Podcast Episodes

Erica Stanford: Education Minister on the opening of two new specialist schools

The Government is building two new specialist schools for children with complex learning needs.  

The schools in Palmerston North and South Auckland …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Tim van de Molen: Waikato MP on Fire and Emergency NZ banning the use of powered watercrafts by local fire stations

Concerns that banning the use of boats and jet skis by fire stations is a box ticking exercise. 

Fire and Emergency NZ banned the use of all powered …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Kerre Woodham: It's not our opinions on climate change that matter

I have said it before and I'll say it again. We can argue for hours, we can have online debates, we can write letters to the editor about whether ext…

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Kerre Woodham: The slow decline of NZ postal services

The arrival of Netflix and other film streaming services was the death knell for video rental stores. Five years after Netflix arrived in New Zealand…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Kerre Woodham: Is it time to rethink where we build our communities?

And here we all are, another summer, and while for many people it was fun in the sun and family catchups, for others it was dealing with floods and l…

4 months, 4 weeks ago

Liam Dann: NZ Herald Business Editor on the annual inflation rate rising to 3.1%

Inflation's officially higher than it's supposed to be. 

Latest Stats NZ data shows inflation's reached 3.1% – up from 3% at the last update three mo…

5 months ago

Michael Morrah: NZ Herald Investigative Reporter gives an update on the rescue efforts in Mount Maunganui

Ambulances have been seen coming and going from the site of a major search operation at the base of Mount Maunganui. 

Multiple people remain unaccoun…

5 months ago

Brian Kelly: Newstalk ZB Sports reporter on the slip that hit tents and campers at a Mount Maunganui campsite

People still aren't accounted for in Mount Maunganui's Beachside Holiday Park after a landslide roared into the campsite at the base of the mountain …

5 months ago

Best of 2025: Christopher 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 Kiw…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

Best of 2025: Kerre Woodham - Ask not what your country can do for you

New Zealand Inc. is in trouble and it's on us —you and me— to fix it. Not politicians, not economists, not even our blessed farmers who've got us out…

6 months ago