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Ricardo Menéndez March joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk about news today that unemployment has risen again to near nine-year high of 5.3%Zohran Mamdani wins New York mayoral election as Democrats pick up major wins in several key US racesChippy was right in the house yesterday. Rough sleeping ban in central Auckland considered by government=================================Come support the work we'...

Parliament based political correspondent for Waatea, and former National Party MP under John Key, Claudette Hauiti joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk over both what is happening in TPM at the moment and the shocking announcement today that the Government is to remove requirement for school boards to give effect to Te Tiriti o WaitangiThe government's decision to axe schools' obligation to give e...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon joins Mike Hosking live on Newstalk ZB and explains why National's 'Water Done Well' is better than Three Waters even though it's now proven to cost moreLabour leader Chris Hipkins joins Q+A to go through the finer points of the capital gains tax policy, and whether Labour is projected to bring in enough revenue to pay for its promises. Minister for...

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Kieran McAnulty was on Breakfast this morning debating Nicola Willis on the recently announced CGT with Willis claiming it was an attack on everyone and that CGT announced by Labour is not targeted as Labour claimed. Last night on 1News Dr Susannah Smith from Physical Education New Zealand (PENZ), shared her concerns about the new draft curriculum and how she was cited in the document as one of th...

Craig Renney joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk in more detaill about the GCT announced yesterday by the Labour Party. We had Barb Edmonds last night for a very tightly timed interview and tonight we'll take a bit more time to delve into what it is, and what it means for NZ and Labour in 2026.Labour leader Chris Hipkins has had a crack at the Prime Minister's real estate portfolio while making t...

Labour has said if elected at next year's election it would introduce a set 28% capital gains tax on commercial and residential property, excluding key assets such as the family home, farms, KiwiSaver, shares, business assets, inheritances, and personal items. Labour had to rush their release as someone leaked the policy to RNZ. Barb Edmonds joins us LIVE at 9pm to explain the policy and the r...

Emz sits down with Duncan Webb on the day of the "mega-strike" when 110,000 workers across the public sector stepped off to the job, and tens of thousands marched the streets to show the govt they are worth investing in and in desperate need of better working conditions and safer staffing. We also chat about the recent announcement to not run for re-election next year, with questions aro...

There has been a state of emergency declared in Canterbury, with Fire and Emergency NZ saying there was 'little chance' of containing fires in 150kph windsAnne Daniels joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk the megastrike tomorrow including how the state of emergency in Canterbury has impacted the nationwide protestsDavid Seymour and Marama Davidson were on Herald NOW this morning talking the Future...

NZPPTA President Chris Abercrombie joins us tonight LIVE at 9pm to talk about the upcoming strike, the negotiations thus far, Judith Collins open letter and more. TVNZ has been escorted out of the Pentagon moments before a crucial defence meeting between Judith Collins and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth despite being promised access. What the hell is happening with the weather, three fires, a de...

Apologies for the delay in uploading the latest episode, Spotify was part of the AWS outage overnight making it impossible to get you the episode sooner Barb Edmonds joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk about the first Labour Party policy release of the election cycle promising there is an alternative to taxation. Labour leader Chris Hipkins announced his party’s “Future Fund” policy, pitching it as the w...

Chloe met with Zack Polanski on another British podcast to talk about the NZ Green Party, leading a socialist movement in NZ and how the left need to find common ground and stop the infighting in the parties differences and imperfections. Peter Thiel makes an appearance in the latest episode of South Park. Mage and Emz do a quick recap as to who he is, his professional history, his connection to N...

Kieran McAnulty and Chris Bishop appeared in TVNZ Breakfast talking of the passing of Jim Bolger who, as the conversation demonstrated, is about as far away from today's National Party as one could get. McAnulty and Bishop then debated how this CoC is ignoring the latest select committee submissions that went against their position 98% to 2%Health Minister Simeon Brown says senior doctors have...

