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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has confirmed he will not attend events at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds on Waitangi Day. He also said he won't attend the National Iwi Chairs Forum in Waitangi on February 4. He said he met with iwi leaders in Wellington today.

The Treasury's half-year economic and fiscal update is universally being described as bad news, Finance Minister Nicola Willis spoke to Corin Dann on RNZ this morning starting with if tax cuts were the right thing to do.

LIVE at 9pm 'fan fave' Chloe Swarbrick joins us to talk the year in politics which on many levels was a tough one for the Greens, what's to come in 2025 and maybe specifically what happened today when Nicola Willis opened the books at HYEFU

In our last week of live shows for this year, fan favourite Kieran McAnulty joins us LIVE at 9pm to look back on the year, maybe find a highlight, and see where to from here for the opposition

It's our last Friday show for the year!

Cross-cultural and Bilingual Consultant Melanie Nelson joins us to talk about, what she says is "the overshadowed bill poised to rewrite New Zealand’s legal system" Much has been said about the significant impacts of the Treaty Principles Bill (TPB) on te Tiriti and Māori rights. Far less is known about its unrecognised effects on all New Zealanders, which extend well beyond the Treaty....from https://melanienelson.substack.com/p/the-overshadowed-bill-poised-to-rewrite?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2o42y&triedRedirect=true

Te Pāti Māori co-leaders Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, Rawiri Waititi, and MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke along with Labour MP Peeni Henare have been referred to Parliament's Privileges Committee following last month's haka which interrupted voting on the Treaty Principles Bill in the House.

Two new ferries for the Cook Strait are expected to begin operation in 2029, the Government has announced. The price of the new ferries was not revealed, however, with Finance Minister Nicola Willis saying it was commercially confidential until procurement and negotiations for landside infrastructure were completed.

The COO of Bluesky is Rose Wang who joins us tonight in a pre-recorded interview about the world of social media and how Bluesky is taking a huge chunk of the market place right now. In her first NZ interview, Rose Wang shares what's happening day to day in the Bluesky office.