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Every Friday, near the end of the political week, Laura Walters, Tim Murphy, Marc Daalder and a range of Newsroom's political reporters will dissect the big issues and put politicians’ performances under the microscope in a lively 20 minute show aiming to take viewers and listeners inside the beltway.
Watch Raw Politics every week on YouTube or listen on your favourite podcast app. And send us your burning political questions to laura.walters@newsroom.co.nz and we’ll endeavour to find the answer and explain the issues.
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Apologising through action, not words
This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Financial woes at Health New Zealand and the Royal Commission report challenges the Government’s gang crackdown
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Sam: Analysis from Derek Cheng at the NZ Herald on how the Royal Commission’s recommendations will clash with the Government’s priorities
Laura: Marc Daalder’s reporting on why the Government’s renewable energy promise has been side-tracked by fast-track work
Marc: Jack Tame’s 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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To cut Orr not to cut
This week on the Raw Politics podcast: The Government drops a new climate plan and inflation falls faster than expected
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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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Greens and Peters defy political gravity
On this week’s 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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Laura: The scoop from The Post on the leaked internal safety bulletin that shows Aratere crew couldn’t 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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The Government's big purge
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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Emma – a piece from Australia's ABC: Disability organisations 'on life support' say budget cuts will force them to wind back services
Tim – Our Newsroom foreign affairs editor Sam Sachdeva’s analysis of just what important defence deals came out of the Luxon visit to Japan
Laura – Emma Hatton and Jonathan Milne’s Newsroom scoop on the Three top civil servants who ‘won’t have contracts renewed’
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The glasses clink in the coalition bunker
In this week’s episode of Newsroom’s weekly politics podcast, we ask who needs evidence for policies, we talk ferries and pull apart the latest polls
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Marc – A telling article from the US on Heatmap about that country’s troubles building one big power line:
Laura – An Associated Press backgrounder on what led to thousands storming Kenya’s Parliament in what started as disputes over new taxes and ended up in a deadly clash
Tim – Geoffrey Palmer’s speech we carried on Newsroom: NZ is an executive paradise, not democratic paradise
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A-listers only for hustler Luxon
In this week’s episode of Newsroom’s weekly politics podcast, we look at the PM’s 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 – A good look in The Guardian at the political weaponising of videos of Joe Biden – and Donald Trump to a degree – looking old and bewildered
Marc – The New York Times article about key editorial figures at the Washington Post’s involvement in British phone-hacking scandals
Laura – Marc Daalder’s article on David Seymour’s Snapchat interactions with school kids
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Raw Politics will be available wherever you get your podcasts every Friday, and you can watch it on YouTube.