Three Gals One Beehive

Welcome to 2026 and Election Year! The Gals are back and this week they chat about the summer of politics, the tragic weather events we’ve seen in the  North Island and the dumpster fire that is global politics. Yass Queen to bipartisanship for making progress on modern slavery and Beehave Mate to a game of shag, shoot, marry. Question Time is all about Judith Collins!

In the second of our 'Chris Again' episodes we revist our 2023 interview with the then Labour leader and Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, who is now leader of the opposition. He talks about why he keeps his family out of the public eye, the importance of education and how he found being the front man for a global pandemic.

In 2023 the Gals spoke with the then leader of the opposition Christopher Luxon about what keeps him motivated in politics, pitched his party’s approach to climate change and outed himself as a Swifte.

In a 2025 bonus episode, the gals pick their pollie of the year, Brigitte causes controversy with her pick for 2025 Yass Queen and they all commit to political new year resolutions.  Special feature from Producer Andrew who has secretly collected bloopers from the year.

This week the Gals discuss the terror attack in Sydney, a new merged ministry, the state of the economy and their political Christmas wishes.  Yass Queen to the end of the road cone hotline and Beehave Mate to the Electoral Commission.  Question Time: who do you have your money on next year?

This week the Gals discuss the Resource Management Act replacement, and explosive interview from our former top cop and Richardson vs Willis. Yass Queen to striking a pay deal and Beehave Mate to the closing of our public gallery. Question Time: Will Labour repeal or reform the rates cap?

The gals are back this week and we’re talking about rates caps, pre-election announcements, regional council reforms and resignations.   It's the end of year and everyone is feeling a 'bit tired and a bit ratty' including our politicians.   Yass Queen goes to Matt Doocey for changes to the way we record stillbirths.   Beehave Mate goes to MSD for breaching the privacy of survivors of state abuse i...

This week the gals talk ferries, Bishop’s bridge, new leaders new names, and not so clean cars. Yass Queen to Deborah Russell so we can stop lying to the government and Beehave Mate to those pesky young people.

Brigitte and Esther are back this week diving into the Police scandals, more funding for tackling meth and the next installment of the Te Pati Maori drama. The rewrite of the Arms Act is covered and the two gals dance around the asset sales debate.   Yas Queen goes to the unanimous support for congestion charging    Beehave Mate to the five senior cops who covered up abuse allegations at the highe...

This week the Gals talk about school boards and Te tiriti, a controversial Bill, supermarkets and the measles outbreak. Yass Queen to Parliament’s top animal lover and Beehave Mate also has an animal theme. Question Time: what are the black and white tiles?

This week the Gals talk about Labour’s tax plans, the new curriculum, a couple of Bills of interest, and, of course, more Te Pāti Māori drama!  Yass Queen to Sir Wira Gardiner and Beehave Mate to Kevin Rudd.  Question Time: why do regional councils have Chairs instead of Mayors?

This week Brigitte and Esther talk mega strike politics, Labour's various policies, and the MACA Bill. Incredibly, the two gals find common ground on education policy.  The Yass Queen goes to the emergency coalition of National, Labour and ACT who car pooled their way down to the Capital. Beehive mate goes to those who think it's okay to use violence to get their political points across. 

This week the Gals battle tech issues both in NZ and Bali to chat about local election results, Te Pāti Māori drama, emissions and reading. Yass Queen to Jim Bolger and a great question from a listener about Parliament legislating over judicial decisions. Happy listening!

This week Esther and Brigitte break down a week of data and numbers, analyse broken windows, stay optimistic on a peace deal in the middle east and give a shout out to Paddy Gower.

Welcome back to our Gal Esther! This week the Gals talk about earthquake strengthening changes, energy, letter gate and New Zealand’s stance on Palestine.    Brigitte is very aggrieved at the Electoral Commission, Esther volunteers as campaign manager for Judith Collins and Georgie weeps once more at the lack of bipartisanship in politics. 

This week the Gals chat about the economy, the mood of the boardroom, Palestine, Trump and the United Nations and NZ First invokes the agree to disagree clause.    Yass Queen to our first female Reserve Bank governor and Beehave Mate to some serious flip-flopping.    Question Time: what do you make of the growing online political scene in NZ? 

This week the Gals are joined by special guest Ranjani Ponnuchetty from Local Government New Zealand to talk all about local government and the current election round.    How do you vote? What does local government do? What role does central government politics play in local government? Bed tax and GST sharing?    Ranjani answers all these questions and more. Happy voting!

This week Georgie and Brigitte chat about a rather vulgar description of women, the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election,  superannuation and a Green Party resignation.    Georgie launches a call to action to save art history and Brigitte shows some love to community boards.    Yass Queen to cocktails and Beehave Mate to the former Samoan PM for refusing to concede power. 

This week the Gals chat about China and Ukraine, regional airlines, immigration and a whole lot of health sector bits and bobs.  Yass Queen to the ladies and Beehave Mate to a Kiwi Aussie.  Question Time: can you explain party affiliations in local government politics?

In this episode the Gals chat to Hon Nicola Willis - Minister of Finance, Economic Growth and Social Investment - about budgets and tax, misogyny and pay equity.

This week the Gals ventured out of the recording studio to a Women in Business event hosted by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and Forsyth Barr and talked about Election 2026.

This week, Esther, Georige and blast from the past, former co-host Holly Bennett returns to talk NCEA, people’s select committee, Green ambition, Aussie visitors and what happened at the Marae?  Listener question: comes from a long time fan who's looking to be filled in on the past 7 weeks of political news. 

Halfway through the election term, the Gals take the opportunity to talk to senior politicians about how it is all going.   In this episode we speak to Hon Barbara Edmonds, MP for Mana, former Minister and now Labour Finance Spokesperson about whanau, taxation and budgets.

This week, Esther and Brigitte are talking about dropkicks, more doctors, homelessness and the UK Prime Minister’s ultimatum to Israel. Listener question: was the Finance Minister's meeting with Fonterra just a PR stunt?

Halfway through the election term, the Gals take the opportunity to talk to senior politicians about how it is all going.   In this episode we speak to Hon Kieran McAnulty former minister now opposition MP about his portfolios of housing and infrastructure and what drives him as a rural based MP.