Nine To Noon for Tuesday 1 August 2023

 

 

09:05 Scams, your bank and you: Who should pay if you're a victim of fraud?

Nine to Noon looks at the rise of online financial fraud and whether banks could be doing more to protect their customers' losses. Millions are being siphoned off unsuspecting Kiwis each year  - the latest report from the government's Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT - put financial losses at nearly $6 million in the first three months of the year. That's a 66 per cent jump on the first quarter of last year - and likely an underestimate of what's really going on, due to under-reporting. But what's happening if you're a victim of a scam? How likely are you to be able to recover your money and what role does - or should - your bank play in that? The banks have been criticised by Consumer NZ for failing to provide better protection for their customers, as technology increases the sophistication of the swindle. Kathryn speaks to Consumer's chief executive Jon Duffy about whether the New Zealand Code of Banking Practice is enough to protect Kiwi bank users from a good con. And Bronwyn Groot, who knows exactly how good the scammers are. She sees it everyday in her work as an anti-scam consultant for QRisk, and before that she was Fraud Education Manager at the Commission for Financial Capability and penned a book called The Little Black Book of Scams, which has just been republished through Netsafe.

09:30 Nelson Tenths Reserves: NZ's oldest property claim goes back to High Court

It's described as the country's oldest property claim, and one of the largest litigations against the Crown in New Zealand's history; the case of the Nelson Tenths Reserves centres on 15,100 acres of land in the Nelson, Tasman and Golden Bay region. In 1839, Māori customary landowners sold 151,000 acres of land to the New Zealand Company on the condition that ten percent of their land would be reserved for Māori in perpetuity. That agreement was never upheld. Rather than setting aside 15,100 acres, the Crown reserved less than three thousand acres. The landowners, now represented by Wakatū Incorporation, has been battling for more than 180 years to have that land returned to them. After the former National Government refused to consider their claim at the Waitangi Tribunal, the claimants instead took a case to the High Court, as a private law breach of trust case. The government fought the case all the way to the Supreme Court, which in 2017 found in favour of the owners of the Nelson Tenths. Since then, attempts at commencing out of court negotiations with the Crown, have not been successful. This month, the case will go back to the High Court to determine the extent of the Crown's breaches, led by kaumatua Rore Stafford, on behalf of the customary landowners. Kathryn speaks with Kerensa Johnston, chief executive of Wakatū Incorporation.

09:45 USA correspondent Ximena Bustillo 

Ximena talks bout the unsettling moment Minority Leader Mitch McConnell abruptly stopped speaking for 30 seconds, which has sparked concerns for the 81-year-old's health. She'll also look at how Congress seems on a collision course toward a government shutdown after the August recess and GOP hopefuls are seeking support in the key state of Iowa this weekend.

Ximena Bustillo is an NPR politics reporter based in Washington

10:05 Rachel Louise Snyder: from harrowing, evangelical childhood to award winning writer

Rachel Louise Snyder survived a harrowing childhood in an cruel, evangelical family to become a globally recognised journalist and author. She is a professor of creative writing and journalism at American University in Washington, DC;  a former Guggenheim Fellow, the author of several books, with articles published in the New Yorker, the New York Times, and the Atlantic and many others. For two decades, Snyder travelled the globe covering stories of human rights, gender-based violence, natural disasters, displacement and war. Now, for the first time, she's told her own story in a new memoir. She was eight when her mother died of cancer. Her father quickly remarried, moved her and her brother half way across the United States, and plunged the family into an evangelical Christian, cult-like existence. Kicked out of school and home aged 16, she embarked on life alone. She tells her story to Kathryn Ryan.

10:35 Book review: Dice by Claire Baylis 

Carole Beu from the Women's Bookshop reviews Dice by Claire Baylis published by Allen and Unwin

10:45 Around the motu: Lee Scanlon in Westport

Lee looks at how West Coast health services are continuing to struggle - with Coasters recently discovering they can no longer have surgery there for broken bones. It's two years since the disastrous 2021 floods - yet no physical work has begun on promised floodwalls and questions are being asked about how much of the $100m central government funding has been spent on consultants.

11:05 Business commentator Victoria Young

Victoria joins Kathryn to talk about where millions of dollars in donations to political parties since 1996 has been spent. BusinessDesk has been analysing who the biggest donors are and to whom they've donated. She'll also talk about how performance fees at major fund managers have taken a dive and why the battle for control of Metro Performance Glass has kicked off with the board rejecting a bid valuing the glass maker at $33.4 million.

BusinessDesk investigations editor, Victoria Young

11:30 Gardening with Xanthe White: Winter work saves summer time

Now is the perfect time to be having a big clear out of the weeds in your garden - it'll save you time in the summer. And don't waste them - you can compost them while most are seed-free at this time of year. It's also a great time to transplant any trees or shrubs... Xanthe has some tips on how to do it without damaging them.

11:45 Sports-chat Marc Hinton

Sport commentator Marc Hinton take a look at the Football Ferns three performances during the FIFA Women's World Cup and what impact the tournament is having through the group stages. In the Netball World Cup, the Silver Ferns have cruised through their pool unbeaten as the tournament enters its 2nd phase. In All Black news, Ian Foster's side is now 3 for 3 after their Bledisloe Cup victory.