A(z) John MacDonald csatorna legjobb podcastjai (2025)

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John MacDonald: Who isn't talking to who at Christchurch City Council? 5:02

3h ago5:02

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At one point after the earthquakes, I had the insurance company telling me that it wanted to replace the driveway before the sewer line that ran under it had been repaired. When I explained to them that, maybe, that wasn’t the most practical way of doing things —that it might make more sense to wait until the underground work had been done before p…

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John MacDonald: Do we really think the parties on the left would do better? 4:43

1d ago4:43

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You know a Government is in trouble when you see a major news organisation running an online poll asking people whether they think the Prime Minister has had a good week or not. Which I saw the other week. And you know a coalition is in trouble when you get one of its senior members telling a public meeting that the Prime Minister is hiding. Which …

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John MacDonald: Who says we're drinking responsibly? 4:50

4d ago4:50

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Associate Health Minister Nicole McKee is talking nonsense when she says most of us who drink alcohol do it responsibly. If she really believes that, then she needs to get out more often. But I don’t think there’s much we can do about it because when it comes to alcohol, the horse has already bolted. She made the comment when she announced changes …

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John MacDonald: The not-so-super rescue plan for shoppers 4:50

5d ago4:50

4:50

It’s just over four years since the Commerce Commission released its first report on the supermarket sector in New Zealand and, yesterday, the Government announced what it’s going to do. Which, in my view, will achieve nothing. To be fair, Nicola Willis wasn’t in Government four years ago and it was Labour that received that first report and went a…

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John MacDonald: The absurdity of our insurance market 4:29

6d ago4:29

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If this doesn’t convince you that the insurance system in this country is broken, nothing will. Consumer NZ has revealed that in the past 25 years, the cost of insurance has increased by 900%. The largest increase of anything in the Consumer Price Index. If you’ve bought insurance of any type in the past, maybe that won’t surprise you. Because insu…

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John MacDonald: The KiwiSaver divide that needs sorting 5:30

7d ago5:30

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I think it would be very easy to push-back on Retirement Commissioner Jane Wrightson’s call for changes to the KiwiSaver scheme to make it easier for self-employed people to save for their retirement. But I’m not going to. She wants to see changes because people who work for themselves are contributing nowhere near as much as employees —partly beca…

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John MacDonald: Is user-pays being taken too far? 4:45

8d ago4:45

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We'll be chewing through the power in the south this week with the frosty weather. Which is the "ideal time" for Transpower to reveal that the budget for a major upgrade of electricity transmission lines in the South Island has increased again and that South Islanders will be paying for it. Which raises the question: Is this taking user-pays too fa…

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John MacDonald: Fix the Clean Slate law or get rid of it? 4:15

11d ago4:15

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How do you feel about people being allowed to hide their convictions? There are two ways of doing it. 1) Just don’t tell people about it. Or use the clean slate legislation, which wipes your record clean if you’ve had no convictions for seven years. If you’ve been to prison for your offences though, you don’t qualify. Concerns about the legislation…

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Politics Friday with Vanessa Weenink and Reuben Davidson: Homeless at Holy Trinity Church, ECAN pay increase, Clean Slate Act 19:13

11d ago19:13

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Questions have been raised about where a Christchurch homeless community being booted out of a church carpark will go next. City Council's issued an abatement notice requiring Avonside's Holy Trinity Church carpark to stop being used as a campground by 5pm. An extension is possible if a new resource consent, allowing camping, is obtained. Labour's …

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John MacDonald: Regional council's tone deaf $40k pay increase 4:23

12d ago4:23

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What would you say to a $40,000 pay rise? Yes please? If you’re the chief executive of Environment Canterbury regional council, you would. It’s been revealed that in the last financial year, Stefanie Rixecker’s pay increased by 9.3 %, upping her salary by $40,000 to just under $480,000, making her the highest-paid regional council boss in the count…

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Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader on the teachers strike, Erebus Memorial, Grant Robertson's memoir 8:21

