Nicole McKee, secretary for the Council of Licenced Firearms Owners, joins the Weekend Collective to discuss the gun buyback scheme. 
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UK correspondent Enda Brady joins the Weekend Collective to discuss the recent UK election and what Labour needs to do to rebuild. 
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A ban on all advertising of cannabis products, no online sales - and a minimum purchase age of 20.
Those are key restrictions in a draft cannabis law released this week ahead of next year's referendum.
Justice Minister Andrew Little says it's important voters are well informed before the 2020 General Election - and can participate in the referendum process.
The ballot will ask a simple Yes/No question.
National's Drug Reform spokesperson Paula Bennett says it's well-intentioned, but not delivering what it needs to, and there are too many questions for voters.
Is this just the beginning of the mudslinging and debate ahead of the contentious vote?
One News political reporter Katie Bradford joined The Weekend Collective to discuss what this week's announcement means and what will come next.
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Ridding New Zealand of single-use plastic items is a "personal priority" says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who this morning revealed the Government's next steps in its fight against plastics.
"There is more to do," Ardern said.
Her comments came after she announced a ban on more single-use plastic items, including meat trays, cups and takeaway food containers.
This comes six months after the official plastic bag-ban came into force.
This morning Ardern's Chief Science Adviser, Professor Juliet Gerrard, released a report called: Rethinking Plastics in Aotearoa New Zealand.
It made a number of recommendations but its overall message to the Government was more needs to be done to get rid of single-use plastic items.
Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage says a lot of plastic waste doesn't need to be created in the first place.
She says the report will now go to the Ministry for the Environment.
"Will look at all the recommendations more closely, come back, and I hope within six months we'll have a really serious response to the plan." 
"Our goal must be to make Aotearoa and economy where plastic rarely becomes waste or pollution," Ardern said.
She revealed that through the Provincial Growth Fund, the Government was looking into funding "optical scanners to improve plastic recycling".
She said the Government was also eyeing out new projects which would support the conversation of plastic waste into other products.
"People want to get plastics out of our environment and live up to our image as tidy Kiwis – we just need a plan to get there."
Ardern said she gets a lot of letters from people, mainly children, concerned about the amount of plastic in the ocean.
She said she reads every letter from a child that is sent to her. One letter contained a checklist of how to save turtles – step one, stop throwing plastic in the ocean.
"Good tip," Ardern said.
Looking ahead, Ardern said any future moves on plastics would require co-ordination not just from the Government, but from business, communities and individuals.
Ardern this morning talked up the Government's plastic bag-ban, saying it has already made a significant difference in New Zealand.
However, she said New Zealand still had "enormous long-term" challenges when it comes to plastic waste.
Act Leader David Seymour called on the Government to explain how strong the evidence supporting these bans actually is. Photo / Mark Mitchell
But critics say the Government needs to front up with more evidence that this new ban is actually needed in New Zealand.
Act Leader David Seymour called on the Government to explain how strong the evidence supporting these bans actually is.
"The Government is making the lives of New Zealanders slightly more difficult when there appears to be no real evidence of the scale of the problem."
Associate Environment Minister Eugenie Sage said there was no silver bullet when it comes to reducing plastic pollution, but admitted New Zealand needed a "system change".
She said she aimed to have a full Government response to the report within six months.

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The UK is finally reaching the end of a weird few weeks. On Thursday, Brits will go to the polls to vote in what might be the most important election in a generation.
Most people expected this election to be a high-energy, nasty and personal contest. Brexit has left the UK bitterly divided, as the political class has failed to reach anything resembling a consensus. Instead, it's opted to spend the past three years engaged in a screaming match over the preferred outcome to the most important issue facing the country.
However, the campaign itself has been eerily quiet. Boris Johnson has been accused of dodging media interviews, most notably with the BBC's veteran presenter Andrew Neil, and avoiding press scrutiny. Which is important, when you consider that Johnson has serious questions to answer on his own Brexit policy, Islamophobia in his Conservative Party, and the fact that his campaign stands accused of publishing deliberately misleading information more than once on its own social media platforms.
The opposition Labour Party is also far from innocent. Its manifesto is full of promises to spend huge amounts on public services and radical giveaways, such as nationalising the internet and providing free broadband. It's also promised to hold a second referendum on Brexit, should Labour win a majority.
Both men have popularity issues. Johnson also struggles with the public, particularly on the question of trust. However, if recent polling is to be believed, he is less unpopular than Corbyn, meaning that if he can reach polling day without having taken many big punches, he should still comfortably win on December 12.
This might explain why Johnson's election campaign has been so low-key, and why he's the only party leader to have dodged the Neil interview.
Bruises to punch
The accusation is that Johnson is deliberately avoiding Neil because he knows how badly it might go for him. Neil eviscerated Corbyn in his interview, asking him very difficult questions about his own Brexit position, his ambitious manifesto and the anti-Semitism scandal that has engulfed his leadership since 2015.
Only this week, a group called the Jewish Labour Movement submitted a dossier to the Equality and Human Rights Commission, which is investigating allegations of antisemitism in the Labour Party. Neil's strategic demolition of Corbyn led the news agenda for days.
Johnson has also been accused of making racist statements. Last year, he wrote a newspaper column in which he said that women who wear Islamic face veils looked like "letterboxes." He'd previously described citizens of Commonwealth countries as "flag-waving piccaninnies" with "watermelon smiles" and members of his own party have accused it of having a huge problem with Islamophobia.
That, coupled with the fact his party has deliberately misled the public, and that his own Brexit policy is more complicated than he's willing to let the public know, would give Neil several bruises to punch.
A senior Conservative source defended the decision, telling CNN that the "public are fed up with interviews that are all about the interviewer and endless interruptions. The format is broken and needs to change if it is to start engaging and informing the public again."
But this is bigger than one interview. Johnson has been criticized for taking relatively few questions from journalists and not appearing in as many televised debates as his rivals. His Conservative campaign team say this criticism is unfair, given he has given more than 100 interviews to local and national media, has appeared in two debates with Corbyn and has done two lengthy phone-ins with the public.
The perception that Johnson is avoiding scrutiny remains, although it doesn't seem to be damaging him. The Financial Times' poll tracker shows that since the election was...

