahead to two major events. This weekend Whitianga is hosting what is now classed as the world's biggest fishing event, Mercury Bay Fishing Club's Kubota Billfish Classic. And the following week the region moves from hosting boats to cars with Beach Hop at Whangamata, which brings an estimated economic benefit of $20 million. Also, John says there appears to be some movement on when vistiors may be allowed to visit Cathedral Cove again. And he talks to Kathryn about the Hauraki Plains Adaption Plan.

John Freer is a local news reporter for CFM.

 

11:05 Music with Kirsten Zemke: Song salad

Kirsten Zemke is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Auckland's School of Social Sciences.

11:20 Harnessing archeology to dig deeper into Māori connection with whales and dolphins

Archaeological artefacts are revealing more about the history of human connection to whales and dolphins in Aotearoa New Zealand. Despite their presence in whakapapa, and pūrākau (oral traditions), very little is on record showing early Maori interactions with cetaceans. In a project backed by an $870,000 Marsden Grant, researchers will harness science to retrace the intertwining path of whales and dolphins with our ancestors. Kathryn speaks with Dr Amber Aranui, a curator of Mātauranga Māori at Te Papa and Monica Tromp, manager of Southern Pacific Archaeological Research's laboratory at the University of Otago.

11:45 Personal finance: Missing KiwiSaver contributors

Financial wellbeing commentator David Boyle digs into the latest KiwiSaver report from financial advisory business National Capital which found more than 703,000 people are not contributing. If they were they'd be nearly $114b better off at retirement. Why are they not contributing and what could be done to encourage them? And David considers whether retirees need to be able to access more equity in their homes.

David Boyle is a financial wellbeing commentator, formerly of Mint Asset Management and the Commission for Financial Capability.