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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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7:18

Sir Lockwood Smith: Former MP and Diplomat on ACTs...

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2025/09/03

Pulling out of the Paris Agreement could cause more problems than it solves. Act and New Zealand First have expressed interest in pulling New Zealand out of the agreement unless more realistic emissions targets are produced. Sir Lockwood Smith, former MP and Diplomat, says he sympathises with famers and Seymour on the subject, but we just pull out of the accord. He told Kerre Woodham that there are clauses in free trade agreements, such as the one with the UK, that would enable them to take action

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14:08

Tama Potaka: Associate Housing Minister on the number...

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2025/09/02

The number of emergency housing applications being declined has soared as the Government tightens restrictions. Data obtained by our newsroom under the Official Information Act shows applications have dropped significantly to the end of June, but the number being declined continues to rise. More applications are being declined than granted in Auckland. Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka told Kerre Woodham they have a range of measures either in place, or that they’re putting in place, to deal

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7:49

Kerre Woodham: What did it cost to get the foreign...

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2025/09/02

You might remember, those of you who were listening around about a month ago when the Prime Minister was in the studio, taking your calls. Steve rang in and gave the PM a bit of ginger over the economy. He said, "I know you're between a rock and a hard place, Prime Minister, with the economy. Not really any more levers you can pull to do much, and you guys are just treading water. It's a PR machine to gloss over while you pray that somehow the economy's going to pick up." He said to the Prime

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7:57

Billy Moore: New Zealand Airports Association Chief...

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2025/09/01

The Government's offering up to 30-million dollars in loans from the Regional Infrastructure Fund to smaller airlines. It's also approved funding for a digital development that will allow regional transport bookings to be integrated with the platforms of major carriers. Associate Transport Minister James Meager says most regional airlines couldn't opt to charge more as a solution to tough times. New Zealand Airports Association Chief Executive Billy Moore says this is a ‘smart strategy’ from the

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8:28

Hamish Firth: Mt Hobson Group urban planning expert...

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2025/08/29

There's confidence the right balance can be found when it comes to housing intensification in Auckland. A public meeting was held in Mt Eden last night, over proposals to allow 10 to 15-storey developments near transport hubs and town centres. Most of the meeting was civil, but things got tense when a young planning student suggested older people were standing in the way of change. Mt Hobson Group urban planning expert Hamish Firth told Kerre Woodham he thinks the city have high-rise buildings and

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4:02

Kerre Woodham: I'm not convinced we can do housing...

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2025/08/29

Around 200 people packed out the Mt Eden Village Centre in Auckland last night, and they were pretty riled up. In fact, many were furious over plans for high rise apartments and the loss of special character status for hundreds of villas and bungalows in the wider neighbourhood. And this is the kind of feeling that is being felt across many different Auckland suburbs, and it will be coming to a city or town near you. As we were discussing last week, draft plans for Auckland City would see

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34:29

Erica Stanford: Education Minister talks NCEA reform,...

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2025/08/29

The Education Minister says there was no option to do nothing when it came to changing NCEA. The proposed changes include replacing the qualification with a system emphasising literacy and numeracy more. Erica Stanford told Kerre Woodham changes were already underway with Labour updating the Level 1 curriculum, so there was no option to do nothing. She says they either had to continue rolling out Labour's plan, or look at what a better plan could be, and that's what they've done. Labour's education

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5:10

Kerre Woodham: Surely this visa can only be good for...

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2025/08/27

A new visa to attract businesspeople to New Zealand has been established by the Government, and really, it's only a matter of days, perhaps weeks, before a loosening on restrictions for foreigners being able to purchase residential property here is announced. Christopher Luxon, the Prime Minister, when he was last in-studio with me, said we’ll be announcing that shortly. I said you’ll never get that past Winston Peters, but he said watch this space. So, he's been dropping very heavy hints for some

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6:25

Chris Small: ABC Business Sales Managing Director on...

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2025/08/27

More money could soon circulate through the economy as the Government opens up the country to more overseas businesspeople. Under its new Business Investor Visa, foreign investors who put at least $2 million into a Kiwi business will be granted a 12-month fast-track to residence pathway. People who invest $1 million will be given a three-year work-to-residence option. ABC Business Sales Managing Director Chris Small told Kerre Woodham more capital needs to be brought in. He says when it starts

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6:45

Kerre Woodham: We need to get ships in and out more...

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2025/08/26

We all know that New Zealand is a trading nation. We need to sell stuff to make the money we need to build hospitals, pay our teachers and police officers, pay for benefits and Super, pay for roads and cycleways, and the like. To maintain our standard of living we have to earn our keep, and that's what our exporters do. We need good exporters, and we need to be able to get our stuff to market. However, port inefficiencies around the country could undermine New Zealand's goals to double its export

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10:28

Robbie Paul: Icehouse Ventures CEO on the number of...

