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Political commentators Gareth Hughes and Ben Thomas talk about the Prime Minister's trip to China which was shaping up as a success until it was overshadowed by what was happening with Minister Kiri… Audio

Listen to our weekly political panel.

This week we're joined by RNZ's deputy political editor, Craig McCulloch, and Stuff political reporter, Thomas Manch. Audio

Chris Hipkins has arrived in Beijing ahead of a number of high level political meetings, fraught with diplomatic challenges.

It's been four years since the last visit from a New Zealand Prime… Audio

Political Commentators Lamia Imam and Liam Hehir join Kathryn to talk about the National Party's weekend conference and its pledge to introduce harsher sentences as part of its law and order policy… Audio

MPs have spent much of the week debating the merits - or otherwise - of an algorithm that takes into account ethnicity to help prioritise patients waiting for elective surgeries.  Audio

Michael Wood's future in politics remains in question - as the disgraced former Minister goes to ground - refusing to speak to media. The Labour MP resigned his remaining ministerial portfolios… Audio

Multiple investigations have been launched into allegations of sexual misconduct towards children in Oranga Tamariki residences. Two staff have been removed, and the former Police Commissioner Mike… Audio

Using ethnicity as a criteria for bumping people up the surgery list has exploded into a political debate with accusations of discrimination and race baiting.

A tool called the Equity Adjustor Score… Audio

Neale and Tim join Kathryn to discuss the campaign for the rural vote, particularly between National and Act. National has put off pricing farming emissions until 2030 and there's been two failed… Audio

Pacific journos urged not to be swayed by geopolitical narratives. Audio

In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Anna Thomas about RNZ's 'pro-Russia edits' saga now extending stories about other countries - and a newspaper's feature story that fell short… Audio

The Labour party hardly mentions farming, and National talks relentlessly about tax, spending and crisis.

Those are some of the key findings of an RNZ data analysis of nine months of media interviews… Audio

It's been a hectic week in the world of politics, and it's now time for our weekly political panel. RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson and Stuff's political editor Luke Malpass joined Corin Dann… Audio

UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to discuss Prince Harry becoming the first royal in more than 130 years to give evidence in court this week. He's there over claims of phone hacking by the… Audio

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has met with his Fijian counterpart, Sitiveni Rabuka, and announced more than $11.1 million in climate change support for the country.

Climate change, Mr Hipkins says, is… Audio

As the election nears, Question Time transforms into a forum for party political messaging. It’s not the ideal format for messaging and it doesn’t always go well.  Audio

Political commentators Gareth Hughes and Ben Thomas join Susie to discuss the recommendations for an electoral system shakeup that would lower the voting age to 16 and extend the parliamentary term to… Audio

The PR industry thinks political parties should have to disclose their use of artificial intelligence in campaign advertising. But advertisers are not so sure.

The political parties themselves have… Audio

Political commentators Gareth Hughes and Tim Hurdle join Kathryn to talk about the latest poll which has the Greens taking a major hit and National and Act able to govern alone.  Audio

The OCR hike and latest poll as the election approaches are major talking points this week.

Questions remain for National's tax plan and use of AI marketing images, and Labour's conference kicks off… Audio