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KERRE WOODHAM MORNINGS
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Kerre Woodham: The OECD report isn't news
Well, it's news, but it's not really, is it? An OECD report has found that New Zealand's students are among the worst behaved kids in the world and that bad behaviour...
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Kerre Woodham: Should you put caveats on second chances?
When it comes to second chances for people, do you put caveats on those second chances? So you're allowed a second chance, but you must refrain from being in the...
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Kerre Woodham: How much should we rely on Civil Defence?
The independent review of Hawke’s Bay’s Civil Defence response to Cyclone Gabriel has been completed and it is damning. Former Police Commissioner Mike Bush conducted...
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"Hit the nail on the head": Former Minister on the findings of the emergency response review
The independent review into the response to Cyclone Gabrielle has found that Civil Defence was unprepared for the disaster, the system not fit for purpose. Former...
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Kerre Woodham: Blame the dolphin!
Interestingly, Marie has sent in a text immediately on the very thing I wanted to talk about. “Kerre what a third world, Banana Republic New Zealand has become....
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Concerns over dolphin safety were raised before event went ahead
Having SailGP in Lyttleton Harbour is being likened to planning a motorcross event in Kiwi habitats. SailGP CEO Russell Coutts slammed the cancellation of Saturday’s...
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Kerre Woodham: Did we actually need the public service increase?
Back in 2022, Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr was appearing before a Parliamentary Select Committee trying to explain how and why the bank was too slow in moving...
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GDP results 'not particularly surprising'
New Zealand has entered a technical recession after drops in two consecutive quarters. Stats NZ GDP data shows the economy contracted 0.1 percentage points in...
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"Competition really is a problem": ComCom reveals issues with banking sector
The Commerce Commission says the banking sector lacks competition. Its study has found a two-tier system with the four major banks having an apparent focus on...
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Hipkins admits that promised Auckland light rail and KiwiBuild weren't going to get on track
Labour leader Chris Hipkins admits his party’s Auckland light rail and KiwiBuild policies were “undeliverable” when proposed ahead of the 2017 election. Hipkins,...
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Kerre Woodham: What a sad and sorry mess
We knew it was bad. You knew it. I knew it. Anyone with half a brain knew it was bad, but now we have the data to back up the calls, the stories, the headlines...
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Kerre Woodham: Ending the Sustaining Tenancies Framework is common-sense
One of the keystone policies of the last government was its Sustaining Tenancies Framework. It was the best and the worst in a way of Labour, because in theory and...
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Kerre Woodham: Do you really expect tax cuts?
I wanted to get into this on Friday when the IRD released it’s figures about the online gambling tax, and we were overrun by events. So, let's have a look at this...
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Kerre Woodham: Before everyone gets too uppity about the Greens, all parties' MPs live in glass houses
Green Party MP Darleen Tana has been suspended amid allegations she is linked to migrant exploitation at her husband’s company. A statement from the Greens’ co-leaders...
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John MacDonald: 100 days and they're still together
Every government minister will be going for the takeaways and cracking open a bottle of something tonight, won’t they? They might even put a movie on as well,...
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Kerre Woodham: The bootcamp is worth a try, isn't it?
The pilot for military-style academies that are designed to turn around persistent young offenders will get underway by the middle of the year. Ten young people...
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Kerre Woodham: The roads have to be paid for
Well, whoofty! Where do we start with transport after the huge policy drop yesterday? Fifteen roads of national significance have been given the go ahead, no ifs,...
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Infrastructure needs "strong, long-term commitments" - Infrastructure NZ
Infrastructure NZ's welcoming the renewal of National's Roads of National Significance programme. The Government's draft transport plan features a half-a-billion...
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How can school food programmes be run efficiently?
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...
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Kerre Woodham: School lunches
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...
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Kerre Woodham: Christopher Luxon isn't leading by example
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...
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Kerre Woodham: What is happening with NZ immigration?
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...
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Kerre Woodham: Who do you believe about the Ministry of Education?
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...
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Kerre Woodham: Gang Patch Crackdown Will Send a Message
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...
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Kerre Woodham: Fees free hasn't worked, what next?
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...
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What are the barriers to tertiary education?
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...
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Would a universal basic income be cheaper than benefits?
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...
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Kerre Woodham: The complaints about Oranga Tamariki are the same every time
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...
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Kerre Woodham: Exercising is harder for some than others
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...
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Kerre Woodham: How are the benefit sanctions cruel?
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...