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An editorial published in last weekend's Weekend Herald was written by artificial intelligence. Colin Peacock from RNZ Mediawatch spoke to Corin Dann.

I want to start the show with tributes to 3 people. The first is Brooke Graham. My neighbour and friend from the Coromandel who died recently at the age of just 42 from brain cancer.  A fast death inside 9 weeks but slow enough for her to make plans for her 10 year old daughter and her husband. Hers was a death of great grace and I am immensely sad. So to Carrick and MacKenzie, here's to your amazing wife and mother. Then there's Simon Barnett and his support of his wife, Jodi over the past 6 years in her fight against brain cancer as well. This was featured in the Weekend Herald on Saturday. Of course all of us here have on the afternoon show have known what Simon and his family have been going through. His strength, courage and love while still working this demanding job is amazing. It's good that you now know. And finally I want to acknowledge Richie Poulton, the director of the Dunedin study who passed away yesterday at the age of 61, again of cancer. Richie and I were at Auckland Grammar together. In the same cohort were people like Martin Crowe and Grant Fox and business people Ian Narev and Simon Herbert. But Richie is the best of all of us. At school he was smart and sporty.  I knew him as a nice bloke and a very good cricketer. I had no idea of the greatness within him. He was featured last night on the Sunday programme. It was a heart-breaking watch. Now, if you don't know, the Dunedin Study is a research programme that has followed the progress of 1,000 children born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1972-73, from birth to midlife. Over 1300 papers have been published about how your environment and upbringing influences your situation. It's world famous, as is Richie. Last night, John Campbell asked him what the greatest finding was. Richie said poverty. He said you can't undo what happens in childhood. In 2016 the Dunedin Study published a paper called "Childhood disadvantage strongly predicts costly adult life-course outcomes". It found that nearly 80 percent of adult economic burden can be attributed to just 20 percent of the study members. The researchers determined that this “high cost” group accounted for 81 percent of criminal convictions, 66 percent of welfare benefits, 78 per cent of prescription fills and 40 percent of excess obese kilograms. Professor Poulton says that they also found that members of this group can be identified with high accuracy when as young as 3. Target these guys and you solve a lot of problems. But as he said last night no-one has talked about poverty in this election campaign. Labour made it their core goal over the past 6 years, and yet all they've done is throw money at all beneficiaries. And National doesn't utter the p word at all. It was- cut benefits and belief it can stem criminality with longer sentences. Yet back in 2017, Bill English quoted the 2016 study and talked about social investment. If we can identify the truly vulnerable, why don't we help them, and just them. National has abandoned all that work it did 6 years ago and I have no idea why. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

