Description

We discuss the creeping attack on the machinery of state - from potential cuts to the Office of the Clerk to frontline cuts in public services to the use of urgency to push repeals unnecessarily alongside removing Regulatory Impact Statements. Is there fire among the smoke here? Is this a considered approach by National and its partners, or brute incompetence? And how does the undermining of Te Tiriti by ACT play into this?

This episode’s co-hosts

Angela, Kyle, Mark

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

1:51 Front Room Cuts

7:01 State vs Public Services

12:15 Underfunding the Underfunded

15:50 Accountability Politics

26:48 Hijacking the Machine of Government

32:29 Te Tiriti o Waitangi 

36:29 Brexit Strategies in NZ

46:19 Importing Ideas with New Constituents 

58:48 What Can Be Done

1:09:58 Closing

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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