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This week on the Raw Politics podcast: There were two scandals over abuse of kids in state care - one was run from some of the highest offices in the land. Plus, the new NZ First party, polls and Nimbys vs the fast-track
One of the biggest political and government scandals in NZ history - the abuse of thousands of children in state care - will soon be subject to a formal Crown apology.
Raw Politics examines if this generation's politicians and mandarins can make it right.
Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy discuss the enormity of not only the actual abuse but the state's campaign to silence and defeat court actions from victims, as set out in a powerful new series by Aaron Smale on Newsroom.
His series - Crown cover-up? - forensically pieces together the findings of the Royal Commission with the who, what, when, where and why of the establishment, from Prime Ministers and Attorneys-General to police, justice, welfare and Crown Law leaders.
The Raw Politics panel looks at the huge political challenge thrust onto Cabinet minister Erica Stanford to resolve this injustice, the steps forward for the Luxon government, what real justice and truth might seem like for victims and whether anyone could yet be held accountable from the state.
In our second topic, we run our eye over the New Zealand First Party's conference and its policy focus in 2024 as against its foundation planks and populist and nationalist heritage, and ask if you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Our reader question is on whether Nimbys might get in the way of the Government's 149 listed fast-track development projects and should landowners and residents be worried about something large and disruptive landing on their boundaries.
Finally, the panelists recommend something to read, listen to or watch on the weekend ahead:
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This week's recommendations:
Marc: Two articles on misinformation after Hurricane Helene and ahead of the US election
Laura: A piece from Madeleine Chapman of the Spinoff on how the controversial appointments to head the human rights commission werenât recommended by the panel
Tim: No contest this week. Aaron Smaleâs formidable news series on Newsroom this week on the Crown cover-up over abuse in care
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This week on the Raw Politics podcast: We mark one year since the election by rating the parties, MVPs and duds, and weighing their risks and opportunities for the next two years.
Next week marks 12 months since the election that ejected the left from power and ushered in Christopher Luxonâs three-headed coalition of the right.
Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy discuss how the parties of government and opposition have performed, and what their political risks and opportunities might be between now and the 2026 election.
It has been a year of thunderous, cascading political change and the panel marks the high and low points for the government and Labour Party.
We come up with a potential MP to succeed Luxon as PM, nominate most valuable politician, least valuable MP, the figure most likely to break up the coalition and MP most likely to get the boot.
Finally, the panelists recommend something to read, listen to or watch on the weekend ahead:
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This week's recommendations:
Marc: Laura Waltersâ piece on Christopher Luxonâs email font choice â blue comic sans. No, seriously, her fascinating piece on the PMâs redrafted speech for the Koroneihana
Laura: Stuffâs Bridie Wittonâs look at the lack of open and transparent process around the Governmentâs $24m of funding given to Mike Kingâs mental health charity
Tim: The Working Group podcast episode of David Seymour debating Helmut Modlik on Treaty Principles. Special shout out to the person who branded it âIwi vs Peeweeâ
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In this week's episode of Raw Politics: the Prime Minister declares himself wealthy and sorted, Darleen should say goodbye even though she's Green, plus a bad retweet.
Chris Luxon can't win. When he owns seven houses he's a capitalist rack renter. When he sells some of them he's exploiting Government policy changes and saving on tax.
Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy ask if the political risk of the selldown, now, of the Luxon housing portfolio is as bad as the Prime Minister's response to media queries of: "I'm wealthy and I'm sorted".
The panel also discusses if former Green MP Darleen Tana should leave Parliament of her own accord before her ex party is forced to act hypocritically and have her removed as an MP. Either way, the damage to the Greens will be transitory and all but forgotten at the election in two years.
Our reader question asks how Labour MP Damien O'Connor could get away with retweeting an indefensible tweet on Palestinians and Israel. We wonder if the returning Labour leader Chris Hipkins might take another view.
Finally, the panelists recommend something to read, listen to or watch on the weekend ahead:
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This week's recommendations:
Marc: A story from The Press on former E-Can chair Peter Scottâs vehicle caught speeding 678 times this year
Laura: Marc Daalder's Newsroom scoop on the unredacted legal advice regarding the Govtâs oil and gas exploration policy that would breach international trade obligations
Tim: Sam Hayesâ exclusive Stuff/3 News interview with John Key on his preferred winner of the US Presidential race
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This week on Raw Politics: Are we being governed now by a cadre of middle managers? People who won't stay in their lanes but need to be dipping into the detailed operations of government agencies and making the small decisions, well.
Newsroom senior political reporter Marc Daalder, Newsroom national affairs editor Sam Sachdeva and co-editor Tim Murphy discuss the coalition's forked tongue approach to 'operational matters' in government departments and in relation to the boards of state companies.
