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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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5:42

Kerre Woodham: Poor decision making or the nature of...

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2024/06/21

She's been a tough few months for Northland businesses and residents. First, we had the Brynderwyns closing. State Highway 1 over the Brynderwyn Hills is finally set to open ahead of Matariki weekend after 17 weeks and three days. Lots of diversions, lots and lots of trucks on roads that where they really, really shouldn't be, and the crews have been working as hard as they can, but it's been slip after slip after slip. They've been trying to clear those and strengthen the road and shore up the

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8:31

John Hart: Former All Blacks coach and Blues Board...

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2024/06/20

The Blues and Chiefs will be facing off before a packed-out Eden Park for the Super Rugby Finals. The game kicks off at 7:05pm this Saturday, tickets for the match selling out within a couple of hours. Former All Blacks coach and Blues Board Member John Hart told Kerre Woodham that to have a full sellout crowd within a few hours of tickets going on sale shows that there’s a lot of enthusiasm for the game. He said that there’s been a lot of negativity surrounding New Zealand rugby this year, and

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5:14

Kerre Woodham: Could SailGP have worked in Christchurch?

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2024/06/20

Environmental awareness and the risk of dolphin bothering seems to have been behind SailGP’s decision to withdraw its racing from Lyttelton next year and move the whole kit and caboodle to Auckland. You may remember they looked at Auckland but there was inability to provide the kind of spectator stands that Russell Coutts wanted, So off to Lyttelton they went, with the caveat that you have to be mindful it's a dolphin sanctuary, and if the dolphins turn up then racing has to stop. Sure, fine,

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10:48

Liam Dann: NZ Herald Business Editor on the 0.2% rise...

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2024/06/19

The news New Zealand is out of a technical recession isn't necessarily cause for celebration. Stats NZ figures show GDP rose 0.2% in the three months to March and 0.2% in the year to March. But Herald Business Editor Liam Dann told Kerre Woodham that we could still see a series of further per capita contractions over the next few quarters. He says if we don't end up back in a technical recession, things could go backwards in another quarter due to the crunch starting to bite on interest rates

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13:44

Mike Cosman: New Zealand Institute of Safety...

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2024/06/19

New Zealand’s health and safety performance seems to be dire still. In 2013, an independent taskforce identified three key failures in the country’s health and safety system in the wake of the Pike River tragedy. Eleven years later, Newsroom reveals that despite knowing these faults, not much has changed. Legislation continues to be poorly implemented with insufficient follow through, the primary regulator is still under resourced, and there is still poor coordination across the agencies tasked

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7:15

Kerre Woodham: Do politicians need more protection...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/06/19

Gerry Brownlee, the Speaker, wants to boost security for politicians while they're out and about in the community before something goes very wrong. Something has gone pretty wrong in that Green MP James Shaw was assaulted in the street as he walked to work. You'd have to say that was a pretty nasty episode. Gerry Brownlee is considering giving Parliament’s security guards powers to arrest and detain, and to be able to coordinate more with the police diplomatic protection service, which usually looks

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7:55

Gary Morrison: Security Association CEO on the need...

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2024/06/18

Boosting Parliament security is a work in progress. MPs have shared experiences of threats and intimidation, and some say the Parliament protests were a catalyst for greater concerns. The Speaker's looking into the possibility of giving Parliament security guards arrest powers. Security Association Chief Executive Gary Morrison told Kerre Woodham that having Police support is key. He said that security guards act as a visible deterrent and can keep situations safe. Morrison says there's not

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4:20

Kerre Woodham: How necessary are resource consents?

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2024/06/18

Let's start with the announcement yesterday from Chris Bishop allowing people to build small granny flats without requiring consent. It's followed through, the coalition government, on its promise to cut red tape around the resource consent process. The announcement was made yesterday, and they said it will be easier for people to put a granny flat in their backyard without having to go through the hoohah of a costly consent process. Housing Minister Chris Bishop said there are already some

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33:49

Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader takes talkback,...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/06/18

Labour's leader continues to call the Government tax cuts poorly timed. The Government's pouring $14.7 billion into it and giving landlords a $3 billion boost. The tax changes kick in late July against advice from officials who recommend waiting until October. Chris Hipkins says 12 billion dollars has been borrowed to fund the cuts. He told Kerre Woodham that he agrees tax brackets need adjusting, but you have to carefully choose when it's done. Hipkins says this is the worst time to do it,

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7:35

Kerre Woodham: We're going to have to bite the bullet...

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2024/06/17

You do not have to go back very far to find a news story about a New Zealand Prime Minister having his or her trip disrupted by a shonky 757. The Prime Minister's trip to Japan, with an accompanying trade delegation, was disrupted over the weekend after the Air Force 757 broke down, again. And it was this time last year, to within a week, that the plane ferrying Chris Hipkins to China set off on its flight with a backup plane flying in reserve, in case the first one broke down. Remember that? ACT

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9:53

Belinda Blick-Duggan: The Write Lesson managing...

