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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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6:38

Kerre Woodham: Prisons are evidence of failure, but...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/12

Prisons to me are tangible evidence of failure. Failure of a person to do the right thing, failure of family, of community, of society. Before they've even been used, they smell like failure. I’ve emceed a fundraiser for the Shine domestic violence prevention charity at Mount Eden's remand prison before the first prisoner had stepped foot inside it. And even though it was brand-spanking new and done to the very best of the budget and to the specs, you just felt like failure the moment you walked in

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4:38

Kerre Woodham: The wool directive has to be a win for...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/12

Good news for the wool industry. Wasn't such good news in December of last year when Kainga Ora, the country's largest landlord, put out tenders for new carpet and underlay, and specifically said wool suppliers need not apply. So that was in December of 2024 then in January 2025, the agency opened its tender process to wool carpet suppliers, allowing a direct price and offering comparison. Remember when the representative for the wool industry said that wool suppliers, wool carpet suppliers, hadn't

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5:45

Kerre Woodham: Are farmers in the position to invest...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/11

The largest agricultural expo in the Southern Hemisphere, one of the largest business expos in the Southern Hemisphere, has opened its gates this morning, and exhibitors are ready to do business. That hasn't always been the case in Fieldays’ 57 year history – the rural economy has had its ebbs and flows over the years, and Fieldays in Hamilton has felt them. Confidence has waxed and waned, but not this year. This year, you've got the Massey Ferg’s descending on the Tron in their droves. This year

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8:11

Katrina King: Franchise Association CEO on...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/11

As more people take the leap to owning their own businesses, many seem to be buying into already established brands. Data suggests the business of franchising and owning established brands is booming, with around 30,000 franchise unites currently existing nationwide. Association CEO Katrina King told Kerre Woodham they see franchising as being in business for yourself, but not by yourself. She says as a franchisee you’re part of a system, but you’re very much still a small business in your local

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33:26

Justin Flitter: NewZealand.AI founder on the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/11

There’s been plenty of buzz around AI in the last few years. The most recent headlines have been highlighting its evils, such as the creation and lack of regulation around deepfake technology and fake pornography. However, there are many positive applications for AI technology, particularly in business. Justin Flitter, founder of NewZealand.AI, joined Kerre Woodham to discuss the potential it holds to transform a workplace, as well as taking listener questions as to how it all works. LISTEN ABOVESee

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6:25

Kerre Woodham: Is it feasible to leave your job and...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/10

If you turned up to work yesterday, first day of a new week, with a bad case of Mondayitis, feeling like you're getting nowhere working for the man, thinking now is the time in your life when you should be the master of your own destiny, making your own decisions, getting the true reward for your labours, well join the queue. Buyer demand for New Zealand businesses is on the up with large business brokerage firm LINK reporting a record 19% year-on-year increase in would-be buyers signing

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7:36

Aidan Gent: ASB General Manager for Rural on the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/10

ASB is offering loans to help farmers balance their energy costs. They’re offering five-year, interest-free loans of up to $150,000 for the installation of solar and battery systems on their properties. The bank said farm electricity costs are rising, with the average 2025/26 season power bill expected to be around $28,000 for owner-operated dairy farms. Research found most farms have rooftop space available for solar, and 60% of farmers say they have land that could be used for solar without

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5:37

Kerre Woodham: The new 'Parent Boost' visa makes...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/09

When I was doing the rounds of the open homes, travelling all over the Auckland isthmus a couple of years ago, I was looking for something quite specific. A house where I could have my own space and where the kids could live separately as a family, because we were buying together. And there were quite a few just like that. One house I visited was owned by two doctors, they had two children, and they had brought her mother over from India – she was living downstairs and provided childcare and general

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11:14

National Blood Donor Week: NZ Blood Service CEO Sam...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/09

Kerre Woodham talks to NZ Blood Service CEO Sam Cliffe at the start of National Blood Donor week. NZ Blood is asking Kiwi's to find their superpower and start saving lives by becoming a blood or plasma donor. COVID's impact on the methods of recruiting young blood donors has led to a decrease in the number of young people donating blood. Since 2020, there has been a 25% decrease in the numbers of 16-25 year olds and the current average age of donors is 43, with 18% over 60.See

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34:04

Matt Crockett: Kāinga Ora CEO on increased warnings...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/06/06

Clearer boundaries around Kāinga Ora tenant behaviour could explain a 600% surge in formal warnings. In the past 10 months, 63 tenancies were terminated because of abusive, threatening, or persistently disruptive behaviour. Nearly 1,500 warnings have been issued in the financial year to date. Chief executive Matt Crockett told Kerre Woodham behaviour isn't worse, rather the previous framework wasn't as sharp. He says clearer boundaries and more follow through now have more people's behaviour

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8:05

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

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

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?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

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...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

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...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

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

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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?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

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...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

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...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

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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