When the Prime Minister, no less, devotes his post-Cabinet press conference to whether public servants are working from home or gathering at offices, and shareholding ministers in Crown entities are wanting to be consulted on all manner of small value decisions, there's been a change of approach.
Ministers will, with some justification, argue that an interventionist, hands-on management is needed given they can't trust the deep state to change itself adequately, fast enough.
The panel discusses the sensitivities over New Zealand's foreign affairs stance on the latest UN vote on Israel - and whether in a three-party coalition if such vote-by-vote decision-making could, or should, be consulted on among party leaders before being actioned.
Our reader question asks why the leader of a big bank has waded into the political quicksand of advocating a capital gains tax.
Finally, the panelists recommend something to read, listen to or watch on the weekend ahead:
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This week's recommendations:
Marc: Eloise Gibson's story on RNZ on the gas industry claiming it successfully lobbied to kill the Climate Change Commission's recommended ban on new residential gas connections
Sam: Thomas Manch's great story on The Post about NZ officials "war-gaming" the US election outcome
Tim: Jonathan Milne's story on Newsroom simply setting out a growing list of those arguing in favour of a capital gains tax, and two important voices speaking against.
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This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Is the Minister of the Week, Paul Goldsmith, an ideologue? Plus, awkward business closures for the coalition and Chris Hipkins' leadership.
Newsroom senior political reporter Marc Daalder, Newsroom Pro managing editor Jonathan Milne and co-editor Tim Murphy discuss the minister's harder line push this week on laws cracking down on gangs, changing his mind to allow police to search private homes for evidence of patches.
We ask if he is a natural anti-crime hardman or if he's being egged on by the fringe parties in the coalition and is enjoying their approval.
The Waitangi Tribunal report on the Government's planned amendments to the Marine and Coastal Areas (Takutai Moana) Act would have shamed any other minister at any other time, but its criticisms of Goldsmith for his motivation, facts, process, consultation and evidence have been ignored by the Government.
The panel discusses the latest industrial closure, of the Oji mill at Penrose, and how these kinds of events can unfairly, or fairly, lie at the feet of an incumbent government. Could the coalition have done more to save jobs here and in earlier regional closures, and would a Labour government have done anything differently?
Our reader question asks if Chris Hipkins is taking a risk heading to the UK for that country's Labour Party conference when a poll shows his personal rating plummeting for preferred Prime Minister. The panel is unmoved, despite Government MPs delighting in teasing Labour's caucus this week about a coup.
Finally, the panelists recommend something to read, listen to or watch on the weekend ahead.
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This week's recommendations:
Marc: Our own Jonathan Milneâs piece at Newsroom delving into a major fisheries Treaty case brewing in the background
Tim: Audrey Youngâs timely explainer on all the Governmentâs law changes targeted at things MÄori
Jonathan: The Economist reports on a British Medical Journal study on why Australians live so long.
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In this week's episode of Raw Politics, Christopher Luxon must wake up some days with the Sound of Music song of exasperation playing in his head. How does he deal with the problem of ACT leader David Seymour and his will-o-the-wisp coalition contrarianism?
Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy discuss Seymour's carefully calibrated political agitation, externally on the Treaty Principles Bill and internally in the coalition, sticking his ACT Party's view into other minister's portfolios, other parties' business.
Politics doesn't come any bigger globally than Wednesday's presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, and the Raw Politics panel assess the fallout, and the media and social media verdicts on an historic face-off.
Our reader question asks where and why public servants have been made to sign additional Non-Disclosure Agreements under this Government. The panel has fears for growing secrecy in the machinery of state.
Finally, the panelists recommend something to read, listen to or watch on the weekend ahead.
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This week's recommendations:
Laura: Andrea Vanceâs latest piece in The Post on the $410k spend on contractors and consultants at the Ministry for Regulation;
Tim: RNZâs Eloise Gibsonâs report on Climate minister Simon Watts distinguishing between âcoal and coalâ to defend opening up to mining;
Marc: A piece by the second-best writer with the surname Daalder, in The Atlantic on the US election.
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In this week's episode of Raw Politics, we discuss the response of our political leaders to the demands of the week-long tangihanga for Kiingi Tuheitia.
Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy discuss how coalition leaders faced the Kiingitanga movement and wider MÄoridom at a time of acute political sensitivities.
Then, the panel pulls a handbrake turn on Transport Minister Simeon Brown's spin about raising road speeds, cutting out speed bumps and funding future roading promises. Can the economy really be saved by drivers speeding up around town and on the highways?
Our reader question asks if the Wellington Hospital proposal to cut out free toast and Milo for mothers who have just given birth was a serious plan or if it was bureaucrats employing the famous "Washington Monument" tactic to shame politicians.
Finally, the panelists recommend something to read, listen to or watch on the weekend ahead.
