Crux - The Podcast

All the latest news, community commentary and business profiles from Queenstown, Wānaka and Cromwell - in the South Island of New Zealand - from the Crux team.

Crux - The Podcast is a news podcast hosted by Crux, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Tamah Alley - Cromwell's new mayor.

  Nov 17, 202437 minS0

  <p>Central Otago has a new mayor, and it is Vincent Ward councillor and community board chair Tamah Alley.</p><p>Mayor Alley took over from three-term mayor Tim Cadogan, who vacated the role in favour of a new job with national water regulator Taumata Arowai in Wellington.</p><p>The former police constable, mother of three, and Alexandra local was appointed mayor by fellow district councillors at a full meeting of the council in Alexandra on October 30th.</p><p>In her first long form interview she discusses age, gender and democracy and how she craves a strongly contested...

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  Episode 38. Dunedin's Jim O'Malley

  Oct 24, 202430 minS0

  <p>In a wide ranging Crux podcast Dunedin City councillor Jim O'Malley has identified "self confidence" as the missing ingredient for Dunedin to achieve its full potential. Councillor O'Malley also tells Crux that if Queenstown "really wants to destroy those valleys - keep going".</p><p>Councillor O'Malley is the influential chair of the DCC's infrastructure committee with a strong background in academia and the international pharmaceutical industry. He told Crux that his former employer, Pfizer, at one stage cut staff from 300,000 people to 100,000 people. "Two thirds of the staff got laid off."</p><p>"Large pharmaceutical companies are not...

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  Episode 37. Tanya Surrey (Queenstown Writers Festival) - full interview

  Oct 17, 202434 minS0

  <p>It's been hard to ignore. The 2024 Queenstown Writers Festival is bigger than ever and starts soon - October 31 to November 3.</p><p>This week we are in conversation with festival chair Tanya Surrey.</p><p>She's a lawyer and our interview reveals an undeniable bias towards the crime genre, but there's also a dazzling cornucopia of other writing - fiction, non-fiction, children's books, history - you name it and it's part of the 2024 Queenstown Writers Festival.</p><p>Ms Surrey not only describes some of her personal favourites but takes us on a walk through the rest of the...

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  Episode 36. Tanya Surrey (Queenstown Writers Festival) and top stories

  Oct 17, 202427 minS0

  <p>It's been hard to ignore. The 2024 Queenstown Writers Festival is bigger than ever and starts soon - October 31 to November 3.</p><p>This week we are in conversation with festival chair Tanya Surrey.</p><p>She's a lawyer and our interview reveals an undeniable bias towards the crime genre, but there's also a dazzling cornucopia of other writing - fiction, non-fiction, children's books, history - you name it and it's part of the 2024 Queenstown Writers Festival.</p><p>Ms Surrey not only describes some of her personal favourites but takes us on a walk through the rest of the...

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  Crux Dunedin. Mayor Jules Radich

  Oct 12, 202441 minS0

  <p>Speaking to Crux on the day of our Dunedin launch Mayor Jules Radich has confessed his disappointment over the council's decision not to sell Aurora and also shared his frustration with the Queenstown Lakes District and Central Otago Otago District mayors for not throwing their full weight behind the Dunedin hospital campaign.</p><p>Mayor Radich says eight out of ten regional mayors have fully supported the campaign for a new Dunedin hospital but Queenstown's Glyn Lewers and CODC's Tim Cadogan were instead "looking to see what they can get for their own district."</p><p>"A new Dunedin...

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