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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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7:47

Julie Chapman: CEO & Founder of KidsCan on the review...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/03/04

Associate Education Minister David Seymour says free school lunches can’t continue at such a cost – arguing there’s no evidence it works. The previous Government committed more than $300 million to fund the school lunch programme to the end of this year. The programme will be reviewed by Seymour, looking for ways to make it more efficient. Charity KidsCan supports schools and early childhood centres across New Zealand with breakfasts and lunches. CEO & Founder Julie Chapman tells Kerre

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8:05

Kerre Woodham: School lunches

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/03/04

We thought we'd start this morning with the review into the efficacy, or lack thereof, of school lunches. Associate Education Minister David Seymour says free school lunches, as they stand, are a prime example of wasteful public spending. They'd like to do away with them altogether, but he told Mike Hosking this morning that his party is just one within the coalition government. Tthere are other parties who want to have some way of addressing kids turning up at school hungry, so as he told Mike

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5:03

Kerre Woodham: Christopher Luxon isn't leading by...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/29

This annoys me because I shouldn't have to be talking about it, and because in the scheme of things, given what the country is facing, there are far, far bigger fish to fry. However, it speaks to an attitude, and it speaks to leading by example, and it speaks to having an understanding of what people, ordinary people, people who might be losing their jobs, people who might be losing their homes, people who are struggling to keep hold of their business, it speaks to what they are going through

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9:24

Kerre Woodham: What is happening with NZ immigration?

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2024/02/28

Now, what on Earth is going on within immigration New Zealand? Ever since the days of the late, unlamented Iain Lees-Galloway, the department has been struggling.A pause was placed on the processing of grandparents' visas, that was before Covid. Migrant workers are still being exploited by unscrupulous employers, despite a number of reviews under former Immigration Ministers. Last year it was revealed that there were nearly 200 employers who had had their licenses to hire migrants revoked because

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8:00

Kerre Woodham: Who do you believe about the Ministry...

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2024/02/26

Where to start from this morning's program?! The Mike Hosking Breakfast was the gift that kept on giving, what with Stuart Nash effectively cutting any ties that remained with an existing Labour Party you would have to say, to say ‘I was all for getting tough on the gangs, but nobody would support me.’ And then we had Jan Tinetti responding to National’s press conference yesterday saying so many projects have been promised, and yet we've looked, and they simply can't be delivered. There's not a

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7:21

Kerre Woodham: Gang Patch Crackdown Will Send a Message

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2024/02/25

As promised, the coalition government has announced legislation designed to make life just a little bit tougher for gangs. They are not the first government to try and control the range and the breadth and the strength of the various gangs in this country, they are unlikely to be the last. As far back as 1972, Labour leader Norm Kirk promised in the run up to the election that he would take the bikes off the bikies. Very un-Labour, but that's what he promised at the time -a promise which actually

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6:32

Kerre Woodham: Fees free hasn't worked, what next?

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2024/02/23

If the aim of the former Labour government was to get more students from lower income families into tertiary training, it doesn't work. There is, according to the Tertiary Education Commission who reported to Parliament this week, no discernible evidence that the fees-free —the first-year fees free scheme introduced by Labour— has improved participation from low socioeconomic groups at all. Nada. None. So that was the stated aim. We will pay the first year of your course fees, therefore lower

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9:18

Kirk Sargent: First Foundation CEO on the barriers to...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/22

The application of the last Government's fees free policy may not have done enough to target the people it was aimed at. The Tertiary Education Commission has told a select committee there's no discernible evidence that the first-year free policy helped more low decile school students into university. First Foundation CEO Kirk Sargent told Kerre Woodham that while removing financial barriers to education makes a major difference in what young people are able to achieve, it is not the only

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12:51

Tim Hazledine: Emeritus Professor of Economics at the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/22

Benefits are on blast at the moment, but one professor thinks a universal basic income may be cheaper. Data from the Ministry of Social Development shows that 109,000 kiwis on the Jobseeker benefit have received it for at least a year. Tim Hazledine, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Auckland, suggests we scrap the welfare system altogether, replacing it with a universal basic income. He told Kerre Woodham that currently, the amount the government spends on various social

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8:38

Kerre Woodham: The complaints about Oranga Tamariki...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/22

We have in the news yet another report into Oranga Tamariki. Yet another damning indictment into an organisation that should never exist. The Chief Ombudsman has called for changes “on a scale rarely required” at Oranga Tamariki. He reviewed about 2000 complaints over four years for his report children in care, complaints to the Ombudsman, 2019 to 2023. He said he could not yet provide reassurance that Oranga Tamariki’s practices and processes were consistently operating as they should. You could

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7:30

Kerre Woodham: Exercising is harder for some than others

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2024/02/21

Hands up all those who felt personally attacked this morning when you heard the stories about New Zealanders and obesity? Not you? Just me then?! All morning we've been hearing stats like these: one in three New Zealand adults is carrying enough excess body weight to affect their health. That would be people with a BMI of 30 or above. There's an increase in obesity, with that, an increase in preventable diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Half a billion dollars of the health

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8:28

Kerre Woodham: How are the benefit sanctions cruel?

