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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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5:55

Kerre Woodham: Would self-certification build a...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/30

I suppose I should have, but I had no idea that it takes, on average, 569 days for a home to be built and consented right now. Nearly two years for a home to be built and consented! A decent building company could throw up a house in three months, couldn't they? But no, because of the consenting process, 569 days in this country for a home to be built and consented. No wonder we have a shortage of homes and no wonder they're so expensive. Now the Government wants to change that and yesterday

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7:31

Pete Wolfkamp: Newstalk ZB's Resident Builder on the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/29

The devil will be in the details when it comes to the Government’s new building consents scheme. The proposal would allow competent tradespeople to self-certify consents on low risk builds, and businesses with a track record on delivering bigger projects would be able to access streamlined consenting. Pete Wolfkamp, ZB’s Resident Builder, told Kerre Woodham that it makes sense that those doing roughly the same type of low risk project over and over again should be able to monitor their own

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5:59

Kerre Woodham: Another weekend, another boy racer...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/29

Almost four months to the day, on the 30th of June, headlines were trumpeting a police crackdown on boy racers. In Wellington, police issued 138 infringement notices, 19 vehicles were taken off the streets, five vehicles were seized by bailiffs because of unpaid fines, three were impounded, 11 were either pink or green stickered due to compliance issues, 420 people were breathalysed, one person was arrested, and a stolen Subaru was seized. From one boy racer gathering in Wellington. On that same

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8:02

Mark Mitchell: Police Minister on the move to crack...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/28

The Police Minister is signalling a law change to crack down on boy racers after a violent brawl in Wairarapa on Saturday. Videos of men smashing a car's windows and beating up its driver are circulating on social media. The boy racers also threw bottles, rocks, and fireworks at police, with several people now facing charges. Minister Mark Mitchell told Kerre Woodham he is working on legislation with the Ministers for Justice and Transport. He says they hope to progress changes to give police

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4:31

Kerre Woodham: Want only white nurses? You might be...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/24

If you want to racially abuse hospital staff and demand white only nurses, fine. We will draw a curtain around your bed, and you’ll lie there and wait. You need pain relief, assistance to go to the loo, have your sheets changed, have your blood pressure monitored - make sure it's not getting dangerously high. You lie there and you wait. You wait for a white nurse to come on duty. You might be waiting a while. I don't know how this ugly racist who the poor people at Waitakere Hospital have had the

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11:10

Ben Basevi: NZ Nurses Organisation delegate on the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/24

More than 30 staff at Waitākere Hospital refused to care for a racially abusive patient in a bid to get hospital managers to defuse the situation. The male patient had asked for white-only staff, making racist and sexual remarks over a period of six weeks. Their drastic action prompted hospital managers to escalate their response and defuse the situation. New Zealand Nurses Organisation delegate Ben Basevi told Kerre Woodham he thinks management was out of touch, and didn’t come down to see what was

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6:54

Kerre Woodham: You can't have police on every bus or...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/23

Yesterday afternoon, a woman was taken to hospital in a critical condition after being seriously injured in an assault on board a bus broad daylight. Shortly before 6pm, police confirmed the person had died in the hospital – they said the victim was a passenger on the bus. They say nobody else is at risk at the moment, they know who the alleged offender is, but it's unsettling. This is not the norm, this is not what should be happening. You should be able to board a bus on a quiet Wednesday and get

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8:53

Kerre Woodham: How is it that we need a Crown Observer?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/23

The Government is set to appoint a Crown Observer to Wellington City Council within weeks. The writing was on the wall really, wasn't it? It was whether they were going to go the whole hog with the Commissioner, a’ la Tauranga, or settle for an Observer, and that is what they've gone with. Local Government Minister Simeon Brown made the announcement yesterday and said he's written to Wellington City Council with draft terms of reference – he's given the Council ten working days to respond, as

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7:05

Kerre Woodham: Only the worst of the worst are...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/22

Several thousands more offenders are likely to be captured under Three Strikes 2.0 following changes by Cabinet to toughen up the act. These changes, announced this morning, include halving the sentencing threshold for a first strike, and making it retrospective (controversial with lawmakers). That would capture several thousands of the 15,000-odd offenders with strikes to their name under Three Strikes 1.0. When it was repealed by Labour, who said it was harsh and punitive and unfair to Māori and

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6:33

Kerre Woodham: Can we really afford to host the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/20

Who doesn't love hosting a good party? Who hasn't enjoyed the buzz that comes from having people from all over the world heading into town intent on having a good time? Even if you can't afford the price of the tickets to the Rugby World Cup, or through fee for Women's World Cup, or you haven't got a gin palace to head out on the water to get up, close and personal to the America's Cup racing, you can still share in the good times and the positive vibes that are generated when a marquee event is

