Nine To Noon

Elison Mae spent 17 years in and out of foster care suffering emotional, physical, sexual and psychological abuse which she says social workers knew about and turned a blind eye. The Royal Commission into Abuse in State care is holding a week long inquiry into abuse within the foster care system, and Ms Mae yesterday spoke for the first time of her experiences. Remarkably she survived that childhoo, went on to get a law degree, and worked for Child Youth and Family. She says the system must be fixed, and she's speaking out because she doesn't want any other child to go through what she did.

There are warnings of a "Great Resignation" with staff turnover in many sectors reaching up to 50 per cent. That's according to the annual Salary and Employment Report by Human resources platform MyHR, covering more than 1,250 companies, and 27,000 employees, in New Zealand between 2019 and 2022. In data also out today, job advertisements rose to a record high, up 3-percent, in May. Employment website Seek says this is 15-percent higher than this time last year. Applications for those jobs fell by 4-percent. There's been a sharp increase in demand for workers in particular in retail, hospitality and community services. So what does this all mean for workers and employers? Kathryn is joined by MyHR chief executive Jason Ennor and Professor of Human Resource Management at AUT's Department of Management Jarrod Haar.

Kennedy looks at the incredible migratory journeys of godwits from New Zealand to Alaska, which are happening at the moment, and which inspired a piece of choral music in praise of the birds. Also the fish that is destroying Caribbean coral reefs and how noisy oceans can affect the breeding of reef fish.

A Kiwi food company is winning over vegans, vegetarians and flexitarians with a range of alternative meat products sold under the brand name Plan*t. Sustainable Foods currently supplies plant-based burgers, mince and sausages to New Zealand supermarkets and takeaway chains and will soon enter the competitive international market.

The Prime Minister has met her new counterpart in Australia, Anthony Albanese, but will anything change over 501 deportees? A new poll shows the pain points for the government - economic pressures and crime, is it time for a Cabinet reshuffle? And then there's the Tauranga by-election. Neale Jones was Chief of Staff to Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, and prior to that was Chief of Staff to Andrew Little. He is the director of Capital Government Relations. Tim Hurdle is a former National party advisor and was campaign director for National at the 2020 election.

Ralph McAllister reviews Bad Actors by Mick Herron, published by Hachette NZ

Coming Home is a new documentary set in a town in South Africa following the lives of a group of men whose lives revolve around racing pigeons. It homes in on one of the pigeon farmers, Emile, who loves his birds but dreams to see the world and to work as a musician. Award winning film maker Julia Jansch has a film making diploma from The New York Film Academy, and an MBA and Masters in Global Governance from the University of Oxford. One of her previous films, My Father The Mover was the Best Documentary Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2020. Coming Home is playing as part of Doc Edge, screening online until the 10th of July.

The French government has welcomed news of a compensation agreement in the row with Australia over the scrapping of a French submarine deal. Australia's new Labour government says it's reached a settlement worth 555 million euros, to be paid to France's Naval Group. France's new defence minister says it's the 'turning of a new page' in France-Australia relations. Seamus also talks to Kathryn about the leaders of Germany, France and Italy reportedly planning a joint visit to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv within weeks. And France has been voting in the first round of parliamentary elections that will decide whether newly-reelected President Macron gets a working majority in parliament.

Auckland's billion-dollar budget passed last week, which means the city's households will soon be paying into a dedicated fund to help tackle climate change.

There's has been an almost 50 percent increase in the number of students who have stopped going to their regular school, and enrolled at the Correspondence School in the last year. Te Kura, which provides distance learning to students around the country, has seen a huge boom in enrolments in the last 12 months - with the vast majority; 1000, being classified as non-enrolled. That category now numbers over two and half thousand of the school's total roll of 10 thousand. These are students whose previous school has taken them off the roll for not attending or have fallen out of the education system. These disengaged students, along with those expelled or excluded, may be referred to Te Kura by the Ministry of Education, but that can take months or even years. So what's driving these numbers to the Correspondence School, what happens to students who are out of the system, and especially to those left waiting in limbo? Kathryn speaks to Mike Hollings, the chief executive of Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu and Sarah Butterfield, a solicitor at YouthLaw Aotearoa, a free community law centre for young people under 25.