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2024/02/19

The criticisms have come thick and fast in the wake of the coalition government's announcement that there would be sanctions applied to job seekers who choose not to actively look for work, despite help and support that is supposed to be coming from MSD officials. If after all that help and support you, choose not to take a job, then sanctions will apply. I'm starting to know what you mean when you say the media is biased. All of the images shown on all of the mainstream media show an aggressive

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10:47

Fay Amaral: Youthtown CEO on the reasons so many...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/19

Criticism of the Government’s welfare reforms have been coming in thick and fast. Figures from Stats NZ have revealed that 40,000 people under the age of 25 are currently on the Jobseeker benefit, an increase of 66% compared to six years ago. The Government plans to increase the number of check ins for those on the benefit and reintroduce sanctions for those who don’t meet their obligations. Youthtown CEO Fay Amaral told Kerre Woodham that there are common factors among this demographic that keep

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6:34

Kerre Woodham: Prime Ministers stark message must be...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/19

The Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, in his State of the Nation speech over the weekend, spelled it out loud and clear for those who haven't yet got the message. New Zealand is in for a world of pain over the next couple of years. He slammed the dumb and stupid policies of the previous government, and said while he believed New Zealand was the world's best country, and had the world's best people (a little bit of jingoism to sweeten the message), it was in a fragile state as we face a rough

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11:56

Shayne Cunis: Watercare Central Interceptor Executive...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/16

Watercare Auckland is aiming to reduce wet-weather overflows into streams and beaches. The massive Central Interceptor tunnel will store, as well as transport stormwater and wastewater, taking it to the Māngere Wastewater Treatment Plant for processing. Due for completion in 2026, the project is 16.2 kilometres long and the largest wastewater infrastructure project in New Zealand history. Watercare Central Interceptor Executive Programme Director Shayne Cunnis joined Kerre Woodham to give an

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7:27

Kerre Woodham: When ideology collides with the real...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/15

I can't help but enjoy the rich irony. NIWA, the Crown owned weather research institute, has had a big spend up on its vehicle fleet. Four big, grunty Chevy Silverados to be exact - 2024 models, apparently judging by the regos, retailing to you and to me for around $ 172K. Although I have no doubt that NIWA managed to squeeze that down a bit —I hope they did, I hope they negotiated— the utes were bought despite the fact that the government is currently trying to reduce the emissions from all the

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14:24

John Tookey: AUT Professor of Construction on the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/14

The Government is promising to tackle construction costs. Stats NZ data shows the cost of building a house has increased by 41% since 2019, making housing even more unaffordable for Kiwi families. Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk wants costs to go down. He's vowing to streamline the consenting process, saying the little guys have been shut out because of red tape. AUT'S Professor of Construction John Tookey told Kerre Woodham that the situation is more complicated than people

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6:53

Kerre Woodham: What's the right solution for the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/14

I did laugh when I saw the Retirement Commissioner’s report out yesterday, because I thought here we go again, round it comes the first of the twice-yearly discussions on whether we should lift the age of eligibility for the New Zealand Super- which we have been discussing for as long as I have been a journalist, I think, and that is a very, very long time. You do get occasionally a political party with an attack of the braveries, an attack of the cajones, and it's usually National. They wanted to

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15:06

Theresa Gattung: Compatico Founder on their...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/14

Today is Valentines Day, but not everyone is coupled up. Over 40’s are calling time on dating apps, finding it harder and harder to find a partner. They’re fatigued by the endless swiping, cautious of scams and catfish, and looking for a safer and more bespoke way of finding love. Theresa Gattung, former Telecom CEO and co-founder of My Food Bag, is the founder of Compatico, a premium matchmaking service designed to help people find their life partners. Gattung told Kerre Woodham that their

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0:43

Kerre Woodham: Emergency services need an upgraded...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/13

Further to the story yesterday regarding the police’s planned withdrawal from social services call outs, there's been a damning indictment of our 111 system. According to papers released after an OIA put in by RNZ, the government was warned a year ago that the 111-emergency call system is so old, so slow, and so fragmented, that it is causing deaths and injuries. So, the emergency services put together a business case asking for money to upgrade it and integrate it. Labour, however, dropped the

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