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This week's recommendations:
Laura: the deleted Working Group podcast episode, in which Matthew Hooton unleashes on Don Brash and Hobsonâs Pledge
Tim: RNZ digital journalist Russell Palmerâs story revealing that the Govtâs formal communications with Korea before cancelling the Cook Strait ferries deal amounted to two late text messages
Marc: Newsroom political journalist Fox Meyerâs scoop on the origins within NZ First of the fast-track legislation
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This week, Raw Politics looks at the coalition's all-consuming commitment to development, from the fast-track to energy to infrastructure.
Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy examine the breadth and pace of the blizzard of development initiatives that could change what and how the country builds in the short and long term.
Then, the panel tries to understand the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's light heart and light hand when it comes to his ministers breaching the norms of ministerial behaviour and speech. As opposed to his "this is how I roll" dismissal of colleagues for average performance in portfolios. Has he got a form of Stockholm syndrome and now identifies with his partner party captors?
Our reader question asks why NZ First leader Winston Peters is so obsessed lately with the 20th Century MÄori politician Sir Äpirana Ngata. Turns out he is citing Ngata incessantly, alongside other MÄori leaders from back in the days just before Winston was born.
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This week's recommendations:
Laura: Labour Party police spokesperson Ginny Andersen ends up red-faced in this Benedict Collins 1 News report on her refusal to back down from her cherry-picked data on police foot patrols
Tim: Anneke Smith of RNZâs story from the suppressed political figureâs court case in which she reports a victimâs wife complained to the personâs party and leader months before the accused person stepped aside from office
Marc: Lauraâs eagle-eyed spotting of a major last-minute change to the Governmentâs gang laws
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This week, Raw Politics discusses Christopher Luxon the wannabe details man, Chris Hipkins the nowhere man and David Seymour the man with 91 highly paid new staff.
Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy first assess the Prime Minister's repeated instances of misusing, misquoting or misunderstanding numbers, facts and comparisons.
The panel then looks at the Labour Party 10 months on from its electoral hiding. The red side is being careful not to bark at every passing car, but its caution is leaving a void that a coalition that has been fast, and at times loose, is continuing to exploit.
Our reader question asks how many staff will work in David Seymour's new Ministry of Regulation. And the answer is not the 30 or so indicated by the ACT leader.
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This week's recommendations:
Laura: The piece on Christopher Luxonâs bold speech to local government from Newsroom Pro editor Jono Milne: PM goes to war on council waste â and on councils
Tim: The Australianâs daily podcast The Front for its coverage of the gobsmacking defamation case in Perth where the former defence minister is suing her former staffer Brittany Higgins, who was raped in that ministerâs office.
Marc: A scoop from Stuff's Tova O'Brien on Shane Jonesâ attacks on âcommunist judge" during a meeting with the seafood lobby over MÄori rights.
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In this week's episode of Raw Politics, we discuss if ministers crowing about the drop in interest rates deserve all, much or any of the political praise.
Newsroom senior political reporter Marc Daalder, political reporter Emma Hatton and co-editor Tim Murphy weigh the coalition's claims to having started to beat the ravages of a high cost of living.
We also assess this week's two big restructures of government agencies â one responsible for Crown-MÄori relations and the other for services for the disabled community.
Our reader question asks why the Government is dipping back into old fashioned welfare policies again, one of the core staples for the National Party over generations.
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This week's recommendations:
Emma - The Spinoffâs Joel MacManus on the shady conspiracy-aligned group setting itself up to influence the 2025 Wellington local council election.
Tim - A revelation by Andrea Vance on The Post that David Seymourâs new regulation ministry is looking to hire a senior communications person at up to $170,000 a year.
Marc - Jono Milneâs scoop on the new Health NZ commissionerâs waning confidence in his chief executive.
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Another week, another series of hot political issues involving policies affecting MÄori and the Treaty of Waitangi.
This week, Raw Politics looks at why the Government is pushing ahead 'at pace' with such a broad range of measures looking to change the accepted status of the Treaty in laws and in public services.
Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy examine the moves on Section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act, the amendment of the Marine and Coastal Areas (Takutai Moana) Act and everything from use of te reo by a minister to the Act Party bill coming down the line to re-state the Treaty's principles.
We ask whether the reaction of MÄori both at Parliament and around the country will reach the level of resistance to the original Foreshore and Seabed Act in the early 2000s and what motivates the Prime Minister Christopher Luxon in allowing all these changes at once.
Our reader question is on how much more cutting and restructuring can be expected under a new public service edict.
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This week's recommendations:
Tim: Lauraâs Newsroom story on the senior public servants on notice after the Royal Commission into abuse in state care.
Marc: A New York Times story - Inside the petrostate hosting this yearâs global climate negotiations.
Laura: Harris Chooses Walz - The Daily - A guide to the career, politics and sudden stardom of Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota, now US Vice President Kamala Harris' running mate.
