Articles by Kerre Woodham
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: What would it take to get police trust to 80%?
Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 12:51pmIt's been 12 months since Richard Chambers became New Zealand's Police Commissioner. And by crikey, he's had a busy old time...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: A rates cap or an erosion of services and facilities?
Tuesday, 2 December 2025, 12:46pmAuckland households face a 7.9% rate rise next year, primarily to fund the operating costs for the $5.5 billion City Rail...
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Kerre Woodham: E-scooters, cycle lanes, and public demand
Friday, 28 November 2025, 11:00amThe Government's move to shift e-scooter users from the sidewalk to bike lanes is being hailed as a win for common sense....
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Kerre Woodham: Are you feeling optimistic?
Thursday, 27 November 2025, 12:21pmThe Pohutukawa are out and flowering and abundant. The days are longer, the sun is shining, the Reserve Bank has cut the...
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Kerre Woodham: Regional councils need to be streamlined
Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 12:09pmRegional councils are being abolished – or are they? Thomas Coughan writing in the Herald makes a very good point, it's...
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Kerre Woodham: We need to be able to treat feral animals as pests
Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 12:44pmCats and dogs who are part of our families are much loved and live the life of Riley. There must be some days when your cat...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Who genuinely thinks they have the right to mete out violence?
Friday, 21 November 2025, 12:27pmA new report from the World Health Organization has found (old news really), a quarter of women have been physically or sexually...
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Kerre Woodham: Incredible concerts and positive news
Thursday, 20 November 2025, 11:53amA little bit husky, a little bit hoarse, not as bad as Heather, but a little bit husky from belting out the classics at Eden...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: What makes NZ workplaces so dangerous?
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 12:14pmIt's the 15th anniversary today of the Pike River mine disaster, and on this anniversary, unions are calling for a corporate...
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Kerre Woodham: Contractors, employees, and the gig economy
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 12:22pmBusiness NZ Chief Executive Katherine Rich says the Supreme Court's ruling that Uber drivers are in fact employees of Uber,...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Charging Ms Z would be a gross miscarriage of justice
Thursday, 13 November 2025, 12:32pmHow is it that the woman, who's at the centre of a cover-up by top brass within the Police, still has to go to court to defend...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: The McSkimming cover-up is appalling
Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 12:53pmThe revelation that the Deputy Commissioner of Police Jevon McSkimming was a predatory pervert was one thing. To find out...
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Kerre Woodham: At what point do business owners call it quits?
Tuesday, 11 November 2025, 1:16pmAt what point, when you're a business owner, do you decide that you've had enough? There was Covid, then there were the boom...
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Kerre Woodham: Spend a dollar to save five - why wouldn't we fund weightloss drugs?
Friday, 7 November 2025, 1:23pmNew Zealand has the third highest adult obesity rate in the OECD, and the rates are going up. One in three adult New Zealanders...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: What's the attitude towards sick days?
Thursday, 6 November 2025, 12:26pmIt's one of those circular discussions, really, where people are extremely staunch in their opinion and no amount of debate...
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Opinion
John MacDonald: Is this really the best way to deal with rough sleepers?
Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 12:57pmOn Saturday night I was in Lyttelton for a gig and saw a guy sleeping on the bench outside the local supermarket, which took...
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Kerre Woodham: I don't blame retailers for wanting to ban the homeless
Wednesday, 5 November 2025, 12:33pmA month ago to this very day, Heart of the City, the business association for Auckland City Centre, released a scathing report...
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Kerre Woodham: The failure of Fees Free
Wednesday, 15 October 2025, 12:55pmDo you want another example of Labour's ideology over pragmatism? I really, really hope that the previous Labour ministers...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: Te Pāti Māori and their continued breaches of protocol
Friday, 10 October 2025, 1:41pmOrini Kaipara gave her maiden speech in Parliament yesterday, and she's just the sort of person you want to see entering...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: A different view point does not permit you to invade someone's home
Tuesday, 7 October 2025, 11:24amWhen I heard the Green Party co-leaders were holding a press conference yesterday, I thought fleetingly, ever the optimist,...
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Opinion
Kerre Woodham: You need to know how to play the system to enact change
Friday, 3 October 2025, 1:05pmI've always thought that if you want to change the system, if you feel that the system, whatever it might be, doesn't work...
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Kerre Woodham: A massive press conference to tell us very little
Wednesday, 1 October 2025, 1:09pmWell, a great deal of expectation and excitement. We all gathered around the wireless to listen to the 8am announcement about...
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Kerre Woodham: An overreaction that caused more pain in the long run
Tuesday, 30 September 2025, 12:42pmAt last, a triumph of common sense over well-meaning legislation designed to protect every life, everywhere, no matter how...
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Kerre Woodham: Ask not what your country can do for you
Thursday, 25 September 2025, 1:10pmNew Zealand Inc. is in trouble and it's on us —you and me— to fix it. Not politicians, not economists, not even our blessed...
