Nine To Noon for Thursday 3 October 2024

 

09:05 Rise in late payments deliver a huge blow to small businesses  

Accounting firm Xero has recorded an 81 percent rise in late payment costs to small businesses in the last two years. Late payments cost small businesses $456 million in 2021, and this jumped to $827 million in 2023. Xero NZ country manager Bridget Snelling says big businesses are to blame.

09:15 Does New Zealand need a dating app code of conduct?

A country-wide industry code for dating apps is set to come into effect in Australia - intended to help protect users from harm and abuse.  In a world first, apps such as Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, Grinder, OK Cupid and other online dating platforms,  have agreed to track reports of abusive and violent behavior from users, and collaborate more with law enforcement. The platforms will have six months to become compliant with the code before it becomes enforceable. Dr Lisa Portolan is an academic at the University of Technology Sydney who has studied dating apps and is the author of several books including Love, Intimacy and Online Dating: How a Global Pandemic Redefined Intimacy. Kathryn also speaks with Brent Carey, Chief Executive of Netsafe, who says New Zealand should be following suit.

09:30 Belfast rap trio Kneecap stars of their own film

The Belfast rap trio Kneecap is garnering worldwide attention for their use of the Irish language intermixed with English. They are the stars of a new semi-fictional film about their formation and rise to prominence. Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí are the members of the group and for the film they had to turn their hands to acting, including six months of lessons. They appear alongside compatriots and leading Irish actors Michael Fassbender and Simone Kirby. The comedy-drama premiered and was awarded at the Sundance music festival earlier this year. It is directed by Rich Peppiatt who took to the band when he saw one of their boisterous gigs. The film premiered and was awarded at the Sundance film festival earlier this year. The film is in New Zealand cinemas from October 24.

09:45 UK correspondent Harriet Line

The Conservative Party conference has ended where four candidates hoping to replace Rishi Sunak as party leader jostled it out. The row over Sir Keir Starmer's freebies continues to rage, with No10 saying he's returned more than £6,000 worth of gifts and hospitality received since the election. And as the Princess of Wales slowly returns to public duties following cancer treatment, she has met with an aspiring young photographer with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. The teenager had been invited to take pictures at Windsor Castle.

Harriet Line is Deputy Political Editor of the Daily Mail

10:05 Sean Boyd's creations from scrap metal

As a young boy Sean Boyd was the kid that took apart household items and toys, trying to transform them into different items. The foundations for what he does now as a junk artist were laid early on. Throughout his life he's had a range of occupations, including oyster farming, working as tropical gardener and 10 years as a police officer. But nothing ever stuck, or felt quite right.  Now he's in his element creating art work from scrap metal - after being offered an open-ended art residency at the Tamaki Zero Waste Hub in Auckland.

10:35 Book review: Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone by Aaron Smale 

Harry Broad reviews Tairāwhiti: Pine, Profit and the Cyclone by Aaron Smale published by Bridget Williams Books

10:45 Around the motu: Kirsty Pickett in Te Anau

Te Anau reacts to Dunedin hospital's redevelopment plans being scaled back. Kirsty talks to Kathryn about the death of three kakapo in one month. And the underwater observatory at Milford Sound is closed following storm damage.

Kirsty Pickett co owner of  Southlandapp.nz 

10:55 Red rain warning in Otago

A red heavy rain warning has been issued for parts of Otago with up to 150 millimetres of rain expected to fall in some areas. Dunedin Civil Defence has activated its bunker and sand bags are being made available in South Dunedin, Mosgiel and Middlemarch. Rising rivers are bing monitored by the Otago Regional Council. Elsewhere, Coromandel Peninsula has been dealing with power cuts and blocked roads this morning. Mathapelo Makabulane is a Metservice forecaster.

11:05 Tech: Smart TV screensaver ads, hackers takeover Kia cars

Technology correspondent Bill Bennett talks about smart TVs now showing screensaver ads and gathering data about users.  Hackers discovered they could hack Kia cars using just the VIN, and while the bug's been fixed it raises questions about the vulnerability and security of modern vehicles. And why is WordPress in a fight with a big commercial company called WP Engine?

Bill Bennett is an Auckland based technology journalist

11:25 Parenting : how to get your children to do stuff without argument

That may sound like living in Utopia - tidying their rooms, eating vegetables, the list goes on. Christiane Kehoe is a researcher of child behaviour based at the University of Melbourne, and also the co-author of the Tuning in to Toddlers, Tuning in to Kids, and Tuning in to Teens parenting programmes. She shares some parenting strategies and tips to avert friction.

11:45 Screentime: Wolfs, Will & Harper, Milli Vanilli, The Apprentice

Film and TV reviewer James Croot joins Kathryn to look at Ocean's trilogy stars Brad Pitt and George Clooney teaming up for action-comedy Wolfs (Apple TV+). Will & Harper (Netflix) sees Will Ferrell's good friend Harper coming out as a trans-woman, so they take a road trip to reintroduce her to the country. Milli Vanilli (TVNZ+) looks at one of the music industry's biggest scandals, and The Apprentice takes to cinema screens despite an attempt by Donald Trump's legal team to stop it.

James Croot is the deputy editor of TV Guide