In this week’s episode of Newsroom’s weekly politics podcast, the Press Gallery office patches in the Christchurch studio to discuss a big law and order announcement and Shane Jones’ undeclared dinner. --------------------- Read more: Jones’ undeclared dinner had two more mining industry attendees https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/15/jones-undeclared-dinner-had-two-more-mining-industry- attendees/ Mega-prison’s missing business case https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/14/mega-prisons-missing-business-ca...
May 16, 2024•25 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Exhausted by the general election campaign, horrified by the twilight zone of coalition negotiations, distracted by the silly season and waiting for the honeymoon to begin, Raw Politics has been in hibernation since October. From today, we’re back. Our weekly political video show and podcast returns for a second season, and in a week with ups and downs for almost all the parties in Parliament. With our anchor, our rock, Jo Moir having graduated to a higher class of audio banter at RNZ, Raw Polit...
May 10, 2024•33 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: How good a PM might Christopher Luxon be, why Chris Hipkins shouldn't think of quitting, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori the big winners, and silence from Winston. Raw Politics signs off for 2023 with our panel's take on the government that might emerge from an election that had something for everyone, other than the Labour Party. Some raw takes: National's victory is a remarkable turnaround but hardly an epic triumph, the Greens' three seats will be a longer-...
Oct 20, 2023•28 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: The final polls and what to expect on Saturday evening, plus how long it might take for a new government, and our nominations for best and worst political plays, and individual performers. It's almost time for a curtain call. The Raw Politics season nears its end, with the penultimate episode trying to make sense of the latest polls and how that will affect the timing and formation of the next government. Our podcast panel asks whether Chris Hipkins is real...
Oct 12, 2023•27 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: We ask if Covid and isolation has sucked the life out of Labour and Chris Hipkins' campaign, we wonder if fringe parties might do a deal to send their voters to NZ First and ask what's been eating National campaign chair Chris Bishop. Every week, Newsroom editors and political journalists talk through the big issues and scrutinise politicians’ performances in a lively 25-minute show aiming to take viewers and listeners inside the actions and motivations of ...
Oct 05, 2023•30 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: We look at what common wins might await New Zealand First and Act if National needs them both post-election; Plus How good are the Greens in the polls, and do overseas votes count for much? Much of the focus of the political week has been on the three parties of the centre-right bloc, given National's Christopher Luxon accepting he might have to negotiate post-election with New Zealand First. Two and a half weeks out from an election, the governing party wa...
Sep 28, 2023•30 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: We ask why Labour leader Chris Hipkins has failed to fire, as his party would have hoped, in this campaign so far. Plus: this week's debate, the latest polls and how relatively good economic news changes things in the run-up to election day. Every week, Newsroom editors and political journalists talk through the big issues and scrutinise politicians’ performances in a lively 25-minute show aiming to take viewers and listeners inside the actions and motivati...
Sep 21, 2023•30 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Who to believe over the state of the nation's books, and why the public might not even care; Plus What's eating the Act Party as its historic highs in the polls fade at a critical time? Both major political parties used the opening of the books this week to claim that their theories on the state of our economy and their solutions deserve your vote. Things are either hopeful or dire, depending on the colour of your election rosette. Our panel debates whether...
Sep 14, 2023•29 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Lame attack ads, how the infiltration the Labour campaign launch backfired, who's got all the money and how are they spending it - and why did Christopher Luxon discard his ceremonial Pasifika necklace? One week down in the election campaign proper, and the Raw Politics panel looks at who's got off to the best start. The two main parties got diverted almost from the outset by so-called 'attack' ads and whether things are turning too personal already, but th...
Sep 07, 2023•26 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Tax, fiscal holes, and disinformation. Plus: With just 43 days until the election, how is the campaign shaping up? Raw Politics ponders how National’s $14.6 billion tax plan landed both politically and in real terms for those who will benefit from the proposed tax relief. Then we cast forward to the campaign launches this weekend in Auckland where Labour and National will lay out their visions for the country if in government after October 14. Newsroom Pro ...
