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National's policy aims to school Labour on education decline
National's leader Christopher Luxon ditched Parliament for the playground this week, touring schools to sell his party's solution to declining student performance with a back-to-basics focus on… Audio
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Pupils' parents respond to National's plan for education
National's promised focus on reading, writing and maths has received a thumbs up at an Auckland school gate.
Christopher Luxon's announcement of the party's education policy placed a firm focus on… Audio
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Climate policies burn on the bread and butter bonfire
Audio 19 Mar 2023Chris Hipkins won media plaudits for his political strategy after scrapping or deferring some of Labour's policy in his latest policy bonfire, including ones to reduce emissions. But a poll released… Audio
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Mediawatch for 19 March 2023
Audio 19 Mar 2023Polls and policy bonfire create climate contradiction; a muted media response to March 15; apology; talk radio outbursts spark apology. Audio
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Making a Nash of it: The self-destruct sequence of a police minister
Stuart Nash's rapid resignation from his treasured police portfolio - just two months after getting it back - is one of the clearest examples of a political own-goal.
It's highlighted poor… Audio
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Political pile-on or Parliament as designed?
This week MPs discussed Stuart Nash’s loss of a ministerial warrant for an hour. It may have looked like a political pile-on, but in reality it was Parliament doing exactly what it is designed for –… Audio
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'Fairly busy': National Emergency Management Agency at committee
Response to recent climate disasters was the focus as the National Emergency Management Agency appeared before the Governance and Administration Committee for its annual review. Audio
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National Party pleased with climate policies dropped in government reset
National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis is pleased to see the government's climate policies dropped in its latest spending reprioritisation.
Willis said the policies were not efficient enough, and… Audio
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Hipkins on government spending rethink
The government says it's freeing up more money and more "bandwidth" to help it focus on cost of living pressures, by slashing a bunch of its more unpopular policies.
Speed limit reductions are… Audio
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AA on government slowing down speed limit changes
The Prime Minister Chris Hipkins says the Government is cutting its cloth to suit the times.
To do that it is axing or amending a swathe of policies and programmes - including ditching the… Audio
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Do public service consultancy criticisms stack up?
Consultants and contractors are a favourite punching bag for opposition parties - of all colours - and National is just the latest to land a solid blow, leaving Labour off-balance.
The numbers show… Audio
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Greens concern on govt u-turn on roads after cyclone
The Prime Minister has promised that a change of focus on transport won't compromise action on climate change Thanks to Cyclone Gabrielle, emissions reduction will no longer be the top transport… Audio
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Hawke's Bay relieved about refocus on fixing cyclone-hit roads
The Government has made urgent moves to focus it's transport goals on the areas hit by Cyclone Gabrielle.
In its three-year plan, Labour had wanted to reallocate some of the money normally spent on… Audio
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Green Party wants government to factor climate into transport funding
The Green Party is urging the government to keep climate as a key priority when when it comes to transport funding.
Twenty-four hours ago Transport Minister Michael Wood was talking up putting… Audio
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Prime Minister defends transport funding plans
The Government's hit the brakes on making emissions reductions its top transport priority, saying Cyclone Gabrielle has changed everything..
It was planning to channel some of the money normally… Audio
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New book examines 'crisis of democratic capitalism'
It's never been an easy marriage, the union between democracy and capitalism. But neither can survive without the other and they are in jeopardy says preeminent financial journalist, Martin Wolf. Audio
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Political commentators Hughes & Morten
Gareth and Brigitte join Kathryn to look at National leader Christopher Luxon's state of the nation speech yesterday with its focus on lowering childcare costs, the Prime Minister's apology for his… Audio
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National's three waters plan leaves councils to carry the can
While National's solution to the Three Waters problem may please the councils steadfastly opposed to the government's plan, it remains plagued by a financial fishhook.
But, as journalist Bernard… Audio
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Cyclone makes Robertson's Budget balancing act perilous
Audio 25 Feb 2023While somewhat bound politically by Labour's promise of no new taxes this term, Finance Minister Grant Robertson is keeping all options open in his search for a way to fund the recovery from Cyclone… Audio
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Entrenchment use under the grill in Standing Orders review
The use of entrenchment in law-making in this country has had a sound grilling at the Standing Orders Committee which is conducting its ongoing regular review of Parliament’s rules. Audio
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Cyclone devastation and climate dominate PM's Statement debate
Today the debating chamber launched into action as it does most years - but this year was all about the weather and the climate. Audio
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USA correspondent Ron Elving
Ron talks to Susie about President Joe Biden's visit to Ukraine, the US focus on China's surveillance and Russia's push in Ukraine, and the declining health of US former President Jimmy Carter who is… Audio
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Mediawatch - before and after Gabrielle
Our media were in emergency mode yet again this week, offering hours of extra coverage on air, online and in print. Outlets in the hardest-hit places reported the basics - even without access to… Video, Audio
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‘They call me the mother of punk’
For many women, the demands of family and career mean they're not always able to just make music for the fun of it. Ruth Miller is the brains behind The Unglamourous Project in Leicester, UK with the… Video, Audio
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The Sampler: Young Fathers, Say She She, Kraus
Tony Stamp reviews new albums from Scotland trio Young Fathers, femme-forward Brooklyn band Say She She, and music for float tanks by NZ's Kraus. Audio
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Co-governance debate heats up at Rātana, Waitangi
Audio 10 Feb 2023In this week's Focus on Politics, RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson parses the co-governance rhetoric of the past few weeks. Audio
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Government policy scrapping not just about money saving - Robertson
The Finance Minister says the scrapping of a suite of government policies yesterday is not just about saving money.
The RNZ -TVNZ merger, the social insurance scheme, the hate speech bill and… Audio
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EMA responds to government's policy refocus
Returning now to the government's policy refocus. Several policies have been thrown on the scrap heap - or kicked into the long grass to revisit later. Instead the focus is going into the cost of… Audio
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Chris Hipkins: Auckland floods and "reprioritising" spending
Prime Minister Chris Hipkins talks joins Kathryn Ryan to talk about his first week on the job. Catastrophic flooding in Auckland has made for a challenging start. Also challenging the government is… Audio
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Review: Tár
Tár is Cate Blanchett's Oscar-nominated film about a diva orchestra conductor. Co-starring Mark Strong and Nina Hoss, it marks the return of writer-director Todd Field (In the Bedroom, 2001). Video, Audio