Articles by Kerre Woodham
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Prisons are evidence of failure, but what's the alternative?
Friday, 13 June 2025, 11:43amPrisons to me are tangible evidence of failure. Failure of a person to do the right thing, failure of family, of community,...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Will fining parents of absent kids help?
Friday, 30 May 2025, 1:30pmYou might have heard ACT leader David Seymour on the Breakfast show this morning. He says there will almost certainly be...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Charities don't need non-complying beneficiaries
Monday, 26 May 2025, 12:45pmTwo new ‘non-financial’ sanctions have come into force today for beneficiaries, who, in the words of the MSD, do not meet...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Slipping Parliamentary standards are a reflection of us
Thursday, 15 May 2025, 11:49amWell, what a to-do. The image of Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters slumped in the House, head in his hands, summed it...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: You won't get your car seized if you don't break the law
Monday, 12 May 2025, 12:56pmThe government sent a strong signal to boy racers that their days of running amok on the roads are over. Car crushing is...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: The party is well and truly over
Friday, 9 May 2025, 1:35pmThere's bad news, really, and it's been coming and I think I've had my head in the sand for some time. I've been wanting...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: The New Zealand political system David Parker wants
Thursday, 8 May 2025, 1:03pmLong serving Labour MP and former Minister David Parker gave his valedictory speech in Parliament last night, where he gave...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Northland desperately need police boots on the ground
Monday, 5 May 2025, 12:32pmI don't know if you caught the story over the weekend - Ngāpuhi, the iwi of Northland, are calling for police to round up...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: What's the point of a minister without a budget?
Friday, 2 May 2025, 1:01pmDavid Seymour is absolutely on the money with his call to cut the number of ministers in Cabinet and outside of Cabinet....
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Why would the Government interfere in the aviation market?
Tuesday, 29 April 2025, 12:38pmWe know airfares are expensive, right? Everybody, and I mean everybody, I know who's booked flights recently has made the...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: When did weather become such a big deal that it dominates the news?
Monday, 28 April 2025, 11:51amSpeaking of the bad weather, it brings me to the emergency mobile alerts. The emergency mobile alerts came about because...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: We have to be willing and prepared to play our part
Tuesday, 8 April 2025, 1:10pmWell, we were a little in advance of the day yesterday, weren't we? If you were with me yesterday, I was looking at the armed...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: NZDF has compromised standards, not fixed the problem
Monday, 7 April 2025, 12:35pmI find it incredible that within a few days of a report into the sinking of the Manawanui - a damning report that revealed...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Are our mental health services working?
Friday, 4 April 2025, 1:27pmThe Access and Choice Programme, biggest investment in mental health in a generation, has now been in place for five years....
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: We cannot let people get away with their crimes
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 12:45pmLaw and order was a major concern of voters going into the 2023 Election – to be fair, it's usually on the minds of voters...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Is there such a thing as a completely fair tax system?
Monday, 24 March 2025, 11:58amIs there any such thing as a completely fair tax system? Surely the most you can hope for is a least unfair tax system....
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: The Investment Summit is filling me with real hope and optimism
Friday, 14 March 2025, 12:23pmSpeaking of the Investment Summit that's been convened by the government – or really the Prime Minister, because this Infrastructure...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: New Zealand's desire for meth won't die out
Monday, 3 March 2025, 12:48pmI headed up to Hokianga for the last official weekend of summer - take a load off, relax, a few swims, not even think about...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: It's crunch time for our defence force
Monday, 24 February 2025, 12:40pmAs Chinese naval ships are firing live rounds in Pacific waters, sending far reaching ripples of consternation around the...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Brian Tamaki needs to look at the Church's history
Monday, 17 February 2025, 12:22pmWell after a wonderful weekend, a fabulous weekend, the incidents on Saturday afternoon and Saturday night were really disappointing. Increasingly,...
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Kerre Woodham: Are we sure foreign investment will grow our economy?
Monday, 10 February 2025, 1:10pmThe government, as you will have heard, is relaxing immigration settings to encourage migrants to invest in New Zealand businesses....
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Could this be the year education gets back on track?
Monday, 3 February 2025, 11:53amAny day now, counting down the seconds, the kids will be back at school if yours haven't gone already. And this year, maybe,...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Why aren't all schools back yet?
Friday, 31 January 2025, 12:15pmIt is the end of the month. There's only 12 of them in a year. Into the first month of the year and still there are schools...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Not a great start for the Government's boot camps
Friday, 6 December 2024, 12:31pmThe Governments’ boot camps - the controversial boot camps, have got off to the worst possible start. One young man, a graduate...