Gerry Brownlee wants to crack down on MP's attire, attendance and leave after Oriini Kaipara's maiden speech last week. Chris Finlayson, head of the privileges committee adds his thoughts on RNZ.Trump is threatening Hamas if they don't give up their weapons and Israel blocks humanitarian aid for Palestinians because they won't hand over the bodies of hostages buried in the rubble c...

In an explosive late-night email, Te Pāti Māori has accused one of its MPs of "major overspending issues" and her son of abusing Parliamentary security. The unsigned Monday night email - obtained by RNZ and other media - makes a number of claims against MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi and separately her son Eru Kapa-Kingi, a key spokesperson for the Toitū Te Tiriti movement including that Eru Ka...

After weeks of division and controversy, Te Pāti Māori is charting a new course. In an extended interview with Mihingarangi Forbes on Mata, co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer and Rawiri Waititi discuss their plan to change the government, their priority policies, and how they will steady their waka after one of the most turbulent periods in the party’s recent history. The public is going colder on C...

Joseph from Peace Action Otautahi joins us at 9pm to talk about the action they are taking in Christchurch the space industry and conference, the reason they say they're terrible and a recap of the protestThe maiden address of new MP Oriini Kaipara, prompted Speaker of the House Gerry Brownlee to investigate whether an unauthorised haka at the end of the speech, deemed to be in contempt of the...

The Reserve Bank has opted for boldness over caution as it delivered a 50-basis-point cut the official cash rate to 2.5 percent, and signalled further reductions. What does this mean for the economy? Craig Renney joins us LIVE at 9pm to explain everything. Hundreds of teenagers with a health condition or disability could be cut off from the Jobseeker benefit as part of the government's welfare...

It is the two tear anniversary of the Hamas attack on music festival attendees and we're hosting Marilyn Garson from Alternative Jewish Voices to speak to where we are at today. Winston Peters house was vandalised by a 29 year old protestor who then turned himself into the police while the activist and actor who shared Winston Peters' street address online says she regrets the "oversi...

BIG NEWS!!! Chewie's back tonight from his sojourn to the UK...lots of stories to hear including accidently getting caught up in an anti-Trump protestThe Green Party spoke to the media on today, accompanied by the families of Rana Hamida, Youssef Sammour, and teenager Samuel Leason, the three Kiwis detained after Israeli military boarded the Sumud flotilla. Chloe Swarbrick cut through all the...

Today protestors against the Foreign Affairs Minister's decision to not recognise Palestine at the UN, met Winston in Dunedin and on showed up on Winston's front lawn. Plus updates on the Flotilla's progress on its way to Gaza. Judith Collins announced today more defense spending to help arm NZDF and boost our weapons manufacturing export potential, with the intent to increase our over...

SPECIAL GUEST HOST: Tommy Deehttps://www.tiktok.com/@tommy92929 Craig Renney joins us LIVE around 9.30(ish) to talk about the electricity sector and what's happening at the moment and why Treasury is no longer seemingly having lock ups for analysts to release economic data Brie Elliot has had some really interesting interactions with Chris Bishop online with an outcome that we will share with...

Special Guest Host tonight - Paul 'The Other One' BarlowTonight we have co-leader of te pati Māori, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, LIVE at 9pm to wrap up our series of having the left leaders on to talk about this Government's decision to sit on the wrong side of history by not recognising the statehood of PalestinePodcasting FBI Director Kash Patel brought illegal guns into NZ and gave them a...

PSA National Secretary Fleur Fitzsimons joins us LIVE at 9pm to talk about massive strike could hit schools, hospitals, health services - all on the same day...is it a general strike? Is it a case that a rose by any other name? A sobering report from Treasury paints a picture of extreme debt if taxes don’t rise or the pension age isn’t increased. But neither of those policies are election-winners,...

SPECIAL GUEST HOST: Ash Rebornhttps://www.tiktok.com/@ashrebornnz Winston Peters spoke at the UN over the weekend saying that NZ's position right now is not to recognise Palestine statehood. Since then there has been a split in the country with one side being embarrassed that NZ is now running from the right side of history, and the other side being proud and supportive of the decision made. T...