No one expects roads or other bits of infrastructure to be dirt cheap - but politicians keep trying to say what’s being paid now is too much. So how did we get to these costs and are some politicians bullshitting people to make them sound worse?

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In this week's Episode we talk with Porirua City Councillor Geoff Hayward about the Water Charter proposal he's introduced and the issues facing voters this local election.

Then we're joined by Labour MP Shanan Halbert talking about vocational training issues with Te Pukenga and rising levels of hate towards minority communities.

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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.

Prison Numbers going up, workers falling down, Those that don’t learn from history can blame budget cuts and more in 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

Whether you write something short or long, there’s only 10 days left to submit on the Regulatory Standards Bill - and there’s heaps of resources out there to help - just make it unique so David doesn’t think you’re a bot!

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Wellington, Whangarei, Waipa and Hamilton - all places with localised astroturfing groups claiming to want to make things better - but do they?

Of course not...

This is the audio version of last week's Newsletter, which you can subscribe to through my Substack, available in my link tree.

We need local media at local election time - they have a unique perspective because they’re directly connected to communities and their needs and wants - and this week we saw a great example of what can happen media don’t tell the public the full story on what candidates are actually standing for.

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In the past couple of weeks the Coalition has given us both sides of Performative Outrage - a simple political tool designed to distract and redirect. We’ve had “look at this and “don’t look at that!

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The most common thing I hear about the current government is that it feels like an onslaught - so being the halfwayish point this weekend, I thought we’d take a look at why it feels that way.

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Here comes a New DPM, just like the old one, the Health Minister send staff into toxic environment and the houses beginning to twitch in Hamilton - all that and more in this week’s This Week’s The News

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The Coalition like to tell the public they’re “tough on crime” but the start of even more punitive benefit sanctions this week and changes in how police deal with retail crime, all show that they’re actually creating a system that crime becomes more prominent in.

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