Aug 31, 2023•26 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: The latest 1News poll confirms Labour really is the underdog now. Plus: Will National's 'diverse' party list lead to a diverse caucus after the election? Raw Politics tries to make sense of a wild political week in which a senior National MP threw in the towel with some glancing blows and faint praise, one of his colleagues was found guilty of being "objectively threatening" at Parliament, and the Prime Minister finally embraced the position of underdog. Na...
Aug 24, 2023•26 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: What's wrong with Labour governing by focus group, if its GST and parental leave policies help it win back support? And National is about to release its party list for the election with little room to diversify its team. Raw Politics pulls back the curtains on Labour's blitz of populist policy announcements - to discover that while they're 'in it for you', they're also in it to win. If that means running on things they think are popular, they'll be no brain...
Aug 17, 2023•29 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Why is it so hard to believe any party when they promise tens of billions of spending in NZ over many decades? And, we ask if it really matters to get to 100 percent renewable energy in this country. Raw Politics takes on two big, bold but unlikely spending goals outlined by the Government this week - the multi-billion dollar plan for cross-harbour tunnels in Auckland and the billions to be spent on wind and solar energy to meet an 'aspirational' climate ta...
Aug 10, 2023•24 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: National rolls out its tried, trusted – and a bit exaggerated – spend-up on roads, Labour promises to patch things up, and the polls reflect a new reality with NZ First. Raw Politics drives over National's future roads of national significance and analyses why the party keeps going back to that policy well, election after election. There must be polling data beyond the urban areas of public transport that promises electoral gain for the party, and our provi...
Aug 03, 2023•29 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: What are the longer-term ramifications for Labour of minister Kiri Allan's arrest and resignation? Plus a big reversal on climate policy, and how to handle opinionated public board members. Raw Politics examines how the Kiri Allan saga leaves Labour this close to the election. Newsroom co-editor Tim Murphy suggests it might be a point where a shapeless campaign for Labour has to urgently take shape, with the caucus and party unified in the face of being wri...
Jul 27, 2023•26 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Raw Politics examines how our political leaders responded to the highly public tragedy in central Auckland and how long they will be able to refrain from arguing about blame and recriminations. The Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition and party leaders in the House concentrated, correctly, on condolences to those who had lost family in the double killing and shooting of seven others. They explicitly put political arguments over law and order aside for another day. Act's David Seymour couldn'...
Jul 20, 2023•35 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Two polls show different fortunes for the major parties but still a tight election, and Labour steps away from the ledge on a wealth and capital gains tax. Raw Politics is out a day early for the long Matariki weekend, with in-depth discussion on the latest polling and the impacts on Labour of its half-hearted dalliance with a wealth and capital gains tax. What were they thinking to examine the possible new taxes only to have to reveal that they had been in...
Jul 12, 2023•26 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Can the Greens save Labour and the left bloc between now and the election, and Mr Hipkins goes to Brussels. On the eve of the Green Party's annual meeting, the Raw Politics team looks at its leader James Shaw, its policies so far and what it might do to bolster the left bloc's chances of retaining power. This time a year ago Shaw faced an effective vote of no confidence, but political editor Jo Moir says he's learned and changed to meet the needs of the Gre...
Jul 06, 2023•25 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Another week, another two ministerial issues for Chris Hipkins, plus: is Labour's funding for universities too little, too late, and are there votes in National's criminal sentencing plans? Political editor Jo Moir is in China and national affairs editor Sam Sachdeva is in Europe, so this week Tim Murphy is joined by senior political writer Marc Daalder and The Detail podcast senior producer Sarah Robson. The Raw Politics team examines Kiri Allan's latest h...
Jun 29, 2023•32 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Are the wheels falling off the Labour light rail car, is the government's battery running low or is a fatalism at work leading to the run of ministerial errors and embarrassments. The Raw Politics team tries to fathom the strange cases of Michael Wood, Stuart Nash and their errant colleagues who have inexplicably started to drag down their new leader and government. Political editor Jo Moir believes things have gotten ridiculous and weird, with indications ...
