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Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast

Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast

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Join Kerre Woodham one of New Zealand’s best loved personalities as she dishes up a bold, sharp and energetic show Monday to Friday 9am-12md on Newstalk ZB. News, opinion, analysis, lifestyle and entertainment – we’ve got your morning listening covered.2026 Newstalk ZB 政治・政府 政治学 毎時
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  • Kerre Woodham: Netball's struggle to attract eyes

    Kerre Woodham: Netball's struggle to attract eyes
    2026/09/02
    Now if you were to wander down to your local netball court on any given Saturday morning in winter, you would see hundreds, no matter how small the town might be, you would see hundreds, and in the biggest cities, thousands of parents and young women on the courts, on the sidelines, waiting in the queue for a park in the car park, checking to see if they're blocking a bit of your driveway as they try and desperately find a park down a side street to get to the game on time. It is our national women's game – netball's played by nearly 30,000 secondary school students and more than 60,000 juniors in New Zealand. It's the most popular participant secondary school sport for girls in New Zealand and has been for years and years and years. Moms who played netball come down to watch daughters, and sons up until secondary school, playing netball. Dads who watched the moms play netball back in the day when they were just courting are now watching daughters on the sidelines. Huge supporters. But why does that support, that love of the game, that passion for the game – because on some of those wet, cold, icy mornings, it's a lot to get up out of your warm bed and head down to the courts. All very well and good to be playing, but when you're standing shivering on the sideline, that's commitment. So why does that support, that passion and commitment not translate into being able to sustain a money-making professional league for our very, very best players? The annus horribilis of Netball New Zealand, or really, it's an anni horribiles, have been well traversed. But one of the main problems that Netball New Zealand encountered was that there just weren't enough people watching the game to support televising the league, and without high rating broadcasts, it's really hard to secure sponsorship and a long-term future for the league. Netball New Zealand will argue that viewer numbers were improving. The average live television audience for an ANZ Premiership fixture was 51,800 – a 32% increase on 2025, which means that in 2025 they were miserable numbers. But then compare that to the hundreds and thousands who watch rugby on the telly for the Super Rugby matches. The ranks of our best netballers have been gutted as Netball New Zealand worked to find a way to continue with some form of a premier competition. They just couldn't get it nailed down quickly enough, so 13 of our elite players have headed across the Tasman to play, they've been snapped up. Five are heading to the UK's Netball Superleague. If people weren't watching a competition with our very best netballers, some of the best netballers in the world, will we watch with only the up and comers? Chief executive of Netball New Zealand Jennah Wootten is confident we have the talent for a new competition. "I've been talking to a lot of former Silver Ferns and a lot of people that are deeply involved in the technical side of our sport. And I think one of the things I'm hearing from a lot of them, Mike, is yes, 18 players have signed to go offshore and we totally respect and understand why, we couldn't give them certainty early enough. But if you look at the ANZ Premiership this year, we had around 60 players in that competition. So there's actually an enormous amount that are still here. And what I'm really excited about is seeing what new talent's going to come through. You know, there'll be a whole lot of people that have been on the cusp of getting into these teams in the past. This is going to be their moment, and I reckon we're going to learn a whole lot of new names in netball that are going to be the stars of the future." Well, you hope so. And that's certainly what angel investors Anna Mowbray and Ali Williams are hoping, who are the backers of a private domestic competition as of next year. They know about sport, they know about business, they know how to get people along, they know how to drum up passion for a team, and hopefully they can do the same for this tournament. Mowbray and Williams will determine the competition format, the team structure and the season dates. And Jennah Wootten said having them come to the rescue gives the netball community clarity on the direction of travel after a lengthy period of uncertainty. But what is it that makes a sport watchable? There is no doubt that there are hundreds of thousands of people involved in netball in this country who take an interest. And they put their money where their mouth is, they travel, they get up on a Saturday morning, they take the kids to the practices, they travel from city to city too, if the kids get into the top leagues to watch the inter-sport competition. They play social netball. There's a lot of interest in the game that does not translate to eyes on screens. Why? I'll watch a sport I've never played and really enjoy it. Love watching the league, love watching the union, never played it. Really enjoy it. Love watching tennis. You'd argue that netball's more ...
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  • Kerre Woodham: Hiking the fuel tax would take political courage

