Podcast Episodes

Rob Langford: Packaging Forum CEO on the new lid and cap recycling scheme

A new recycling scheme has launched today. 

Developed by the Packaging Forum, it aims to capture and recycle the myriad of plastic and metal caps and…

2 years ago

Stephen Child: Southern Cross Chief Medical Officer on their free GP consultations, the struggles of the healthcare system

There’s another option for those struggling to access a GP. 

General Practitioners Aotearoa have said the concept of a “family doctor” is dead as the…

2 years ago

Kerre Woodham: Family doctors have gone the way of the moa

I did want to have a look at the state of our primary healthcare – this is something we've looked at before, and I have absolutely no doubt that we w…

2 years ago

Kerre Woodham: The Government is focusing on getting us from point A to point B

The coalition government has announced the next three years of transport projects, and it should come as no real surprise there's nothing for speed b…

2 years ago

Chris Schulz: Senior Investigative Journalist at Consumer NZ on concert ticket surge pricing

Ticket prices have increased exponentially over the years as retailers take advantage of dynamic pricing schemes. 

Otherwise known as surge pricing, …

2 years ago

Kerre Woodham: We have to get revenue from somewhere - raising the age of eligibility for Super is a good start

I wanted to start with something that always generates a lot of chat and that is the inevitability about raising the age of eligibility for superannu…

2 years ago

Kerre Woodham: The infrastructure plan is wildly exciting

Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop announced yesterday what National had promised all the way through the election campaign. The government's new N…

2 years ago

Kerre Woodham: How have people become so desensitised?

You could hear yesterday the sadness and the contempt and the disbelief in Inspector Tony Wakelin’s voice: 

“Look, can I just say I thought that was …

2 years ago

Karen Orsborn: Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission CEO on the report showing how the 2019 Wellbeing Budget has been spent

The Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission's released a report showing how funding from the 2019 Wellbeing Budget has been spent.  

It shows 92% of t…

2 years ago

Kerre Woodham: Reverse the ban, but is anyone interested in coming here?

Yesterday the Prime Minister announced what we all know to be true, that we have an energy security crisis.  

We seem to have been having them for a …

2 years ago