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    Lobbying, Donations, and Democracy w/ the Green Party's Ricardo Menéndez March: 30th September, 2026

    Though out this National led governments term, allegations of corruption have dogged the party. The gutting of tobacco controls by MP's who had previously been paid by tobacco companies, improper access by big corporates getting sued by local activists and the law changes put in place to protect the big guys, and just last week Nicky Hager's latest book, Dirty Work, was released, shocking the nation with the lurid stories of a-moral right wing political operatives and their networks of power. That same week the Green party announced their policies to “clean up politics”. Aotearoa New Zealand has some of the laxest lobbying rules in the world, with few checks or balances on the access and influence the private world can have on our leaders. The Greens seek to amend this by making a public register for all lobbyists, on whos behalf they are working as well as restricting donations to political parties to individuals, banning corporate entities from directly contributing to a political parties campaign. At the same time, Labour has ruled out a Green Party Finance minister if they are to form government after the election, but on the current polls the Green Party would be taking their largest ever portion of seats and making up a huge fraction of whatever Government Labour wishes to form. So for this week's catch up with Green Party MP Ricardo Menéndez March, we discuss on the Greens' call to clean up politics, Labour ruling things out before the election and the state of MMP.

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