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"A catalyst": Broadcaster opens up about being in psychedelic drug trials
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Rate cut unlikely to come in wake of strong GDP figures
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Calls to make lifejackets compulsory nationwide after child drowns
There's a call for compulsory nationwide lifejacket use following the death of a 10-year-old boy in the Manukau Harbour. Ryder Ferregel and his mother, Gemma, died...
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"No longer sustainable": Census gets a major facelift
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Kerre Woodham: Outsourcing surgeries has to be a win for patients
Simeon Brown took the words right out of my mouth. I was just saying this very morning, that people living with bone-on-bone pain don't really care where their hip...
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Kerre Woodham: Prisons are evidence of failure, but what's the alternative?
Prisons to me are tangible evidence of failure. Failure of a person to do the right thing, failure of family, of community, of society. Before they've even been...
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Kerre Woodham: The wool directive has to be a win for everyone
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Kerre Woodham: Are farmers in the position to invest in new technology?
The largest agricultural expo in the Southern Hemisphere, one of the largest business expos in the Southern Hemisphere, has opened its gates this morning, and exhibitors...
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Small businesses: The differences between franchising and starting your own
As more people take the leap to owning their own businesses, many seem to be buying into already established brands. Data suggests the business of franchising and...
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"Plenty of applications": How can AI revolutionise business?
There’s been plenty of buzz around AI in the last few years. The most recent headlines have been highlighting its evils, such as the creation and lack of regulation...
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Kerre Woodham: Is it feasible to leave your job and buy a business?
If you turned up to work yesterday, first day of a new week, with a bad case of Mondayitis, feeling like you're getting nowhere working for the man, thinking now...
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"Simple maths": ASB offers $150k interest-free loans for farm solar systems
ASB is offering loans to help farmers balance their energy costs. They’re offering five-year, interest-free loans of up to $150,000 for the installation of solar...
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NZ Blood Service CEO calls for action after decline in blood donors
Kerre Woodham talks to NZ Blood Service CEO Sam Cliffe at the start of National Blood Donor week. NZ Blood is asking Kiwi's to find their superpower and start saving...
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Kerre Woodham: The new 'Parent Boost' visa makes perfect sense
When I was doing the rounds of the open homes, travelling all over the Auckland isthmus a couple of years ago, I was looking for something quite specific. A house...
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Kāinga Ora's "clear boundaries" behind surge in formal warnings
Clearer boundaries around Kāinga Ora tenant behaviour could explain a 600% surge in formal warnings. In the past 10 months, 63 tenancies were terminated because...
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Kerre Woodham: Who should be paying more for home insurance?
It'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 Hazards Commission (formerly known...
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Kerre Woodham: How can we take polls seriously?
Honestly, 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 ripped my nightie overnight. They're...
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"Struggling with uncertainty": Businesses fear impacts of Trump's tariffs
Kiwi business leaders fear the impact of Donald Trump's tariffs will be more severe than the impact of the Global Financial Crisis and the Covid pandemic. ASB and...
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Political polls reveal opposing results - how do polls work?
How is it that two recent polls had such starkly different outcomes? The latest RNZ Reid Research poll —out this morning— has the right bloc on 46.4, behind the...
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Kerre Woodham: Our workplace fatality rate is appalling
On average, there are 73 work-related deaths in New Zealand every single year. Relative to the number of people in employment, the New Zealand workplace fatality...
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'Stop giving predators a free pass': Parents urged to stop posting kids' photos
The rise of generative AI could be putting children at risk. Gloria Masters, founder of 'Handing The Shame Back', believes the current digital environment has enabled...
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Kerre Woodham: Will fining parents of absent kids help?
You might have heard ACT leader David Seymour on the Breakfast show this morning. He says there will almost certainly be prosecutions against parents of absent students...
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Kerre Woodham: What do we do with children of overstayers?
What on Earth do we do with young people who were born in New Zealand, who have lived in New Zealand all of their lives, but who aren't New Zealanders? They've never...
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"Play a really important part": New battery farm bolsters Northland's energy resilience
Construction of New Zealand's first large scale grid battery storage system has finished in Ruakākā, just south of Whangārei. The Meridian Energy project has storage...
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Kerre Woodham: The shoplifting directive is not a good look
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. You cannot go into an election promising to get tough on crime, win the election and vow to draw a line in the sand, declare war on the...
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"There will be a response": Police Minister offers reassurance over shoplifting directives
The Police Minister is reassuring retailers officers will still turn up to reports of shoplifting. RNZ reports staff have been directed to not investigate retail...
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Kerre Woodham: Charities don't need non-complying beneficiaries
Two new ‘non-financial’ sanctions have come into force today for beneficiaries, who, in the words of the MSD, do not meet their obligations or, as other people might...
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Outdoor education creates 'resilience' and 'self belief' in young people
It's been revealed how outdoor education can help build teenagers up. The Boyle River Outdoor Education Centre is 20 minutes east of the Lewis Pass. They're a...
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Budget 2025: PM Luxon still wants to raise the retirement age, despite opposition
The Prime Minister's keen to raise the retirement age -- but it's not possible in coalition with New Zealand First. The Government is halving its KiwiSaver contribution...
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Kerre Woodham: Retail owners and businesses can't hang on any longer
Isn't it cruelly, cruelly ironic that yesterday we were talking about just how tough it is in retail, and we have the news that after 145 years, Smith and Caughey's,...