    Kerre Woodham: Hiking the fuel tax would take political courage
    2026/09/01
    It's not often you hear people moaning that taxes should be put up, but we live in interesting times, people. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Transport Minister Chris Bishop yesterday announced that the Government had scrapped the 12 cents per litre fuel increase, with equivalent increases to road user charges, that were planned for January 1st next year. It's kind of expected that they would – they'd staged on for so long and it's an election year – are we seriously going to expect a government that is fighting to be re-elected to put up any costs for consumers in the next few months? Not really. So the next expected increase of 5 cents per litre will be on January the 1st 2028. To cover the lost revenue, the Government plans to top up the National Land Transport Fund at an expected cost of $1.5 billion over the forecast period, using its $450 million rainy day fund and finding the rest somewhere else. They're not saying where it's going to come from, they're saying that they'll release that later. Transport Minister Chris Bishop told 1News last night the increases couldn't be delayed indefinitely without damaging the transport network. Unless they begin again soon, the financial foundations of our land transport system will be undermined. Luxon argued the extra breathing room before the hike gives New Zealanders more time to recover from a prolonged period of post-Covid economic pain and ongoing global uncertainty around the energy prices. The pair also said, look, the regular fuel hikes that are planned in later years are necessary and people will be able to pay for them because they're saying that the country's economy will strengthen in the years to 2030, so we'll all be able to afford them. Labour has said it will freeze fuel excise hikes for the three-year electoral term if it becomes government. Either way, we're not going to be paying anything whether Labour or National gets in for the next year. But transport and infrastructure leaders aren't happy about that – they've said both parties are playing politics. Well, yeah, it's an election year, they've got to be re-elected. AA fuel spokesperson Terry Collins said the "what to do" about the fuel was a problem of the Coalition's own making. When they came into power, they wiped the 3 cent annual increases that Labour had announced. If they'd maintained those, they wouldn't be in the same predicament that they are today. Infrastructure New Zealand Chief Executive Nick Leggett said the decision was because of election season and ultimately would end up costing the country more. He said, I understand the politics, but it's become a race to the bottom. The right decision for New Zealand now and in the future would be to let those fuel excise increases continue as planned. It would take political courage to do that. I don't think there's much courage around with just a few short months and the polls looking the way they're looking. Every vote will count and raising excises, duties, taxes, tariffs, whatever you want to call them, is not going to be popular. Even the Greens say bring on the fuel excise tax. The Greens say freezing the fuel excise will make our roads worse, defer maintenance we badly need, and leave people with fewer options for getting around. They say it also shows that neither party is committed to the recommendations in the National Infrastructure Plan. Now, it's hard to believe if you are new to this country or new to this radio station, but potholes were a major election issue last time round. Remember when we had entire hours devoted to potholes? A pothole hotline was set up as a way of getting elected, a promise to set one up and then delivery on that promise from ACT. The state of our roads is an election issue, and we need money to pay for them. It's expensive, it's time consuming, it costs productivity if the roads are in poor shape. Everybody has got their favourite stretch of road or their bête noire of a road that is just hell to drive. Potholes and the state of the roads were shredding tyres and we had collectively, if you add up all the hours we spent talking about it, probably days before the last election talking about the state of our roads. Helen reminded me that we received a text a few days ago saying the roads have never been in better shape according to a truckie who travels the route regularly. He said that potholes are vastly improved, that the roads are in much better shape. Can you say that the Coalition Government has delivered on their roading promises? Will they be able to keep those promises without the money going into the roading and maintenance coffers over the next year? I mean it is going to come from somewhere, National have said that they'll top it up, but that's debt we're not paying back. What is the right thing to do? I mean yes, it would take political courage, but as the Opportunity Party says, you've got to be in power, you've got to get into Parliament to be able to enact your...
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  • Kerre Woodham: It's about time the Government cracked down on debt dodgers

