Kerre Woodham Mornings
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KERRE WOODHAM MORNINGS
This is the show that delivers a little bit of everything.
News, opinion, analysis, lifestyle and entertainment – we’ve got your morning listening covered.
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Kerre Woodham: Did the intensification announcement allay your fears?
We thought we'd start with the housing densification or de-densification that was announced yesterday. We didn't really get a chance to talk about it despite the...
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Investigations continue after Andrew's release from police custody
An unprecedented day continues for the UK, with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor released under investigation after his arrest overnight. The former Prince has been pictured...
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Kerre Woodham: Can you see the light at the end of the tunnel?
The Official Cash Rate has been left unchanged, 2.25%, expected by all the commentators, but perhaps less expected was a dovish view of the future. It was the new...
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Govt takes pressure "off the suburbs" with watered down Auckland housing intensification plans
The Government will today reveal its back down on controversial Auckland housing intensification plans amid fierce public criticism. New planning rules would currently...
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Kerre Woodham: We need to see more governance and less politicking
The National Infrastructure Plan was released yesterday, and it makes for grim reading. I don't think anyone expected good news, but nonetheless a cold hard dose...
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MP seeks to revise End of Life Act that "doesn't take into account some people's circumstances"
An ACT MP is looking to improve and extend the End of Life Choice Act. Todd Stephenson has proposed a member’s bill that would incorporate all 25 of the recommendations...
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Kerre Woodham: Does the End of Life Act need amending?
Act MP Todd Stephenson has been looking to improve and extend the End of Life Bill since around August of last year. His new bill, for which he's seeking support...
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"Timing is absolutely right": Queens Arcade set for a $5m overhaul
Five million dollars is being injected to revitalise one of Auckland's longest-standing shopping locations. The private capital will be used to overhaul the historic...
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Kerre Woodham: Can locals put up with the extra noise from Eden Park?
We thought we'd start with Eden Park given that the number of concerts allowed annually at the Auckland stadium will almost triple. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon,...
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Kerre Woodham: Are you willing to see a rise in rates to clean up our waterways?
I've been saying every morning to Helen, God, would you look at what's happening in Wellington? Look at what has oh! Like one of those people, usually men, watching...
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Kainga Ora turnaround plan exceeds saving targets
After pouring more than $11 million into a Rotorua motel complex for the homeless, Kāinga Ora has decided to tear it down and put the Fenton St site on the market. One...
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Kerre Woodham: I would love a dispassionate, clear-headed analysis of the Covid response
For those of us with PCT, post Covid trauma, I've just given it a name and an acronym, the news that Nicola Willis is launching an inquiry into the actions of the...
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"Hard calls": Why Augustine will no longer offer plus size clothes
A Kiwi clothing brand will no longer make plus sized clothing. In a post on social media, Augustine owner Kelly Coe explained they’re focusing on the core of their...
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Printing money: What exactly did the Reserve Bank do during the pandemic?
The Government's announced an independent review of the fiscal response to the Covid pandemic. Finance Minister Nicola Willis says it will look at any lessons the...
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"Pragmatic": NZ should be burning Huntly's coal, not importing LNG, renewable energy advocate says
One renewable energy advocate believes New Zealand would be better off burning our coal reserve than building a liquefied natural gas terminal. The Government’s...
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Kerre Woodham: This is Winston doing as Winston does
Ah, Winston. Winston, Winston, Winston. He is the embodiment, as his namesake Winston Churchill famously said of Russia, of a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside...
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Kerre Woodham: Until we have sustainable, reliable alternatives, we need to stock up on fuel
The headline on one of the stories this morning said, "vital or bonkers?". Is the new liquefied natural gas terminal announced by the Government yesterday a vital...
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Kerre Woodham: Our jury system has an efficiency problem
Today, we thought we'd have a look at jury duty, given a story in the New Zealand Herald this morning. I've only been called for jury service once, a couple of years...
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Former MP discusses NZ First's 'kingmaker' status ahead of 2026 election
In an opinion piece in Newsroom, former United Future leader and Political Commentator Peter Dunne writes about "How to stop NZ First from playing the two main parties...
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Kerre Woodham: The unemployment figures make for grim reading
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...
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Positive signs from a recruitment perspective despite rising unemployment
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...
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Hopes unemployment had peaked have been dashed with latest rise
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...
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Kerre Woodham: I wish the drivers license overhaul was tougher
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...
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NZ has a "real opportunity" to promote our responsible mining in critical minerals talks
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...
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Kerre Woodham: How is a child's lack of basic skills not the parents' responsibility?
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...
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Covid, devices, or busy parents? Why are new entrants missing basic skills?
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...
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Kerre Woodham: Are 12-month prescriptions too much for community pharmacies?
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...
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Kerre Woodham: Back to the future with specialist schools for complex needs
I've always understood the theory behind mainstreaming. We're all different, we all have different abilities, different attitudes, and a classroom of individuals...
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"It is about choice": Govt invests in new schools for complex, high needs children
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...
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"Just not good enough": Calls for Fire and Emergency to refloat its watercrafts
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...
