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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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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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8:10

Kerre Woodham: Why don't we focus the headlines on...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/07

There is a common trope that if prisons worked, we wouldn't need them. And that if prison was a deterrent, people wouldn't commit crime. If prison was about rehabilitation then people would serve their term and then they would not reoffend. There's something incredibly depressing about prisons and the waste of human potential they represent – even brand-spanking new prisons. I did a fundraiser for Shine charity at the Mt Eden Remand Prison before it was opened for prisoners – before it was open for

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6:44

Kerre Woodham: If we want progess, we need to make it...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/06

We’ve got roads, we’ve got mines, we’ve got housing developments, we’ve got 22 renewable energy projects, we’ve got aquaculture farms, we’ve got a roof for Eden Park, you name it, it’s there and it's happening in a town near you, because projects are spread right across the country. And these are the first 149 projects selected by the government to be included in its Fast-track Approvals legislation. When we say fast-track, a group advised the ministers in charge of the process, who deemed these 149

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8:26

Peter Thompson: Barfoot & Thompson Managing Director...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/03

Real estate agents are among the businesses feeling more upbeat. The Herald's latest Mood of the Boardroom survey shows that business owners are more optimistic than pessimistic about their industries, as well as the local and global economy. Optimism varies across the different sectors, with the real estate industry topped the list with an average score of 4.33/5, a substantial jump from last year’s 2.60/5. Barfoot & Thompson managing director Peter Thompson told Kerre Woodham that what

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7:15

Kerre Woodham: The ideologues are responsible for the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/02

There was a headline in The Post: ‘Scathing survey results from teachers on NCEA level 1 roll out’. That was the headline. The story goes on: “A survey of teachers saw the vast majority indicate that the NCEA standards are poorly designed, changes have increased workloads, there's insufficient support from NZQA NCEA, and the provided exemplars often don't align with assessment specifications.” So legitimate concerns. Teachers have been dealing with massive changes of curriculum and it's no wonder

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11:43

Chris Abercrombie: PPTA President on the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/10/01

Teachers say they are shocked with how new curriculum material is being rolled out. Changes to NCEA Level One are being put in place before changes to Level Two and Three come into force in four years. However, a scathing survey by the Post Primary Teachers Association shows the vast majority are dissatisfied with the new material. Union President Chris Abercrombie told Kerre Woodham that resources were late and not good enough, with many exemplars being poorly done. He said many teachers were

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5:03

Kerre Woodham: I'm so glad I have health insurance

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/09/30

I am really not surprised to see more people signing up for health insurance, even though we're going through a cost of living crisis and the premiums are not cheap. Southern Cross is the country's largest private health insurer and they've seen eight years of growth in their membership, with almost one in five Kiwis on their books. A Kantar survey for Southern Cross from last month showed that cost of living was the top concern for 91% of respondents, but 84% were concerned about not having access

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4:33

John MacDonald: The speed limit argument is looking...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/09/29

I reckon the Government’s argument in favour of increasing speed limits is looking more and more wobbly. There’s no question that it’s going to happen, with Transport Minister Simeon Brown confirming at the weekend that faster speed limits will be all-go next year. But it seems to me that his case as to why it’s needed and why it’s a good idea, is starting to look pretty weak. There’s an expert who is trying to sell an alternative idea which will probably have Simeon Brown laughing his head off

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11:29

Sandra Hazlehurst: Hastings Mayor on the youth...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/09/26

{"markup":"The Hastings youth council has made a successful bid to get voting rights.\nHastings District Council has narrowly voted in support of giving unelected youth councillors the ability to vote on council issues alongside other councillors at a committee level.\nTheir mayor thinks giving youth councillors voting rights will bolster their future opportunities.\nMayor Sandra Hazlehurst told Kerre Woodham this was thought through very carefully.\nShe says it'll encourage young people into local

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5:09

Kerre Woodham: Just introduce a capital gains tax and...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/09/26

For the love of all that is holy - can we just introduce a capital gains tax and be done with it? I am so sick of it dominating the headlines. The issue is never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to go away, despite two Labour Prime Ministers ruling it out, despite Christopher Luxon ruling it out - it comes up. It's like a nagging child, “I want a capital gains tax. I want a capital gains tax, I want a capital gains tax, I want a capital gains tax”, and then in the end you give in. This time

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6:20

Kerre Woodham: How was violence against bus drivers...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/09/25

Whatever happened to a ‘morning driver’ and a ‘thank you driver’ as you hopped on and off the bus? The violence and racial abuse of bus drivers and indeed their commuters, their passengers using public transport, has got so bad in recent times that the Bus and Coach Association is calling for more security officers to ride along on bus routes, for safety screens to be installed on buses, and now the Government is making offences against public transport workers an aggravating factor in sentencing

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6:00

Kerre Woodham: The Public Service Commission should...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/09/24

The big corporations have already started ordering their staff back into the office, now the Government’s had enough too. Nicola Willis made the announcement yesterday. While carefully defined, working from home arrangements can benefit workers and employers, she said, if the pendulum swings too far in favour of working from home, there are downsides. And that's even before we consider the effects for the CBD retailers, restaurants and cafes. She said there are good reasons why employees have

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