Dave Letele

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6,503 appearances 23 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

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Unfiltered with Dave Letele · #62 Rob Campbell: From Union Leader to the Top of New Zealand Business · 15 Aug 2026 podcast

Yeah, born voice-verified

in born in Featherston, but most of my uh childhood was in Upper Hut.

uh uh Tawa Kirangi kyutu it's called now but uh uh it was called Abahat very much then.

My family's very much an Abbahat family.

I went to school down in in Loehut, uh, because the school there had a better first fifteen than

The one and have a hat does at the time.

Uh and uh then went to university at uh at Wellington.

Uh and uh I guess got

uh radicalized, if you like, uh by the environment in the late nineteen sixties, early nineteen seventies, which was uh

uh you know, the the environment to be in at the time was was a radical one for young students and uh that had a big impact on me.

Yeah.

Yeah, 'cause you you actually um studied to be you were an economist. voice-verified

Yeah, yeah.

Uh I was going when when I went I thought I was gonna be a lawyer, but uh that didn't last beyond the first year.

And then I studied mostly economics, economic history and political science, but uh and joined the when I graduated, uh joined the staff teaching actually economic history but in the economics department.

Yeah.

And what was the environment?

Back then, bro?

Well it was very different.

You know, I mean I uh there were no fees, students didn't pay any fees.

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