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  • Vision for Wellington - tech and innovation panel May 2025

    Vision for Wellington - tech and innovation panel May 2025
    2025/06/05

    A panel discussion hosted by Vision for Wellington on the future of the city and how tech and innovation can help reinvigorate the city's fortunes - featuring Rod Drury, Brooke Roberts, Serge van Dam, and Stephen Cummings.

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  • 2degrees boss Mark Callendar: 'I didn’t set out to be a CEO. That was a bit of a Sliding Doors moment'

    2degrees boss Mark Callendar: 'I didn’t set out to be a CEO. That was a bit of a Sliding Doors moment'
    2025/06/05

    This week, the chief executive of 2degrees, Mark Callendar, shares his best and worst money stories with Liam Dann, including his unusual path to running a major company, and the current state of the telco industry.

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    26 分
  • Experts push back against WorkSafe reforms - as research warns of potential for a Pike River repeat

    Experts push back against WorkSafe reforms - as research warns of potential for a Pike River repeat
    2025/06/05

    A new study suggests that another Pike River mine disaster is likely.

    The Victoria University of Wellington researchers say the failures that lead to the disaster that killed 29 men could happen again at any other organisation.

    One of their "potentially disturbing observations" is that health & safety training, auditors, and well-qualified staff were not enough to prevent failure – and may also have provided an "illusion of certainty" and overconfidence.

    The new research has come amidst a slew of changes to health and safety legislation being pushed through by the Government, which has sparked warnings from advocates.

    One of those is Mike Cosman, an independent health and safety practitioner who sat on the Independent Taskforce on Workplace Health & Safety established after the Pike River disaster.

    And he joins us now on The Front Page to discuss this new study and the proposed changes.

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    You can read more about this and other stories in the New Zealand Herald, online at nzherald.co.nz, or tune in to news bulletins across the NZME network.

    Host: Chelsea Daniels
    Sound Engineer/Producer: Richard Martin
    Producer: Ethan Sills

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    20 分
  • Oliver Hartwich: New Zealand Initiative executive director on the impact of the Trump tariffs

    Oliver Hartwich: New Zealand Initiative executive director on the impact of the Trump tariffs
    2025/06/05

    Business leaders across New Zealand have voiced concerns that Donald Trump's tariffs could have a more severe global impact than the Covid-19 pandemic and the Global Financial Crisis.

    The months since Trump’s 'Liberation Day' announcement have seen sustained market volatility, tit-for-tat trade wars and fears of a resurgence in inflation.

    New Zealand Initiative executive director Oliver Hartwich says experts are right to be concerned - as Trump's tariffs could potentially derail the economy for years to come.

    "The GFC and the pandemic were over after three of four years, whereas the destabilisation of globalisation with the tariffs Trump is imposing - that could derail the economy for decades to come. There's so much uncertainty about it."

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    4 分
  • Jenee Tibshraeny: NZ Herald Wellington business editor on homeowners needing to pay extra to fund the Natural Hazards Commission

    Jenee Tibshraeny: NZ Herald Wellington business editor on homeowners needing to pay extra to fund the Natural Hazards Commission
    2025/06/05

    Homeowners need to brace for another cost increase, this time to help fund the state disaster insurer, the Natural Hazards Commission.

    The minister responsible for the commission, David Seymour, says levies will 'almost certainly' need to rise, with Cabinet set to decide the changes in the coming months.

    NZ Herald Wellington business editor Jenee Tibshraeny explains further.

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  • Leeann Watson: Business Canterbury CEO on signs of recovery in the region, WorkSafe changes

    Leeann Watson: Business Canterbury CEO on signs of recovery in the region, WorkSafe changes
    2025/06/03

    Leeann Watson, CEO of Business Canterbury, joined John MacDonald to give a quarterly update.

    Are we seeing signs of recovery in Canterbury? What would a commuter train mean for the city business scene?

    And will the Government’s new approach to WorkSafe make a difference for local businesses and how they operate?

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    12 分
  • The Huddle: Are the new WorkSafe changes a step too far?