    Kerre Woodham: It's about time the Government cracked down on debt dodgers
    2026/08/31
    Over the weekend too, Nicola Willis announced policy around student loans. And finally, finally, finally, we have a government that's going to get tough on overseas student loan defaulters. Finance Minister Nicola Willis said yesterday that National will introduce harsher penalties on Kiwis who move overseas and simply refuse to pay back the New Zealand taxpayer. This is about making it a bit easier for people who have a student loan and are in New Zealand and sending a stronger message to those offshore that they're expected to repay their loan. We've got to get that balance right. Ultimately, if you do study in New Zealand, you're being heavily subsidised by the New Zealand taxpayer, and we do that because we want you contributing to our economy and our community. It will always be the case that some Kiwis will take their qualifications offshore, but when they do that, we expect them to pay New Zealand back. Yeah, not that harsh, really, is it? At the same time, Nicola Willis said at the press conference yesterday, the party if re-elected will reduce the compulsory student loan repayment rate for those who stay in the country to 10 cents on every dollar earned above 24,128 It's down from 12 cents currently. That's not going to set the world on fire, but I think going after the defaulters is a good move. What does annoy me though, every time the story is written about, generally by Generation Z reporters, New Zealand's student loan scheme was introduced in 1992 by the Jim Bolger led National government, replacing a long standing system of near free tertiary education. The implication being those vile right wing fascists from National took away a God given right for every New Zealand young person to be able to attend university for free and put in a student loan scheme. What they don't say is that there were incredibly tough conditions around getting into university in the first place. Not everybody could go. It was academically rigorous and it was kept to the very highest marks generated by young people around the country. You couldn't just saunter into a BA while you faffed around and decided what you wanted to do. It was really, really tough to get into university. After it became a bums on seats model where you could pay and go if you wanted to, sure, it became more open so people were able to go to university even if they didn't have the very highest marks. Great. So that was a change in policy. But I do wish they'd keep, or at least remind people, that sure, loans were introduced replacing the free system, but it also meant that more people could go to university and get a tertiary education if they wanted one and if they were willing to pay for one. But anything that's going to help get back the billions of dollars those freeloaders refuse to pay back is a good thing. But do you know what? I can almost write the script on this one. Bear with me. National is re elected and as part of a coalition government introduces tough measures targeting overseas loan defaulters. Six months down the track, an extremely attractive young person working for a not for profit in London or Melbourne will have a mental health crisis. Their grieving family will point to the student loan debt as the catalyst for the mental health crisis and blame the heartless actions of a brutal centre right regime. A grim faced young reporter on the old man's news at 6:00pm will conclude with dire warnings of more mental health crises if the government doesn't pull back on its vicious crackdown of Aotearoa's best and brightest. That's One News. Can you not write the script? I mean, it won't be an unattractive person that they'll profile. There may well be mental health crises as people realise actually they're going to have to face their debt mountain. They're going to have to enter into negotiations with IRD. They're going to have to start paying it back. It is, it's tough. It will be tough. But anybody unattractive won't be profiled. It'll be somebody gorgeous who works for Greenpeace or Save the Panda or something. Something lovely. I can absolutely write the script. And I know how tough it is when you get behind on bills and payments, especially when you're young. I remember it well. It's a sick feeling in the pit of your stomach, a sense of hopelessness, I'll never be able to get on top of this, so why do I even try? But I also know that the only way you can overcome that mountain of debt is by tackling it head on and digging away at it one automatic payment at a time. Burying your head in the sand and hoping it goes away is not a strategy, certainly not for the best and the brightest, you'd think they'd know better. We have been trying for decades now to get these bludgers to pay back their loans. We've appealed to their better natures, to their patriotism. It is time now to get tough and finally we have a government that's committed to doing so. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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