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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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7:58

Kerre Woodham: Finally some good news

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2025/10/21

Talkback isn't really the place for good news. Generally, it's a forum where we can vent our respective spleens, express our frustrations, have a good old moan, and yes, we do share stories and we exchange information, but mainly it's to bristle about things that we feel aren't going right and could be better. Good news, we tend to think that, oh, good, yes, things are back on track. They've listened to what we have to say, and things are as they should be, and then you don't bother phoning in

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8:27

Kerre Woodham: It's concerning if this is the best...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/20

Labour released some policies yesterday. Very late in the piece, and you can kind of see why. Just like that, we're back to 2017 with a cut and paste of lofty rhetoric, promises to spend lots of money, and little to no detail. It's a dud, I think it's fair to say. And it's not just me saying that. Oh, we'd expect you to say that, you hate Labour. No, I don't hate Labour. I just hate really, really dumb ideas. I hate the fact that they think that we're all idiots. I hate the fact that they're relying

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12:11

Liam Dann: New Zealand Herald Business...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/20

Annual inflation has risen to a 15-month high of 3%. Economists had been expecting inflation to reach or surpass the 3% upper limit of the Reserve Bank's target band. The central bank's expected to look past this current spike when it reviews the OCR next month. New Zealand Herald Business Editor-at-large Liam Dann told Kerre Woodham that, “this this drip feeding of the rate cuts means that everybody just waits.” LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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9:00

Louise Upston: Minister for social development and...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/20

Beneficiaries who break the Government's job hunt rules face more intensive sanctions to prove they are hunting for employment. From today, they will be required to report on at least three job search activities a week and participate in four weeks of training courses. Minister for social development and employment Louise Upston told Kerre Woodham that the rules are for people, “who aren't doing their best, who aren't fulfilling their responsibilities, and this is a non-financial consequence of

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8:17

Brett O’Riely: New Zealand Performance Academy...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/20

New Zealand's first sports school will open next year, in a partnership with Wellington Phoenix. The New Zealand Performance Academy in Upper Hutt will operate as a charter school for serious aspiring sportspeople. The academy will initially offer elite football training alongside the Wellington Phoenix Academy, as well as rugby training. New Zealand Performance Academy Aotearoa Board Member Brett O’Riely told Kerre Woodham that, “a lot of the momentum came from the students and parents.” LISTEN

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4:44

Kerre Woodham: Build the economy and the workers will...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/19

New rules come into force for job seekers today, as the government continues efforts to get more young people off a benefit and into work. It's a very worthwhile enterprise. Do not let young people drift onto a benefit because there they will stay for around about 18 years, which is a hell of a life to condemn any young person to. Hang on a minute though, weren't there sanctions announced in May? You're right, there were. They targeted beneficiaries with money management and community work sanctions

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39:32

Bosses Unfiltered - Episode 2: Rod Duke

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/19

Rod Duke has been selling things since he was 16. First shoes, then appliances, and eventually homewares and sportswear. Born in Adelaide, Duke came to New Zealand in 1988 to spruce up a flailing Briscoes for sale. Two years later he scored the best Briscoes deal ever, he bought the whole company himself for $2. He ended up with 12 shabby stores, where dusty wine glasses were sitting on the shelf for $2.71 each. But it didn’t take long for Duke to turn the business around. Today, there are almost

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7:01

Kerre Woodham: Should there be name suppression for...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/17

I can't think of much worse than being labelled a child abuser, a child pornographer. It's such an abhorrent, vile, aberrant perversion of a crime. All crime is evil. But when it involves children, there's something particularly sickening about it. Those who collect images of babies and children being sexually abused, in my opinion, are as culpable for the torture of these children as the men and women who actually inflict the damage. They deserve a special place in hell. And let's face it, the

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8:37

Wayne Wright Jr: Businessman on name suppression in...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/16

A businessman from a prominent family, Wayne Wright Jrwas falsely identified on social media of being a name suppressed individual from a wealthy family who was charged and sentenced for knowingly possessing thousands of objectionable material files and knowingly importing the content. Mat Mowbray was also incorrectly as the person, but the Herald and a document from the Ministry of Justice have confirmed it's not him. The men believe that people convicted of sexual offences against children should

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6:39

Kerre Woodham: State houses are a launchpad, not a...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/16

Fewer state houses, more private rentals. The New Zealand Initiative believes that giving tenants vouchers to spend on rent could help more vulnerable people and save taxpayers money. And Sir Bill English agrees. In a rare interview on the Mike Hosking Breakfast this morning, the former Prime Minister says providing state housing is not just about putting a roof over the head of a vulnerable family. You know, the point of social housing is to change lives. And that means focusing on the people more

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9:17

Paul Gilberd: CEO of community housing says focus...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/15

