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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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4:50

Kerre Woodham: The unemployment figures make for grim...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2026/02/05

Stats New Zealand released the labour market statistics yesterday while I was on air talking to my caller Troy, and the numbers were not good. KW: The unemployment rate is 5.4% in the December quarter, up 5.3 in September. So we'll discuss that with Liam Dann in a minute. There we go. T: Interesting in an election year, that will be interesting for sure. Interesting in an election year for sure, Troy. For a government that campaigned on fixing the economy, getting people back into work, the figures

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7:34

Shannon Barlow: Frog Recruitment Managing Director on...

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2026/02/04

The job market's remaining tougher, for longer, than many economists were expecting. Unemployment's reached a ten-year high of 5.4% in the December quarter, and the broader under-utilisation rate is close to a ten-year high as well, at 13%. Finance Minister Nicola Willis is trying to point out silver linings, saying the data also shows more jobs have been created, and hours worked are increasing. Frog Recruitment Manging Director Shannon Barlow told Kerre Woodham that it’s a little early to get a

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11:37

Liam Dann: NZ Herald Business Editor on unemployment...

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2026/02/03

Unemployment's risen again to a ten-year high, with 165 thousand Kiwis currently out of work. Stats NZ data shows the unemployment rate was 5.4% in the December quarter, up from 5.3% in the September quarter. It's now the highest it's been since September 2015. The Herald's Liam Dann told Kerre Woodham while today's rise is small, it's also unexpected. He says there was some hope we had seen the peak of unemployment, but it appears we haven’t. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

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3:51

Kerre Woodham: I wish the drivers license overhaul...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2026/02/03

Remember the terror of the driving test? Your heart in your mouth as you drove around the mean streets of Timaru or Ashburton, or in my case Tauranga, with a gimlet-eyed traffic cop watching your every move. The parallel parking, the hill starts. I only got my license because the cop took pity on me, I'd have lost my job if I didn't pass the test. But it's been 40 years now and I haven't had any major incidents in that time, fingers crossed. His faith was justified. Getting your driver's license is

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12:08

Josie Vidal: Minerals Council CEO on the discussions...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2026/02/03

The Government wants to open New Zealand up to mining investment from all countries, not just from the US. New Zealand's one of dozens of countries negotiating with the US on a potential minerals deal. Ministers from New Zealand, Australia, the US, UK and EU are also meeting in Washington DC this week to discuss a potential security alliance over critical minerals. Minerals Council CEO Josie Vidal told Kerre Woodham New Zealand has a real opportunity to promote the fact that our mining is

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5:04

Kerre Woodham: How is a child's lack of basic skills...

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2026/02/02

As children head off to school this week, many of them for the first time, a woeful number of young ones are ill-prepared for the classroom. A recent survey conducted by the Auckland Primary Principals' Association and released by the ECE sector partnership, found nearly 90% of Auckland primary schools have reported an increasing number of children starting school without basic skills, such as talking, eating, and toileting. To be very clear, these are not children who have mental and or physical

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11:06

Lucy Naylor: Auckland Primary Principals' Association...

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2026/02/02

It's believed the pandemic can't be used as an excuse for why a growing number children aren't ready for life in the classroom. Some primary schools are reporting record levels of children arriving without basic skills such as talking, eating, and toileting. Auckland Primary Principals' Association President and Milford School Principal Lucy Naylor told Kerre Woodham this was the case immediately after Covid, but it's still continuing. She says some Covid babies are now well established in school,

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6:55

Kerre Woodham: Are 12-month prescriptions too much...

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2026/02/01

We thought we'd start with the new 12-month prescription rules. They came into force this weekend and are designed to save time and cut GP visits for patients. But community pharmacists say this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back because it's the latest in a raft of changes in a sector that is fighting to survive. The rules mean that people with long-term stable conditions can now get prescriptions of up to a year from their prescriber. And the government says this could save you up to

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4:12

Kerre Woodham: Back to the future with specialist...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2026/01/29

I've always understood the theory behind mainstreaming. We're all different, we all have different abilities, different attitudes, and a classroom of individuals with diverse personalities and levels of learning prepares young people for the real world. You're not among your own kind once you leave school and enter the workplace, enter the community. Mainstreaming means that kids who are different physically, intellectually, socially, aren't siloed or separated or marginalised. They're part of the

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12:57

Erica Stanford: Education Minister on the opening of...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2026/01/29

The Government is building two new specialist schools for children with complex learning needs. The schools in Palmerston North and South Auckland will open in 2027 and 2028 respectively. Education Minister Erica Stanford says debate has raged on whether such children should be in mainstream or special schools. She told Kerre Woodham that there’s an argument that every single child should be mainstream no matter the degree of need, but it was never going to happen. Stanford says they’re the first

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8:25

Tim van de Molen: Waikato MP on Fire and Emergency NZ...

