60 Minutes: May 7

On 60 Minutes Peter Stefanovic talks to shark victim Glenn Dickson and Ross Coulthart hears from a couple protesting NAB.

One Helluva Day
The 18th of February this year was one helluva day for Glenn Dickson. The 25-year-old spear fisherman was 40 kilometres off the Far North Queensland coast when he was attacked not once but twice by a three and a half metre bull shark. His right leg was severed and his femoral artery ruptured. Glenn couldn’t have been in a worse predicament. He was hours away from the medical help he desperately needed and as close to death as a human can get. So much went wrong that day for him, but as he tells Peter Stefanovic, so much more went right. His mates kept reviving him as they raced him to hospital. And he kept on thinking about his fiancée and precious young children. If ever it was needed, Glenn Dickson’s story proves how the power of love can be life-saving.
Reporter: Peter Stefanovic
Producer: Michelle Tapper

Crook Deal
Complaining about the greed of the big banks might be a national pastime, but often it’s completely justified. Take the National Australia Bank for example. On Thursday it announced a half-yearly cash profit of almost $3.3 billion. It’s an impressive result which shareholders have applauded. But to make such enormous amounts of money the bank needs people like Cathy and Terry Maloney – the North Queensland couple who were two of NAB’s most loyal and diligently honest customers. They ran a successful tourism business and prided themselves on never falling behind in their loan repayments. But as Ross Coulthart reports, the NAB’s treatment of the Maloneys is so diabolical it redefines the concept of bank bastardry. It started when the bank told the couple they must refinance their business, and then introduced them to – and insisted they work with – a convicted criminal who claimed he was a financial expert. The Maloneys didn’t stand a chance and they went from prosperity to poverty. But what is most alarming about this crook deal is that it could happen to anyone with a bank loan.
Reporter: Ross Coulthart
Producer: Grace Tobin

8:30pm Sunday on Nine.