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Nine To Noon for Monday 25 September 2023

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09:05 Call for banks to fast-track account name matching

Consumer rights advocates want banks to fast-track account name matching to help stave off an increasing number of scams. An estimated $200m is lost each year by Kiwis to scams, with the Banking Ombudsman's latest report putting complaints about scams up 43 percent on the year before. Ten days ago the New Zealand Banking Association said the industry was embarking on a national cross-sector approach to scams - but it declined to speak in depth to Nine to Noon about them. One of the initiatives it supported was  'confirmation of payee' account name checking services - something Consumer NZ's CEO Jon Duffy says should be in place now. Kathryn speaks to him about that, along with Dr Claire Matthews, who's an associate professor at Massey University's Business School and an expert in banking.

Woman using credit card with laptop

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09:25 Melanoma immunotherapy recruits for clinical trial

A global cancer trial that seeks to use a patient's own immune system to target and destroy melanomas is set to get underway in New Zealand. Aotearoa has the highest rates of melanoma - the most serious, and deadly skin cancer - in the world. Next month, recruitment begins for a clinical trial of an INT - Individualised Neoantigen Therapy. The therapy, used in combination with cancer drug Keytruda, is personalised to each patient, based on their tumour's unique genetic mutations. The Phase 3 clinical trial is recruiting patients who have had melanomas surgically removed, but are ineligible for the Pharmac funded Keytruda. Trial oncologist Gareth Rivalland speaks to Kathryn. 

Pharmaceutical research Scientist developing a new drug or vaccine in the lab.

Photo: AFP / Tek Image/Science Photo Library

09:45 South Africa correspondent Debora Patta

Aerial footage of Derna taken on 14 September shows the inundation from flash flooding when two dams burst.

Aerial footage of Derna taken on 14 September shows the inundation from flash flooding when two dams burst, 2023. Photo: AFP/ AFPTV footage

Debora discusses the flooding in Libya's coastal city of Derna which is believed to have claimed thousands of lives. An ageing dam on the outskirts of the city burst on September 11, releasing a wall of water.

10:05 Why we sweat with science writer Sarah Everts 

Sarah Everts is fascinated by sweat. The science journalist has been studying the subject since moving to Berlin in 2006, where she questioned the popularity of saunas. What sweat is, why our bodies do it and how there is a market for artificial sweat are all subjects Everts looks at in her 2021 book The Joy of Sweat:: The Strange Science of Perspiration. Everts is the chair in digital science journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Everts talks Kathryn through all the weird and wonderful facts she's learned about sweat.

The Joy of Sweat: The Strange Science of Perspiration by Sarah Everts.

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10:35 Book review: The Fraud by Zadie Smith 

Photo: Penguin Random House

Nicky Walker reviews The Fraud by Zadie Smith published by Penguin Random House 

10:45 Around the motu: David Hill in North Canterbury

Kaikoura candidates . . . Emma Dewhirst (Labour, left), Stuart Smith (National), Lan Pham (Greens) and Jamie Arbuckle (New Zealand First) gave their views at the Balcairn Hall, near Amberley on Monday evening.

Kaikoura candidates . . . Emma Dewhirst (Labour, left), Stuart Smith (National), Lan Pham (Greens) and Jamie Arbuckle (New Zealand First) gave their views at the Balcairn Hall, near Amberley on Monday evening. Photo: Supplied

Rival candidates at an election meeting in North Canterbury found they had plenty in common on Monday evening.
Candidates from four political parties were asked to name each other's policies that they liked.

11:05 Political commentators Hurdle and Husband

Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon with charts and polls in background.

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Political commentators Tim Hurdle and Dale Husband talk about National Party leader Christopher Luxon finally confirming this morning he would work with Winston Peters - has Act softened its position on New Zealand First? The first debates of the campaign have been held - did we learn anything? What's in Act and National's economic plans? And early voting is nearly underway, what's happening with the poll of polls? 

Tim Hurdle is a former National senior adviser, was the National Party Campaign Director in 2020. He is a director of several companies, including Museum Street Strategies, a public affairs firm.

Dale Husband is a long time broadcaster and Radio Waatea presenter hosting a Maori focused current affairs programme.

11:30 KaiCycle: Growing kai in urban spaces

A group of Wellingtonians are striving to save food from landfill. The composting initiative, Kaicycle, takes compostable scraps from homes and offices and recycles them into living compost. The collection method? Bicycles. The team is also managing an urban farm on Newtown's Hospital Rd and is expanding its operation to door to door compost distribution service. Kate Walmsley, Kaicycle's composting manager and Sylvia Lauris, urban farm manager join Kathryn in the Wellington studio. 

A woman deposits her food waste on to a composting pile.

Kaicycle gather food scraps from 200 households in Wellington city. Photo:

11:45 Urban issues with Bill McKay

2018 Nov 2nd, New Zealand, Timaru, View of the town building and people in the morning.

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Urban Issues correspondent Bill McKay has been in Timaru and it's got him thinking about it and small towns like it; how can they evolve to face the future? Hanging on to heritage is one proven method.

Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland.