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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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5:17

Kerre Woodham: Taxation is a finely balanced thing

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/02/03

We know times are tough. We know that we're in a period of rebuilding, we know that there are green shoots starting to come through. We're looking towards the end of 2025 as a time when things will turn around, when things will start to improve, and things will start to get better on a micro level in our own households, and on a macro level when it comes to the government. But there are still sticky times ahead, and Treasury officials have released a document warning the government that

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9:51

Bruce Bernacchi: Dentons Kensington Swan Tax Partner...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/02/03

Possible corporate tax cuts could be on the way in this year's Budget. Nicola Willis told Ryan Bridge yesterday that our corporate tax system isn't competitive enough with other countries, hinting at potential changes. Christopher Luxon confirmed to Mike Hosking this morning that they're willing to make changes, and there's a lot of possible options. Dentons Kensington Swan Tax Partner Bruce Bernacchi told Kerre Woodham that there is an opportunity for New Zealand to bring in increased economic

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5:34

Kerre Woodham: Could this be the year education gets...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/02/02

Any day now, counting down the seconds, the kids will be back at school if yours haven't gone already. And this year, maybe, hopefully, fingers crossed, will be the year that our education system gets back on track. Certainly, Erica Stanford’s bigging up the new focus on structured learning. A press release out from her office says, as schools start back for 2025, there will be a relentless focus on teaching the basics brilliantly so all Kiwi kids grow up the knowledge, skills and competencies

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3:44

Kerre Woodham: Why aren't all schools back yet?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/30

It is the end of the month. There's only 12 of them in a year. Into the first month of the year and still there are schools that are not back yet. Could someone please explain to me how it is reasonable in this day and age to have such disparate and wide-ranging start dates for the school year? I don't know about your particular school, or your area, but of the ones I know about, Auckland Grammar borders have been back for two weeks. That seems perfectly reasonable. Mount Albert borders have been

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10:41

Paul Bloxham: HSBC Chief Economist on the state of...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/30

New Zealand’s “rockstar economy” seems to have become washed up. HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham coined the term in 2014, and in an update last week confirmed that that’s far from the case at present. He says that the economy had the largest decline in economic growth in the developed world last year, driven by interest rate increases in response to post-pandemic inflation. Bloxham joined Kerre Woodham to dig into the data, and discuss what could be done to improve the economy. LISTEN ABOVESee

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10:48

Pierre Syben: Marketing and Sales for Wairere Rams on...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/29

Some farmers are shearing back the costs with new sheep breeds. Meant for meat production, ‘Nudies’ are a breed of sheep that don’t grow wool, allowing farmers to cut costs as there’s no need for shearing, dagging, or crutching. Pierre Syben from Wairere Rams in Masterton told Kerre Woodham in his view, the industry will likely split between the people who stick with wool and those who move towards the Nudies. He says that hopefully as more people go into non-sheering sheep, it will lift the price

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7:08

Kerre Woodham: What have we got left to sell?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/29

You may have heard, the 80’s are making a comeback. Lookout for denim on denim, bubble skirts, and asset sales. David Seymour is stepping up his campaign to sell state assets and privatise public services. In his State of the Nation speech last week, the ACT leader said we should be continually asking ourselves do we own the right stuff? NZ First, Labour and the Greens have all pinned their respective colours to the mast and said they are dead against the sale of any state-owned assets under their

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5:59

Kerre Woodham: We need to get better faster

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/28

Well, I might have been swanning about on holiday for an unseemly amount of time but the Government was back at work. You have already discussed, I have no doubt the PM's reshuffle of the cabinet, specifically Dr Reti losing Health to Simeon Brown in a bid to see change happening, change happening better, and there has been much chat about getting the country moving again. In the last couple of days, economist Paul Bloxham, the man who coined the “rockstar economy” phrase back in 2014, confirmed

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5:18

John MacDonald: Yes to more tourists. But...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/23

There’s nothing wrong with backing yourself but, as a country, we have some pretty high and mighty ideas sometimes. A good example is the previous Labour government’s approach that, when it comes to tourism, we should only try to get the people with truckloads of money to come here for a holiday. What they called the “higher value tourists”. And I’m delighted that the Government is saying we need to get over ourselves and pretty much anyone and everyone who wants to visit from overseas is going to

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5:51

John MacDonald: Here's why we have a teacher shortage

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/22

Do you know who’s to blame for the high school teacher shortage we’re hearing about today? You are. I am, as well. We’re both to blame. Because, whether you’re a parent or not, we have done an absolutely brilliant job of putting people off wanting to become a teacher. And it’s a weird mix of us doing too much of some stuff and too little of other stuff. And the outcome is 346 full-time vacancies unfilled just weeks out from the new school year. Now I know you might be thinking "oh yeah, we hear this