Health experts are predicting the death toll in Samoa's escalating measles epidemic will reach 70.
As of Friday afternoon, more than 3,100 people in the island nation were infected with the disease, and 42 had died.
The death toll figure was calculated by Auckland University scientists, based on the number of reported cases and percentage of population currently immunised.
Immunologist Dr Helen Petousis-Harris says it's "absolutely devastating" and highlights how important it is for people to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
She says a distrust in the Samoan health system is partly behind the country's low vaccination rate.
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New Zealand First is accusing the Government of gouging the poor with plans to increase tobacco excise.
Winston Peters has invoked the Coalition clause of agree to disagree over the 11 and a half percent hike for January.
Peters says tax rises have little effect on smoking, particularly among Maori and Pasifika.
He says cigarette smuggling has increased more than 350 percent since 2015.
He says our prices, which are among the highest in the world, have provided an opportunity for organised crime.
Peters says the increase is punitive for the Kiwis who can least afford it.
It's a way supported by former Chairman of the Tax Working Group Sir Michael Cullen. He told The Weekend Collective upping the price is not effective.
"The initial increase had a big effect in reducing smoker, but we seem to be getting down t the residual group of smokers who are becoming less sensitive to the price, even though they are on low income."
His working group recommended that this year's excise should be the last. 
 

A battler for prisoner voting rights says it was inevitable the government would reverse the law.
The Government is reversing the ban, which was brought in by National in 2010. 
It means those serving sentences of less than three years will be able to vote - before next year's General Election.
The decision comes after a ruling from both the Supreme Court the ban breached the bill of rights.
Human rights lawyer Richard Francois has been working with Arthur Taylor end the ban, since 2013.
He told the Weekend Collective it's a very satisfying result.
"It really was inevitable that the Government of the day, having faced a Supreme Court judgement, would go and revert that to the 2010 position." 
National leader Simon Bridges says he will reintroduce the bank if he gets into government, but Francois says it might not be that simple. 
He says he has a case before the UN at the moment which he believes will go in prisoners' favour.
"In which case there would be quite a damning statement to any other political party that's got an idea of reverting back."

Prisoners have won some voting rights, but the Opposition isn't happy about it. 
Justice Minister Andrew Little has announced those sentenced to less than three years behind bars will be able to vote before next year's General Election.
But National leader Simon Bridges says he'll reverse the move if he ends up in government.
He says the move shows the Government's soft on crime.
"You look at these parties. Labour is out of touch, and NZ First if they do this, it will be their death knell."
A Colmar Brunton poll last month showed 53 per cent of the population supported the move, but Bridges disputes those figures.
"I think the overwhelming majority of New Zealanders actually know that if you've gone to jail, you've gone for something serious. While your there it's proportionate and a right that you don't get to vote."
Former jailhouse lawyer Arthur Taylor, who has campaigned against the ban, says Bridges' judgement is off.
"Simon's a bit behind. Being a lawyer, you should know the law a bit better than this. Things have moved on since that ban was passed in 2010."
Human rights lawyer Richard Francois says it might not be that simple for the ban to be overturned.
He told The Weekend Collective he has a case before the UN at the moment which he believes will go in prisoners' favour.
"In which case there would be quite a damning statement to any other political party that's got an idea of reverting back." 
Bridges says that it is a question of values for Parliament to decide, and they are not required to do what the Waitangi Tribunal rules on.

The biggest story of the week has been the scandal surrounding the New Zealand First Foundation, but what happens next? 
The Electoral Commission is seeking information from the party and its foundation, following claims of undisclosed donations.
Some donors have told Stuff they weren't aware donations were going to the foundation, and not the political party.
Party leader Winston Peters says the foundation is to help promote democracy in New Zealand.
He says there's nothing illegal or secret about the New Zealand First Foundation and says the idea his lawyer and others were seeking to do something illegal is preposterous.
If any irregularities are found, it could be passed on to the Serious Fraud Office, with politicians such as David Seymour already threatening to do that.
Political commentator Shane Te Pou told The Weekend Collective that if the foundation is behaving illegally, why would the party have called it the New Zealand First Foundation?
"Brian Henry's got a 20 plus year history with Winston Peters, I think it looks transparent with me."
He says one of the big consequences of this could be changes to electoral law and donations, with a greater level of transparency.
"Our laws really were designed in a simpler time. Politics is complex, and there's a lot more money in the political system than there was 10 to 15 years ago."