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Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: What is the Ministry of Health spending its problem gambling fund on?27-year-old Auckland engineer Shyamal Shah has been sentenced to two years, two months imprisonment for what is believed to be one of the largest public sector thefts on record – a 17-month scheme in which he managed to swindle roughly $1 million from his employer, Watercare. The court was told yesterday that the theft and deception came about through Shah’s gambling addiction that started at Sky City Casino, then escalated after three men approached him and invited him to a residence where private games were being held. It was a racket where addicts were targeted and given a signi...2025-07-0906 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Why do we struggle to run the Cook Strait ferry crossing?I don't know who these people or these organisations would be and what on Earth their motivation might be, but it would appear that Treasury has identified several private operators who have expressed an interest in establishing a commercial competitor to Bluebridge with government help. Which basically means the opportunity to privatise the KiwiRail Cook Strait ferries. I don't know why you would do that, where in the world does any kind of public transport make money? I guess where there are profits to be made, Bluebridge has found them. But in a country this small, could t...2025-07-0106 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre 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 as the EQC), is to be expected. Insurers have been warning for years that premiums will rise and will continue to rise, that they may have to put some of the cost of risky properties back onto homeowners and in some cases, they'll be declining to insure homes altogether. And we've already started to see that. In 2017, a then-record $242 million in weather-related claims was paid out. Just six y...2025-06-0508 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastDavid Farrar: Curia Market Research Owner on how political polls workHow 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 left bloc on 50.3. But the latest 1 News Verian poll —released last night— has the right bloc on 50-percent, well ahead of the left bloc on 45. Curia Market Research Owner David Farrar told Kerre Woodham that when you poll 1000 people, they say there’s a 3% margin of error – so if a party is sitting at 50%, in reality they’re somewhere between 47% and 53%. His advice for conflicting po...2025-06-0413 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre 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 this year as the Government intensifies its crackdown on school truancy. And it's not even truancy, in my mind truancy are kids doing a bunk, wagging, taking a day off. What this is, is parental neglect. Parents who are failing to ensure that their kids get to school and get to school on time. According to Ministry of Education figures, around 11.3% of students were chronically absent from school and term 4 last year...2025-05-3007 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Charities don't need non-complying beneficiariesTwo 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 put it, who do not get off their arses and go and look for a job. Some people may have half their weekly benefits put onto a payment card for four weeks, that can only be spent on essential items at approved shops. Others may also have to find volunteer work for at least five hours each week, again for four weeks. Remember though, as the Minister for S...2025-05-2607 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: The New Zealand political system David Parker wantsLong serving Labour MP and former Minister David Parker gave his valedictory speech in Parliament last night, where he gave his colleagues across the House a list of things to do, among his thank yous and goodbyes. Chief among them was closing the gap between the very wealthy and the middle class. It could be done, he said, with a tax on capital income, a wealth tax, some form of interest deductibility ban with rules for deductions to avoid double taxation. He said this would pay for a tax-free threshold for income earners up to $10,000 with the n...2025-05-0805 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: What's the point of a minister without a budget?David Seymour is absolutely on the money with his call to cut the number of ministers in Cabinet and outside of Cabinet. In his speech yesterday, he proposed capping the number of ministers at 20 —currently there are 28— and scrapping the position of minister outside of Cabinet. “Right now, there are ministers that have seven different departments. There are departments such as MBIE that answer to 19 different ministers. There are portfolios, just to give you one example, not to pick on it, but the Minister for Auckland that Labour created – there's no Auckland department, there's no Auckland vote in the bu...2025-05-0205 min

