We’ll cross live to Tauranga as the by-election begins. Fresh from a meeting with the world’s defence ministers, Peeni Henare talks about rising tensions in the Pacific and cyber attacks against New Zealand. Is a recession inevitable? With economic stormclouds gathering globally, business journalist Bernard Hickey on whether things will get worse before they get better. Digital editor Finn Hogan on who's up and who's down, online. On the Pitch: National’s science and technology spokesperson Judith Collins on why we need to get ‘the politics out of science’. Dissecting the news of the week on our panel: Newsroom's national affairs editor Sam Sachdeva, former National press secretary Janet Wilson and National Business Review co-editor Hamish McNicol.

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