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Kerre Woodham: The Finance Minister is charting a tough course
We're going to start this morning with the Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update, which was actually the Three-quarter Year Economic and Fiscal Update…
6 months, 1 week ago
Kerre Woodham: How do we heal our country's divisions?
I remember back when I first started talkback, a million years ago at nighttime, it must have been the semicentennial of the waterfront workers strik…
6 months, 1 week ago
Sam Cliffe: NZ Blood Service CEO on the need for blood and plasma donations over the holiday period
The NZ Blood Service is encouraging people to donate, saying the demand doesn’t stop.
Although the amount of hospital activity and the number of sur…
6 months, 1 week ago
Simeon Brown: Health Minister reflects on 2025 and explains focus for 2026
A year into the job Health Minister Simeon Brown is celebrating early signs of success on reducing wait times.
He took over the heath portfolio in J…
6 months, 1 week ago
John Battersby: Senior Fellow at Massey University Centre for Defence and Security Studies discusses mass-shooting at Bondi
At least 16 people are dead and 38 others injured in a terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
Hundreds of people had gathered at Bondi for an eve…
6 months, 1 week ago
Dave Cade: On the draining of Lake Rotomanu in the fight against the invasive gold clams
A New Plymouth lake is being drained in an effort to stop invasive clams.
Lake Rotomanu's been closed to motorised watercraft since the gold clams w…
6 months, 1 week ago
David Farrar: Kiwiblog author and co-founder of the Taxpayers' Union on the debate between Nicola Willis and Ruth Richardson
Nicola Willis is defending her economic track record in the face of a lobby-group's satirical campaign.
The Taxpayers' Union has sent MPs Nicola Wil…
6 months, 1 week ago
Kerre Woodham: Willis and Richardson debating would be a pointless waste of time
Do you see any advantage or benefit to the country in having a former Finance Minister and the current one debating fiscal policy?
The current Finan…
6 months, 1 week ago
Kerre Woodham: Beyond the headlines of the cancer report
Whenever I hear or read news headlines these days, I know that the headlines will be just that for so many people. Headlines. People won't hear or th…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Phil Lester: Victoria University Ecology and Entomology Professor on the efforts to stamp out yellow-legged hornets
Efforts to stamp out yellow-legged hornets in New Zealand are widening.
Biodiversity New Zealand is expanding the 5-kilometre surveillance zone in G…
6 months, 2 weeks ago