Nine To Noon for Thursday 10 October 2024

09:05 Hundreds of international nurses out of pocket and out of work

Hundreds of international nurses attracted here by overseas recruiters are tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket, and without work. This comes as Health New Zealand admits it already has more nurses than it has the budget for. Yet the Nurses Organisation maintains its members are constantly working with unsafe staffing levels and it believes a hiring freeze is in place, despite denials from Health NZ.India and the Philippines have officially cautioned nurses against coming to New Zealand without a guaranteed job. Kathryn speaks with Nurses Organisation board member Saju Cherian, and Monina Hernande, president of the Filipino Nurses Association of New Zealand.

09:20 Are chat bot interviewers helping or harming jobseekers?

Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being used by employers and recruiters as a way to increase efficiencies and to find suitable workers. Chat bot interviews are already used by a number of larger employers in New Zealand including Woolworths, Kmart, Bunnings and Spark. Proponents say they give jobseekers a fair go, and simply take the answers provided in this initial automated interview to provide the real-person hiring team with a cheat sheet. Whereas traditional recruiters are less certain and worry important aspects of recruitment, such as identifying soft skills and whether a person will be a good fit for the workplace, is being missed by doing interviews in this way. Kathryn speaks to Kellie Hamlett, director at Talent ID and Barb Hyman the founder of chat bot Sapia.ai. 

09:30 League legends to turn out at Rotorua park 

Rotorua's Puketawhero Park on Saturday will host some of rugby league's former greats in the inaugural League Legends XIII match in support of men's mental health, and the wellbeing of Māori and Pasifika men. Ben Matulino, Jordan Kahu, Brad Takairangi and Sam Rapira are just four of the league legends who will kit up for the legends team that will play a Bay of Plenty invitational team. The match is just one part of a two-day Rotorua programme of events to support men's mental health and wellbeing - an initiative created by ex-Kiwi and Warriors player - Sione Faumuina. Sione talks to Kathryn about why he started this initiative and about some of his own struggles with mental health.

09:45 UK correspondent Matt Dathan

Matt Dathan discusses the Tory leadership contest; Britain's population hits a record high, and for the first time in the 147 year history of the Wimbledon tennis championships, line judges will no longer be calling the shots.

10:05 The first all-women owners of a kiwi professional basketball team

The Tauihi women's professional basketball league kicked off last week. Among the teams competing in the national competition is the BNZ Kāhu  - now owned by a group of five women. New Zealand women's basketball is in a growth phase -  players are now paid more than their male counterparts, every game is broadcast by Sky Sport, and also being aired around the world by media partners. Kathryn meets two of the five women who recently purchased the franchaise: Dani Marshall is the founder of womenzsports,  and Jo Caird, a former New Zealand junior tennis player and the All Blacks' first official photographer.  They believe Kāhu is the first sports team in the world to be solely women owned, coached and managed.

10:35 Book review: Faces and Flowers: Poems to Patricia France by Dinah Hawken 

Harry Ricketts reviews Faces and Flowers: Poems to Patricia France by Dinah Hawken published by Te Herenga Waka University Press

10:45 Around the motu : Alisha Evans in Tauranga

A Western Bay of Plenty dog owner is “absolutely gutted” that the council have chosen not to prosecute the owners of dogs that attacked his beloved border collie. New mayor Mahé Drysdale spent more than $40,000 on his successful campaign to lead Tauranga. And residents are calling out NZTA’s proposal to toll a new highway calling it “grossly unfair”. Tauranga based Local Democracy Reporter Alisha Evans has all the details.

11:05 Tech: American water company in cyberattack, Kiwi hearing clinic breach

Cybersecurity specialist Tony Grasso joins Kathryn to talk about a cyber attack on American Water - one of the largest water and wastewater utilities in the US. There's also been a data breach at NZ hearing clinic chain Bloom Hearing Specialists affecting thousands of customers, a crackdown by Europol on over 100 servers that have been linked to malware and Apple has released critical updates to fix security vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS.

Tony Grasso is Principal Consultant at cybersecurity firm TitaniumDefence. He worked at GCHQ in the UK and is a former Intelligence Officer in New Zealand.

11:25 South Auckland foodbank to close

Community advocate Dave Letele has announced he is closing down his South Auckland foodbank - which was supplying up to 1000 families a week during the Covid pandemic. He says he's been trying to keep the foodbank going for months but just cannot continue.

11:30 Building a love of the outdoors in young children

Shoshannah Shand's second child was six weeks old when she took her on an overnight tramp for the first time - along with her toddler. The Christchurch solo mum of two has thousands of followers on social media for her adventures with her children. She says kids love the outdoors,  and she wants parents to know that getting into the backcountry is do-able.

11:45 Screentime: The Franchise, Camp Be Better, The Substance

Film and TV correspondent Tamar Munch details The Franchise, created by Amando Iannucci and Sam Mendes, which follows the antics of a team trying to make a franchise superhero movie and the chaos that entails. Camp Be Better (TVNZ) is a Kiwi production where a poor kid ends up in a 100-day prison alternative for wealthy teens that have broken the law. And is Demi Moore helping to save the body horror genre in The Substance (cinemas)?

Music played in this show

Artist: Lighthouse Family

Track: High

Broadcast time: 11:45