Podcast Episodes

Bosses Unfiltered - Episode 1: Dame Wendy Pye

Dame Wendy Pye is one of the most successful businesspeople in New Zealand.

She’s a rich-lister, her publishing company Sunshine Books has sold over …

1 year ago

Kerre Woodham: Te Pāti Māori and their continued breaches of protocol

Orini Kaipara gave her maiden speech in Parliament yesterday, and she's just the sort of person you want to see entering politics – she's young, she'…

1 year ago

Sir Lockwood Smith: Former Speaker of the House on the haka disrupting House proceedings

A former Speaker of the House is reiterating the importance of the rules of Parliament after a haka disrupted proceedings. 

The House was suspended l…

1 year ago

Liam Dann: NZ Herald Business Editor on the OCR cut, inflation

The Reserve Bank's continuing to walk a fine line, with its move to cut the OCR 50-basis points to 2.5%. 

Economic data suggests inflation has now hi…

1 year ago

Kerre Woodham: OCR cuts have not restored the most important thing - confidence

Hopes for an economic recovery have been given a significant boost by yesterday's decision from the Reserve Bank to frontload cuts to the official ca…

1 year ago

Tanya Wilton and Mark Lawrence: Hutt Hospital ED Specialist and Psychiatrist on the impact and cause of New Zealanders' declining health

A new report from the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists says the health of New Zealanders is declining. 

It showed working age people repor…

1 year ago

Kerre Woodham: Unhealthy habits are a matter of choice not a lack of education

A new report says the health of New Zealanders is declining, and that it's costing us dearly- in the billions of dollars with more billions to come. …

1 year ago

Kerre Woodham: A different view point does not permit you to invade someone's home

When I heard the Green Party co-leaders were holding a press conference yesterday, I thought fleetingly, ever the optimist, "Oh, they might be holdin…

1 year ago

Kerre Woodham: A tough but fair change to the benefit

On the face of it, it seems tough. Telling young people to get out there and get a job when the economy is tanked and unemployment is high, is you'd …

1 year, 1 month ago

Kerre Woodham: You need to know how to play the system to enact change

I've always thought that if you want to change the system, if you feel that the system, whatever it might be, doesn't work for you, the best way is t…

1 year, 1 month ago