The SME StreamKerre Woodham: Is there such a thing as a completely fair tax system?Is there any such thing as a completely fair tax system? Surely the most you can hope for is a least unfair tax system. I ask this because a UN report is calling for countries to check taxes are being applied proportionally to the wealthiest individuals, and questioning the fairness of GST. The UN Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights said a tax policy that maintains a low personal and corporate income taxes without adequately addressing high income inequalities is an example of a regressive and ineffective policy, and consumption taxes —of which GST is one— can h...2025-03-2406 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Is there such a thing as a completely fair tax system?Is there any such thing as a completely fair tax system? Surely the most you can hope for is a least unfair tax system. I ask this because a UN report is calling for countries to check taxes are being applied proportionally to the wealthiest individuals, and questioning the fairness of GST. The UN Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights said a tax policy that maintains a low personal and corporate income taxes without adequately addressing high income inequalities is an example of a regressive and ineffective policy, and consumption taxes —of which GST is one— can h...2025-03-2406 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastAndrew Geddis: University of Otago Law Professor on David Seymour's recent scandals and the possibility of executive ordersA belief economic pain is driving a dip in the polls for the right, rather than Coalition dynamics. Two polls out yesterday showed support dropping for Christopher Luxon as preferred Prime Minister, and the figures would let the left bloc form a Government. Luxon told reporters his team is focused on the job at hand, prioritising economic growth. He has rejected calls to act more like Donald Trump in signing executive orders, saying we have a different political system. University of Otago Law Professor Andrew Geddis told Kerre Woodham the US Pres...2025-02-1107 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Luxon is driver of a car full of impatient childrenTwo new political polls out show Labour, the Greens and Te Pati Māori would have enough support to form the next government, should an election be held tomorrow, while also suggesting more people believe the country's headed in the wrong direction. The latest 1News-Verian poll found support had dipped for the coalition government who could only muster 60 seats in Parliament, not enough to meet the 61-seat majority required. A combination, however, of Labour, the Greens and Te Pati Māori did reach the 61-seat threshold. And that follows a Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll that also found the left...2025-02-1104 min

Dothan Christian FellowshipThe Family Dinner TableThis week DCF Elder, David Woodham, teaches into the family dinner table becoming the new pulpit and where church families begin to grow and mature as brothers and sisters of Christ.2025-02-0940 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: You cannot lead a team haka if you don't speak for your teamGregor Paul's story in this morning's Herald confirms what many suspected at the time: that TJ Perenara’s political statement before the haka, a rallying cry against the Treaty Principles Bill, had not been sanctioned by rugby officials. That many All Blacks, that many coaching staff, that many management, felt blindsided by the statement and that he spoke without the universal approval of his teammates, according to Gregor Paul’s story. Perenara was playing his 89th and his final test for the All Blacks in Turin last year, and before the privilege of leading the All Blacks Haka...2025-02-0503 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: What have we got left to sell?You may have heard, the 80’s are making a comeback. Lookout for denim on denim, bubble skirts, and asset sales. David Seymour is stepping up his campaign to sell state assets and privatise public services. In his State of the Nation speech last week, the ACT leader said we should be continually asking ourselves do we own the right stuff? NZ First, Labour and the Greens have all pinned their respective colours to the mast and said they are dead against the sale of any state-owned assets under their watch. NZ First and Winston Peters, of course, fam...2025-01-2907 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Do people trust Labour with a capital gains tax?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 reconciliation soul searching. The people loved us so much and then they didn't. How did it all go so wrong? So that's there's be...2024-11-2604 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: The chaos in Parliament was a reflection of usCrikey, 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 David Seymour. Gerry Brownlee cleared the public gallery, suspended the House, and once order was restored about 20 minutes later, Te Pa...2024-11-1506 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Healthy teeth are vital for a healthy lifeThere is absolutely no doubt that healthy teeth are vital for a healthy life. Poor dental care can actually kill you. There's a small number of cases from the States they read about recently where an untreated