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Focus on Politics
A weekly analysis of significant political issues.
On RNZ National, Friday after 6.30pm and Saturday at 5.10pm. Online article publishes 10am on Saturdays.
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Focus on Politics: Goodbye Muller
2 Jul 2021The National Party is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with revelations former leader Todd Muller was pressured to retire after being dobbed in for anonymously criticising a… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Defence under Labour
25 Jun 2021In Focus on Politics, RNZ political editor Jane Patterson digs into Labour's plan for the Defence Force, now it is unshackled from last term's coalition constraints. Audio
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Focus on Politics: Stage Four
18 Jun 2021This week brought some more clarity to the country's Covid-19 vaccine programme as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealed the first details of the wider roll-out to the general population. RNZ deputy… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Nurse Strike
11 Jun 2021About 30,000 nurses, midwives and other health workers have been on a seven-hour strike after nurses voted to go ahead with a strike having rejected a revised pay offer from district health boards. Audio
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Focus on Politics: ScoMo in Town
4 Jun 2021Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison made use of the Trans-Tasman travel bubble, flying into Queenstown for a sit-down meeting with NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern - one of her first since the… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Samoa in Turmoil
28 May 2021Samoa is in the grips of a constitutional crisis: a bitter power struggle between two competing governments and two political heavyweights. Both sides are claiming power and accusing the other of a… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Budget 2021
21 May 2021Beneficiaries will reap the rewards of this year's Budget with a welfare boost billed as the "biggest in a generation". Audio
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Focus on Politics: Race Relations
14 May 2021Race relations have been a flash point for conflict and reconciliation in NZ politics over the years. National leader Judith Collins reignited the fire this week with her speech to party faithful. RNZ… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: The China Question
7 May 2021RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson asks: how is New Zealand's relationship with China? Audio
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Focus on Politics: Emergency Housing
30 Apr 2021RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson takes a deep look into the state of emergency housing across the country. Audio
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Focus on Politics: DHBs on the Scrap Heap
23 Apr 2021Health Minister Andrew Little this week announced an extraordinary overhaul of the health system, scrapping all 20 DHBs and putting a new entity in their place. RNZ health correspondent Rowan Quinn… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: The Bubble and the Border
9 Apr 2021The Government has placed a temporary ban on all travel from India, leaving Kiwis there stranded, unable to come home. In the same week, it has begun to ease border measures elsewhere, announcing it… Read more Audio
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A weekly analysis of significant political issues.
On RNZ National, Friday after 6.30pm and Saturday at 5.10pm. Online article publishes 10am on Saturdays.
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