Nine To Noon

Brigitte Morten, Neale Jones and Kathryn look the response of politicians to the ongoing protest situation at parliament. Also, just how much longer are the Covid mandates really are needed. Brigitte Morten is a director with public and commercial law firm Franks & Ogilvie and a former senior ministerial advisor for the previous National-led government. 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.

Ruby Brunton reviews To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara, published by Macmillan

The ground has been turned and the building begun for a new whare for more than 7 million important documents. A building of national significance, Heke Rua Archives, the new purpose-built archives facility in Wellington is state-of-the-art, with purpose-built digitisation and conservation facilities also for the National Library Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, and Nga Taonga Sound & Vision. In fact, the new Archives building will be linked by a bridge to the National Library, creating a kind of public record and documentary heritage 'campus' for our stories, taonga and heritage. Built on the site of the original Pipitea pa, the project is unique in that the conception and design process has involved mana whenua Taranaki Whanui Te Ati Awa from the start. Kathryn is joined by mana whenua Kura Moeahu /Tahuhu Principal Advisor Hinerangi Himiona who has been involved in this process each step of the way also Arts Laureate Rangi Kipa, who led the design work on the new building, and Chief Archivist Stephen Clarke.

The West tries new information tactics in confrontation with Russia. The US and the UK have been at the forefront of unprecedented efforts in recent weeks to quickly disclose intelligence reports about President Vladimir Putin's next possible moves, with warnings of precise details of Russian troop buildups, suggesting an invasion of Ukraine is imminent.

Fed up with people who misuse mobility parks, Claire Dale has launched a petition for tougher enforcement and stiffer fines. 150,000 mobility parking permits are currently in use nationwide through a scheme that's been administered by CCS Disability Action since the late 70s. But the enforcement falls to the carpark owner - the local council, if it's a public space, or the private landowner, in the case of malls or supermarkets. Claire joins Kathryn to explain where she thinks the current enforcement is weak, and what she hopes from presenting the petition at Parliament tomorrow. Also joining the conversation is Raewyn Hailes, an access coordinator for CCS Disability Action who runs the organisation's app for reporting mobility park misuse. Who are the biggest offenders and which companies turn a blind eye?

New Zealand's being urged to do everything it can do now to boost its digital productivity, before it loses out to other OECD nations racing on the information super-highway. The recent 2022 OECD economic survey of New Zealand said the country needed to "unleash digitalisation" to boost productivity. It said New Zealand was being held back by skilled worker shortages brought on by border restrictions and a weak pipeline of those skills due to poor maths achievement in schools. So how can the local tech sector continue with the gains they've made in the past decade? Tech mergers and acquisitions here have grown from $750m to over $11b last year. Kathryn discusses with Bruce Jarvis, who's working on the Digital Tech Industry Transformation Plan, focusing on Software-as-a-Service. And Andrew Mayfield is the CEO of Optimal Workshop, which creates information architecture tools for user research, and has just recently had a $10m dollar investment that will help double his staff.

Comedians Pinky Agnew and Gemma Gracewood bring a few laughs.

Sam has the latest action from the Winter Olympics and pays tribute to Rugby league legend Olsen Filipaina. Here's an interview with Olsen on Nine to Noon in 2020.

Kathryn speaks with Jane Patterson, RNZ's political editor about the morning's developments at the protest at the Beehive.

Released to coincide with an exhibition at London's Tate Modern, Life Between Islands focuses on the myriad musical styles to emerge out of the distinctly Caribbean world of sound systems. We'll hear two key tracks from that today, alongside classics from recent Spotify critic Joni Mitchell and enigmatic Liverpool band, The La's.