tooth abscess led to an infection that spread to the brain, and a number of children died as a result of that. Even without catastrophising, bad teeth are miserable. It's painful, leads to other infections throughout the body, it's unsightly - robs people of self-confidence if their teeth are all over the place. But at $353 per vis...2024-11-0407 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Would self-certification build a better quality of workman?I suppose I should have, but I had no idea that it takes, on average, 569 days for a home to be built and consented right now. Nearly two years for a home to be built and consented! A decent building company could throw up a house in three months, couldn't they? But no, because of the consenting process, 569 days in this country for a home to be built and consented. No wonder we have a shortage of homes and no wonder they're so expensive. Now the Government wants to change that and yesterday announced plans to develop...2024-10-3005 min

All Things DesignEmbracing AI in UX Design: A Conversation with David MulhollandIn this episode of All Things Design, host Joe Woodham sits down with David Mulholland, Senior Manager of UX and Product Design at Flybuys. Join us as David shares his journey from Deloitte Digital to leading digital transformation initiatives at major organizations like Australian Super, Telstra, and WorkSafe. David delves into how AI is reshaping the design landscape, from experimentation with emerging tools to integrating AI into design systems. Discover how his passion for innovation and problem-solving has shaped his career, and learn about the role AI plays in enhancing user experience, improving workflows, and personalizing customer interactions on...2024-10-1419 min

The SME StreamKerre Woodham: Just introduce a capital gains tax and be done with itFor the love of all that is holy - can we just introduce a capital gains tax and be done with it? I am so sick of it dominating the headlines. The issue is never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to go away, despite two Labour Prime Ministers ruling it out, despite Christopher Luxon ruling it out - it comes up. It's like a nagging child, “I want a capital gains tax. I want a capital gains tax, I want a capital gains tax, I want a capital gains tax”, and then in the end you g...2024-09-2604 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Just introduce a capital gains tax and be done with itFor the love of all that is holy - can we just introduce a capital gains tax and be done with it? I am so sick of it dominating the headlines. The issue is never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever going to go away, despite two Labour Prime Ministers ruling it out, despite Christopher Luxon ruling it out - it comes up. It's like a nagging child, “I want a capital gains tax. I want a capital gains tax, I want a capital gains tax, I want a capital gains tax”, and then in the end you g...2024-09-2605 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: "I'm all for a four-year term"It looks like there's going to be a referendum after all. Not the one that David Seymour wants, but a referendum on whether the four-year political term should be legislated. We've got three years at the moment. For years, people have been saying it's too short and now in National's coalition agreement with both ACT and NZ First, there are provisions to introduce legislation extending the political term. Yesterday, the Prime Minister said the issue could well be put to the electorate at the next election in a referendum. He said it's a com...2024-09-2305 min

Legal Talk Network - Law News and Legal TopicsThe Wild West in Court: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday’s Fight for Freedom After the O.K. CorralThirty shots fired in thirty seconds at the O.K. Corral left three men dead and three more wounded and turned into a month-long trial with some thirty witnesses in late fall 1881. Since then, their legendary gunfight with the Clantons and McLaurys has kept the town of Tombstone, Arizona alive and has been the source of inspiration for many books and films over the years. 125 years later, many questions are still left unanswered: Were the Clantons and McLaurys cattle thieves deserving of their death? Why was Doc Holliday, a gambler and notorious gunslinger, deputized by Virgil Earp? W...2024-09-1745 min

In Dispute: 10 Famous Trials That Changed HistoryThe Wild West in Court: Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday’s Fight for Freedom After the O.K. CorralThirty shots fired in thirty seconds at the O.K. Corral left three men dead and three more wounded and turned into a month-long trial with some thirty witnesses in late fall 1881. Since then, their legendary gunfight with the Clantons and McLaurys has kept the town of Tombstone, Arizona alive and has been the source of inspiration for many books and films over the years. 