This week, Byron and Maddy conduct their post-mortem for sacked health boss Rob Campbell, and discuss political neutrality in the public service, three waters and roadside drug testing. We also assess the damage from Cyclone Gabrielle, and we are joined by HospitalityNZ CEO Julie White to take us through the struggles facing businesses on the ground in the East Coast.

We're all over the floods this week. The cyclone, climate change and the governments response, alongside the big questions like what on earth happens next and how do we pay for it? Later on we're joined by a guest who understands these questions better than anyone. Having been at the Cabinet table during the Christchurch earthquakes, Hon Peter Dunne shares his insights on how the government operates  in a natural disaster.

We’re back to unpack the big news stories of the summer! If a week is a long time in politics, a summer is a lifetime. We cover the Prime Ministers resignation, the rise of Hipkins, his cabinet reshuffle and what this means for election 23. 

In our final episode of the year, we are joined by Phil O'Reilly, managing director of Iron Duke Partners and the principal sponsor of the podcasts wildly passionate opinions, random facts and terrible jokes. We round out the 12 biggest stories of the year and gaze into our magic ball for what 2023 will bring.

This week we cover off the Finnish Prime Ministers visit, the nurses pay equity agreement and what's happening with the three waters entrenchment . We are later joined by Mike O'Reilly, principal of Mt Roskill Primary School. An incredible interview, Mike takes us through the current state of education and explains the challenges schools are facing in both getting kids there, and getting them learning. 

Maddy and Byron are back with another recap of the weeks policy and politics highlights. They take us through the huge couple of weeks political leaders have had on the international stage, from APEC to the G20 summit. Back home they take us through the possibility of paying student nurses for their clinical training and for once manage to have a respectful debate about something - the Nats plan to send naughty kids to boot camp. Later on Andrew Hoggard, President of federated farmers joins the podcast to discus the impact of the governments plans to price emissions and what's on top of Aotearoa's rural communities. 

Maddy and Byron are back to dissect the good, the bad and the ugly of the last week in politics. They run us through what's happening in the U.S midterms, the Labour Party conference and just why the government are so angry at banks and the fuel companies. Later Byron sits down with Adele Fitzpatrick, Chief Executive at Museums Aotearoa about our vibrant galleries, libraries, archives and museum sector.

It's a post match report on the local government elections this week. How much of this did we see coming? What were the major issues and what does the Beehive need to learn from this?

We're back with another election recap! Chamanthie Sinhalage-Fonseka, Senior Consultant at Baldwin Boyle Group and the resident Iron Duke Auckland expert,  joins us to chat all things urbanism and local government. We're later on joined by Mayoral front runner Wayne Brown to hear about his vision for Tamaki Makaurau. Remember, voting closes this weekend!

This week we're joined by the three leading mayoral candidates - Tory Whanau, Paul Eagle and Andy Foster. Tune is as we ask the big questions and hit them with our hardest hot or nots yet. This episode is here to inform our Wellingtonian friends to get out and vote for the future of the city you want to see!