So Labour and National kicked off their respective campaigns over the weekend to Labour's big wizz-bang attention-getter was the promise of free dental care for under 30s, but not until 2026.   National, having already announced 37 different policies, decided to stick to a pledge card detailing the party's eight main commitments, if and when elected. Both took potshots at one another over the weekend, Hipkins said that National's tax plan was sneaky.   He questioned the costings and he said National are people who want to win the election, whatever it takes and bugger the cost. Talk about pot calling the kettle black there.   Luxon fired back at Hipkins saying power doesn't concede easily and Labour's campaign was one of fear and disinformation.   Certainly, the CTU's gone all out with the attack ads. If you see the cover of this morning's Herald newspaper, it's pretty much a rich prick assault on the leader of the National Party with the ad they've taken out.   Still, that's democracy.   And if Citizens and Ratepayers decided to put something out about Hipkins' inability to be an effective Prime Minister, then I'm quite sure the Herald would take the money and wrap the ad around the newspaper.   You've got to survive in the media, you gotta take the ads. I did think Hipkins' whatever the cost comment was a bit rich, given that Labour's committed to free dental health care for under 30s, a policy Labour's considered before, but did the numbers and said it was too expensive and unworkable.   And while the Labour Party luvvies got terribly excited about the announcement, it won't be rolled out until the next election. Health Minister Ayesha Verrall was on with Mike Hosking this morning and says the free dental rollout will take until the next election because of staffing.  So much to unpack from that. For a start, we've got the mental health system that's seen a million people. Has it? Has it really, Ayesha?   And this would be the same mental health system where mental health workers at Capital Coast and Hutt Valley say that they're at their wit's end, the system is in crisis, we're overwhelmed. It's an increasingly unsafe mental health public system. We have a desperate shortage of skilled and experienced clinicians.   That would be that mental health service would it Ayesha?  That one. Because it doesn't sound like it's coping terribly well.   It sounds like the staff themselves are about to have mental breakdowns because of the pressure that they're under. The unworkable conditions that they're having to work under. So there's that.   And then we've got the dental service, the free dental care to under 30s that has been dismissed by Labour before as expensive and unworkable.   There was a story about a dentist in the Weekend Herald whose kids can't get into dentistry school despite their A+ pluses, and he's packed a stroppy, rich guy sad and said my children want to be dentists and I want to give my dentist clinic to them and they can't get into Otago.    And so Ayesha Verrall was asked why there are only 60 places offered at the University of Otago, when you get more than 500 applying every year. And she said it's very expensive, it's specialised and high cost to deliver dentistry training. And then she said there is a relatively small labour market in New Zealand for graduates.   So she's basically saying we only need 60, so this vision of universal free healthcare for under 30s must have been a relatively recent vision. Because how in the name of all that is holy are 60 new dentists going to be able to deal with the expected influx of people wanting their fangs checked?    You've also got Labour and Chris Hipkins telling the Newsroom media website last month, so not even 30 days ago, he said the health system doesn't have the capacity to deliver free dental care for all, and there would likely be a significant investment required just in order to build capacity, to meet the need for additional dental care.   So last month we didn't have the capacity in the health system to deliver universal dental care. So less than 30 days later, all of a sudden, we finesse it by saying, okay, it's gonna be for the end of 30s and it's not going to start until 2026.   Newsroom went back to him and said, how can you do this? And he said, well, every election you have a different set of priorities.   And he said it won't be too little too late, even though it takes 6 years to train a dentist and the first tranche, won't be funded till May of next year. I mean, they're basically saying whatever it takes to get votes and we shouldn't be surprised because it's an election campaign. But can they just be even a little bit clever about it?   Last month we didn't have the capacity for universal dental care. This month we do. Because the polls say it would be a good thing. I still think the most egregious turnaround and absolute disposal of any morals and principles was when Hipkins and Kelvin Davis announced they'd build two youth prisons when they realised how badly they'd lost the room when it came to law and order.   And this despite the fact it goes against everything they believe in. But they announced they'll build 2 youth prisons, no start date. But they just say it, because they realize they're losing the room on law and order.   Sacrificing everything they believe in. Just to try and get up in the polls. This universal dental plan for under 30s comes pretty close to that egregious turnaround. Labour reckons National wants to win the election quote, whatever it takes and bugger the cost.   Really, Chris Hipkins? National weren't the ones spraying around expensive, unrealistic and unachievable promises over the weekend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mary Holm's been writing about personal finance weekly for the same paper for more than 25 years. But she tells Mediawatch it's really the readers who have kept it going.  

Mary Holm's been writing about personal finance weekly for the same paper for more than 25 years. But she tells Mediawatch it's really the readers who have kept it going.  

