Nine To Noon RNZ Radio

Comedians Irene Pink and Kathryn Burnett with a few laughs

The Robertson name has been in the headlines for the right and wrong reasons this week - commentator Sam Ackerman looks at the fall from grace from Olympian now drugs cheat Zane Robertson and the long-awaited rise of Scott Robertson to rugby's top coaching post.

The issue of karakia at public gatherings has come to a head at a recent Otago Regional Council meeting. Also the Gore District Council has been sentenced on a WorkSafe charge of failing to perform a duty in relation to the death of 3-year-old Lachlan Jones in one of the council's sewage oxidation ponds. And Tim discusses Queenstown's rental woes and power outages in Otago following strong winds and heavy rain. Tim Brown is an RNZ reporter in Dunedin covering Otago and Southland

Mellissa Oliver from Unity Books Wellington reviews Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey, published by Harper Collins

In 2006, Albert Park College in inner city Melbourne was closed after enrollments plummeted. A group of determined parents rallied and convinced the education department to give the publicly funded school a second chance. The old buildings were bulldozed and a new school began to take shape. In 2010, Steven Cook was appointed principal of the new school which at that stage had no furniture, no staff or students or even a name. 11 years later Albert Park College was voted Australian School of the Year. Steven Cook has written a book about the turnaround, and how a successful school was created where a previous one had failed.

RNZ Pacific Journalist Koroi Hawkins