125 years later, many questions are still left unanswered: Were the Clantons and McLaurys cattle thieves deserving of their death? Why was Doc Holliday, a gambler and notorious gunslinger, deputized by Virgil Earp? W...2024-09-1745 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Is Hipkins the man to lead Labour into the next election?Let's talk politics, specifically the latest Taxpayers Union Curia poll. It showed a firming up of support for the Coalition Government and the parties that make that up, but Labour leader Chris Hipkins has lost support as preferred Prime Minister and the party is languishing. The party vote changes were all within the margin of error in this latest poll, but the preferred prime minister stakes saw Chris Hipkins dropping 6.1 percentage points. When you compare the previous Taxpayers Union Curia poll, which was in July, two months prior, so comparing apples with apples, National was up 1.4% to 39. L...2024-09-1706 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastChristopher Luxon: Prime Minister takes calls, discusses infrastructure, energy crisis, Treaty Principles BillThe Prime Minister says he will bring the Opposition leader on board to hammer out a plan for infrastructure. The Government is promoting a message of bipartisanship as it sets its sights on designing a 30-year pipeline for delivering major projects. Christopher Luxon and his Transport, Infrastructure, and Housing Ministers visited New South Wales last month to learn from Australia's productivity. Newstalk ZB's Kerre Woodham pushed Luxon on why he didn't take Labour leader Chris Hipkins if he's trying to build consensus. He says they have already reached out to other part...2024-09-1334 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Who is Te Pati Māori to decide who's Māori enough?Bloody hell. If there is anyone who is entitled to go on a little light trauma induced shoplifting spree, it would be ACT MP Karen Chhour. For those who don't know her background, Karen grew up in the state care system. She was elected to parliament as an ACT Party MP in 2020 with the goal of reforming Oranga Tamariki, having seen rather more of it than most of us have. Before politics, she was self-employed in the New Zealand made clothing industry. She's a mother of four and she's lived on Auckland's North Shore for the past 30 years. So...2024-08-0106 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastSir Lockwood Smith: Former Speaker of the House on the Parliamentary clash between ACT and Speaker Gerry BrownleeACT Leader David Seymour is alleging racism in Parliament over select committee tensions and claims of personal attacks towards MP Karen Chhour. The ACT Party says its confidence in the Speaker of the House is “falling by the day”, accusing Gerry Brownlee of failing to address racial harassment in Parliament. Seymour told Mike Hosking this morning they wrote to the Speaker, calling the issues 'serious.' He says the response suggested there was no issue. Former National MP and Speaker of the House Sir Lockwood Smith joined Kerre Woodham to discuss how he’d...2024-08-0107 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Labour suggesting a capital gains tax is gallingI am absolutely gobsmacked at the sheer gall of Labour even considering, suggesting, putting it out there, hey, run it up the flagpole, some form of capital gains tax might be back on the agenda. Apparently Barbara Edmonds, who is the finance spokesperson for Labour, is just putting it out there, seeing what people think. How very dare they for two glaringly obvious reasons. A) because they had every opportunity to introduce a capital gains tax or to revamp the taxation system not just once, but twice during their six long years in office. They set up th...2024-07-1004 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Where does the media go from here?First up today, a suite of announcements around the media. Paul Goldsmith, Minister for Broadcasting, thank heavens, has agreed to progress the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill. This was a bill initially proposed by Labour and rejected by National. Now, however, the coalition government, minus one of its partners, is progressing with amendments to support our local media companies to earn revenue for the news they produce and in effect, throw them a lifeline, help them survive. Paul Goldsmith says the key change, the reason why they are now supporting the bill, is adopting a ministerial designation framework. This...2024-07-0306 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: The Pharmac funding boost was the best solutionThey promised they would. They said it would happen. I have to say it happened far sooner than I expected. Yesterday's post-Cabinet press conference saw Christopher Luxon, Shane Reti et al. announcing up to 26 new cancer treatments, alongside 28 other medicines to be funded as part of the government's $604 million health budget to honour National’s pre-election promise. The promise was made good on with knobs on. Some of the drugs will be available from October/November of this year. Others will be phased in as of next year and it is fantastic news. I don't want to be...2024-06-2506 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: We're going to have to bite the bullet and get the 757's replacedYou do not have to go back very far to find a news story about a New Zealand Prime Minister having his or her trip disrupted by a shonky 757. The Prime Minister's trip to Japan, with an