Articles by Kerre Woodham
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Are you feeling fuel anxiety?
Friday, 13 March 2026, 12:07pmToday we thought it would be Fuel Friday because we haven't really touched on the oil crisis so far, have we? I filled up...
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Kerre Woodham: Is the primary teachers' union causing friction?
Thursday, 12 March 2026, 12:28pmFor nine months now, the Public Service Commission has been negotiating with the primary school teachers union over pay and...
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Kerre Woodham: Do you feel our Covid response was successful?
Wednesday, 11 March 2026, 12:13pmWe all seem to be suffering from Long Covid. It's lingering as the findings of the second phase of the Covid-19 response...
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Kerre Woodham: Are parents restricting their kids' online access?
Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 1:01pmThe Government is doing its bit to protect children from themselves by banning the use of smartphones during the school day...
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Kerre Woodham: A golden, or green-golden, future
Friday, 6 March 2026, 12:09pmWhen I heard David Seymour talking up the potential of New Zealand's medicinal cannabis industry, I was immediately transported...
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Kerre Woodham: Is the primary teachers' union acting in its members' best interests?
Thursday, 5 March 2026, 12:52pmI'd be getting seriously brassed off if I was a primary school teacher, especially if I was a non-union primary school teacher....
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Kerre Woodham: Is it the Government's responsibility to get you home?
Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 1:06pmI just want to get your opinion. This follows a, shall we say, spirited discussion in the office around people who are trapped...
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Kerre Woodham: Mutually assured destruction - will it work again?
Tuesday, 3 March 2026, 1:03pmI was listening to the podcast ‘The Rest is Politics’ last night. The speakers were saying that Trump's inclination to invade...
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Kerre Woodham: Privacy - can we have our cake and eat it too?
Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 12:33pmThere's been a second major medical platform hack, leaving live patients labelled as dead and people's names changed to Charlie...
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Kerre Woodham: Chris Hipkins' underwhelming State of the Nation speech
Tuesday, 24 February 2026, 11:18amCredit to those 120 business people who went along to hear Chris Hipkins' State of the Nation address yesterday, hosted by...
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Kerre Woodham: Did the intensification announcement allay your fears?
Friday, 20 February 2026, 1:07pmWe thought we'd start with the housing densification or de-densification that was announced yesterday. We didn't really get...
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Kerre Woodham: Can you see the light at the end of the tunnel?
Thursday, 19 February 2026, 12:18pmThe Official Cash Rate has been left unchanged, 2.25%, expected by all the commentators, but perhaps less expected was a...
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Kerre Woodham: We need to see more governance and less politicking
Wednesday, 18 February 2026, 12:47pmThe National Infrastructure Plan was released yesterday, and it makes for grim reading. I don't think anyone expected good...
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Kerre Woodham: Does the End of Life Act need amending?
Tuesday, 17 February 2026, 1:08pmAct MP Todd Stephenson has been looking to improve and extend the End of Life Bill since around August of last year. His...
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Kerre Woodham: I would love a dispassionate, clear-headed analysis of the Covid response
Thursday, 12 February 2026, 1:10pmFor 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...
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Kerre Woodham: This is Winston doing as Winston does
Wednesday, 11 February 2026, 11:40amAh, Winston. Winston, Winston, Winston. He is the embodiment, as his namesake Winston Churchill famously said of Russia,...
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Kerre Woodham: Until we have sustainable, reliable alternatives, we need to stock up on fuel
Tuesday, 10 February 2026, 11:36amThe headline on one of the stories this morning said, "vital or bonkers?". Is the new liquefied natural gas terminal announced...
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Kerre Woodham: The unemployment figures make for grim reading
Thursday, 5 February 2026, 12:59pmStats New Zealand released the labour market statistics yesterday while I was on air talking to my caller Troy, and the numbers...
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Kerre Woodham: I wish the drivers license overhaul was tougher
Wednesday, 4 February 2026, 11:36amRemember the terror of the driving test? Your heart in your mouth as you drove around the mean streets of Timaru or Ashburton,...
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Kerre Woodham: Back to the future with specialist schools for complex needs
Friday, 30 January 2026, 12:22pmI've always understood the theory behind mainstreaming. We're all different, we all have different abilities, different attitudes,...
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Kerre Woodham: It's not our opinions on climate change that matter
Thursday, 29 January 2026, 12:40pmI 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...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: The slow decline of NZ postal services
Wednesday, 28 January 2026, 11:08amThe arrival of Netflix and other film streaming services was the death knell for video rental stores. Five years after Netflix...
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Kerre Woodham: Is it time to rethink where we build our communities?
Tuesday, 27 January 2026, 11:07amAnd here we all are, another summer, and while for many people it was fun in the sun and family catchups, for others it was...
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Opinion
Best of 2025: Kerre Woodham - Ask not what your country can do for you
Tuesday, 16 December 2025, 2:10pmNew Zealand Inc. is in trouble and it's on us —you and me— to fix it. Not politicians, not economists, not even our blessed...
