Nikki Mandow
The Week in Detail: Tiny homes, mental health awareness, and Afghan refugees
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
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There's something in the water, but there shouldn't be
The cryptosporidium outbreak in Queenstown highlights the challenges of providing a clean water supply. Why is it so difficult to make our drinking water safe? Audio
Business: Chinese tourism revolution, oil company mistrust, remittance costs
Business commentator Nikki Mandow joins Kathryn to talk about the return of the Chinese tourism market and how it might look different. Audio
The Week in Detail: Productivity, political slogans, and Healthy Homes
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Long Read: Procurement without purpose: the problems with broader outcomes
By Nikki Mandow: The government spent $51.5 billion of taxpayer money on buying stuff last year. The criteria for how they spend it have had a shake-up. Audio
Business: What to do with embodied carbon in old buildings
Business commentator Nikki Mandow joins Kathryn to talk about the issue with greenhouse gas emissions from our buildings, be they operational (emissions from running the building) to embodied (what… Audio
The Week in Detail: Climate concerns, funding foibles
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Climate change and our survival instincts
The news is filled with doom and gloom about climate change - is there any reason to be optimistic? Audio
Business commentator Nikki Mandow
Nikki Mandow takes a look at managed retreat and councils' willingness to accelerate planning, the potential of green hydrogen and its role in the America's Cup, plus how embedded carbon works in the… Audio
The neurodiversity gap in our workplaces
Estimates suggest up to 50 percent of neurodiverse people are unemployed. Could unforgiving work environments be keeping skilled people out of the workforce? Audio
Why don't locals get a say when someone wants to build a helipad?
The increasing number of applications for helipads on Aotea Great Barrier Island is causing alarm among locals. But the current rules mean they don't have to be notified or consulted about them. The… Audio
Business commentator Nikki Mandow - protest action
Nikki talks to Kathryn about a few localised protests. There's the Ali Williams and Anna Mowbray Westmere helipad situation, a sand issue at Herne Bay beach, opposition at Pakiri about the… Audio
Ruapehu ski fields' fraught business model
Ruapehu's ski fields are under pressure - but unusually, this time it's not from natural forces. Audio
The future - or demise - of the Marsden Pt oil refinery
Marsden Pt shareholders will vote today on a proposal to shut down New Zealand's only oil refinery, slashing hundreds of jobs. Audio
Getting a hand up to get a foot on the property ladder
Has the government managed to remove stumbling blocks for first home owners with its policy announcements yesterday? Or is the basic problem that houses are just too expensive? Audio
The effort to change our wasteful food habits
We waste $1.16 billion worth of food every year. Nearly 160,000 tonnes.
With more and more people needing help putting meals on tables in the wake of the coronavirus, Two Cents' Worth looks at… Audio
Closed borders: Is the cure worse than the disease?
The closed borders protecting us from Covid-19 is keeping us healthy, but having unexpected consequences for our economy. Audio
Two Cents on "Once in a Generation" Budget
We're bracing for a major, global economic downturn. Will the government's historic 'once in a generation' budget be enough to insulate us from it. Gyles Beckford, Jenee Tibshraney, Bernard Hickey and… Audio
Business offers a helping hand
This week on Two Cents' Worth the team look at how Covid-19 has changed the way we work and live and what business might look like after the lock down is lifted. Audio
Business commentator Nikki Mandow
Nikki talks to Kathryn about AMP selling its life policies to Resolution Life, the impact of the coronavirus on manufacturers and double ute cabs. Nikki Mandow is Newsroom's business editor and also a… Audio