Podcast Episodes

Kerre Woodham: Are 12-month prescriptions too much for community pharmacies?

We thought we'd start with the new 12-month prescription rules. They came into force this weekend and are designed to save time and cut GP visits for…

7 months ago

Kerre Woodham: Back to the future with specialist schools for complex needs

I've always understood the theory behind mainstreaming. We're all different, we all have different abilities, different attitudes, and a classroom of…

7 months, 1 week ago

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 …

7 months, 1 week 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 …

7 months, 1 week 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…

7 months, 1 week 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…

7 months, 1 week 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…

7 months, 1 week 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…

7 months, 2 weeks 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…

7 months, 2 weeks 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 …

7 months, 2 weeks ago