Jun 22, 2023•26 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Has National and the country given up on farm emissions? When does Labour throw a punch? And more from the whiny, wet, negative land called NZ. The Raw Politics team is joined by Newsroom senior political writer Marc Daalder this week, just in time to discuss National's big call to delay making farmers pay for agricultural emissions and to weigh up whether NZ is a whiny, negative country. Daalder replaces political editor Jo Moir who is on well-deserved, pr...
Jun 15, 2023•28 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Whatever did Chris Hipkins do to deserve the absent-minded, busy, superior minister Michael Wood, and which electoral reforms deserve to be adopted. The Raw Politics team shakes its collective head at Transport Minister Michael Wood and wonders what he could possibly have been thinking to land his leader in a political bushfire so close to an election. Wood's failure to follow agreed MP and ministerial requirements to declare his personal assets was an affa...
Jun 08, 2023•28 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: National struggles to deal with race relations and Labour and National fall out over housing density - plus the risk of a caucus breakdown for ACT. The Raw Politics team takes a look at how National's leader and MPs are dealing with questions at public meetings that have a race relations element to them and whether it's a problem for other parties too. We also discuss the housing density rules that Labour and National signed an accord on in a rare moment of...
Jun 01, 2023•26 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: The leaders front up - Chris Hipkins to his party's annual congress for the first time, and Christopher Luxon to a nationwide 'back on track' roadshow; Plus the risks of AI in political advertising. The Raw Politics team marks a couple of election year milestones: the governing party's annual meeting and the start of the National Party leader's national speaking tour. We examine what both want to achieve - Hipkins to reveal more about himself, his vision an...
May 25, 2023•26 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Labour rebrands as 'The Chris Hipkins Government', Christopher Luxon faces a tired old rumour mill - and a Budget that makes small points well. Every Friday, Jo Moir, Sam Sachdeva and Tim Murphy talk through the big issues and scrutinise politicians’ performances in a lively 25-minute show aiming to take viewers and listeners inside the actions and motivations of our elected leaders. Moir is Newsroom’s political editor, having been in the gallery for eight years also with Stuff and RNZ, Sachdeva...
May 19, 2023•29 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Grant Robertson's eye-of-a-needle Budget narrow political options, plus Act's disciplined caucus amid chaos. The politics is raw and so is the pre-Budget analysis this week - as we take a Budget-adjacent look at what lies in store for the country and the parties next week.The Finance Minister Grant Robertson is already signalling a uniquely difficult setting for next Thursday's big reveal. "It is hard to imagine a period in our post-War history when the wel...
May 11, 2023•25 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: How the defection of a minister changes political equations for the election and coalition building, the endless nothingness of the republican debate and a futile Act in Tamaki. Meka Whaitiri's waka jumping from Labour to Te Pāti Māori was a political play in two acts. Act 1 was her dramatic and emotional announcement at her home marae, signalling in great harmony, musically and politically, that something seismic could be happening in Māori and post-electi...
May 04, 2023•25 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Raw Politics podcast: What's eating the Greens, in what should be a big year for them? And Jo Moir tells us how Chris Hipkins came across as our chief statesman on his Aussie trip. The Green Party was supposed to be releasing its final party list on Friday, but it's riven with caucus dissension and gossipy emissions to media. Raw Politics this week hears what's going wrong and how the dirty laundry is awkwardly making the Green Party look a little like the divided National caucu...
Apr 27, 2023•25 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast On this week's Raw Politics video and podcast: Why the flurry of activity by the Government on school achievement and education reforms? And how does National ever get control over its scandal-prone candidate list? All of a sudden, Labour is changing its policies on schools and student achievement. The Raw Politics panel analyses its two announcements to recruit more teachers for Years 4 to 8, and marginally cut class sizes, and to delay by a year the planned NCEA testing regime for subjects oth...
Apr 20, 2023•26 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast It's six months exactly until New Zealanders go to the polls. We've heard a lot this year about Chris Hipkins' Labour Party, with National largely shaded. But how prepared, in policy and capability, is Christopher Luxon's team to possibly take power after October 14? The panel also weighs whether renaming and renumbering the entities in the water reform programme will help the Government shift the antipathy it has faced over so-called pinching of public assets and co-governance. And with a visit...
Apr 13, 2023•27 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast 