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2024/06/17

A report by the Ministerial Advisory Group reviewing English and maths learning, has recommended annual checkpoint tests for students. It recommends children in Years 4-6 learn handwriting, including cursive handwriting, and study the "conventions of text structure and style". Children would also be encouraged to write by hand as much as possible in their first three years at school. The Write Lesson managing director Belinda Blick-Duggan says more schools have turned their back on teaching

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6:55

Barry Soper: ZB senior political correspondent on...

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2024/06/17

General consensus our Defence Force plane is embarrassing New Zealand. The Prime Minister and his delegation were stranded in Papua New Guinea - en route to Japan - after two fuses blew while the 757 was refuelling. Chris Luxon took a commercial flight to Japan - and Air New Zealand's diverting a flight to collect his 52-strong delegation, which has taken a slow trip to Brisbane in the 757. ZB political correspondent Barry Soper says flying on the Air Force plane gives an important signal on trade

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6:35

Francesca Rudkin: We need to be saving more

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2024/06/14

So it turns out we suck at saving for retirement. We’re really good at ticking the box and signing up for KiwiSaver, go us! The Retirement Commission said yesterday that 90% of people getting paid a wage or salary have signed up to KiwiSaver, and around 80% of self-employed people have. However, when it comes to self-employed people – I wonder how many are just putting in the minimal amount of $521.33 to get the government’s contribution, and that’s it. So, we’re pretty good at deciding to jump

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5:17

Francesca Rudkin: We'd all like to see more...

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2024/06/13

Fieldays is in full flow at Mystery Creek in Hamilton and there’s a bit for farmers to celebrate this week. Or at least sigh with relief over. On Tuesday, the Government announced agriculture would not be included in the Emissions Trading Scheme, and the climate change initiative He Waka Eke Noa would be disestablished and replaced with a new initiative, the Pastoral Sector Group. And yesterday the Finance Minister Nicola Willis announced an inquiry into banking competition with a focus on

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9:01

Scotty Stevenson: Men's Health Week Ambassador on the...

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2024/06/12

This week is Men’s Health Week, aiming to cull the number of Kiwi men dying from preventable illnesses. They encourage men to start with the small steps that can enable them to turn their health issues around. On their website they say that ‘living longer, more enjoyable lives takes a little work, but we’re all up for it’. Scotty ‘Sumo’ Stevenson is an Ambassador for Men’s Health Week and told Francesca Rudkin that after his wife died of cancer a few years ago, he’s very aware of how important it

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7:31

Francesca Rudkin: Are you making an effort to get...

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2024/06/12

As emails keep hitting the inbox—or the letters hitting the letterbox if you’re still supporting the postal system—telling us of price increases for all sorts of things. From the cost of our energy, to insurance premiums, to our favourite streaming service, we're all still keeping a close on our household budgets and doing what we can to try and keep them under control. So, how far do you go to make sure you are paying the best price for petrol? For those of us who do not live somewhere with

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5:11

Clive MacKenzie: Kiwi Property CEO on the opening of...

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2024/06/11

New Zealand’s largest Build to Rent complex opened this morning. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Housing Minister Chris Bishop cut the ribbon of Resido, a new development in Auckland’s Mount Wellington. Bishop said that there is no silver bullet to solving New Zealand’s housing crisis, and so they need to take every option available to them, Build to Rent being one such option. The new units are located next to Sylvia Park, with rents starting at $697 a week for a two bed, two bath. Kiwi

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5:14

Kerre Woodham: What's caused the drop in ram raids?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/06/11

Ram raids are down more than 80% for the month of April, compared to last year. Police have identified 12 ram raids in April 2024, compared to 64 in April 2023. Sixty-four! That wasn't even the highest. There was a peak in August 2022 when there were 86 ram raids. There was a total of 433 ram raids in 2022, 288 in 2023, and 67 in the first four months of this year. To what can we attribute the drop in ram raids? It would be nice to think that the tougher measures, The Ram Raid Offending and

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11:47

Neil Hallett: Private Investigator with Helix...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/06/10

Questions have been raised after the death of a baby boy in Te Kuiti. A homicide investigation's been launched after the 10-month-old couldn't be revived on Saturday afternoon. His injuries are thought NOT to be accidental and Oranga Tamariki's assisting Police. The father is insisting that he’s done nothing wrong, saying that he was trying to save his baby’s life, not take it. The investigation has sparked a question as to how difficult it is to make an arrest and convict someone when a child

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5:40

Kerre Woodham: We live in comfort thanks to the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/06/10

In an ideal world, I would rather not dig up the ground and the sea bed to extract their resources. But we created certainly not an ideal world, but a comfortable world precisely because mankind learnt how to do that, to extract the riches from beneath the Earth's crust. Mankind's gone from living in a harsh and inhospitable environment to living in relative comfort thanks to the extraction of those aforementioned resources that give us light and warmth and convenience and communication, just about

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