From writing Shortland Street to working as a sustainability coordinator on some of the biggest Hollywood films shot in Aotearoa, Green Party candidate for Tamaki, Don Mackenzie Mayo joins me to nerd out this week!

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In This Week’s The News…

Polls keep on tumbling, tumbling down for National while NZ First Goosestep to a resurgence on the right, wahine in politics share their horror stories while the Prime minister dines with one of the people behind them, Paul Goldsmith has a bad week and a Kuini meets a King - all that and more, on This Week’s The News.

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*This Week’s The News is a satire, based on real news reports. Some comments and representations have been made for comedic effect.

You may ave seen those news stories about the amassed war chests of political parties - and you have probably seen where they spend it - but did you know there are rules about how much a party can spend on getting elected… but only after a certain date so it’s time for them to spend up large to get your vote.

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Two polls in 24 hours. One said the drama was over for the coalition, the other recorded the lowest support result for National in 5 years and the highest for the culture war vultures. But the one that made headlines here, that got coverage was the one from the dodgy lobbyists - cleaned up by the likes of Stuff and our state broadcaster. And that is something we should all be concerned about.

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Today the Prime Minister was asked about the OECD advice that we don’t need an LNG terminal despite the wants of the energy lobby - who the PM sided with saying he doesn’t need expert advise.  And it’s not a shock - there’s a track record here that shows an alarming lack of expertise.

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If the phrase “get off my lawns” was a government, it would be our coalition whose actions over the last 3 years show they either deliberately target young people or at least don’t consider them responsible enough to look after themselves (or vote right wing) and it shows in their policies.

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Sure, the coalition of chaos hate young people and show it at every chance - whether that’s means testing 18 and 19 year olds based on their parents income, changing voting laws to make it harder for them vote, removing policies like 7AA from the Oranga Tamariki act, returning boot camps… look you get the picture. And the announcement and subsequent crowing about its removal again was done despite evidence that the scheme helped people study, encouraged people to finish and saw a massive increase in vocational training completion.

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BSA taken down by right wing trolls with tiny manhoods and impotency problems, unemployment numbers still not good and the end of the Crushinator!All that and more in this week's This Week's The News.
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*This Week’s The News is a satire, based on real news reports. Some comments and representations have been made for comedic effe

It’s not a surprise the BSA is being scrapped, it’s been telegraphed for a while and t’s been celebrated by the worst on twitter, local astroturfs, right wing media and those who acidly spread disinformation - so what’s the worst that could happen? How about law suits from vexatious millionaires, harassment from unscrupulous media presenters and an active call for genocide - all actual outcomes of unregulated media overseas that our system will now copy.

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Racers, start your engines, the Election is now 6 months away and we are about to see an exponential increase in havoc from the coalition - so what tools do you need to prepare for it?

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