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Andrew Dickens Monday Afternoons
12pm-4pm Mon
ANDREW DICKENS MONDAY AFTERNOONS
12pm-4pm Mondays
Sharp and smart.
With decades of broadcasting experience behind him, Andrew Dickens has worked around the world across multiple radio genres.
His bold, sharp and energetic approach is always informative and entertaining.
Kicking off with The Hour, Andrew gives you a comprehensive wrap from around the country of the key news items, events and opinion.
This is followed by in-depth discussion and debate throughout the afternoon with a special focus on issues affecting everyday Kiwis.
Andrew’s bold, dynamic and energetic approach is always informative and entertaining.
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Andrew Dickens: Why not kill the Treaty Principles Bill now?
So the latest twist in the Treaty Principles debate is that the churches have come out against it. More than 400 church leaders are urging MPs to vote against David...
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Andrew Dickens: Someone has to point out the obvious now and then
I was going to start my programme today with some thoughts about the energy crisis, but something else has popped up. But I will share with you some fun facts: Did...
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Andrew Dickens: Reality always catches up to politics
Do I need to remind you that politics is show business? It's all about seeming to be the best instead of necessarily being the best. This is why politicians often...
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Andrew Dickens: Can we really say the rock star economy is back?
The corner has been turned. The 5-year pandemic pandemonium has been tamed. Inflation is down and we've had the first interest rate cut since the Reserve Bank realised...
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Andrew Dickens: Is the long winter of discontent over with a good spring to come?
The winter solstice was on June 20 and 21. The longest night and the shortest day, but wisdom tells us that the depths of winter does not fall until 6 weeks after...
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Andrew Dickens: I'm truly confused over Dr Anthony Jordan's resignation from Pharmac
I have always avoided getting into the Treaty principles debate. It’s just too much of a swamp to get trapped in. Either you’re for David Seymour's debate...
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Andrew Dickens: Can we ever return to civil public discourse?
There is only one story in town. I realised this when I entered the newsroom and everyone was still itching to talk about it. Firstly, I am so glad the assassin...
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Andrew Dickens: The ferry saga is a pox on both National and Labour
I wasn't here last week because I was attending a funeral. A dear friend. 58 years old. Gut cancer. A reminder to us all- live life. Don't put things off. So, last...
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The Beatles in New Zealand - it's been 60 years!
On this day 60 years ago, 4 young lads from Liverpool arrived in Wellington on a plane to commence a week long tour of New Zealand. And they changed everything. It...
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Andrew Dickens: The politicisation of city designs is why nothing ever happens anymore
So I went to a party at the weekend. Quite a swanky one. Negronis and burgers and all sorts of people. Judges and doctors and advertising people and even musicians. An...
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What it's like to live in a boarding house in New Zealand
A report from Auckland Council's boarding house inspectors shows out of 44 properties suspected to be breaking the law, 40 were “operating unauthorised transient...
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Andrew Dickens: If you want to get tough on crime, you have to get tough on gun ownership
I presume the lead story in the Herald on Sunday was welcomed by police and those behind our stronger gun laws. An Auckland pensioner and his daughter have been...
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Andrew Dickens: I'm looking forward to Budget Week
Welcome to Budget Week. Which I am looking forward to. After all the warnings from economists and world agencies like the OECD, that this is the wrong part of an...
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Andrew Dickens: Tax Cuts - I'd argue that neither side is looking at the full picture
Well... Has there been an earth tremor in the ideological universe. Are some capitalists wavering and beginning to argue for a pause to tax cuts and even a capital...
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Andrew Dickens: Auckland Transport is proof you can't control a CCO
Now, I'm not part of the tribe who automatically thinks that Auckland Transport is a bunch of ideological toss-pots who want to force us out of our cars. I'm the...
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Andrew Dickens: The new Government deal is Three Waters lite
I was surprised that the news that Auckland had inked a deal with the Government over water wasn't the lead story on last night's TV news. I would have thought that...
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Andrew Dickens: There's worry the Government cuts will go too far
New Zealand seems to be waking up to an issue I thought would have caused more concern. As part of the bonfire of the public service, the Government seems to be...
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Andrew Dickens: We need to put perspective on the current state of our economy
It is fair to say the country is not in a good place right now. Job cuts dominate the headlines. A double-dip recession came true. Inflation is robbing us of our...
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Andrew Dickens: The media model is broken because of fear
Since we were last together, the collapse of television news and current affairs has continued. And with it, we have been subjected to a lot of highfalutin thinking...
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Andrew Dickens: New Zealand knows the price of everything and the value of nothing
I vividly remember the first time I saw Christchurch Cathedral. I was 10 so it was 1973. I was on tour with the Auckland Boys Choir. It was winter and it was twilight...
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Andrew Dickens: Let's put SailGP on at an appropriate venue and move on
I was not going to talk about dolphin-gate- but from first thing this morning, everyone was talking about it. Sir Russell Coutts has had an epic meltdown over the...
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