Podcast Episodes

Kerre Woodham: On the whole, I think ACC's still working

We're going to open the show today with a chat on ACC, given that it's managed to go from a $911 million surplus to a $7.2 billion deficit in the yea…

1 year, 8 months ago

Kerre Woodham: Can you blame someone for speaking their own tongue in a bit of downtime?

I remember about 25 years ago there was an absolute hoo-ha at the Grey Lynn Countdown, because staff there were speaking to one another in their own …

1 year, 8 months ago

Liam Dann: NZ Herald Business Editor on inflation dropping to 2.2%

Inflation is continuing to fall and interest rates are likely to follow suit. 

The inflation rate has dropped to 2.2 percent. 

It's the first time in…

1 year, 8 months ago

John MacDonald: Is this the future of airport security?

What’s the Government’s obsession with speeding things up?  

Today, it’s the queues at airport security that it wants to go faster - with Transport M…

1 year, 8 months ago

John MacDonald: How’s that $20-a-week tax cut looking now?

How’s that miserly $20-a-week tax cut looking now that we know the country’s budget deficit is $1.8 billion worse than expected?  

You might be one o…

1 year, 8 months ago

John MacDonald: Call in the army for our civil defence future

How many reviews and reports do we need before we accept that we are nowhere near as good at emergency and disaster management as we think we are her…

1 year, 8 months ago

Ankit Sharma: Higher penalties for careless builders

Penalties could be on the cards for careless builders as the Government looks to strengthen professional requirements. 

It's eyeing key changes to th…

1 year, 8 months ago

Kerre Woodham: Will a fine solve our dodgy building problems?

There's been a lot of good news on the home building front, you know, just for your average homeowner.  

The Government's plans to reform the buildin…

1 year, 8 months ago

Kerre Woodham: Why don't we focus the headlines on the good news?

There is a common trope that if prisons worked, we wouldn't need them. And that if prison was a deterrent, people wouldn't commit crime. If prison wa…

1 year, 8 months ago

Kerre Woodham: If we want progess, we need to make it easier to get things built

We’ve got roads, we’ve got mines, we’ve got housing developments, we’ve got 22 renewable energy projects, we’ve got aquaculture farms, we’ve got a ro…

1 year, 8 months ago