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2026/01/29

Concerns that banning the use of boats and jet skis by fire stations is a box ticking exercise. Fire and Emergency NZ banned the use of all powered watercrafts by local fire stations in May of 2025. The decision means that Waikato’s volunteer fire stations are unable to use their jet skis and boat during emergency situations on the Waikato River. Yesterday saw Fire and Emergency face tough questioning on the subject at the Governance and Administration Select Committee. Waikato MP Tim van de Molen

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4:37

Kerre Woodham: It's not our opinions on climate...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2026/01/28

I have said it before and I'll say it again. We can argue for hours, we can have online debates, we can write letters to the editor about whether extreme weather events are the result of anthropomorphic activity or whether we're just in the middle of a natural cycle that's occurred for millennia, but ultimately, what we think about climate change doesn't really matter. It's what banks and insurers and councils and the Government thinks that matters. And when they decide climate change is making some

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4:53

Kerre Woodham: The slow decline of NZ postal services

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2026/01/27

The arrival of Netflix and other film streaming services was the death knell for video rental stores. Five years after Netflix arrived in New Zealand in 2015, the majority of stores, once mainstays of our weekends —who didn't go in and spend an hour or so in the video rental store trying to decide what to choose for the weekend?— had closed across the country. Yet despite 99% of New Zealanders saying they used email regularly in that same year, 2015, postal services have endured. Now sure, they've

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4:01

Kerre Woodham: Is it time to rethink where we build...

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2026/01/26

And here we all are, another summer, and while for many people it was fun in the sun and family catchups, for others it was dealing with floods and landslides. Specialised crews are still working, and will be working for some time yet, on recovering the bodies of the missing Mount Maunganui campers. Families are mourning the loss of a Welcome Bay grandmother and grandson killed in another Bay of Plenty landslip, and around the country communities are dealing with being cut off from main

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7:22

Michael Morrah: NZ Herald Investigative Reporter...

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2026/01/22

Ambulances have been seen coming and going from the site of a major search operation at the base of Mount Maunganui. Multiple people remain unaccounted for after yesterday morning's landslide, with crews working through the night to shift a massive amount of dirt and debris. A source has told the Herald as many as nine people are potentially trapped. Herald Senior Investigative Reporter Michael Morrah is on the scene and told John McDonald there's a huge amount of activity. He says the disaster

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4:16

Brian Kelly: Newstalk ZB Sports reporter on the slip...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2026/01/21

People still aren't accounted for in Mount Maunganui's Beachside Holiday Park after a landslide roared into the campsite at the base of the mountain at about 9.30 this morning. Images show a caravan on its side inside the nearby the hot pools. Newstalk ZB Sport reporter Brian Kelly says about 30 police cars have arrived – the most he's seen in the town. He says there’s a couple of helicopters, seven or eight fire engines, and a digger on scene, and the only comment he’s gotten is from a police

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34:21

Best of 2025: Christopher Luxon still wants to raise...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/12/26

The Prime Minister's keen to raise the retirement age -- but it's not possible in coalition with New Zealand First. The Government is halving its KiwiSaver contribution rate -- and canning if people earning more than 180-thousand dollars. The default rate of worker and business contributions to KiwiSaver will rise over time. Chris Luxon told Kerre Woodham pushing out the retirement age to 67 makes sense. He says Labour doesn't think it’s a good idea, and New Zealand First does not want to move that

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7:16

Best of 2025: Kerre Woodham - Ask not what your...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/12/21

New Zealand Inc. is in trouble and it's on us —you and me— to fix it. Not politicians, not economists, not even our blessed farmers who've got us out of trouble time and time again – it is on us, New Zealand voters. It doesn't matter whether we vote left or right, red, blue, green, yellow, or black. We all have to give our political parties the cojones they need to enact the policies that will save this country. Treasury's been warning us for years now, decades. Current government policies

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12:06

Chris Bishop: Infrastructure Minister wraps 2025,...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/12/18

With all the hats he wears, Chris Bishop has been busy this year. He’s the Minister for Infrastructure, and also holds the portfolios for Transport, Housing, RMA Reform, and the role of Leader of the House. While wrapping up 2025, Bishop told Kerre Woodham he’s proud of how the Fast Track legislation has been tracking. He says things like the Waihi North mine expansion and the Port of Auckland expansion would have normally taken years to break ground, but the legislation means they’re both underway

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6:57

Andrew Hoggard: Biosecurity Minister on the efforts...

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast ·

2025/12/18

Hornets are on notice as the Government commits $12 million to stamp them out in Auckland. The yellow-legged hornet was detected on the North Shore earlier this year. They pose a serious threat to honeybees and, by extension, to the agricultural sector. Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard says since the start of November, 37 queen hornets and 28 nests have been destroyed. More than 730 traps have already been deployed. Hoggard told Kerre Woodham they’ve searched over 6000 properties so far. LISTEN

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