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9:32

Mark Orams: AUT sailing professor on the prospect of...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/20

Former Prime Minister Helen Clark says it's politically viable for New Zealand to host the America's Cup as we've done it before,and if we don't step up, someone else will. She says Kiwis love to see New Zealand doing well and winning – and says we know having the Cup at home comes with economic benefits. Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown says the hosting decision is in the hands of Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton. AUT Sailing Professor and former New Zealand world champion sailor Mark Orams joined

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8:27

Kerre Woodham: What do we expect our politicians to do?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/18

The Greens voted last night to swallow a dead rat. Even the vegans had to chew on a dead rat last night. Green Party delegates overwhelmingly decided to use the Waka Jumping law, which they hate, to eject Darleen Tana from Parliament if she decides not to quit first. Darleen Tana, the former Green MP, currently sits, useless as tits on a bull, as an independent and was the subject of a late night special general meeting zoom. All 185 party delegates present at the meeting reached consensus —I don't

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7:18

Kerre Woodham: On the whole, I think ACC's still working

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/17

We're going to open the show today with a chat on ACC, given that it's managed to go from a $911 million surplus to a $7.2 billion deficit in the year to June. That’s got to hurt. ACC said, in it's just released annual report, that lower than expected rehabilitation performance contributed towards the deficit, and noted the cost of providing services and compensation to injured people increased by 16% over the year. That makes sense. The price of everything has gone up. The price of taxis has gone

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5:29

Kerre Woodham: Can you blame someone for speaking...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/16

I remember about 25 years ago there was an absolute hoo-ha at the Grey Lynn Countdown, because staff there were speaking to one another in their own tongue in the common staff room. And there was a complaint from somebody who spoke English —that was the language they spoke, and they didn't speak any other languages— and they took great offence to people speaking in their mother tongue in the staff room. They said it made them feel uneasy, they didn't know what they were talking about, and you can

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10:35

Liam Dann: NZ Herald Business Editor on inflation...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/15

Inflation is continuing to fall and interest rates are likely to follow suit. The inflation rate has dropped to 2.2 percent. It's the first time in more than three years it's returned to the Reserve Bank's 1-3% target range. The Herald's Liam Dann told Kerre Woodham the markets are now pricing in a 100% chance the Reserve Bank will cut the OCR at least 50 basis points next month. He says there's now serious talk about a 75 basis point cut, which normally only happens during major economic downturns

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5:19

John MacDonald: Is this the future of airport security?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/15

What’s the Government’s obsession with speeding things up? Today, it’s the queues at airport security that it wants to go faster - with Transport Minister Simeon Brown looking at bringing-in private operators to run airport security instead of the Civil Aviation Authority. As far as I’m concerned, if you don’t get through security on time and miss your flight, it’s your own fault. And I do not like the idea of private security outfits taking over. Instead, I think the Government should be focused

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5:32

John MacDonald: How’s that $20-a-week tax cut looking...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/11

How’s that miserly $20-a-week tax cut looking now that we know the country’s budget deficit is $1.8 billion worse than expected? You might be one of the few people who are actually better-off by more than 20 bucks a week, but you’re in the minority. And there’s no doubt that there is egg all over the Government’s face on this one. But I told you so. And it wasn’t just me who told you so, but I’ll get to that. There will, no doubt, be people hitting back on this one —pointing out that ‘they’re not

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5:24

John MacDonald: Call in the army for our civil...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/10

How many reviews and reports do we need before we accept that we are nowhere near as good at emergency and disaster management as we think we are here in New Zealand? I reckon we’ll never admit it. But we should. In fact, we shouldn’t just admit that we’re not as good as we think - we should also be looking at some major structural change. Not just more of the tinkering around the edges that the Government is talking about today. We need to accept we’re pretty average; we need to accept that

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7:58

Ankit Sharma: Higher penalties for careless builders

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/09

Penalties could be on the cards for careless builders as the Government looks to strengthen professional requirements. It's eyeing key changes to the registration and licensing regimes, with a focus on lifting competence and accountability requirements; as well as improving Building Act consumer protections. Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk confirms it's also looking into a new offence for deliberately hiding non-compliant building work in remote inspections. That would mean a $50,000

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7:48

Kerre Woodham: Will a fine solve our dodgy building...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/09

There's been a lot of good news on the home building front, you know, just for your average homeowner. The Government's plans to reform the building consent system to make it more affordable to build a new home – or a home. Jolly good news. The review of the building code to bring in a streamlined, risk-based consenting regime, as well as increasing the availability of construction materials, all good. There is no doubt we're paying through the nose to build homes here. The cost of building work

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