Julie Douglas: Tertiary Education Union National President calls for boost to sector funding to keep up with OECD average
The country's three biggest education unions have joined forces to put education funding on the political agenda this election campaign. A new BERL report has found public spending per student in 2019...
14 Sep 20234min
Episode 2: NZ First's Winston Peters and Act's David Seymour on why they won't work together
This week on Behind the List, Newstalk ZB's Senior Political Correspondent Barry Soper dives into one of politics' most tense relationships. He speaks to both Winston Peters and David Seymour - and f...
14 Sep 202330min
Election Fix: 14 September 2023
In today’s Election Fix, Political Editor Jason Walls talks the latest pushback to National’s tax plan from three independent economists. And Christchurch reporter Pierre Nixon reviews both Chris Hipk...
14 Sep 20237min
John MacDonald: More prison beds or more commonsense needed?
ACT leader David Seymour wasn’t eating pies on TV last night like the other party leaders. But he was spitting tacks about dangerous criminals not being locked-up in prison. He was out promoting his p...
14 Sep 20234min
Mike's Minute: Our debt numbers don't lie
Like so many of these things, a day or so after the big event is when you really get a measure of what is true and what is BS, or spin. The PREFU was bad news. The upside of the bad news was the Gov...
14 Sep 20232min
Kerre Woodham: Why did they wait til now to train more doctors?
Now the National Party announced some weeks ago that should it become Government, a new medical school will be established at Waikato University. They've also said they'd add another 50 placements in ...
14 Sep 20235min
Chris Luxon: National Leader on the economy and debt as a result of a Labour-led government
The divide between the right and left continues to grow heading into the election. The latest 1 News Verian poll shows Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins are neck-and-neck in the preferred prime min...
13 Sep 20238min
Tim Wilkinson: Otago University Acting Dean of Medicine on Labour's promise to train more doctors
A medical school leader says they've been waiting to be allowed to train more doctors. If elected, Labour's promised to train an additional 335 doctors every year from 2027, with numbers increasing ...
13 Sep 20233min
