Articles by Kerre Woodham
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Outsourcing surgeries has to be a win for patients
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 12:56pmSimeon Brown took the words right out of my mouth. I was just saying this very morning, that people living with bone-on-bone...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: The wool directive has to be a win for everyone
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 12:33pmGood news for the wool industry. Wasn't such good news in December of last year when Kainga Ora, the country's largest landlord,...
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Kerre Woodham: Are farmers in the position to invest in new technology?
Wednesday, 11 June 2025, 1:24pmThe largest agricultural expo in the Southern Hemisphere, one of the largest business expos in the Southern Hemisphere, has...
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Kerre Woodham: Is it feasible to leave your job and buy a business?
Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 1:10pmIf you turned up to work yesterday, first day of a new week, with a bad case of Mondayitis, feeling like you're getting nowhere...
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Kerre Woodham: The new 'Parent Boost' visa makes perfect sense
Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 11:19amWhen I was doing the rounds of the open homes, travelling all over the Auckland isthmus a couple of years ago, I was looking...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Who should be paying more for home insurance?
Thursday, 5 June 2025, 12:16pmIt's not really a huge shock, is it? The news that homeowners will have to pay even more for home insurance to help the Natural...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: How can we take polls seriously?
Wednesday, 4 June 2025, 1:09pmHonestly, I don't know why we report on polls. Seriously, I don't know why I'm even talking about them myself, but it's really...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Our workplace fatality rate is appalling
Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 12:54pmOn average, there are 73 work-related deaths in New Zealand every single year. Relative to the number of people in employment,...
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Kerre Woodham: What do we do with children of overstayers?
Thursday, 29 May 2025, 12:06pmWhat on Earth do we do with young people who were born in New Zealand, who have lived in New Zealand all of their lives,...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: The shoplifting directive is not a good look
Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 12:10pmOh dear, oh dear, oh dear. You cannot go into an election promising to get tough on crime, win the election and vow to draw...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Retail owners and businesses can't hang on any longer
Thursday, 22 May 2025, 12:19pmIsn't it cruelly, cruelly ironic that yesterday we were talking about just how tough it is in retail, and we have the news...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Let's fill vacant stores before we build more
Wednesday, 21 May 2025, 1:15pmI don't know where the Head of Research at JLL, the commercial property company, I does his shopping, but it cannot be anywhere...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: We have a legacy of rail but do we have a future?
Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 12:49pmPublic transport is brilliant when it works. You cannot beat it for convenience, for timeliness, for moving large numbers...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Are the Greens bonkers?
Friday, 16 May 2025, 12:18pmAre the Greens bonkers? The Greens have come out and criticised Judith Collins for tinkering with the Public Service Commission...
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Kerre Woodham: Chasing overseas student loan debt is long overdue
Wednesday, 14 May 2025, 1:02pmIn this spirit of taking the good news where we find it, I was absolutely delighted to see the results of Inland Revenue...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Everyday children deserve support and encouragement
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 12:57pmThis particular pre-Budget announcement should be music to the ears of parents who are currently working every hour God sends...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: This Government has a problem with optics
Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 1:59pmJust when I thought the issue of pay parity couldn't get any more confusing, the Government has made it so. Yesterday, the...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: We need to be part of the solution to retail crime
Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 12:23pmA new report from Retail NZ has revealed the state of retail crime in New Zealand - 99% of the membership of Retail NZ has...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Does a right to privacy trump the right to safety?
Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 12:51pmIt was really disturbing to read the opening paragraph of this story on the murder of Juliana Bonilla Herrera. Truly frightening....
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: How do you operate in an environment like this?
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 1:00pmThe phrase “may you live in interesting times” is bestowed not as a blessing, but as a curse. And living in these most interesting...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Policing is a community-minded calling
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 12:55pmNow the police have been in the spotlight in the past few weeks. It should have been criticism, with Wellington Central MP...
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Kerre Woodham: Paying the piper by turning down the America's Cup
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 1:00pmHere we go again – the America’s Cup. How many times have you heard the debates for and against the America’s Cup? The Government,...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: There's got to be a happy medium in health and safety
Tuesday, 1 April 2025, 1:10pmThe war on road cones has ratcheted up, with the coalition government setting up a hotline for people to report the overzealous...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: What is our obsession with shiny new stadia?
Wednesday, 26 March 2025, 12:19pmWhat is this mania for the building of stadia when this country has so many already and very, very few of them are economic...
