John Hart: New Zealand Golf Open Chairman discusses the event, what it took to bring it together

The 105th New Zealand Golf Open has teed off at Millbrook.  It’s a unique Pro-Am event, where 156 professionals compete alongside amateur partners, and is the only Open tournament in the world to be played in this format.  Australian Ryan Peake won the title in 2025, and has returned to defend it…

Boyd Steel: S Sticker Founder on the plate that identifies cars driven by seniors

Another way of keeping older folks safer on the roads.  Aucklander Boyd Steel has started a business producing ‘S’ plates – a car sticker designed to let other drivers know there’s an older driver behind the wheel.  The blue sticker is similar to the yellow ‘L’ plate for learner drivers, signalli…

Kerre Woodham: Volunteers deserve trauma counselling cover

I can't even believe we're having to discuss this, but we are. It seems absolutely ludicrous that drunk drivers who say, kill their passengers, maim their passengers, smash their own selves up after crashing their vehicles —hopefully not into innocent victims, but sometimes it will be— are able to …

Kerre Woodham: Privacy - can we have our cake and eat it too?

There's been a second major medical platform hack, leaving live patients labelled as dead and people's names changed to Charlie Kirk, the American activist who was shot dead last year – assassinated really. MediMap is widely used across New Zealand. It's often used by the aged care, disability, hos…

Kerre Woodham: Chris Hipkins' underwhelming State of the Nation speech

Credit to those 120 business people who went along to hear Chris Hipkins' State of the Nation address yesterday, hosted by the Auckland Business Chamber. Credit to those few people who watched it live, like my colleague Mike Hosking. My word, it was dull. And that is not me being a lickspittle mout…

Kerre Woodham: You can't lump the homeless into one group

I am torn on this one because I know somebody needs to do something. That classic old talkback quote, Somebody needs to do something." Well, somebody has. The government is giving police new powers to crack down on beggars, rough sleepers, and basically nasty oiks. Yesterday, Justice Minister Paul…

Mark Mitchell: Police Minister discusses the proposed 'move on' order

The Government is providing police with the power to issue move-on orders as a tool to deal with disorderly behaviour in public places. But, the Police Association says it can't always be the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. President Steve Watt says these people on the streets have complex …

Kerre Woodham: Did the intensification announcement allay your fears?

We thought we'd start with the housing densification or de-densification that was announced yesterday. We didn't really get a chance to talk about it despite the fact that yesterday when the Prime Minister was in for an hour, he gave us a bit of an announcement of an announcement.  “Long story sho…

Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

An unprecedented day continues for the UK, with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor released under investigation after his arrest overnight.  The former Prince has been pictured leaving a Norfolk police station following allegations he shared sensitive information with late sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein.   …

Kerre Woodham: Can you see the light at the end of the tunnel?

The Official Cash Rate has been left unchanged, 2.25%, expected by all the commentators, but perhaps less expected was a dovish view of the future. It was the new Reserve Bank Governor's, well she's not that new I suppose, the newish Reserve Bank Governor's first OCR review, having come on board at…