Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast
Join Kerre Woodham one of New Zealand’s best loved personalities as she dishes up a bold, sharp and energetic show Monday to Friday 9am-12md on Newstalk ZB. News, opinion, analysis, lifestyle and entertainment – we’ve got your morning listening covered.
Episodes
It is customary when governments announce restrictions on farmers’ ability to do anything that there be howls of protest – but not with this one. The Government has announced sweeping changes to limit the amount of full farm to forestry conversions. And the reason that there's very little in the way of dissent is that farming groups and rural communities have been raising concerns over the amount of productive farmland being conver...
Finance Minister Nicola Willis is promising tax changes ahead for charities and the closing of loopholes, and the details of that will be announced in next year's budget. And not before time, you'd have to say.
There's about $2 billion, it's estimated, in untaxed profit in the charitable sector, and politicians of varying hues have been eyeing up that revenue potential for some time. I think both Christopher Luxon and Chris ...
Charities are going to be seeing some changes to their taxes from next year.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has confirmed that there will be tweaks to the charity tax regime, but she is mindful of striking the right balance.
They want to ensure that people can’t structure their affairs as charities while building up funds that aren’t used for charitable purposes.
Best Start and Sanitarium were examples she gave of...
As Jobseeker numbers continue to rise, the government has announced targeted management of Jobseeker beneficiaries. 8000 more people were receiving a Jobseeker benefit in the last quarter, and that'll come as no surprise to anyone who was reading the news and seeing factories closing, and more media outlets closing, and more jobs in the state sector being lost. The total number on Jobseeker benefit is just over 200,000. It’d be a b...
Boris Johnson is unapologetic about taking his country out of the European Union.
He's in New Zealand for a speaking event and to promote his book 'Unleashed'.
The former British Prime Minister says while there was panic about Brexit at the time, in the long term it's been good for the UK.
He told Kerre Woodham that the split from the EU came in handy during the Covid pandemic.
He says it allowed t...
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The first phase of the Royal Commission of inquiry into the COVID-19 response will be handed to the Government today. There’s one of finding I know is going to really resonate with a section of this listening audience and members of the wider community. The head of the inquiry, Professor Tony Blakely, says vaccine mandates caused huge pain to a “substantial minority” during the pandemic, and the government should consider whether t...
Who on Earth would want Chris Bishop's job? The Minister for Housing has launched a new scheme designed to make it easier for community housing providers to provide social housing. The previous administration was all about the government, we're from the government, we're here to help – people within the industry have told me of a rather bunkered attitude towards housing provision. The attitude was no, the private developers can't d...
One of the questions we’ll be putting to Chris Hipkins, of course, is a question around the capital gains tax, because this is an issue that simply will not die. Labour Party members will vote on whether to formally endorse continuing work on a capital gains or wealth tax at their party conference in Christchurch this weekend. The party's been debating tax policy since losing the election last year, part of a broader truth and reco...
Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader talks capital gains tax, NCEA curriculum, gang patch ban live in studio
The Labour leader says New Zealand needs an honest conversation about paying for its future.
Our newsroom understands party delegates will vote on whether to support a capital gains or wealth tax at its annual conference this weekend.
Chris Hipkins says about 70% of government tax revenue comes from personal income taxes - while the OECD average is half as much.
He told Kerre Woodham that's because New Zeal...
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Remember yesterday when we were talking about the declining rates of hazardous drinking among young people? Good news. And then so many of you positing that it's because they're popping pills and taking other drugs. Bad news. It looks like you might be right.
The 2024 New Zealand Drugs Trend Survey has found that the price of drugs is dropping, the meth market saturated, and drug use has increased in just about all the regio...
Pros and cons in the latest NZ Health Survey.
Hazardous drinking rates have fallen from 20.4% in 2019 to 16.6% this year, and daily smoking rates have remained steady.
However, the number of daily vapers has increased from 33,000 to 480,000 over the past eight years.
Daily vaping has also increased more quickly in younger age groups, especially those aged 15-17 and 18-24 years.
Asthma and Respiratory Foundat...
The hīkoi we were discussing last week has gone down the country through the weekend, rolls into Wellington City, and should arrive at Parliament around midday. Police say they don't expect any problems, certainly nothing like the descent into chaos we saw at the end of the last demonstration at Parliament. We'll see.
So far, it seems hīkoi participants have abided by the organisers’ requests. There's all sorts of rules and ...
Chris Quin: Foodstuffs North Island CEO on the Commerce Commission's merger decision, grocery prices
Foodstuffs North Island chief executive Chris Quin has confirmed that the company will appeal the decision by the Commerce Commission to block its proposed merger.
Speaking on Newstalk ZB this morning, Quin said the company’s advisers had been working their way through ComCom’s reason for the decision for the last few weeks.
“The biggest concern in the document seems to be about whether suppliers would be worse off as a result of t...
If I asked you how many demerit points you have right now, reckon you’d be able to tell me?
If you could, then you’re better than most people. Because, unless you get enough demerits to have your licence suspended, then I think most people don’t care.
And a study out today is telling us that we do need to care if we want to make the roads safer.
The people behind the study are telling us that most of us won’t care...
Crikey, when I suggested yesterday that it might be a good idea if you've never seen Parliament TV, you could always tune in and see the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill.
Crikey, I expected fireworks but not quite to the level that was on display yesterday. The House was temporarily suspended as the legislation was being voted on, after members of the Te Pati Māori performed a haka in front of the bill's author Da...
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