    The Huddle: Are the new WorkSafe changes a step too far?
    2025/06/03

    Tonight on The Huddle, Rob Campbell and Maurice Williamson joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more!

    Will we read Jacinda's new book? What are we expecting? Are we annoyed there's no apology over the Covid response?

    The new WorkSafe changes kicked in - are we glad the Government is dialling back on the health and safety enforcement or do we think this is a step too far?

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    10 分
  • John MacDonald: The dangers of tinkering with Health and Safety

    John MacDonald: The dangers of tinkering with Health and Safety
    2025/06/03
    If there’s anyone who shouldn't be told they can wind things back on the health and safety front, it’s a New Zealander. Because generally, we are absolute shockers when it comes to this sort of thing and our health and safety laws are the only thing standing between our “she’ll be right” attitude and misery and tragedy. Especially when you consider that —even with the health and safety laws we have at the moment— our workplace fatality rate is 60% higher than Australia’s and more than 500% higher than the UK’s. So a perfect time, isn’t it, for us to be getting rid of what the Government says is WorkSafe's “safety-at-all costs mentality”? Just in case you think I’m a health and safety freak, I’m not. But I’m also enough of a realist to know that, without these laws, more people would be going home at the end of the day injured or not going home at all. Another reason why us New Zealanders are the last people to be told we can go a bit easy on the old health and safety is that we have very short memories. I haven’t forgotten the 19th of November 2010, when the first Pike River explosion happened. I remember distinctly getting home from work that afternoon and all of us watching the live coverage. That was what set-in-train a huge overhaul of health and safety laws because, as we eventually discovered, the guy who ran the mine wasn’t the hero we all initially thought he was. Pike River was where it all started. And the government is setting out today to walk all over the progress that we’ve made since then – apparently because we’ve gone too far with it. But even though I’m just as capable as the next person of shaking my head at some of the things businesses and employers are required to do in the name of keeping people safe, I’m not happy about the screws being loosened. But what the Government has in its favour is that most people haven’t experienced the consequences of things going pear-shaped at work. That’s why it’s so easy to dismiss health and safety as an overreaction. But I bet if you have known someone who has lost their life at work or if you know someone who has been seriously injured at work, then you’ll have a much more realistic view of things. The irony is we’ve got the Government on one hand saying today that its crackdown on badly-behaved state housing tenants has worked But, on the other hand, it’s saying that it wants to be less heavy-handed on employers who don’t do everything they can to keep their people safe. Which is why the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety, Brooke van Velden, wants WorkSafe to ditch what she’s calling its “adversarial nature” and to move from managing risk generally to critical risk. But what on earth does that mean? Do you know the difference between “general” risk and “critical” risk? Example: is an extension cord running across the floor somewhere at work a “general risk” or a “critical risk”? The answer to that depends on the consequence. If the consequence of a power cable running across the floor in the office is just a bit of a nuisance and nothing else, then you could probably categorise it as a “general risk”. But if that cable lying across the floor means someone trips on it and they bang their head pretty hard on a wall and get some sort of brain bleed, then that becomes a “critical risk”, doesn’t it? See what I mean? The idea of taking the pedal off the metal and only taking “critical risks” seriously probably sounds great to many of us. But dig a bit deeper or even think about it for a few minutes and you’ll realise that it’s a huge mistake. It’s a bit like Trump coming in and saying that all this Paris climate change stuff is nonsense and suddenly you’ve got people around the world saying, “yeah yeah, enough of this climate change nonsense”. And the reason that’s happening is because people like Trump are giving people permission to go all climate change-sceptic on it. Which is exactly what the Government is doing with its loosening of the health and safety laws. It’s giving people permission to go easy on health and safety, which is the last thing us New Zealanders need when our default position is “she’ll be right”. It is a disaster waiting to happen, all over again. The podcasts in the SME Stream contain general information only, not financial or professional advice. Any opinions expressed in the podcasts are not necessarily shared by BNZ, or its related entities. BNZ is not liable for any losses resulting from the content of the podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    5 分