13d ago8:21

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More than 20 thousand secondary teachers are walking off the job today to strike over the lowest pay increase offer in a generation. Post-Primary Teachers Association members will picket outside dozens of schools and MP offices after rejecting a 3% pay increase over three years. Opposition Leader Chris Hipkins told John MacDonald teachers deserve m…

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John MacDonald: Why is performance pay such a no-no for teachers? 4:32

13d ago4:32

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You won’t get me tooting for the striking high school teachers. Because I don’t think they’re reading the room at all. On the picket lines, unhappy that they've been offered a 3% increase over three years. And this is nothing to do with the kids not being able to go to school today, because high school kids don’t need babysitting. They can just sta…

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Tony Hill: Canterbury District Commander Superintendent on the arming of police, proposed restructure 33:42

14d ago33:42

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Canterbury's top police officer believes the current policies around arming New Zealand police officers are appropriate. Multiple investigations are underway following a double police shooting in Christchurch that left one dead and another seriously injured. The Council of Licensed Firearms Owners says it's an example of what happens when police ar…

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John MacDonald: Are councils really the best outfits to be in charge of the water? 4:31

14d ago4:31

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We are going to pay more for water services. But even though it's coming about because of government policy, I’m not blaming Wellington. I’m blaming our councils. Councils that should be ashamed of how they ran down our water infrastructure to the extent that millions of litres of water disappear every day because of cruddy pipes. And the consequen…

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John MacDonald: Should NZ build a nuclear reactor to attract tech giants? 4:35

15d ago4:35

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How would you feel about New Zealand building small nuclear reactors to generate more power? That’s what the Maxim Institute think-tank is calling for. Saying that, if we did, more of the world’s biggest technology companies could be attracted here to establish big data centres and that would add billions of dollars to the economy. Thomas Scrimgeou…

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John MacDonald: How I feel about armed cops after this week's shootings 4:30

18d ago4:30

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When I first heard about the police shooting and killing someone they had actually gone to help, like most people, I wondered how the hell that could happen. This is the shooting in Bryndwr in Christchurch overnight on Wednesday, which left a woman dead and a man critically injured. As always happens, the armchair experts haven’t been slow in comin…

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Politics Friday with Megan Woods and Matt Doocey: Hillmorton Hospital report, Woodend Bypass Toll, Covid-19 Inquiry 20:22

18d ago20:22

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The Mental Health Minister's defending claiming his Government's inherited Hillmorton Hospital and its failings from the Labour-led Government of the time. A review of Canterbury's mental health services reveals significant failings, contributing to murders by patients in 2022 and 2024. Minister Matt Doocey told John MacDonald it's a fact. He says …

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Ronan Keating: Musician talks his career, Boyzone, Selwyn Sounds 8:09

19d ago8:09

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Ronan Keating has been performing for over 30 years. He debuted in 1993 as the frontman of Boyzone, going on to have an extremely successful solo career from 1999. Keating joined John MacDonald to talk about his rise to fame, life as a grandfather, and what we can expect to see at Selwyn Sounds in 2026. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for …

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John MacDonald: Boris fronted-up to a Covid Inquiry - why aren't our lot? 5:16

19d ago5:16

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I can recall a conversation I had about a month ago with Labour leader and former Covid-19 Minister Chris Hipkins about Part 2 of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into his government’s pandemic response. And he was saying that he was waiting to be invited to appear, and wouldn’t be asking for an invite, and wouldn’t be gate-crashing. That was around…

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John MacDonald: How do we pay for new roads without tolls? 4:13

20d ago4:13

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Like anyone, if I can get something for free - I’ll take it. But if it’s something I have to pay for, then I’ll pay it. Which is how I’m feeling about all this fuss over the new Woodend Bypass, north of Christchurch, being a toll road. Granted, I won’t be a daily user, so the financial impact on me won’t be the same as it will for someone who uses …