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6:10

Liam Dann: NZ Herald Business editor on the inflation...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/21

There’s a belief we're still yet to reap the benefits of having inflation under control. Latest Stats NZ figures show the inflation rate for the year to December was 2.2%, unchanged from September. Inflation is well down on the once-in-a-generation high of 7.3% of just two and a half years ago. The Herald's Liam Dann told John McDonald we're still yet to see many prices come down. He says rents are still up for example, but they should be coming down with a struggling property market. LISTEN

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5:21

John MacDonald: I'm still feeling pretty chill about...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/21

"We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. I will, very simply, put America first." And with that, Donald Trump —the 47th US president— probably sent a chill down the spines of truckloads of people around the world. And a chill down the spines of some people within America too - because, some Americans, he won’t be putting first. Which I’ll get to. But do you know what? There was no chill down my spine when I listened to him. Well,

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5:49

John MacDonald: The get-stuff-done guy is on a...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/20

If you believed the Prime Minister when he said yesterday that he still has confidence in the now-former health minister Shane Reti, you will believe anything. Let’s face it, though, he couldn’t have said anything different. But whether you believe it or not - that’s another thing. And I don’t. Because he clearly doesn’t - or he clearly doesn’t have as much faith in Shane Reti as he used to. Otherwise, Simeon Brown wouldn’t be the new health minister. And who would want to be Simeon Brown? Being the

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29:33

Best of 2024: Boris Johnson on Kerre Woodham Mornings

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/01/12

"It was the right thing for the UK": Boris Johnson 'unapologetic' about Brexit Boris Johnson is unapologetic about taking his country out of the European Union. He's in New Zealand for a speaking event and to promote his book 'Unleashed'. The former British Prime Minister says while there was panic about Brexit at the time, in the long term it's been good for the UK. He told Kerre Woodham that the split from the EU came in handy during the Covid pandemic. He says it allowed the country to get

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5:25

John MacDonald: Free speech rules shouldn't stop at...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/20

Here’s how I would sum up the Government’s changes to the free speech rules for universities. It wants more Posie Parkers and less posey political statements. Which I’ve got no problem with - but I don’t think it should stop at universities. I think the Government also needs to look at other public entities, such as local councils, which actually seem to be making more posey political statements than universities. Because, if the Government doesn’t want universities taking positions on things like

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5:34

John MacDonald: Timing of Lake Alice compo offer is...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/19

Some people think the Government’s offer of a $150,000 rapid payment to Lake Alice torture survivors is an insult, but I think it’s a mistake. Not because I don’t think compensation should be paid. It’s just that I don’t think the Government should be offering it right now for people who went to Lake Alice between 1972 and 1977 and went through electric shock treatment or had paraldehyde injections. And here’s why. Remember last month when the Prime Minister formally apologised to the victims of

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5:51

John MacDonald: Kneejerk reactions won't fix the fiscals

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/17

If New Zealand was a company staring down the barrel of running at a loss for at least the next five years and finding itself needing to borrow $20 billion more than it thought it did just six months ago, it would be lights out, wouldn’t it? And no amount of creative accounting could change that picture. Essentially, that’s the state we find ourselves in after yesterday’s fiscal update from the Government. With pretty much the only good news coming out of it being in the housing market, and an

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5:26

John MacDonald: It's time we had less local councils

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/16

The Government thinks it’s getting all tough on it with local councils, but I think Christopher Luxon and Simeon Brown are just tinkering around the edges and they need to go harder. Instead of just telling the councils what they expect of them, they should be telling councils that, for some of them, their days are numbered. But essentially what the Government’s doing is it’s waving the stick on behalf of ratepayers, saying that legislation changes are on the way that will force councils to focus

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34:57

Christopher Luxon: Prime Minister talks Oranga...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/12

Christopher Luxon says he wants nothing to do with the Greens while he's Prime Minister. Luxon's confirmed a National-Greens Coalition wasn't off the cards when James Shaw was co-leader of the Green Party. But he says the party has changed significantly under new leadership. The Prime Minister told Kerre Woodham he had great respect for Shaw and his commitment to the environment, and would have been prepared to work with him. But he says the Greens have since moved to what he calls a more

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9:34

Andrew Wilson: Salvation Army Director of Community...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/11

The Salvation Army is reiterating pleas for donations for Kiwis in need this Christmas and beyond, saying every cent adds up. The charity says its appeal this year —which launched last month— is especially important, with one in five New Zealand children living in households struggling for food. But it says they're in a Catch-22 this year – demand is rising, but donations are declining. Captain Andrew Wilson, Director of Community Ministries for the Salvation Army, told Kerre Woodham that they’re

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