7 Dec 2020

Political commentators Jones & Sherson

From Nine To Noon, 11:07 am on 7 December 2020
Māori Party MPs Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer speak to media after leaving the debate chamber in protest.

Photo: RNZ / Jane Patterson

Neale and Trish look at the Government's expression of concern about China's promotion of a doctored image of an Australian soldier holding a knife to an Afghan child's throat. The statement has prompted China's Foreign Ministry to query what the incident had to do with New Zealand. Also the Maori Party leaders' speeches, and the Prime Minister's declaration of a climate change emergency and committing to going carbon neutral by 2025, 

Neale Jones was Chief of Staff to Labour Leader Jacinda Ardern, and prior to that was Chief of Staff to Andrew Little. He is the director of Capital Government Relations.

Trish Sherson is from corporate affairs firm Sherson Willis, and a former ACT press secretary.