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Taupō man Graham Philip charged with sabotage believed to be first in New Zealand history When talking about the UN report that stated China may have committed crimes against humanity against the Uyghur people, Gerry Brownlee responded by saying China was trying to fight terrorism, a statement one Uyghur Muslim said Brownlee is "on the wrong side of history"   David Shanks was the Chief Censo...

After 10 days of waiting NZ finally hears that the National party has ruled out working with Brian Tamaki should his party get in after the next election. Politics is a game of optics and, much like the Sharma drama helped National get the public to forget about Uffindel, the Tamaki debacle will draw the media away from Labour's embarrassing u-turn on the Kiwisave tax lunacy   In a brilliant...

Nicola Willis looked powerful in the house today as National scored a massive and embarrassing win over Labour as the Government needed to quickly back down from their plans to tax Kiwisaver.    Kelvyn Alp and Hannah Spierer we in court today charged with various crimes around a banned documentary and what the pair allegedly did when it came to distributing the content. Sina Brown-Davis...

The National Party was very unhappy with the roll out of the Cost of Living payments showing Umbridge that a very small number of people who weren't eligible for the payments still received them. Labour has made some changes and put in place some more hurdles to attempt to make sure only those eligible receive the payment...but National is still not impressed. We'll take a look why We are now seei...

Christopher Luxon held a press conference over the weekend calling for tougher penalties for young offenders, parents to be more accountable for the actions of their children and blaming Labour for all these ills. In other words 'business as usual' for a National Party in opposition Jacinda Ardern was bailed up by the AM show and asked about new regulations around employers getting accreditation a...

Candidate Statement My principal place of residence is in the Dunedin City Council area. I am also standing for Mayor. Richard is the Councillor that Dunedin needs. A long-time admirer of Dunedin and resident here for the last 12 years; Richard will provide strong advocacy on Council in making Dunedin better with an emphasis on urban development, preservation of our wonderful heritage and the impr...

Candidate Statement My principal place of residence is in the Dunedin City Council area. I am also standing for Councillor. I am passionate about our city and having served a term on council I am concerned about the direction Dunedin is going and this is why I am running for Mayor. The next three years will see us enter a time of opportunity and recovery. Businesses have suffered from Covid restri...

The COVID numbers are looking amazing at the moment so where are we a and what are the people at the coal face seeing right now. We catch up with Auckland University's Dr Anna Brooks to find out what the current situation is Why are Conspiracy theorists are always wrong? We'll have a look at some examples from the last few broadcasts we've done and show you how easy it is to debunk them Some membe...

There are reports out tonight that Kelvyn Alps and his partner Hannah Spierer have been arrested over alleged offences under the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993. This is yet to be confirmed but there are some pretty reliable and some not so reliable...sources pointed to it being the case

Tonight we're going to look at Quiet Quitting, what it is, is it positive or negative and then we're going to look into some commentary around millennials in the workplace and show you some footage that, especially if you are a parent, could be the most valuable thing you see all year. Gaurav Sharma shut down is now out of the Labour caucus and used some of what will be rare time to speak in parli...

Brian Tamaki's political party should be welcomed with open arms by the left as it is sure to take some votes away from either National, Act or the Conservatives but will not gather enough support to make it into Parliament. In an election that may end up having razor think margins, a percent here and there might just make all the difference to a third term left wing Government We are also wonderi...

Brian Tamaki is in Wellington for a protest that he seems a little incapable of defining. To Newshub today he said it was "place of catharsis where people can just empty out and say, you know, what's happened to them and at least have a place where they can be heard" where as many people attending the protest are very clear what they want They want the Government to be tried for "crimes against hu...

Last weekend Stuff Circuit released a special project that explores who's driving a violent, misinformed New Zealand - and why. In the 'Fire and Fury' press release Stuff claims they "began with a day of violence but ended up somewhere much more frightening." Since Fire and Fury was released more news this week has been released about how some of those groups featured in the documentary have made...

Gaurav Sharma speaks to Newshub claiming that Jacinda Ardern has lied to the country and that his suspension was pre-determined and the Caucus meeting on Tuesday was a 'kangaroo court' Lloyd Burr from Toda FM is worried that the best of the best are not wanting to be part of local body politics and what that leave us with is just all the 'Munters' A Northland mum wants sex ed practices in the clas...

The National Party is still being questioned about their selection process, being challenged about the lack of diversity in their MPs and while Christopher Luxon claims to love diversity, the representation of his MPs would disagree with that David Farrier was leaked the Arise Church report and chose to release it to the public under concerns that it would be buried in Employment Relationship Auth...

The Greens are supporting the Human Rights Commission's call for rent freezes. Julie Anne Genter joins us tonight live to talk about what this means and why we need it Trolls are losing their minds on Twitter today because Whittakers have decided to do a limited run of chocolate using the Maori called Miraka Kirīmi (Creamy Milk) produced to celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week, 12...

From the Disinformation Project Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa joins us to talk about the Stuff Circuit documentary #FireandFury and how local body elections are open for disinformation agents to make their way into the 'local' halls of power in an orchestrated move

Labour is in the 'bullying' firing line today with accusations from Dr Gaurav Sharma calling out Labour for a culture of bullying, however it seems that people in Dr Sharma's office are calling him out for bullying. Is this a classic case of projection by Dr Sharma or an example of systemic bullying in parliament building Beto O'Rourke is challenging Greg Abbott for the Governorship of Texas. Some...

Matthew Hooton and Shane Te Pou on Breakfast this morning covered off some really interesting points about the Uffindell debacle and questions around Chris Luxon's leadership After years...YEARS...of telling his supporters that it's damn near criminal to plead the fifth, Donald Trump has an opportunity to speak about his businesses and answers questions in a deposition in the NY AGs office and he....

Fall out from the FBI raid of Donald Trump's Mar ra Lago home continued today with many GOP politicians and commentators calling the action "Gestapo' like and 'un-American'...lets investigate those claims We also find out today allegations of National MP Sam Uffindell continued to be a disgusting, self entitled, privileged dirt bag well beyond his previous mark of getting his life together at 16 w...

24 hours after we voiced a whole lot of anger towards Sam Uffindell about his assault of a 13 year old when he was at Kings the rest of the media has followed along...albeit some of them wasting opportunities at asking decent questions and making pretty piss poor attempts to hold Uffindell to account. We'll wrap up the last 24 hours tonight and bring you all the latest information across many medi...

The National Party is being accused of going back to their tried and true beneficiary bashing over the weekend, is this a fair criticism of not? We talk to Cult of Personality researcher Anne-Mette Holmgård Sundahl about Jacinda Ardern and the line between popularity and cult like status Sam Uffindell is disgusting piece of shit...more to come FARC off Brian organiser Mark Graham joins us to talk...

A full hour with mis and disinformation researcher Byron C Clark tonight as we chat about the Alt-Right, Byron's peer reviewed article on 'The NZ media and the occupation of Parliament', the Alex Jones case in the US and more.

National caught in a whoopsie as they pull back for the second time this week, earlier it was about funding for the Ministry of Health and now it's about their promised tax cuts, the tax cut calculator is gone from their website and they appear to be making more cautious comments about what they will end up promising Can you use copyright laws to protect against cultural appropriation? Professor o...

Professor Michael Baker joins us to talk about the numbers of reported COVID cases per day versus the reality, the vaccine roll out, the current high rate of deaths from COVID and where to from here Professor Robert Patman chats about the relationship NZ has with China and Taiwan, why a loss for Russian in Ukraine would be a black eye for China and why Nancy Pelosi has gone to Taiwan We have a loo...