accompanying trade delegation, was disrupted over the weekend after the Air Force 757 broke down, again. And it was this time last year, to within a week, that the plane ferrying Chris Hipkins to China set off on its flight with a backup plane flying in reserve, in case the first one broke down. Remember that? ACT leader David...2024-06-1707 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastDavid Seymour: Associate Health Minister on the lack of cancer drug funding in Budget 2024David Seymour says they had no choice over leaving 13 new cancer drugs out of the Budget, breaking a National campaign promise. The ACT leader told Kerre Woodham that the Government inherited a financially struggling Pharmac, and made some tough choices. He says a Coalition Government can't keep all promises. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.2024-05-3107 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastDavid Seymour: Associate Education Minister on the reintroduction of charter schoolsDavid Seymour says the Government is diversifying education by bringing back charter schools. More than $150 million from the Budget will go towards setting up 15 new charter schools and converting 35 state schools. Charter schools get government funding but operate independently. They were abolished by the Labour-led coalition in 2018. The Associate Education Minister told Kerre Woodham that there’s no shortage of demand in teaching for the basic proposition of ‘get the results, we’ll leave you alone, stop meddling’. He said there’s also a demand from parents who want to see schools...2024-05-1408 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Charter schools are making a comebackCharter schools are making a comeback. So, what happened last time? When ACT was in confidence and supply with the John Key government, they were able to establish charter schools and they managed to establish 11 of them. Charter schools were designed to be a place for children who didn't fit into mainstream education. They had different structures, a different layout, and a different form of teaching. They still must follow a curriculum, but it is different from your normal education. I was wondering, given this story on neurodivergent children yesterday, are parents...2024-05-1405 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Another example of our power industry being unable to copeAh, another cold snap, another example of our power industry being unable to cope. I hope you all had cold showers and turned off the heated towel rails and ate cold gruel this morning to do your bit to reduce power consumption. The reason for the latest orange alert is that there has been a surge in demand and the wind turbines haven't been turning - yada, yada, yada. Different excuses same result. It gets cold, and our electricity suppliers can't cope. David Seymour says it's Third World stuff —it is— and Simeon Brown says it's all the fault of th...2024-05-1004 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastKerre Woodham: Where does the criticism end?You have to wonder whether the strident critics of the coalition government ever stop and look at the facts. Maybe read the press releases. Listen to the interviews. Do they just see something coming from the office of the Honourable Shane Reti or the Honourable David Seymour and bin it? Hear Christopher Luxon on the wireless and just switch off and go “Oh! Can’t come bear it! Let me replay some of the 1o’clock briefings during COVID and restore my equilibrium.” You know, do they ever stop and think that what they're saying is absurd. Like, thi...2024-05-0907 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastDavid Seymour: Associate Education Minister on the benefits of the revamped school lunches programmeThe Associate Education Minister says a revamped school lunches programme is better bang for buck. Every student who received a free school lunch under the previous Government will still be fed, but the programme will save $107 million a year. David Seymour told Kerre Woodham that instead of having multiple providers, schools will order lunches from an online portal. He says they'll look less like couscous and quinoa, and more like sandwiches and fruit. He says previously a quarter of a million lunches were being ordered each day, at a cost of $8.60, and t...2024-05-0812 min

Dothan Christian FellowshipDress AccordinglyDavid Woodham shares two prophetic words over DCF and how we need to be ready to respond to their fulfillment.2024-04-2155 min

Kerre Woodham Mornings PodcastPM Christopher Luxon takes questions on Kerre Woodham Mornings after week of moves on police pay offer, Māori wards, public sector staff cutsPrime Minister Christopher Luxon said the government had put “hundreds of millions [of dollars] more” onto the table for a “much more enhanced offer” to police last week. That offer was going out for voting by police in the next few days. Luxon took questions for an hour on Kerre Woodham’s Newstalk ZB show today. He said he disagreed that National had used law and order issues as a marketing tool during the election, only to stint on the police pay offer, saying it had now put a “very good” proposition on the table....2024-04-0534 min