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John MacDonald: Here's why Luxon and Hipkins are neck-and-neck 4:44

21d ago4:44

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If I asked you who you would rather go and have a beer with, Christopher Luxon or Chris Hipkins, who would you choose? I’d choose Luxon any day. One slight technicality is that he doesn’t drink. But he’d have a lime and soda or whatever he likes to drink, I’d have a beer and we’d probably have a very nice time. Reason being that on the occasions th…

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John MacDonald: The stadium train is an excellent idea - let's make the most of it 4:35

22d ago4:35

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TOPIC 1 EDITORIAL: STADIUM TRAIN I love this plan for an express passenger train to get people into Christchurch for events at the new One New Zealand Stadium, which is due to open in April next year. But I’ll love it even more if the councils around here chip-in to pay for a new railway station at the corner of Moorhouse Avenue and Colombo Street,…

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John MacDonald: All aboard the speed hump bandwagon 4:56

25d ago4:56

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You can tell council elections are coming up, because that’s the only reason the Christchurch City Council is going to start using high friction road surfaces at pedestrian crossings, instead of speed humps. Even though it knows that speed humps are safer. Even though it knows that it won’t slow down traffic. But you’ve got to keep people sweet whe…

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Politics Friday with Vanessa Weenink and Tracey McLellan: Canterbury police restructure, Covid spending, labelling regulations 18:27

25d ago18:27

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Local politicians from both sides of the political divide are slamming police process around the proposed restructure in wider Canterbury. Federated Farmers, City Councillors, and schools are concerned at the lack of community consultation. Banks Peninsula MP Vanessa Weenink told John MacDonald the communication, for a start, hasn't been well manag…

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John MacDonald: The pawns in Chris Bishop's privatised RUC regime 4:13

26d ago4:13

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When I heard Transport Minister Chris Bishop talking about the Government’s changes to the road user charges system, I had a bit of a Max Bradford moment. Max was the National Party minister who told us back in 1988 that his reforms of the electricity sector were going to mean cheaper power prices. Which is what Chris Bishop was saying yesterday ab…

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John MacDonald: I asked an AI bot how it felt about marking exams 6:15

27d ago6:15

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With the Government wanting artificial intelligence to be used to mark high school exams, I asked a ChatGPT bot how it felt about that. And here’s what it said: "If the Government were to ask me to mark high school exams, I would feel (if I could feel) cautious optimism, with a big dose of responsible hesitation." The bot said, on the upside, it co…

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Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader on the proposed police restructure in Canterbury, NCEA 8:56

27d ago8:56

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The Opposition leader says he's worried Police are retrenching from rural communities. A planned staffing restructure could move some permanent posted rural officers move to work from 24/7 hubs in Rolleston and Rangiora. Officer headcount won't drop. Chris Hipkins told John MacDonald he's been through this in his own area, in Wellington's Upper Hut…

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Tony Hill: District Commander Superintendent on the plan to centralise police officers in Canterbury 7:42

27d ago7:42

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Canterbury police say they'll still serve rural communities under a plan to centralise officers. They're mid-way through two weeks of internal consultation on a plan to shift some officers from smaller rural stations, to larger 24/7 hubs in Rolleston and Rangiora. District Commander Superintendent, Tony Hill, told John MacDonald rural liaison offic…

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John MacDonald: I like the NCEA changes, but... 5:59

28d ago5:59

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Yesterday, when the Government announced that it was getting rid of NCEA, my immediate reaction was that it was a mistake. That we would have been much better sticking with the system we’ve got and improving it. Twenty-four hours later, I still feel the same. There are some aspects of the changes that I think are brilliant. But the more I’ve found …

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John MacDonald: Should the Christchurch mayor use personal funds for public projects? 4:54

29d ago4:54

4:54

Just because someone can afford to do something, it doesn’t always mean they should do it. Which is how I’m feeling about Christchurch mayor Phil Mauger using his own money to pay engineers to design a replacement for the controversial Park Terrace cycleway which, he says, is under-utilised and causing traffic congestion. According to council data,…