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2025/08/26

Do younger Kiwis still have that No.8 wire mentality? While some are concerned the younger generation is settling as opposed to striving and investing in their ideas and futures, others believe the worry is unfounded. Icehouse Ventures, a venture capital company that backs Kiwi startups, hosted their 15th Annual Showcase last week, in which nine Kiwi founders presented to over 1,500 investors. CEO Robbie Paul told Kerre Woodham young founders are coming in droves. He says that founders tend to be

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7:27

Sherelle Kennelly: NZ Customs Brokers and Freight...

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2025/08/26

There’s a call to completely reset our supply chains. The Cargo Owners Council says there's been a 30% drop in productivity since 2019. Chair Brent Flavey says New Zealand is in the bottom 20% for port efficiency, and we aren’t keeping up with the rest of the world. NZ Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Federation CEO Sherelle Kennelly told Kerre Woodham without some hard conversations, we aren’t going to get to a point where we can support our export goals going forward. She says if we don’t

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6:53

Kerre Woodham: Fatal DUI crashes need to carry strong...

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2025/08/25

I don't know about you, but I was truly surprised to hear Judge Russell Collins send a young drug driver to jail on Friday. In the Napier District Court, Judge Collins heard Alexander Kerr had dope in his system when he crashed his car - killing his mate and leaving another in a wheelchair for life. Kerr had no previous convictions. His mate, the one in the wheelchair, the one he didn't kill, had forgiven him, but Judge Collins sent Kerr to jail for two years and three months. In sentencing, Judge

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4:37

Kerre Woodham: What good would repealing the gang...

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2025/08/22

Labour's Tāmaki Makaurau candidate Peeni Heare is standing by a comment that he’d repeal the gang patch ban. He agreed with the notion at an event on Wednesday night. Now, this is despite Chris Hipkins saying no, no, that's not true, we're not going to repeal the gang patch law. Peeni Henare told RNZ he was asked his personal view on the issue, which is informed by whanau experience. He understands that differs from the Party's view, but when an audience member at the Waatea-hosted debate at Favona

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7:30

Kerre Woodham: What will it take to bring NZ out of...

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2025/08/21

Finance Minister Nicola Willis all but invoked the old adage ‘the beatings will continue until morale improves’, when commenting on the state of the economy yesterday. In a stand up with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon after the Reserve Bank cut the OCR by 25 basis points to 3%, she blamed the sluggish economy on doomsayers from the opposition benches who were talking the economy down, and all but instructed Kiwi households to be more jolly. “I'm always conscious that households listen to

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10:55

David Seymour: Associate Education Minister on rising...

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2025/08/21

More students are attending school regularly. Figures released today show 58.4% of students regularly attended school in Term 2 - the highest since 2021. It's a drop from Term 1 where 66% of students showed up regularly, but this is partially explained by winter illness. Associate Education Minister David Seymour says messaging from the government has changed to remind parents school is important. However no prosecutions have been launched against parents of truant kids. Seymour told Kerre

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8:20

Maurice Williamson: Former MP and former diplomat on...

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2025/08/20

Former Speaker Trevor Mallard is returning early from Ireland, ending his job as Ambassador. Winston Peters has appointed senior foreign affairs staffer Angela Hassan-Sharp as his replacement, saying his behaviour during the anti-mandate occupation at Parliament should've disqualified him from the role. Peters says only experienced diplomats, not former politicians, should be posted overseas. Former MP and former diplomat Maurice Williamson told Kerre Woodham the idea that politicians should never

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6:05

Kerre Woodham: How can teachers justify the continued...

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2025/08/20

The secondary teachers are out again. They're appalled and insulted by the Government's latest pay offer. For the record, the Governments offered a 1% pay rise every year for three years in collective agreement negotiations. PPTA President Chris Abercrombie says the offer is the lowest increase in a generation and 18-19,000 teachers will be out protesting today. Chris Abercrombie said the Government's offer was appalling, and argued that it failed to help efforts to recruit and retain teachers

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8:04

Kerre Woodham: Can you have confidence in buying a...

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2025/08/19

Two stories in the Herald today - one about the announcement from Christopher Luxon and Chris Penk yesterday, changing the building liability settings so ratepayers aren't burdened with picking up the tab that shonky developers, builders, or architects are responsible for. In the Herald story, they cite a case in Queenstown: the Oaks Shores body corporate filed a $160 million claim for weather type defects. The developer had been placed into voluntary liquidation and was not sued, so that meant

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6:24

Kerre Woodham: Can Kiwis be swayed to support Nuclear...

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2025/08/18

It seems hard to believe, but the Maxim Institute reckons New Zealand can lead the world in sustainable AI infrastructure. They warn, however, that the window of opportunity is closing quickly because everybody wants to be in on it. Every other country wants the rewards that come from hooking their carriages to the AI machine, the choices we make now will determine whether New Zealand becomes a leader in the AI economy or is stuck in competing for the rats and mice that are left. Much hinges on

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