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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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6:27

Kerre Woodham: The police have been left to pick up...

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2024/02/12

Funny old thing, last Thursday, Matt rang in - a serving police officer. He was calling in response to comments that the police simply don't have the time to turn up to burglaries and assaults at supermarkets. We were talking about Foodstuffs looking at introducing facial recognition cameras and other forms of security, because the thefts and the assaults on staff have got completely out of hand. Matt said, oh well, the police will rock up and they will deal with that. You don't need to do citizens

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11:58

Police Looking To Re-focus On Core Business

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/11

Police are looking to re-focus on what it calls core business, by pulling back from family harm and mental health call-outs. A briefing to new Police Minister Mark Mitchell, the organisation says it's planning a "managed withdrawal" from certain Policing operations whilst also calling mental health a crisis. Police said it had been forced to step in when it came to family harm, mental health, and child protection calls due to a lack of other social services. It's a proposal that has caused concern

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7:42

Kerre Woodham: Who should pay for roads?

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2024/02/09

Now, last year, National promised that, should it become the government, it would among other things scrap the Auckland Regional Fuel Tax, and yesterday they did just that. Since the 1st of July 2018, Aucklanders have paid an additional 11.5 cents per litre tax on fuel, over and above what the rest of the country pays. Of course, the rest of the country may well feel the effects of that when it comes to the cost of petrol that will be passed on by freight carriers and the like. Auckland Mayor

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8:29

Kerre Woodham: The trouble with cultural reports

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/08

As promised, the coalition government has followed through on its promise to scrap Labour's target of reducing the prison population by 30%, although it looks like Chris Hipkins got in before the government could in the lead up to last year's election. Then Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, in a desperate scramble for votes, said the prison population reduction target is already gone. Gone. It was part of the big dump pile that Chris Hipkins created when he became Prime Minister, anything he deemed to

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9:43

Michael Webster: The Privacy Commissioner has...

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2024/02/07

Foodstuff's introduction of facial recognition technology —with the hope of reducing repeat criminal offenders— has the Privacy Commissioner concerned. The grocery chain is trialling facial scanning in its North Island stores across the next six months. Commissioner Michael Webster told Kerre Woodham that facial recognition isn't a proven tool to reduce harmful behaviour in supermarkets. He says it could be even riskier, as the technology could provide people with a false sense of

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6:48

Kerre Woodham: How glorious was Waitangi Day?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/07

Have there ever been school holidays that have gone on quite so long? I mean, I know that when I was a school kid back in the antediluvian times, school holidays did seem to go on forever and ever and ever. Did they ever go on this long? I hope that you had a fabulous time with your family and that you're looking forward to them being settled into some sort of routine. How glorious was Waitangi Day? Utterly, utterly. Splendid. Thank you to all of you who were working so those parents who were

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11:01

Liam Dann: NZ Herald Business Editor on the increase...

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2024/02/06

Stats NZ figures out today show unemployment has crept to its highest level since June 2021. The unemployment rate in the three months to December was 4%. Herald Business Editor at Large, Liam Dann, says it's still lower than many economists were picking. He says there will be winners and losers out of this. Dann says people hoping for an OCR cut may have to wait longer, but more people will have kept their jobs. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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6:35

Kerre Woodham: Our Low School Attendance Is A Disgrace

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/02

Showing up. Turning up when you're supposed to. That leads me neatly to the Prime Minister's comments yesterday when he visited Browns Bay School. He said parents need to wake up and be a part of solving the problem of low school attendance. He said wake up, talk to your kids and get them to school. And I'm not going to argue that parents need to take a whole lot more responsibility when it comes to doing the right thing by their children. Feed them for one, decent food. Read to them. Books are

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7:03

Kerre Woodham: More education on recycling would be...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/01

We're talking a whole lot of rubbish this morning. I know some people who are passionate recyclers. They know their shinizzle. If Mastermind was still being broadcast, recycling - the what's the how's and the where’s - would be their specialty subject. There are others who simply don't care. Can't be bothered. Load of nonsense. It's not going to save the planet anyway. it's too hard, a load of bollocks. Biff, everything goes in the rubbish bin. Banana skins, glass bottles and all. I suppose I'm

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12:48

Rob Langford: Packaging Forum CEO on the new...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/02/01

Recycling will become more efficient across the country, as new rules come into place today. Standardised recycling requires almost everyone to place paper, glass and plastic types 1, 2 and 5 in their bins. Lids and aerosol cans are no longer accepted, while items like empty pizza boxes are. Packaging Forum CEO Rob Langford says these changes have been in development for over a year now. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:11

Kerre Woodham: Our infrastructure cant keep up with...

