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December 04, 2023 'We'll show our disdain' - Iwi leader and National Party member on anti-Government protest
Iwi chief executive Paora Stanley explains why he's backing today's Māori Day of Action against the National-led coalition, despite being a party member. Plus: The data drama at Te Whatu Ora, coronavirus found in native bats - and how to choose the perfect Christmas tree.

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22 min
December 03, 2023 Speaking freely about the government, COP28 - "New Zealand increasingly isolated" Happy Birthday ChatGPT, chill weddings
Sir Ian Taylor - who heads the tech company behind the America's Cup race graphics - has become the latest to resign from organisations to be able to speak out against the government. He joins Newsable to talk about why he didn't want to put Mike King’s Gumboot Friday charity at risk.
We check progress at the annual international UN climate conference in Dubai, where New Zealand has chosen not to sign an agreement over renewable energy plus a year with ChatGPT in our lives and New Zealand's "chill" weddings.

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23 min
November 30, 2023 Sex education scrapped, Christmas-related injury claims, SME success and King Kapisi
The new government scrapping sexuality and consent education in schools, so what will it mean for our tamariki?
We take a look at what it takes for a small business to succeed in NZ, and the eye-popping cost of Christmas tree-related injury claims.
Plus, the one and only King Kapisi is on the show.

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23 min
November 29, 2023 "More intensity" - the Government's 100 day plan, a new Trump challenger, COP 28 and another royal scandal
The Government's announced its 100 day plan, but is it about getting things done or grabbing the initiative? Newsable talks to Richard Shaw a Professor in Politics at Massey University.
Trump’s got a new presidential nominee challenger... Who are they and do they have a shot? Plus the COP 28 Climate conference is about to get underway - we explain what it's all about and yes indeedy, it's another book on the Royal family.

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22 min
November 28, 2023 Released Israeli hostage's treatment, Siousxie Wiles work case, earthquake predictions, worst tattoo
The temporary ceasefire in the Middle East has been extended with a promise of more hostages being released. The Guardian's World Affairs Editor talks to us about how the hostages have been treated and the political maneouvring.
Siousxie Wiles court case against her employer, Auckland Uni, wraps up, research after Turkey's big earthquake might help improve prediction science and New Zealand's worst tattoo.

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22 min
November 27, 2023 "Big shock" - winding back on smokefree rules, workers trapped underground, doggy artesian water, menu tricks
Health organisations are reeling over the news that some smoke free provisions are to be rolled back by the new government. Newsable talks to the Asthma Foundation.
The workers trapped underground in India for more than two weeks, the artesian doggy water on sale at a pretty price plus the tricks designers use to influence your food choice.

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19 min
November 26, 2023 It's business time for the Government, new conspiracy warnings - and the Aussie 'rat-pocalypse'
We set the scene for the first week of the new Coalition, investigate an unweildy answer to climate change, check out the latest conspiracy warnings and find out where animals are taking over.

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22 min
November 24, 2023 Bonus: "Probably the most right wing government since the 90s" - analysis of coalition government deal by Stuff's Political Editor
Incoming Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon, has stood up next to his new political bedfellows - Act’s David Seymour and New Zealand First’s Winston Peters - and laid out details of this long-awaited agreement.
But what polices are in and what are out?
Newsable gets analysis of today's announcement from Stuff's political editor, Luke Malpass

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8 min
November 23, 2023 Breaking: New government - the coalition deal
The incoming Prime Minister has laid out the details of the coalition deal reached with Act and New Zealand First.
He shared the details of the policy negotiations - what is in and what is out - and some of the main Cabinet positions, including a sharing of the position of Deputy leader - with Winston Peters taking the first turn.

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18 min
November 23, 2023 The "greased piglet" that is a new government, Gaza truce, getting a good deal on Black Friday, trio stuck in closed jail
We now know a coalition deal has been reached to form a new government, but what about the details? Stuff's Political Editor Luke Malpass reads the tea leaves over what policies might have survived.
Plus, why the truce in Gaza doesn't mean peace is any closer, how to avoid getting scammed on Black Friday and the men who got stuck in a disused prison.

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19 min

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