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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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5:51

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...

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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...

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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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7:46

Shayne Cunis: Watercare Chief Programme Delivery...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/11

Watercare’s seven year Central Interceptor project is over halfway complete. The aim of the project is to reduce water overflow in the central Auckland area with the construction of New Zealand’s largest wastewater tunnel. The team is about to hit the penultimate breakthrough before arriving at Point Erin Reserve in Herne Bay in March/April of 2025. Watercare Chief Programme Delivery Officer Shayne Cunis told Kerre Woodham that Auckland is going to get a lifetime of benefits from the project

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3:55

Kerre Woodham: Ignorance is not bliss when it comes...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/09

How did you learn about sex? Was it your parents? Your friends? A nice, dry, factual at school, or Heaven forfend, the internet? I was at a Catholic girls’ school in the 80s —that would be the 1980s, not the 1880s just for clarification— and we got pretty much nothing, as you'd expect. I received the bare basics about body functions when I was at intermediate. Girls went one night to the school hall where a projector played an ancient movie about girls and boys developing bodies, and then the boys

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7:22

Kerre Woodham: On where the bootcamps stand now

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/09

The hooha over the efficacy of the boot camps hasn't gone away anytime soon, although over the weekend we did hear supporters of the scheme, along with the critics. I frightened the horses on Friday morning when I suggested that this iteration of the boot camps - and there have been many, as you know, had got off to a very bad start with one young man dying in a car accident and then two young people fleeing from their community placements. Good news, the two youths have since been found. Bad news,

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5:45

Eric Thompson: Motorsport Correspondent on Liam...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/08

Liam Lawson awaits his fate as his last six races are deemed an 'audition' for next year. Motorsport Correspondent Eric Thompson says the 22-year-old has done everything required of him. "He's young, he is quick and he is marketable, which matters at this elite level of sport." Thompson says the stars are aligned for Lawson. LISTEN ABOVE.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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11:21

David Graham: CEO of the Billy Youth Foundation on...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/08

Labour is accusing the Government of pushing forward with its boot camp pilot even in the face of obvious failure. This comes as two participants who fled the programmewere arrested by police officers responding to a carjacking in Hamilton yesterday. CEO of the Billy Youth Foundation David Graham says the longer the young men are in the bootcamps, the less likely they are to transition back into the community, and asks what the function of the camps is. LISTEN ABOVE.See omnystudio.com/listener for

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6:34

Kerre Woodham: What will the new farm-to-forest...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/05

It is customary when governments announce restrictions on farmers’ ability to do anything that there be howls of protest – but not with this one. The Government has announced sweeping changes to limit the amount of full farm to forestry conversions. And the reason that there's very little in the way of dissent is that farming groups and rural communities have been raising concerns over the amount of productive farmland being converted into forestry for several years now. You'll have seen many

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4:06

Kerre Woodham: High time the charity loophole was closed

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/04

Finance Minister Nicola Willis is promising tax changes ahead for charities and the closing of loopholes, and the details of that will be announced in next year's budget. And not before time, you'd have to say. There's about $2 billion, it's estimated, in untaxed profit in the charitable sector, and politicians of varying hues have been eyeing up that revenue potential for some time. I think both Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins have said on this show that the charities loophole is something

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7:54

Bruce Bernacchi: Dentons Kensington Swan Partner on...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/03

Charities are going to be seeing some changes to their taxes from next year. Finance Minister Nicola Willis has confirmed that there will be tweaks to the charity tax regime, but she is mindful of striking the right balance. They want to ensure that people can’t structure their affairs as charities while building up funds that aren’t used for charitable purposes. Best Start and Sanitarium were examples she gave of such trading entities. Bruce Bernacchi, tax expert and partner at Dentons Kensington

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6:35

Kerre Woodham: I like the more targeted approach to...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/12/03

As Jobseeker numbers continue to rise, the government has announced targeted management of Jobseeker beneficiaries. 8000 more people were receiving a Jobseeker benefit in the last quarter, and that'll come as no surprise to anyone who was reading the news and seeing factories closing, and more media outlets closing, and more jobs in the state sector being lost. The total number on Jobseeker benefit is just over 200,000. It’d be a big ask to achieve the Government-stated aim of reducing the number of

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