Articles by Kerre McIvor
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Opinion
Kerre McIvor: Retirement is not looking as cozy for most as it once was
Thursday, 31 March 2022, 12:18pmIf you're one of our listeners in your 20s or 30s, you might like to prick up your ears at this first segment for the morning. The...
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Kerre McIvor: No surprise in Dalton and Team NZ following the money to Barcelona
Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 12:32pmIt's all about the money, honey. And we would be fools to think otherwise. INEOS Team UK's budget for the last American...
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Kerre McIvor: NZ runs the risk of becoming the retirement village of the South Pacific
Tuesday, 29 March 2022, 12:23pmI imagine it's come as a wee bit of a surprise to some people that all of a sudden, economists and commentators are warning...
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Kerre McIvor: This country is failing our kids on education
Thursday, 24 March 2022, 12:23pmA new report out is highlighting something I think most of us know already; that we are failing our children when it comes...
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Kerre McIvor: It's time to remember that life is for living, not simply existing
Monday, 21 March 2022, 12:29pmWhat on Earth are we waiting for? Cabinet is to decide today on the future of the country. Covid-19 protection measures,...
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Kerre McIvor: Learning NZ's history can only be a good thing
Friday, 18 March 2022, 12:15pmHistory for me is very much a living thing, and knowing where we've come from and how we got here is vital to understanding, I...
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Kerre McIvor: Fuel cut helps, but doesn't address cost of living crisis
Tuesday, 15 March 2022, 12:28pmOn Thursday and Friday, there was not a cost of living crisis in New Zealand. Yesterday, however, the Prime Minister announced...
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Kerre McIvor: Refusing to acknowledge the cost of living crisis looks out of touch and obdurate
Monday, 14 March 2022, 12:04pmThe Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has this morning finally acknowledged that there is a cost of living crisis, and she's...
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Kerre McIvor: Polls are a sign perhaps people are beginning to chafe at govt control over our lives
Friday, 11 March 2022, 12:35pmWell, the polls have been giving signs that a National Party revival was underway, and last night's One News Kantar poll...
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Kerre McIvor: Plenty of fertile ground to be had talking about spending taxpayers' money
Monday, 7 March 2022, 12:27pmThe Newsroom headline 'Luxon Spies an Opportunity' kind of sums it up really. National's leader delivered his State of the...
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Kerre McIvor: You might say Omicron won't affect you, but it soon will
Friday, 4 March 2022, 1:05pmAs Omicron bites and more people are being forced to isolate for extended periods of time, the staff shortages in this country...
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Kerre McIvor: Today is a great day for NZ all round
Tuesday, 1 March 2022, 12:26pmWelcome to Tuesday the 1st of March and what a red letter day! Today is a day of joy and unabashed delight. Looking overseas,...
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Kerre McIvor: How much longer can the Govt lock Kiwis out of their own country?
Friday, 25 February 2022, 12:28pmAs we move into phase three of the Government’s Covid plan and learn to live with Covid in the community, I would have to...
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Kerre McIvor: Once you start tinkering, the Govt need to take some culpability for what happens
Wednesday, 23 February 2022, 12:26pmEveryone agrees it's not a matter of if, but of by how much, the Reserve Bank raises its official cash rate today. Commentators...
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Kerre McIvor: Should the pandemic really be front of the Prime Minister's mind?
Monday, 21 February 2022, 1:44pmThe Prime Minister has reiterated that the protesters have had their say and it's time to go home and again stressed she...
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Kerre McIvor: Are hospo businesses hanging in there or biting the bullet?
Thursday, 17 February 2022, 12:20pmQueenstown is the epicenter of Omicron in the South Island, with dozens of businesses and hospo venues having to shut their...
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Kerre McIvor: The protesters have made their point, now time to go home
Wednesday, 16 February 2022, 12:40pmThe protest at Parliament faces a challenge today as fed-up locals, university students, retailers and parliamentary staff...
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Kerre McIvor: Please don't live in absolute terror of Omicron
Tuesday, 15 February 2022, 12:25pmPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced yesterday the country would be moving to Phase 2 of the Omicron plan. Phase 2 reduces...
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Kerre McIvor: What we can be sure of with Parliament protests
Monday, 14 February 2022, 12:26pmThe protest in front of Parliament continues today despite the storm, despite the sprinklers being turned on, despite music...
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Kerre McIvor: It seems behaving badly gets you a home for life
Friday, 11 February 2022, 1:02pmNick Maling, Kāinga Ora General Manager of Services, told me yesterday that making people and whānau homeless creates a revolving...
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Kerre McIvor: Modellers, hysteria and hyperbole
Wednesday, 9 February 2022, 12:38pmPeople are questioning how and why health modellers were able to influence government policy to such an extraordinary extent....
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Kerre McIvor: Charlotte Bellis is another example of the tragedy of MIQ
Monday, 31 January 2022, 11:45amYet again, the cruel and unnatural Hunger Games-style MIQ lottery has been in the spotlight. This time because a high profile...
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Kerre McIvor: The Ministry of Health are a shambles
Thursday, 27 January 2022, 12:37pmFinally, businesses receive approval to bring RATs into the country and they have been operating very well. Until, the ministry...
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Kerre McIvor: How on earth can you deny Kiwis the right to come home?
Wednesday, 26 January 2022, 12:17pmThe new mask mandates, the increased use of RATs and the continuing saga of MIQ . People who are essential workers in vaccine-mandated...
