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Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast

Join Kerre Woodham one of New Zealand’s best loved personalities as she dishes up a bold, sharp and energetic show Monday to Friday 9am-12md on Newstalk ZB. News, opinion, analysis, lifestyle and entertainment – we’ve got your morning listening covered.

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8:05

Kerre Woodham: Who should be paying more for home...

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2025/06/05

It's not really a huge shock, is it? The news that homeowners will have to pay even more for home insurance to help the Natural Hazards Commission (formerly known as the EQC), is to be expected. Insurers have been warning for years that premiums will rise and will continue to rise, that they may have to put some of the cost of risky properties back onto homeowners and in some cases, they'll be declining to insure homes altogether. And we've already started to see that. In 2017, a then-record $242

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6:55

Kerre Woodham: How can we take polls seriously?

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2025/06/04

Honestly, I don't know why we report on polls. Seriously, I don't know why I'm even talking about them myself, but it's really ripped my nightie overnight. They're so frustrating, and because media companies commission them, it makes the media look like master manipulators. This is from 1News last night (I didn't watch 1News, obvs) but this is from their website – both National and Labour have slid in the latest 1News-Verian poll, while New Zealand First have moved to their strongest position in

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6:38

Ben Speedy: ASB's General Manager of Commercial...

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2025/06/04

Kiwi business leaders fear the impact of Donald Trump's tariffs will be more severe than the impact of the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid pandemic. ASB and Talbot Mills have been surveying more than 300 business leaders, including CEOs and founders. Two-thirds of businesses are concerned about the impacts, including almost 80% of exporters. Meat, dairy and wine are expected to be hit harder, while the wool and seafood sectors are expected to fare better. ASB's General Manager of Commercial

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13:13

David Farrar: Curia Market Research Owner on how...

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2025/06/04

How is it that two recent polls had such starkly different outcomes? The latest RNZ Reid Research poll —out this morning— has the right bloc on 46.4, behind the left bloc on 50.3. But the latest 1 News Verian poll —released last night— has the right bloc on 50-percent, well ahead of the left bloc on 45. Curia Market Research Owner David Farrar told Kerre Woodham that when you poll 1000 people, they say there’s a 3% margin of error – so if a party is sitting at 50%, in reality they’re somewhere

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6:00

Kerre Woodham: Our workplace fatality rate is appalling

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/03

On average, there are 73 work-related deaths in New Zealand every single year. Relative to the number of people in employment, the New Zealand workplace fatality rate is double that of Australia, and it hasn't shifted in many, many years. More road cones have not made a difference. The New Zealand rate is similar to the rate the UK experienced back in the 1980s. The gap between New Zealand and Australia is consistent across most industries and occupations. It's not like we've got one that is more

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10:55

Gloria Masters: Handing The Shame Back Founder on AI...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/03

The rise of generative AI could be putting children at risk. Gloria Masters, founder of 'Handing The Shame Back', believes the current digital environment has enabled “much more sexualised content” of children to be available to predators. AI tools allow people to remove clothing from people in photos, such as children, creating fake nude images they can then trade. She told Kerre Woodham that share your photos with trusted friends and family members by all means, but the days of posting them on

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7:22

Kerre Woodham: Will fining parents of absent kids help?

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2025/05/30

You might have heard ACT leader David Seymour on the Breakfast show this morning. He says there will almost certainly be prosecutions against parents of absent students this year as the Government intensifies its crackdown on school truancy. And it's not even truancy, in my mind truancy are kids doing a bunk, wagging, taking a day off. What this is, is parental neglect. Parents who are failing to ensure that their kids get to school and get to school on time. According to Ministry of Education

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13:21

Guy Waipara: Meridian Energy General Manager...

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2025/05/29

Construction of New Zealand's first large scale grid battery storage system has finished in Ruakākā, just south of Whangārei. The Meridian Energy project has storage capacity of 200 megawatt-hours, which is enough to power 60 thousand homes for two hours. It will provide greater resilience and reduce strain to the Northland power and reduce strain on the wider power supply. Guy Waipara, Meridian Energy General Manager Development, told Kerre Woodham the batteries are designed to be available at

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3:45

Kerre Woodham: What do we do with children of...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/05/29

What on Earth do we do with young people who were born in New Zealand, who have lived in New Zealand all of their lives, but who aren't New Zealanders? They've never known any other home, but they can't get healthcare, they can't get a driver's licence, they can't get a job, they can't pay taxes. In 2006, a law change under the Helen Clark Government removed the right to citizenship by birth for children born in New Zealand. The justification was that it stopped people from country shopping by

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4:17

Kerre Woodham: The shoplifting directive is not a...

