Nine To Noon for Tuesday 22 November 2022

 

 

09:05 Open banking: How it works and where to next?

New Zealand is set to push ahead with open banking - continuing the trend toward using technology to open up the banking system.  The government has confirmed the banking sector will be the first to use what's called a Consumer Data Right, where consumers can allow places that hold their data to share it - allowing them to access a wider range of products and services they might want. Kathryn is joined by Jason Roberts, FintechNZ's executive director to talk about how open banking works and where it could apply to other sectors. She's also joined by Rob Nicholls, Associate Professor in regulation and governance at the University of Sydney's Business School, to look at what's already happened with open banking in Australia.

If you're interested in finding out more about open banking, FintechNZ are holding a hui in February focused on innovation across banking, payments, insurance, sustainability, wealth, investment and trade. You can find more details here.

09:25 Meta unveils teen safety measures

Social media giant Meta claims it has new tools to prevent online predators targetting teens on Facebook and Instagram. It says it's improving privacy settings to help prevent teens from connecting with adults whom the platforms deem as `suspicious', who won't appear in teen's recommendations for friend requests.  Meta says it's also encouraging teenagers to report anything making them feel uncomfortable. The platform says it will now make teenagers' Facebook accounts private by default  - it made this change to Instagram last year.  Meanwhile Meta says it's also working to stop the spread of teens' intimate images online, but has not released any more detail.  Kathryn speaks with Chief Executive of Netsafe Brent Carey.

09:35  Efforts to preserve photographer Peter Bush's life's work

 
The family of veteran Wellington photographer Peter Bush is struggling to find a home for his vast collection of images portraying eight decades of sporting and socially significant events. Starting his professional career with a box brownie as an 18 year old shooting a rugby match, Peter Bush's name is well recognised in sporting circles, but his life's work also documents key moments in New Zealand's social history. This includes pictures of Royal tours, the Vietnam war protests, The Māori Land March in the 1970s and the All Blacks. Now aged 92, Peter Bush has handed the management of his images to his daughter Rachel, whose aim is to have the collection digitised and find institution to house it. The collection consists of an estimated 300,000 images, some of which are deteriorating and need preserving. Rachel Bush says so far trying to cut through red tape and trying to get some traction on the project has been exhausting, with unsuccessful approaches to Creative New Zealand and other Government funding bodies.

 

09:45 USA correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben

Donald Trump is running for President again and Danielle talks to Kathryn about the reception that is getting in the US and also who may run against him. Just days before Trump  announced his run for the presidency,  Attorney General Merrick Garland put a special counsel in charge of the investigations into his dealings. Danielle says the administration wants to avoid any sense of impropriety that might come with a Joe Biden administration investigating their potential opponent in the next election. President Biden says he's running in 2024.

Danielle Kurtzleben is a political correspondent assigned to NPR's Washington Desk
 

10:05 Doppelgangers: does everyone have a double somewhere out there?

For 22 years a photography project called I'm Not a Look-Alike has been underway across the globe.
Canadian François Brunelle has been taking pictures of doppelgangers, people who are unrelated but look strikingly similar. He lives in Montreal and initially would find local people with uncanny resemblances and capture their image. The project has evolved to where people from all over the world are taking part, if they identify someone who could pass as their double. And what began an simple art endeavour of black and white photography, has evolved and raised the interests of scientists. Spanish researchers have examined 32 pairs photographed by François Brunelle to see if they have any familial relationship, and to try to explain their similarities. 16 of the pair were found to share important parts of the genome, or DNA sequence.

10:35 Book review: Starry Messenger by Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Phil Vine reviews Starry Messenger by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, published by HarperCollins Publishers

10:45 The Reading

11:05 Business commentator Pattrick Smellie

Pattrick talks to Kathryn about the OCR and outlines his concerns about the consensus that the OCR will rise by 75 basis points. Also, he discusses the RMA reforms and what the impact might be of spatial plans on resource consents in the future. And Z Energy is quietly going through a major restructuring. 

Pattrick Smellie is the editor and co-founder of BusinessDesk and has reported on the New Zealand economy and business since 1983.

11.25 Tiaki: protecting our lesser-known endangered animals

An artist is bringing some of our lesser-known endangered animals to the fore.  Seventy percent of our animals are endemic.  But four-thousand of them are facing extinction.   Beautifully illustrated bookTiaki comes to us from designer and native-bird enthusiast Jean Donaldson. In it Jean shifts the focus from kākāpō and kiwi to endangered gravel maggots, sea slugs, moths and mudfish. Jean tells Kathryn it's a conservation call to arms for pre-teens and teenagers.

 

11:45 Sports-chat with Joe Porter

The Men's Football World Cup is underway in Qatar under clouds of controversy. so will politics continue to dominate the news, or will football take over? Joe also reviews the All Black's final test of 2022. was it symbolic of their year in general? And it's been a massive few days for Kiwi golfers with Lydia Koh continuing to shine.