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John MacDonald: Should NCEA cater more to students that aren't going to university? 5:19

1M ago5:19

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It must be tricky being at school and feeling like you’re not doing anything to prepare you for what you actually want to do when you leave. The Government is starting to think about that after this new report from the New Zealand Qualifications Authority which says NCEA is too focused on kids wanting to go to university. The report was prepared fo…

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Politics Friday with Matt Doocey and Duncan Webb: Gloriavale, NCEA changes, FBI office in Wellington 20:53

1M ago20:53

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Matt Doocey and Duncan Webb joined John MacDonald to give their thoughts on the biggest political stories of the week. Changes are likely coming to NCEA – are they needed? And should trades be given more support in schools? A lawyer is calling for the Government to step in and shut down Gloriavale, but should this be their responsibility? Doocey ha…

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Brian Henry: Gloriavale leavers' lawyer on his call for the Prime Minister to shut down Gloriavale 6:31

1M ago6:31

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It’s believed the government has the ability to shut down Gloriavale. The West Coast religious commune's 85-year-old leader Howard Temple is a sex offender, having plead guilty to 12 charges, including indecent assault, mid-way through a trial. The charges relate to offending back to the 1990s. Leavers' lawyer Brian Henry told John MacDonald there …

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John MacDonald: Gang numbers are up - so what next? 4:28

1M ago4:28

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The gangs were right, the Government was wrong. That’s one way to interpret the news that, for the first time, the number of people on the national gang list is higher than 10,000. The gangs were right. Because they said right from the outset that the Government could do what it wants but they will never go away. And the numbers don’t lie, do they?…

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John MacDonald: Now is not the time for 80% pay increases 5:02

1M ago5:02

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I understand what the Prime Minister is saying about these pay increases for board members at Crown agencies, such as Health NZ and Kāinga Ora, but I’m not buying it. The top payment was $90,000. It’s now $160,000. Christopher Luxon says the Government needs to offer higher pay for these board roles so they can attract the best people. But tell tha…

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John MacDonald: Under-staffed departments in overrun hospitals 4:46

1M ago4:46

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The news today that half of the departments at Christchurch Hospital are operating below full staffing levels doesn’t surprise me. In some departments, they are less than 80 percent of what they should be. So, if I’m not surprised, does that mean my expectations of the hospital system are pretty low? The answer to that is “yes”. I expect that the b…

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John MacDonald: What do sport gender guidelines have to do with the price of butter? 5:04

1M ago5:04

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There will be no shortage of people today thinking that it's a brilliant move by the Government to ditch official guidelines for including transgender people in community sport and leaving it to the sporting organisations themselves to handle it. But I think it’s just going to open a can of worms, and these people who think it’s great might think d…

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Tony Hadley: English singer and former Spandau Ballet frontman on his career, influences, Selwyn Sounds 11:10

1M ago11:10

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The former frontman of English new-wave band Spandau Ballet, now a solo act, Tony Hadley is popping over to our shores early next year. He’s part of the line up for the 2026 Selwyn Sounds, performing alongside the likes of Ronan Keating, When The Cats Away, and Opshop. Hadley joined John MacDonald for a chat about his career, influences, and gave a…

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John MacDonald: Is climate change a major issue in Christchurch? 5:17

1M ago5:17

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Phil Mauger is back on board the climate change bandwagon today – just like he was before the last election. I remember asking him three years ago what he thought the most pressing issue facing Christchurch was and he said climate change. And he’s at it again today. So is current city councillor Sara Templeton, who also wants to be the city's next …

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Chris Hipkins: Labour leader responds to Luxon's heated comments, talks Waikato Medical School 10:03

1M ago10:03

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The Labour Leader has responded to Luxon’s heated comments in response to their jabs about the cost of living. The Opposition has criticised the Government’s flagship cost of living policy, raising a red flag over only 153 families getting the maximum credit across all four quarters. Luxon says Labour's crying crocodile tears, and that he’s not tak…