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2025/05/27

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. You cannot go into an election promising to get tough on crime, win the election and vow to draw a line in the sand, declare war on the crims, and then issue a directive that police won't turn up to minor crime. To paraphrase supermodel Linda Evangelista, who famously said she wouldn't get out of bed for less than $10,000, it appears our coppers won't get out of their Skodas for less than $500. A memo has surfaced directing police staff not to investigate crimes under a

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7:29

Mark Mitchell: Police Minister on the new shoplifting...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/05/26

The Police Minister is reassuring retailers officers will still turn up to reports of shoplifting. RNZ reports staff have been directed to not investigate retail crime below $500 and online fraud below $1000. Police may not take further action if the reports don't have enough evidence, such as CCTV. However, Mark Mitchell told Kerre Woodham every crime deserves a response. He says he wants to be clear that people can’t go out and shoplift anything under the value of $500 – there will be a police

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7:01

Kerre Woodham: Charities don't need non-complying...

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2025/05/26

Two new ‘non-financial’ sanctions have come into force today for beneficiaries, who, in the words of the MSD, do not meet their obligations or, as other people might put it, who do not get off their arsesand go and look for a job. Some people may have half their weekly benefits put onto a payment card for four weeks, that can only be spent on essential items at approved shops. Others may also have to find volunteer work for at least five hours each week, again for four weeks. Remember though, as the

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10:42

Sharon Nicholas: Boyle River Outdoor Education Centre...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/05/25

It's been revealed how outdoor education can help build teenagers up. The Boyle River Outdoor Education Centre is 20 minutes east of the Lewis Pass. They're a not-for-profit organisation offering outdoor education programmes to secondary school groups and are in the business of fostering leadership, growth and confidence in young people. Boyle River Outdoor Education Centre Manager Sharon Nicholas talks to Kerre Woodham about the importance of outdoor education for young people. LISTEN ABOVE.See

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34:21

Christopher Luxon: The Prime Minister talks Budget...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/05/22

The Prime Minister's keen to raise the retirement age -- but it's not possible in coalition with New Zealand First. The Government is halving its KiwiSaver contribution rate -- and canning if people earning more than 180-thousand dollars. The default rate of worker and business contributions to KiwiSaver will rise over time. Chris Luxon told Kerre Woodham pushing out the retirement age to 67 makes sense. He says Labour doesn't think it’s a good idea, and New Zealand First does not want to move that

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7:59

Kerre Woodham: Retail owners and businesses can't...

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2025/05/22

Isn't it cruelly, cruelly ironic that yesterday we were talking about just how tough it is in retail, and we have the news that after 145 years, Smith and Caughey's, the last of the great, grand department stores, famous for the high-end goods, the beautiful Christmas window displays, will close its doors for the final time by July 31st. Ninety-eight jobs will be lost, but it's more losing a bastion of retail, it goes beyond the closure of just the store. It survived two world wars and two severe

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6:08

Kerre Woodham: Let's fill vacant stores before we...

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2025/05/21

I don't know where the Head of Research at JLL, the commercial property company, I does his shopping, but it cannot be anywhere that I go. If you've ever wondered what the definition of gaslighting is, you may well have heard it this morning. Chris Dibble —the Head of Research at JLL— was on the wireless claiming that we have a critical under-supply of retail space in this country, and that to keep pace with population and demand we need to come up with a quarter of a million square metres in the

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7:10

Kerre Woodham: We have a legacy of rail but do we...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/05/20

Public transport is brilliant when it works. You cannot beat it for convenience, for timeliness, for moving large numbers of people expeditiously and in an environmentally friendly-ish kind of a way, when it works. When it doesn't, it's a pain. Look at the poor Auckland rail commuters this morning – due to an infrastructure issue at Penrose, there were delays and cancellations. No services running through Newmarket on the Southern line, all Southern Line services were running via the Eastern Line,

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8:45

Matt Lowrie: Greater Auckland Director on the funding...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/05/20

There are hopes investment in rail is just the boost Auckland needs. The Government will tip more than $600 million of Government funding in Budget 2025 to fully fund the Rail Network Investment Programme until 2027. The freight network will get $461 million, and $143 million will be spent on Auckland and Wellington's metropolitan trains. Greater Auckland director Matt Lowrie told Kerre Woodham some maintenance hasn't been done for decades. He says that now that funding is coming through, they’ll be

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3:18

Kerre Woodham: Would you dob in a meth dealer?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/05/19

Northland might be the meth capital of New Zealand, but Hawkes Bay wouldn't be far behind. One tiny town – Waipukurau - recorded the biggest increase in meth consumption in the country in 2024. It was up more than 300 percent. What concerns the local coppers is that the community staying schtum about who's supplying the drug as Inspector Martin James told 1News last night. “One of the key concerns for me here in Central Hawke's Bay is a lack of information that is coming through from the public to

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9:23

Malcolm Rands: Open Letter on Tax Spokesperson on a...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/05/16

The Green Party is suggesting an overhaul of the tax system in their alternative Budget. It includes taxing wealth, inheritance, gifts, and private jet journeys, and they say it would bring in $88 billion in revenue over four years. New income tax rates of 39% on income over $120,000 and 45% on income over $180,000 would be introduced, and the corporate tax rate would be raised to 33%, 3% higher than Australia's current rates. Malcolm Rands is the spokesperson for the ‘Open Letter on Tax’ released

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