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
At what point, when you're a business owner, do you decide that you've had enough? There was Covid, then there were the boom times, then there was the recession that seems to have gone on and on, there's a crisis in consumer confidence, there's global uncertainty that too has gone on and on. There are problems finding staff, there are problems keeping staff, there are problems finding work, problems with cash flow. At what point, w...
The BBC is facing accusations of bias, as well as a lawsuit, after a leaked memo suggests the Panorama programme edited one of Donald Trump’s speeches to imply he encouraged the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.
The US President is demanding a full retraction and is threatening to sue for nearly 1.8 billion New Zealand dollars in damages.
The incident is doing nothing to raise trust in the media, or dispel concerns of...
Many businesses that limped through the pandemic are now going under.
Insolvency practitioners have been reporting a sharp rise in the number of insolvencies since mid-2022.
Smaller retail, hospitality, construction, transport and manufacturing operators are failing far more now than they were before the pandemic.
Waterstone Insolvency Principal Damien Grant told Kerre Woodham a lot of businesses are subject to ec...
So the government's Sunday sessions this year have involved announcements of all sorts of policies, ranging from ho-hum to meaningful.The announcement yesterday of the action plan against organised crime comes under the meaningful. Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith released what he called a bold and comprehensive action plan that aimed to disrupt supply, go after those who profit from the drug trade and rebuild communities afflicted ...
The Government's announced its methamphetamine action plan, calling the drug a 'scourge on our society'.
Methamphetamine consumption doubled from 732kg in 2023 to almost 1,500 kilos in 2024, according to police wastewater testing.
Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith says the prevention campaign will address importation, distribution and most importantly demand.
NZ Police Acting Assistant Commissioner: Investigations, Serious and Organi...
New Zealand has the third highest adult obesity rate in the OECD, and the rates are going up. One in three adult New Zealanders is classified as obese, and one in 10 children. Even if you take into account, yes, yes, yes, a lot of the All Blacks front row are considered obese if you use the BMI. And yes, you might have a slow metabolism or it's your hormones and there's nothing you can do about it, that's still a lot of fat people ...
The Prime Minister says he's confident a free trade agreement with India will get across the line soon.
Christopher Luxon denied negotiations had hit a rough patch after skipping Parliament last minute this week to meet with India’s Trade Minister.
He told Kerre Woodham India has very strong positions on certain aspects of trade.
Luxon says they’re really hard negotiators, but equally they want the best possible ...
Publicly funding weightloss drugs may not be the answer to the country’s obesity problem.
New Zealand has the third highest adult obesity rate in the OECD, with one in three adults classified as obese, and one in ten children.
Associate Minister of Health David Seymour believes publicly funding things like Wegovy would help save money in the long run.
But community leader and Founder of Butterbean Motivation, Da...
What do you do, when you have invested all your money into an idea you thought was going off, and then the whole world shuts down?
Do you try to fight on? Or do you completely change your business to survive?
That’s the decision Aidan Bartlett faced.
He’s the co-founder and chief Executive of online marketplace Designer Wardrobe. It was, once upon a time, a designer rental shop.
Covid-19 wrecked the busin...
It's one of those circular discussions, really, where people are extremely staunch in their opinion and no amount of debate can bring them over to the other side. A bit like the secondary tax discussion – you either think you're paying more tax, or you don't, you understand that it all comes out in the wash.
Sick leave is a bit like that. People either believe it's an entitlement and you use every single day of sick day ever...
The events calendar at Auckland's Eden Park could soon be a lot busier.
RMA Reform Minister Chris Bishop has asked Auckland Council for feedback on a proposal to increase the number of concerts it hosts from 12 to 32 a year.
It's recommending the venue should be allowed to host up to 12 large concerts of more than 30 thousand attendees.
Eden Park CEO Nick Sautner told Kerre Woodham they’ve been hamstrung by so man...
A month ago to this very day, Heart of the City, the business association for Auckland City Centre, released a scathing report that found store owners and offices believed homelessness, too few police, neglect and disorder, and frightening anti-social behaviour were crippling their businesses.
Amongst the most dire findings was 91% of those surveyed saying rough sleepers and begging were affecting their business. 81% believe...
Today's rise in unemployment isn't unexpected.
Latest Stats NZ data shows the unemployment rate has reached an almost nine-year high of 5.3% in the September quarter.
160 thousand people have been looking for a job, while another 138 thousand have been wanting more work.
The Herald's Liam Dann told Kerre Woodham today's figures are exactly as forecast by economists.
He says the labour market will remain toug...
Can you believe the bean counters at ACC are taking the knife to its funding for Water Safety NZ?
Their reasoning is that they’ve poured all this money into Water Safety NZ but they’re not seeing a return on that investment. Which would be a reduction in drowning-related claims.
But I’m with Water Safety NZ, which is saying today that good progress has been made, and this funding cut will put everything at risk and ma...
Buckingham Palace has announced that King Charles will remove all of his brother, Prince Andrew's, titles.
The statement from Buckingham Palace related the announcement to the allegations of sexual abuse by the late Virginia Giuffre.
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's title will not be immediately stripped as UK Correspondent Gavin Grey said the process of removing his titles "will take some time".
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New Zealand's drug laws are in the spotlight again and with good reason. Despite record police busts, we're still seeing record methamphetamine use, we're seeing increasingly dangerous street drugs, and rising overdose deaths, three a week from drug overdoses.
There have been calls to overhaul the 50-year-old Misuse of Drugs Act and the call comes from a number of different organisations. The Drug Foundation wants drug use decrimin...
Power is still out to many rural South Island properties.
Just under six thousand are still cut off in Clutha and Southland, where States of Emergency continue.
More than three-thousand weather-related insurance claims have been lodged so far.
Federated Farmers Southland President Jason Herrick told Kerre Woodham that, 'people were helping one another and I'll tell you what, I'm hearing some stories out there of some real unsung he...
I thought I'd start with the idea, the initiative, if you will, coming out of the think tank, the New Zealand Initiative. I love generally the work that they produce because even though you might not agree with the ideas that they put forward, there's generally a good discussion to be had. You hear the pros, you hear the cons, you think, mmm, okay. This one though, I'm not so sure.
More MPs. Increasing the number of MPs in our parl...
When the Government unveiled it's maths action plan in August last year, we spoke to Distinguished Maths Professor Gaven Martin.
Widely regarded as New Zealand's leading mathematician, Gaven gave the new plan better odds of working than curriculum under the previous Government.
Now, more than 40 maths educators and researchers have written an open letter calling on the Ministry of Education and Erica Stanford to pause ...
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