Podcast Episodes

Liam Dann: New Zealand Herald Business Editor-at-large discusses annual inflation peak

Annual inflation has risen to a 15-month high of 3%. 

Economists had been expecting inflation to reach or surpass the 3% upper limit of the Reserve B…

8 months ago

Louise Upston: Minister for social development and employment comments on job seeker rule changes

Beneficiaries who break the Government's job hunt rules face more intensive sanctions to prove they are hunting for employment. 

From today, they wil…

8 months ago

Brett O’Riely: New Zealand Performance Academy Aotearoa Board Member discusses opening of NZ’s first sports school

New Zealand's first sports school will open next year, in a partnership with Wellington Phoenix. 

The New Zealand Performance Academy in Upper Hutt w…

8 months ago

Kerre Woodham: Build the economy and the workers will come

New rules come into force for job seekers today, as the government continues efforts to get more young people off a benefit and into work. It's a ver…

8 months ago

Bosses Unfiltered - Episode 2: Rod Duke

Rod Duke has been selling things since he was 16. First shoes, then appliances, and eventually homewares and sportswear.  

Born in Adelaide, Duke cam…

8 months ago

Kerre Woodham: Should there be name suppression for child sexual abusers?

I can't think of much worse than being labelled a child abuser, a child pornographer. It's such an abhorrent, vile, aberrant perversion of a crime. …

8 months, 1 week ago

Wayne Wright Jr: Businessman on name suppression in child abuse cases

A businessman from a prominent family, Wayne Wright Jr was falsely identified on social media of being a name suppressed individual from a wealthy fa…

8 months, 1 week ago

Kerre Woodham: State houses are a launchpad, not a permanent solution

Fewer state houses, more private rentals. The New Zealand Initiative believes that giving tenants vouchers to spend on rent could help more vulnerabl…

8 months, 1 week ago

Paul Gilberd: CEO of community housing says focus should remain on helping the most vulnerable people

A report by The New Zealand Initiative finds the Government's ownership of 77,000 state houses has maintenance costs nearly twice that of a private l…

8 months, 1 week ago

Clare de Lore: Chair of the Press Gallery under Jim Bolger pays tribute to late Prime Minister

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger has died at the age of 90. He was New Zealand's 35th prime minister, in power from 1990 to 1997.

After l…

8 months, 1 week ago