Nine To Noon

Families who've spent months and even years in emergency housing in Porirua are among those being assisted by a new job and skills hub in Cannons Creek. Le Fale job and skills hub opened last month, established as part of the Porirua Development Project. It's being run by the community services arm of Whanau Manaaki Kindergartens. The hub is open to all with community navigators helping to connect people with training, advice, job opportunities and financial skills as well as practical things like childcare, the right clothes to wear or assistance with driver training. Kathryn speaks with community services senior lead Caroline Mareko, and Le Fale community navigator, Fala Tavita.

A massive and irreplaceable archive of historically significant photographs is up for sale on the open market, after a lengthy ordeal abroad that almost saw them destroyed. Dubbed the Fairfax Archives, in 2013 the collection of 1.4 million photographs was sent by Fairfax Media to the United States to be digitised. However the company carrying out the digitisation later became linked to sports memorabilia fraud, was raided by the FBI and later bankrupted. The collection of images, as well as others from Australian newspapers, were seized and held as collateral on a US$14 million loan, and were in danger of being destroyed. An L.A-based gallery has since bought the entire archive, and is putting some of the photos up for sale. Described by historians as the country's "national photo album", the archive spans from 1840 to 2005. It includes historic moments like the 1981 Springbok Tour protests, the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the aftermath of the 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake and Sir Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mt Everest - as well as royal visits, Auckland's Queen St and 40,000 pictures of the All Blacks. So where should the Fairfax Archive ideally end up? And what does the sale of the collection mean for the preservation of our history? Kathryn speaks to Daniel Miller, the owner of Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles and Dr Paul Moon, a professor of History at AUT who was asked by Duncan Miller Gallery to help identify the images.

Cruise ships are back in our ports, but concerns have been raised in Christchurch and Dunedin over visitors clogging up public buses and potentially spreading Covid 19. Many cruise liners visiting here are struggling with Covid cases - a ship which just spent two weeks in New Zealand ended its tour with 800 cases on board. Christchurch City councillor Sara Templeton says there aren't enough public buses to meet cruise ship demand and she believes some locals are choosing not to travel because of overcrowding and fears cruise ship passengers may be spreading Covid. She tells Kathryn believes cruise companies should be providing transport for their passengers.

Kennedy joins Kathryn from the Southern Ocean - he's midway through a National Geographic expedition cruise, taking a loop from Ushuaia to Falkland Islands to South Georgia to Antarctic Peninsula and back to Ushuaia. He'll talk about what he saw on the Falklands, but mostly about South Georgia, where the beaches are packed with fur seals, elephant seals and penguins coming and going from sea. On the hillsides, albatrosses nest and penguins create their colonies. The island is rich in history, too. He visited Shackleton's grave in Gryvitken and wandered around the rusting machinery, tanks and paraphernalia of the abandoned whaling station.

With weeks to go before the end of the school year ideas about what to put in your children's lunch box could be running out. Kathrine Lynch is a budget food blogger based in Hamilton. She has some great tips about stretching your grocery dollar and filling school lunchboxes with appealing, tasty and economical kai for hungry kids, such as recipes for Hidden Vege Muffins, Burger Bites, and Almond & Apricot Bliss Balls.

Neale and Brigitte join Kathryn to talk about the Prime Minister's criticism of big bank profits as interest rates march upwards, reappointment of Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr and the Commerce Commission decision to monitor oil company margins. And the select committee hearing the Three Waters legislation reports back on Friday - will the government stay full steam ahead?

Now, to the innovative automation - born of necessity - to oyster farming, developed by a Marlborough oyster farmer , and now being used internationally. Aaron Pannell (pron Panel) , and his wife Debbie, sarted Marlborough Oysters 12 years ago. They have a hatchery, and export their shellfish to 15 countries. But the challenging conditions in which they grow , and the eventual reach of an oyster parasite to their production, put their business under enormous pressure just a few short years ago. Oyster farming is a tough, physical, and labour intenstive business. As is the case so often, necessity was the mother of invention. As was good observation... Leading to a whole new automated system on their oyster farm - called `Flip Farm.' The second business , initially to make their own operation easier and more financially viable, is now running alongside the seafood operation, and drawing orders internationally. Flip Farm, which allows for much easier access, management and harversing of oysters grown in very deep waters, has also won awards. It's being used globally by 70 other oyster farmers. (we have a video on our webpage - and a gallery of pics) So, where was Aaron Pannell at , and what is the story behind that eureka moment to mechanise...?

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney has the latest on the deadly explosion in Istanbul. He also talks to Kathryn about Russia's major military defeat as its troops withdrew from Kherson as Ukraine begins clearing the city of the mess and mines that have been left behind. Italy's new far-right government is in a stoush with France after it refused to let a migrant boat dock which is against EU and international law. And an Iranian man without a passport who lived in Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport for years, inspiring the Steven Spielberg film The Terminal, has died at the airport of a heart attack.

Contact Energy has launched a new paid parental leave policy it believes is among one of the most generous in the country.

Toots, not tweets. Extinct mammals, not birds. As more users seek to leave an Elon Musk-run Twitter they're turning to Mastodon. But how does it work?