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2024/01/30

I was reading Robert Mcculloch's most excellent “Down to Earth Kiwi” blog. His latest piece is an article on mass immigration and making the premise that high net immigration will ultimately dilute the influence of indigenous people on the future of a country. That the more people we have coming in with different cultures, different priorities, the less importance the views of indigenous people have on the future of the country, and we can get back to that, and the Treaty, and the debate over

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10:59

Michelle McCormick: Infrastructure NZ Policy Director...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/01/30

New Zealand’s infrastructure is unable to keep up with our increasing population. Net migration figures are sitting at approximately 2-3% of the population per annum, a total of 120 thousand people entering the country every year. However, the spending allocated to improving housing supply, infrastructure, health, and education has not kept pace with the increasing number of migrants. Michelle McCormick, Infrastructure New Zealand’s Policy Director, told Kerre Woodham that there is an opportunity

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6:47

Kerre Woodham: Why are so many young people on the...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/01/30

Wherever you were on holiday —if you were lucky enough to get away— did you see the ‘Staff Wanted’ signs in the windows of just about every business, North and South Islands? A number of business owners I spoke to were having to reduce the days they were open because they simply couldn't provide the service they wanted, because they didn't have the staff. Yes, they could stay open and run around like blue-arsed flies, but they wanted to give them the service, the experience, that people expect

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8:49

Jason Walls: Political Editor on James Shaw's...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/01/30

James Shaw will stick around to back a last piece of legislation before quitting politics. The Greens Co-leader's announced he will stand down in March but remain an MP to back his Sustainable Environment Bill's first reading. Political Editor Jason Walls said that as far as resignations go, this was pretty lukewarm. He said that Shaw made it known after the election that he was going to be shepherding the party to the point where he would no longer need to be co-leader, and someone else could

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9:08

Paula Bennett: Former Social Development and...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/01/29

Former Social Development and Employment Minister, Paula Bennett, has made a case for bringing back sanctions for those on the Jobseeker benefit. There are 34,000 under-25-year-olds on the Jobseeker benefit. Bennett is calling out the acceptance of this statistic, and questioning how we can rationalise the fact that more than 500 of them have been on welfare for longer than five years. She told Kerre Woodham that it’s all about the direction from the Government. Bennett said that currently the

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4:32

John MacDonald: Why shouldn't beaches be vehicle-free?

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2024/01/22

Did you see those clowns driving on Muriwai Beach on the TV news last night, just hours after a teenager was tragically killed there yesterday afternoon? It was like rush hour and, I’m sure, they were probably hamming it up for the cameras. One muppet even hooned past the reporter who was doing the live report - in what looked like some sort of people mover - and then, within a few seconds, they were reversing at pretty much the same speed. I could say that I couldn’t believe what I was

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11:00

Greig Epps: CEO of the Imported Motor Vehicle...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2023/12/15

Parliament's repealed the Clean Car Discount —dubbed a 'ute tax' by its opponents— under urgency, following a third reading. The policy subsidised the purchases of electric vehicles by charging a tax on purchases of polluting vehicles. It led to a massive uptake of EVs. However, Transport Minister Simeon Brown says the policy was fiscally irresponsible. He says it was taking money from people who have very little or no choice as to what vehicle they can use and giving it to people who can

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6:25

Kerre Woodham: Good riddance to the Clean Car Discount

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2023/12/15

So, the clean car discount, aka the Ute Tax, has been repealed as Parliament continues to sit in urgency in the lead-up to the Christmas break. Some of those politicians won't know what's hit them, working past the 15th of December! The clean car discount you'll remember was a Labour initiative, originally introduced in July 2021. Initially, it provided rebates for consumers that purchased electric and hybrid vehicles. You know, there were substantial rebates for an EV. If it was a new car, you

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8:24

Nick Leggett: Infrastructure NZ CEO on the Government...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2023/12/13

KiwiRail says the Government needs to better consider the future after pouring cold water on Cook Strait ferry upgrades. Contracts were already underway for new ferries and port infrastructure, but Finance Minister Nicola Willis says it's now too expensive, after blowing out to over $3 billion. Chief Executive, Peter Reidy, told Mike Hosking that the upgrades would've benefited the economy in the long run. He says it's about being a future focused economy, supporting our import and export

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12:22

Liam Dann: NZ Herald Business Editor on the GDP...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2023/12/13

Surprise at today's negative GDP figure. It fell 0.3% in the three months to September, a switch from a revised 0.5% increase for the three months to June. Stats NZ originally reported that quarter as a 0.9% growth. Herald Business Editor at Large Liam Dann told Kerre Woodham that it's much gloomier than most expected. He says most economists were predicting at least some growth. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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