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This week, Raw Politics examines what has become a regular point of weakness for the coalition and asks why National, Act and NZ First can't seem to get on top of the health system's political risks.
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Marc: David Williams' Newsroom story disclosing finance minister Nicola Willis overruled advice on a South Island waste-to-energy facility.
Tim: Another in-house one here, for Laura Walters' Newsroom story analysing the wholesale changes at the top of the public service.
Laura: The Guardianâs two-part analysis with in-depth interactive looking at all of the coalition Governmentâs policies that are expected to have a negative impact on MÄori. -
This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Financial woes at Health New Zealand and the Royal Commission report challenges the Governmentâs gang crackdown
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Recommendations:
Sam: Analysis from Derek Cheng at the NZ Herald on how the Royal Commissionâs recommendations will clash with the Governmentâs priorities
Laura: Marc Daalderâs reporting on why the Governmentâs renewable energy promise has been side-tracked by fast-track work
Marc: Jack Tameâs probing interview on Q+A with Climate Change Minister Simon Watts Raw Politics will be available on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your favourite shows every Friday..
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This week on the Raw Politics podcast: The Government drops a new climate plan and inflation falls faster than expected
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Recommendations:
Emma: The exclusive TVNZ interview with Darleen Tana, where she claims she's been silenced and isolated but doesn't give straight answers to big questions
Marc: A scoop from his hated rival, RNZ climate correspondent Eloise Gibson, on the Government's plans to rollback insulation regulations
Jonathan: Looking overseas, an analysis in The Economist on big business fears about Donald Trump's new vice presidential pick
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On this weekâs Raw Politics podcast: Why the Greens' annus horribilis hasn't sunk them in the polls, plus Biden, Peters, Luxon, ageing and diplomacy
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Recommendations:
Laura: The scoop from The Post on the leaked internal safety bulletin that shows Aratere crew couldnât turn off its autopilot (as Winston Peters kinda suggested)
Tim: RNZ political reporter Anneke Smith's scoop obtaining a leaked copy of the report to the Greens into the behaviour of MP Darleen Tana
Marc: Andrew Bevin's story on Newsroom on Auckland's mayor being far from impressed with the city's 'embarrassing and expensive' new ad campaign
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On this week's episode of the Raw Politics podcast: Who might be next as the cleanout of senior public servants and directors gathers momentum.
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Recommendations:
Emma â a piece from Australia's ABC: Disability organisations 'on life support' say budget cuts will force them to wind back services
Tim â Our Newsroom foreign affairs editor Sam Sachdevaâs analysis of just what important defence deals came out of the Luxon visit to Japan
Laura â Emma Hatton and Jonathan Milneâs Newsroom scoop on the Three top civil servants who âwonât have contracts renewedâ
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In this weekâs episode of Newsroomâs weekly politics podcast, we ask who needs evidence for policies, we talk ferries and pull apart the latest polls
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Recommendations:
Marc â A telling article from the US on Heatmap about that countryâs troubles building one big power line:
Laura â An Associated Press backgrounder on what led to thousands storming Kenyaâs Parliament in what started as disputes over new taxes and ended up in a deadly clash
Tim â Geoffrey Palmerâs speech we carried on Newsroom: NZ is an executive paradise, not democratic paradise
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In this weekâs episode of Newsroomâs weekly politics podcast, we look at the PMâs foot-in-mouth over low-level business types, scrutinise Scrutiny Week and work out what species we should pay up to save
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Tim â A good look in The Guardian at the political weaponising of videos of Joe Biden â and Donald Trump to a degree â looking old and bewildered
Marc â The New York Times article about key editorial figures at the Washington Postâs involvement in British phone-hacking scandals
Laura â Marc Daalderâs article on David Seymourâs Snapchat interactions with school kids
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In this weekâs episode of Newsroomâs weekly politics podcast, we look at the chance of a Labour rebound, NZ's climate retreat and problems for Act.
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Recommendations:
Laura â A documentary from the late Stuff Circuit team on Chinese interference in New Zealand
Tim â An American corporate/conservative view on the import of the European elections, by Gerard Baker, ex editor of the Wall St Journal
Marc â Laura Walters' interview with Labour leader Chris Hipkins predicting a 'very good chance' of a return in 2026
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In this weekâs episode of Newsroomâs weekly politics podcast, we look at the allegations against Te PÄti MÄori over the misuse of personal data, and unpick the partyâs political strategy.
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Tim â Professor Chris Jacksonâs commentary for Newsroom on the flaws in the Governmentâs failed promise to fund 13 new cancer drugs from this Budget.
Marc â Bill McKibbenâs latest newsletter on record heat: Intensity.
Laura â David Wallace-Wells' New York Times newsletter on whatâs driving the American â but also global â school attendance crisis
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