Nine To Noon

Kathryn speaks with Finance Minister Grant Robertson about his fifth budget, including $1 billion to tackle the cost of living.

Laumata Lauano talks to Kathryn about what she's been viewing, including Naomi on Neon, The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe Doco on Netflix and the second season of Girls5Eva on TVNZ.

Clinical psychologist Jacqui Maguire first spoke Nine to Noon about highly sensitive children back in March. In part two of the conversation, she tells Kathryn Ryan these children are more prone to feeling guilt and shame - and parents should keep this in mind.

Paul Matthews, chief executive of CIO Studio, looks at stolen passwords, with AA Travel the latest victim of a huge hack. So why does this keep happening and how can we protect ourselves?. It's Budget 2022 day today, however a key announcement for the tech sector was released ahead of time - with both good and bad news. And it's TechWeek with hundreds of events happening across the countrys.

Quentin Johnson reviews The Anomaly by Hervé le Tellier, published by Penguin Random House.

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Anthony Hoete is an entrepreneurial architect, developer, teacher and researcher, who has spent the last 30 years in Europe, mostly in the UK. In 2002 he set up WHATārchitecture, and then later his own development company, called Game of Architecture, developing a reputation as an award-winning and unconventional architect, with a passion for affordable housing. But after half his lifetime living in London, his turangawaewae has called him home. He returned to Aotearoa to take up the role of Professor of Architecture (Maori) at the University of Auckland, bringing with him his skills and vision. Now he's turning his attention to Maori and indigenous architectural projects and finding practical, affordable and sustainable housing solutions.

UK correspondent Matt Dathan.

Australians will be making their way to the polling booths to vote in the federal election on Saturday. Labor's Anthony Albanese is taking on Coalition incumbant Scott Morrison. The prime minister has appealed for Australians to stick with certainty, the Labor leader insists the country can't afford three more years of the Coalition. The polls have Albanese 2% ahead. Stephen Mills from Talbot Mills Research with the latest.

A former drug dealer, who's spent half his life in prison, says gangs are a scourge and must be outlawed. Rotorua based Bill McFarlane once ran a large methamphetamine operation in the Bay of Plenty, for which he was jailed in maximum security prison for 14 years, following earlier incarerations. Now he runs a residential rehabilitation programme for ex-offenders called Puwhakamua. But gang members are not welcome in the programme, and he says he's turned down hundreds of them.Billy McFarlane says he's worried that gang numbers are growing, and in Rotorua, there have been gang skirmishes even in primary schools between children of gang families. He says no one is calling it out and he's had enough.

Siouxie talks to Kathryn about a new study which finds a potential biomarker for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome present at birth. Also the use of sniffer dogs to detect Covid infection and researchers have just reported their results trying to grow plants in soil from the moon.