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John MacDonald: Philanthropic funding for new medical school? Pfft 5:50

1M ago5:50

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Let's start with the positives in the news that the Government is pressing ahead with a new medical school at Waikato University. 120 new med students every year. You can’t argue with that. But that’s about it for me. I’m not going to criticise the Government for doing something to get more doctors, because we need them. Especially in rural and reg…

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John MacDonald: Pine re-planter says some will think it's madness. He's right 5:32

1M ago5:32

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I’m going to start by quoting someone I’ve quoted before - Dr Nicola Day, who is a plant ecologist at Victoria University in Wellington. Knowing a thing or two about plants means she knows a thing or two about pine trees. And here’s how she describes them: “Pines are one of the most flammable plants on the planet." I referred to the same quote last…

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John MacDonald: The Govt's moral obligation to get rid of open-plan classrooms 6:05

2M ago6:05

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Education Minister Erica Stanford is my politician of the day for announcing that the Government isn't going to be building any more of those terrible open-plan classrooms. But she’ll be my politician of the year if she goes further than that and finds money to put some walls and doors in the modern learning environment monstrosities that already e…

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John MacDonald: If you see Shane Jones, tell him he's dreaming 5:45

2M ago5:45

5:45

Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones says we live in uncertain times and, because of that, we need to crank up the Marsden Point oil refinery again. I agree that we live in uncertain times, but I certainly don’t agree that we should pour time and money into something which has had its day. Shane Jones isn’t the only person talking about it though.…

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John MacDonald: This is one piece of Rogernomics that makes sense 5:33

2M ago5:33

5:33

How about this for an idea? Instead of the tax people pay on the first $60,000 of their income going to the government, what if it went into a savings account to pay for healthcare and put food on the table when they retire? It’s an idea being pushed by former finance minister Sir Roger Douglas and University of Auckland economics professor Robert …

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John MacDonald: This guy should never drive again - but he's going to 5:54

2M ago5:54

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We can safely say that someone who rides their motorbike at 110 kph in a 50 kph area is a threat. We can also safely say that someone who rides their motorbike at 110 kph in a 50 kph area and runs a red light is a danger. We can also safely say that someone who rides their motorbike at 110 kph in a 50 kph area, runs a red light and kills two pedest…

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John MacDonald: Import gas or cross our fingers and hope? 5:00

2M ago5:00

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Not as straightforward as it sounds. That’s pretty much the message coming through loud and clear in this new report which says importing liquified natural gas to make up for our dwindling local supplies is do-able. But. You’ll remember how, last year, when we had factories closing and people paying through the nose for their electricity, talk turn…

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John MacDonald: Do we have a moral obligation to help flooded homeowners? 5:47

2M ago5:47

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Do you think the Government and councils would be “morally bankrupt” if they stopped paying people out when their properties are so flood-damaged that they can’t live there anymore? And would you feel the same about people living in areas at risk of flooding being forced to pay more for flood schemes and sea walls because they’re the ones who benef…

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John MacDonald: Boris Johnson fronted-up to a Covid inquiry - Chris Hipkins should too 4:39

2M ago4:39

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Labour leader and former Covid-19 Minister Chris Hipkins thinks phase two of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Covid-19 response is a platform for conspiracy theorists, and he is non-committal about turning-up to give evidence. The most committed I’ve heard him so far is saying that he’s working on some written responses. But if that turns o…

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Chris Hipkins: Labour Leader on the Covid-19 Inquiry, FamilyBoost, crime 10:11

2M ago10:11

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Chris Hipkins is doubling down on saying the Covid Response Inquiry's terms seems to provide a platform for conspiracy views. The Labour leader also said the second phase —that began this week— excludes looking at any decisions made when NZ First was in Government. Hipkins told John MacDonald opinions from the likes of Brian Tamaki and Liz Gunn des…

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