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01 May 2025, 04:49
Money
Join Peter Bale and Bernard Hickey on a 'hoon' around the week's events with Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman on climate & geopolitics, and Nick Leggett on infrastructure & population
30 Apr 2025, 20:51
KiwiSaver on Budget chopping block; ComCom says no need for market study on domestic air travel; Infra NZ pleads for projects in Budget, & a population strategy; Turnbull says Peters weak on Trump
29 Apr 2025, 20:40
I spoke with Simplicity Chief Economist Shamubeel Eaqub about the Government's latest budget policy tightening, the risks for infrastructure investment & a potential dampening of GDP growth.
29 Apr 2025, 19:40
Willis won't tax charities or use taxes to cut deficit; 1,000 at-risk kids have no social worker; Housing shortages a factor in early parole; It's Earth Overshoot Day; Trump's man in Canada loses seat
29 Apr 2025, 03:56
Willis planning $4.4b of extra cuts over next four years, tightening fiscal policy against the grain of loosening monetary policy & recessionary headwinds; The 2022 backlash finally claims Whanau
28 Apr 2025, 18:11
Tory Whanau pulls out of Wellington Mayoral race after Andrew Little jumps in; Ambulances waited for 2,800 hours outside EDs over two weeks; Seymour sides with banks over his own ministry
27 Apr 2025, 20:47
NZ short of 500 hospital beds; 200,000 waiting for appointments; MSD drops homelessness plan; 30% need help buying food; National breaks e-chargers promise; Inside our migrant abuse industrial complex
25 Apr 2025, 21:03
Govt ploughs ahead with barely economic roads; Willis to 'tweak' childcare rebate after uptake of just 1% of National's plan; Trump flails on tariffs & Fed as China & bond markets push back
24 Apr 2025, 18:32
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with regular guests Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman about climate & geopolitics, including the fallout from Trump's tariff shock
24 Apr 2025, 04:58
Join Peter Bale and Bernard Hickey on a 'hoon' around the week's events with Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman on climate & geopolitics
22 Apr 2025, 21:11
Reforms target Special Character Area rules blocking house-building on 20,000 sections near Auckland CBD; Health NZ gaslights Gisborne doctors & shifts back to DHB-like system; IMF cuts growth view
21 Apr 2025, 21:30
Trump threats to Fed Chair Jerome 'Major Loser' Powell worsen rush to exit US markets; Willis sticking to tight budget, despite global tariff shock; China & US want trading partners to choose
17 Apr 2025, 19:31
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with regular guests Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman about climate & geopolitics, including Trump's tariff shock; plus ASMS' Sarah Dalton on why doctors are striking
17 Apr 2025, 05:05
Join Peter Bale and Bernard Hickey on a 'hoon' around the week's events with Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman on climate & geopolitics, plus special guest Sarah Dalton
16 Apr 2025, 22:14
Simeon Brown unveils 'clear pipeline for health infrastructure' that is unfunded, costed at $20b without detail or timing, apart from parking buildings; Orr left before Willis cut RBNZ's budget by 25%
15 Apr 2025, 20:21
Doctors to strike for more than 1.5% pay rise; Simeon Brown points to $353k average pay, including overtime; Health NZ sacking 383 HR staff despite unfilled vacancies; Kids swamped in junk food ads
15 Apr 2025, 00:56
PMI & PSI surveys indicate economic recovery stalling; Retail sales slump unexpectedly; Yet Government is pushing ahead with pro-cyclical (not in a good way) fiscal tightening at odds with looser RBNZ
13 Apr 2025, 22:19
Trump's pivot on computer & phone tariffs temporary; He wants to bring iPhone factories back to US; Barely half of Budget 2024's 1,500 social housing places granted; NZers more financially stressed
11 Apr 2025, 23:06
Trump explodes neutron bomb under globalisation, but no change in NZ's tight budget stance; Govt keeps gaslighting on hospital crises; Economy sluggish before tariff shock; Pine stuck painfully in ETS
10 Apr 2025, 19:37
Luxon joins push for CPTPP & EU rules to replace US-driven WTO; White House says tariff on China actually 145%; Doctors accuse Seymour of bullying via 'muppets' comment; 56k more adults living at home
10 Apr 2025, 18:01
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with regular guests Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman about climate & geopolitics, including Trump's tariff shock; plus Boyd Swinburn on how to reform lobbying
10 Apr 2025, 04:57
Join Peter Bale and Bernard Hickey on a 'hoon' around the week's events with Cathrine Dyer & Robert Patman on climate & geopolitics, plus special guest Boyd Swinburn on lobbying reform
09 Apr 2025, 19:11
Trump pauses 'reciprocal tariffs' for 90 days, but hikes China tariff to 125% after China lifts its tariff to 84%; US stock & bond prices jump; 1,200 engineers lost in a year, including 270 overseas
08 Apr 2025, 00:09
Govt drops 'there's no more money' framing on defence, saying it can afford to double spending on 'enhanced lethality' to 2% of GDP; Mission Homefront says plan fails to invest in people & housing
06 Apr 2025, 19:12
Luxon
04 Apr 2025, 21:34
Global stocks slump another 6% after China retaliates with 34% tariff on US; Delays for heart surgeries costing lives; 40% of urgent hospital repairs not being worked on; DOC to charge trampers
03 Apr 2025, 21:15
Trump shocks global economy with highest tariffs since Smoot Hawley Act of 1930; Europe & Australia protest & plan retaliation; Luxon more relaxed; Goff speaks out; Gisborne Hospital crisis revealed
03 Apr 2025, 18:53
Bernard Hickey & Peter Bale chat with regular guests Cathrine Dyer & Elaine Monaghan about climate & geopolitics, including Trump's tariffs shock; plus Labour's Phil Twyford talks about
03 Apr 2025, 03:45
Join Peter Bale and Bernard Hickey on a 'hoon' around the week's events with Cathrine Dyer & Elaine Monaghan on climate & geopolitics, plus special guest Phil Twyford on foreign affairs & disarmament
02 Apr 2025, 18:28
Overworked Nelson surgeon quits; Patient waits 19 mths for referral for endometriosis scarring that fused her ovaries & bowel; Christchurch defies densification again; Orr went after bank capital chat
01 Apr 2025, 19:48
Luxon rejects Auckland's plea for $75m to earn $2b of America's Cup GDP growth, saying Govt must cut debt first; Businesses now see weak economy & Govt's 'culture of no' choking off investment
01 Apr 2025, 17:09
Nelson Hospital crisis worsens; Wanaka pleads for health services to match unplanned population growth; Kāinga Ora planning to sell 900 homes, including new ones; IRD to review FBT for utes
