Podcast Episodes

Kerre Woodham: Everyday children deserve support and encouragement

This particular pre-Budget announcement should be music to the ears of parents who are currently working every hour God sends to pay for extra maths …

1 year, 5 months ago

Kerre Woodham: You won't get your car seized if you don't break the law

The government sent a strong signal to boy racers that their days of running amok on the roads are over.

Car crushing is not new, it's been announced…

1 year, 5 months ago

Kerre Woodham: The party is well and truly over

There's bad news, really, and it's been coming and I think I've had my head in the sand for some time. I've been wanting things to get better quickly…

1 year, 6 months ago

Tom Ronaldson: Fire and Emergency New Zealand's Community Education Manager on safely using lithium-ion batteries

Warnings to be careful after a string of fires was linked to lithium-ion batteries.  

Scrap metal company Sims Metal has been fined $30 thousand over…

1 year, 6 months ago

Kerre Woodham: The New Zealand political system David Parker wants

Long serving Labour MP and former Minister David Parker gave his valedictory speech in Parliament last night, where he gave his colleagues across the…

1 year, 6 months ago

Kerre Woodham: This Government has a problem with optics

Just when I thought the issue of pay parity couldn't get any more confusing, the Government has made it so. Yesterday, the coalition government moved…

1 year, 6 months ago

James Ross: Taxpayers Union Policy and Public Affairs Manager on the government's use of urgency for the pay equity law

The Government is being criticised for their use of urgency to pass legislation.  

A law to lift the threshold for gender-discrimination pay equity c…

1 year, 6 months ago

Liam Dann: NZ Herald Business Editor on the unemployment rate remaining at 5.1%

The unemployment rate has stayed static for another quarter. 

Stats NZ figures just out show the rate remained at 5.1% in the March quarter. 

The num…

1 year, 6 months ago

Kerre Woodham: We need to be part of the solution to retail crime

A new report from Retail NZ has revealed the state of retail crime in New Zealand - 99% of the membership of Retail NZ has experienced some form of c…

1 year, 6 months ago

Kerre Woodham: Northland desperately need police boots on the ground

I don't know if you caught the story over the weekend - Ngāpuhi, the iwi of Northland, are calling for police to round up the drug dealers in Northla…

1 year, 6 months ago