Beauden Barrett is confident players can shut out the background noise of administrators as the process to appoint a new All Blacks coach begins. New Zealand Rugby has confirmed they want a decision made by mid-April to replace Ian Foster from next year. Foster has announced he won't apply with his current contract coming to an end after the Rugby World Cup in September-October. Foster was last week critical of the process, telling the Weekend Herald the decision should be put off until after the World Cup has finished in October. “Those conversations are best had after a World Cup when everyone is clear and we have the latest data and we know where the team is at, and then the board and everyone can make the decision with all the data on the table. “In the meantime, we have got a management team and a coaching group that is fully committed to one goal, which is the World Cup and not trying to position themselves into where they fit in next year's regime.” All Blacks and Blues first five-eighth Barrett told D'Arcy Waldegrave on Newstalk ZB's Sportstalk he trusted New Zealand Rugby to make the right call and it shouldn't be a distraction during the Super Rugby Pacific season. “Depends how much you want to read into it. I've always keep the reading and listening to a minimum and haven't got too involved with that in the past,” he said “And I know the decision's being made, so it's completely out of our hands. As a player, I'm just focused on playing this weekend for my team and we trust that New Zealand make the right decisions for the right reasons. This is the union I'm talking about. And there's nothing we can do about it as players.” Barrett said he also wasn't looking too far towards the World Cup in France and whether he'll be playing in the 10 or 15 jersey. “At the moment, [I'm] focusing on playing first-five for the Blues and who knows what will happen. “I'm sure Fozzie [Foster] and Schmidty [assistant coach Joe Schmidt] will be plotting a plan as we speak. We've got to get our position in the team firstly. So myself, Richie [Mo'unga] doing that. Whoever's out there playing on the weekend, like we can just focus on playing good Super Rugby and that's what you're going to be doing. Barrett and the Blues began their Super Rugby Pacific campaign with an impressive 60-20 win over the Highlanders last weekend. They face the Brumbies on Sunday in Melbourne as they look to continue their winning season to the season.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Warning: this episode contains graphic descriptions of murder and the disposal of a body and is suitable for a mature audience only.  In 2010 Auckland woman Carmen Thomas was reported missing by her ex-partner Brad Callaghan. He told police she had failed to pick up their little boy as per their shared custody arrangement and he was worried. Police launched an investigation but there was no sign of Carmen. Three months later Callaghan was arrested and the brutal and macabre details of Carmen's murder and his attempts to avoid being caught came to light. The case is one of New Zealand's most high-profile murder investigations and in this episode of A Moment In Crime senior journalist Anna Leask goes back through the timeline of tragedy.  This episode includes short extracts from the television show Forensics - a prime-time documentary ‘crime' series that aired in New Zealand in 2017. The show was produced by South Pacific Pictures. To read more about Carmen Thomas, click on the links to stories published in the NZ Herald, Weekend Herald and Herald on Sunday below. If there is a case you want to hear about on A Moment In Crime, please email host and producer Anna Leask anna.leask@nzme.co.nz  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/cctv-footage-clue-in-carmen-inquiry/E7DU36D5GJHTLU2SJOYLFQR5VE/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/carmen-thomas-murder-brad-callaghan-hid-his-dark-secret-behind-sinister-mask-of-deception/ST6ZX3NHVSMKWNKDJUFWGT5K7E/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/revealed-how-science-caught-carmen-thomas-killer/E5S5N2Y2VS5BHLEH4U3MOYZAGQ/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/parenting-the-parentless-raising-the-children-of-family-violence-murders-in-new-zealand/FEPWLQBXEBDENEK65VJCQODXYA/  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Another pandemic of “overwhelming magnitude” is right on New Zealand's doorstep.  It has been reported in the New Zealand Herald's Great Minds series that our children's mental health services are at crisis point.  There are very real concerns that we aren't prepared or equipped to deal with the increasing numbers of young people seeing help.  Yesterday, paediatrician, former Chief Science Advisor and director of The Centre for Informed Futures, Sir Peter Gluckman spoke to the Weekend Herald about his concerns. Sir Peter Gluckman joined Francesca Rudkin. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Infectious diseases expert Siouxsie Wiles has spoken out about the appalling online abuse she has suffered in her work.The prominent science communicator, who answered the nation's Covid-19 questions during lockdown, has revealed dozens of ugly insults and threats she has received on social media aimed at her bright pink hair and her weight.Some of the more repeatable ones include; "Pink could lose a few pounds just saying", "I'm guessing around 100lbs at least to be out of her current obese state .. what do you think @SiouxsieW ?" and "Bloomfield got the Bus. This one is going to need something a bit bigger" with an image of a train.Wiles features in a short documentary released today on nzherald.co.nz called Siouxsie and the Virus about her public education role in the early days of the pandemic and her behind-the-scenes fears of what might happen.In a separate interview with the Weekend Herald, she says she is speaking up about the online abuse to make New Zealanders aware of the problem."I don't want sympathy," she tells Canvas writer Greg Bruce. "I want people to see it. I want people to see what happens when we are vocal, when we speak out about our areas of expertise."The issue of cyber bullying is a widespread one in New Zealand, with one internet safety group receiving around 15 calls a day.Netsafe CEO Martin Cocker told Francesca Rudkin one in ten adults and one in five youth say they've received a harmful communication in the past year."For a long time, there is very little process to help people who were the victims of this kind of behaviour, so the culture of this stuff developed pretty far before we had any real kind of decent response."He says we now have the Harmful Digital Communications Act so things can be done.

TVNZ journalist Mark Crysell and political commentator Shane Te Pou join The Panel on The Weekend Collective to discuss this, along with more issues making news this week.Infectious diseases expert Siouxsie Wiles has spoken out about the appalling online abuse she has suffered in her work.The prominent science communicator, who answered the nation's Covid-19 questions during lockdown, has revealed dozens of ugly insults and threats she has received on social media aimed at her bright pink hair and her weight.Some of the more repeatable ones include; "Pink could lose a few pounds just saying", "I'm guessing around 100lbs at least to be out of her current obese state .. what do you think @SiouxsieW ?" and "Bloomfield got the Bus. This one is going to need something a bit bigger" with an image of a train.Wiles features in a short documentary released today on nzherald.co.nz called Siouxsie and the Virus about her public education role in the early days of the pandemic and her behind-the-scenes fears of what might happen.In a separate interview with the Weekend Herald, she says she is speaking up about the online abuse to make New Zealanders aware of the problem."I don't want sympathy," she tells Canvas writer Greg Bruce. "I want people to see it. I want people to see what happens when we are vocal, when we speak out about our areas of expertise."The article includes many other examples of hurtful comments about her weight ("Maybe you need to try the Pasta diet 'Suzy'? Go pasta fridge, pasta shop, pasta Macca's…"), her credentials ("Sixiouse Willis is a moron." [sic]) and her personality ("This bitch is evil").Wiles says the steady build-up of comments has affected her."It's just made it completely anxiety-inducing, when everything is just horrible, horrible messages from awful people. Yeah, it just makes me sad and a bit anxious."I'm getting loads of people that are quite happy to tell me how much of a satanic witch I am. I know that the people on the other side vastly outweigh them but that's not what you see so I have to remind myself of that. It's hard when you kind of swim in this toxic thing."She has considered leaving Twitter but would find it very hard because she has uses the network to follow other scientists and learn what people are thinking around the world.Australian political scientist Jessica Megarry, who has spent years studying the online abuse of women, says part of the problem is that we expect women to look a certain way."It's hard to win this, right? if you're too feminine – if you're too stereotypically attractive – you're going to be ridiculed on that basis. If you're not feminine enough, you're going to be ridiculed on that basis."Wiles' University of Auckland colleague, physicist Shaun Hendy, has made similar media and social media appearances throughout the epidemic, almost entirely without abuse."In general, the online abuse is often targeted at women or minority groups, and the white males like me generally get an easier ride," says Hendy."She's an extrovert, she's got pink hair, she really stands out, and I think that really annoys some people... You often see her being accused of attention-seeking, when actually she's just doing her job."Infectious diseases expert Siouxsie Wiles and filmmaker Gwen Isaac, who directed Siouxsie and the Virus. Photo / SuppliedWellington filmmaker Gwen Isaac, who made Siouxsie and the Virus, says she can't help but think the abuse is because Wiles is a woman."She's getting attacked about other things that are not related to her job. And I don't think (fellow scientist) Michael Baker's being told he needs to wear better suits and sort his hair out and got to lose some weight and all the rest of it. When a woman sets up like that, they're just so much more vulnerable."Wiles says she loves communicating with the wider public about science but wishes she didn't have to handle the personal insults that go with it."I'm a fat middle-aged woman," sh...

Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel says Facebook's response to the Christchurch mosque shootings is too little too late.The social media giant told the Weekend Herald it's "looking into" how it can stop the spread of violent video and images.Creator Mark Zuckerberg has called for global rules for the internet, saying Governments and regulators need to take an active role.Mayor Lianne Dalziel spoke to Chris Lynch and asked how Facebook can use an algorithm to sell her products, yet can't take down the gunman's live stream.She says it tells us a lot about whether these large corporations actually are capable of acting in the public interest ahead of their own private interest and profit. 

Mary Holm, a personal finance columnist for the Weekend Herald, joins the Weekend Collective for their finance hour this week.They're asking how have you dealt with different attitudes to money in a relationship? Plus, how do you succeed in saving?LISTEN ABOVE

Each week the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB's Cooking The Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's how to protect yourself from the scammers. Hosted by Frances Cook.When you're trying to make a buck, the lure of finding the golden ticket is hard to resist.The old saying 'if it's too good to be true, it probably is', gets bandied around a lot, and yet people still fall for scams over and over again.Even worse is when you think you know what you're doing. There's nothing more dangerous than a little bit of knowledge.It's often just enough to overinflate your confidence, and send you running headlong into deals that have major red flags.Take cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.They're the hot thing right now, helped along by some astonishing rises in value. They're true disrupters, likely to change the way people do business, and there is certainly money to be made.But unless you really know what you're doing, in my view cryptocurrencies are too similar to gambling at this point in time. A new player pops up every day, and it's hard to tell the disrupters from those who've jumped on the bandwagon, or even worse, from the scammers.Just a few days ago the Herald revealed a stern warning from the Financial Markets Authority about e-commerce site Sell My Good. Those behind it want investor cash for their website, and the digital currency people will need to use it, SMG Cash.The FMA warned people away from the company, and the Weekend Herald investigation found traffic on the website appeared to have been inflated by a factor of 10,000.There's nothing like goosing your numbers to make it more attractive to investors.Sell My Good eventually withdrew their investment offer and said their website was hacked.I called Paul Gregory, director of external communications and investor capability for the Financial Markets Authority, to talk us through the difference between hot opportunities and dodgy deals.We talked about the questions to ask yourself before you even start investing, red flags that you should always be cautious of, and the particular danger of investments based overseas.For the interview, listen to the podcast.If you have a question about the episode or something you want me to look into for the future, come and talk to me about it. You can find me on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/ and Twitter here https://twitter.com/FrancesCook.

Each week the New Zealand Herald and Newstalk ZB's Cooking The Books podcast tackles a different money problem. Today, it's how to protect yourself from the scammers. Hosted by Frances Cook.When you're trying to make a buck, the lure of finding the golden ticket is hard to resist.The old saying 'if it's too good to be true, it probably is', gets bandied around a lot, and yet people still fall for scams over and over again.Even worse is when you think you know what you're doing. There's nothing more dangerous than a little bit of knowledge.It's often just enough to overinflate your confidence, and send you running headlong into deals that have major red flags.Take cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.They're the hot thing right now, helped along by some astonishing rises in value. They're true disrupters, likely to change the way people do business, and there is certainly money to be made.But unless you really know what you're doing, in my view cryptocurrencies are too similar to gambling at this point in time. A new player pops up every day, and it's hard to tell the disrupters from those who've jumped on the bandwagon, or even worse, from the scammers.Just a few days ago the Herald revealed a stern warning from the Financial Markets Authority about e-commerce site Sell My Good. Those behind it want investor cash for their website, and the digital currency people will need to use it, SMG Cash.The FMA warned people away from the company, and the Weekend Herald investigation found traffic on the website appeared to have been inflated by a factor of 10,000.There's nothing like goosing your numbers to make it more attractive to investors.Sell My Good eventually withdrew their investment offer and said their website was hacked.I called Paul Gregory, director of external communications and investor capability for the Financial Markets Authority, to talk us through the difference between hot opportunities and dodgy deals.We talked about the questions to ask yourself before you even start investing, red flags that you should always be cautious of, and the particular danger of investments based overseas.For the interview, listen to the podcast.If you have a question about the episode or something you want me to look into for the future, come and talk to me about it. You can find me on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/FrancesCookJournalist/ and Twitter here https://twitter.com/FrancesCook.

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