Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe giant hole election
Join Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire in a deep dive into the holes of the emerging campaign. Is it time for a costings unit to stop…
2 years, 7 months ago
Bonus episode: Kiri Allan resigns
New Zealand woke to news this morning that cabinet minister Kiri Allan had resigned and will face charges for careless driving and resisting arrest a…
2 years, 7 months ago
Hipkins scratches the switch
Chris Hipkins has dashed the hopes of some of his most senior colleagues and Labour progressives by burying the prospect of a wealth tax or new capit…
2 years, 7 months ago
One hundred days to go. Or is it?
Kiri Allan is under pressure over her relationships with staff – what exactly is she accused of and does it add up to a serious controversy? Toby Man…
2 years, 7 months ago
Bonus episode: Direct from the Great Hall of the People
The Spinoff editor Madeleine Chapman has just returned on the NZDF workhorse from covering Chris Hipkins' big week in China. She sits down with Toby …
2 years, 8 months ago
Bonus episode: Chris Hipkins and the China Challenge
As PM Hipkins leads a big delegation for a big week in China, Toby Manhire is joined by Newsroom's national affairs editor Sam Sachdeva (author of Th…
2 years, 8 months ago
Wet, Whiny and Gangward-looking
Nothing says election year quite like writ day, rosettes and pledges to crack down on gangs. Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire look a…
2 years, 8 months ago
Bonus episode: Electoral review chair on the recs and the wreckers
The review of electoral laws calls for wide-ranging changes, across the voting age, thresholds and donations. It also prompted derision from the like…
2 years, 8 months ago
Wood's stock: a very sloppy festival
Teenager Michael Wood's purchase of Auckland airport shares, and his failure to get rid of them as transport minister, have left Chris Hipkins with a…
2 years, 8 months ago
ChatGBL and the blowback budget
Toby Manhire crosses live to our correspondents in Wairoa and Ponsonby, Ben Thomas and Annabelle Lee-Mather, for an assessment of Grant Robertson’s a…
2 years, 9 months ago