A report by The New Zealand Initiative finds the Government's ownership of 77,000 state houses has maintenance costs nearly twice that of a private landlord. It finds it also doesn't respond quickly enough to issues like rent arrears, and troublesome tenants. CEO of community housing Paul Gilberd told Kerre Woodham that the top priority for government housing is to support society's most vulnerable people. 'We're seeing huge surge in, youth and older adult and women's homelessness, which is very

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8:36

Clare de Lore: Chair of the Press Gallery under Jim...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/15

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger has died at the age of 90.He was New Zealand's 35th prime minister, in power from 1990 to 1997. After leaving Parliament in 1998, Bolger became New Zealand's ambassador to the United States and later Chancellor of the University of Waikato. Clare de Lore is a journalist who was Chair of the Press Gallery at the time Jim Bolger was Prime Minister, and a close friend of the family. She told Kerre Woodham that, 'it was a really happy environment in which he

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6:41

Kerre Woodham: The failure of Fees Free

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/15

Do you want another example of Labour's ideology over pragmatism? I really, really hope that the previous Labour ministers have learned from their previous terms in government that thought bubbles and bright ideas do not sound policy make. Remember Fees Free? The policy was introduced in 2018 and was a key part of Labour's election campaign. The first year of tertiary study would be free for students. It would progressively roll out to cover three years, which never eventuated. We, the taxpayer,

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6:17

Mark Mitchell: Police Minister on the support...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/15

What do you do if you want to leave a gang? A coroner has found that Napier Mongrel Mob leader Neil Angus Benson, otherwise known as Heil Dogg, felt trapped in his position in the gang in the months leading up to his suicide in December 2024. In his report, Coroner Wilton said Benson appeared to be under "psychological strain of his leadership position in the Mongrel Mob gang". “He also described an internal dilemma: wanting to exit the gang lifestyle, but recognising he was too deeply involved for

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9:19

Kirk Sargent: First Foundation CEO on the programme...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/14

Another option to go alongside fees free study. The Labour Government introduced First Year Fees Free in 2018, providing tertiary students with up to $12,000 in tuition cover for the first year of provider-based study, or the first two years of work-based learning. The Coalition Government has changed the scheme from this year, applying it to the final year of study instead. The policy had three objectives, to incentivise learners, particularly disadvantaged learners, to finish their studies; to

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6:59

Kerre Woodham: Our kids are back on track

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/13

I love the fact that New Zealand Education Minister Erica Stanford and the Prime Minister presented improved reading stats to the nation yesterday. Erica Stanford was very quick to praise teachers for the much-improved results in phonics reading. She said this is an incredible improvement in reading scores in less than half a year and reflects the brilliant work teachers are doing, and it does. Teachers have had a difficult time with changes in curriculum and dealing with increasingly disruptive

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7:08

Kerre Woodham: Voting matters - don't scramble at the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/12

Well, better late than not at all. On Saturday morning, I went upstairs and said to my daughter, "Have you seen the orange envelopes that had all the voting?" "Oh, hell. Today, isn't it?" she said. "Yes." So we scrambled around and found it in that drawer that has everything, where they'd been since they arrived in the mail. And we had until midday to vote, so both got down to it, and I took hers in with mine to drop into the local library. I knew who I wanted to vote for, so that was relatively

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7:46

Sir Lockwood Smith: Former Speaker of the House on...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/12

The government has changed methane targets, aiming to make the changes easier for farmers. The Government's slashed the 2050 targets to 14% to 24% below 2017 levels, it was previously24% to 47% lower than previously. Former Speaker of the House Sir Lockwood Smith told Kerre Woodham that this change is the right decision. He said that it would be a bad idea to impede New Zealand's meat and dairy production when the business will fall to 'countries that actually put out more methane and more carbon

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9:28

Andrew Geddis: Otago Law Professor on why postal...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/12

This year’s local government elections have seen the lowest voter turnout in 36 years, with less than a third - or 32% - bothering to have their say. Of those who did, the contrast between the urban rural divide was stark. In metro areas, only 28.8% cast their votes, provincial people made up 38.3% while rural turnout was 43.6% Local Government New Zealand says it is clear local elections have to change urgently - they'd like to see a voter turnout of at least 80%. University of Otago Law Professor

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40:23

Bosses Unfiltered - Episode 1: Dame Wendy Pye

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/10/10

Dame Wendy Pye is one of the most successful businesspeople in New Zealand. She’s a rich-lister, her publishing company Sunshine Books has sold over 300 million books worldwide, she's met countless more world leaders, and she was the first living woman to be inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame. But it hasn’t all been easy. Dame Wendy has gone through a life changing redundancy, legal battles, and had many deals that couldn't be closed. She joined Newstalk ZB's Kerre

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