Who has the pole position after last night’s 1 year anniversary Coalition poll? The answer is, well who cares? Polls are good for trends and headlines.

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We catch up with media commentator and adobo fan Matt Tukaki this week to talk about the Iwi vs Peewee Debate held on the Working Group, the future of broadcasting and much much more!

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It’s a verbal game of spot the difference - between “no frontline cuts” and “no change in frontline expenditure” - because that’s what we got out of Te Whatu Ora Commissioner Lester Levy this week.

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This week’s Working Group Debate between David Seymour and Helmut Modlik wasn’t really about the Treaty Principles Bill, nut the fact it’s all hinged on the long debunked claim that Maori ceded sovereignty. And while entrenched camps on both sides of the debate will claim their side won, the real loser is probably going to be the one who keeps pissing off his donors…

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TVNZ Needs to find $30 Million dollars - to get there they’re jettisoning resources like the 1 News website. But the risk for any traditional linear broadcast station trying to transition to a digital future is falling into the Netflix trap - and TVNZ needs to avoid that.

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In times of disaster and stress, we, as a population, get to see what our leaders are really like - so what happens when we compare the Otago Floods of this weekend with the Auckland floods of last year? How did our Prime ministers deal with the events?

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As a once in a century storm smashes into Otago, the people of Dunedin and surrounding districts are still reeling from the call made by the Coalition to scale back and change plans for the partially built Dunedin Hospital.  This week we’re joined by Labour’s Dr Tracey McLellan, Former Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins and Former DHB Member Dave Macpherson to discuss what happened, what it means for the region and what the people of Otago really want to see happen next.

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The MP with the largest single electorate in Aotearoa, Tākuta Ferris can whakapapa to iwi all around Te Tai Tonga - which gives him both a unique perspective on his community and a drive to succeed in a Parliament being run by one of the most openly anti-Māori governments the country has seen in generations

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Dunedin and Otago have had a rough week - a once in a century weather event and on Monday the region was told their already partially built hospital was getting too expensive and needed a downgrade. To discuss this issue we're joined by Labour's Health Infrastructure Spokesperson Dr Tracey McLellan, Former Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins and Former DHB Member Dave macpherson

Budget blow outs that don’t exist, census data that makes the Bishop Tamaki blow his… anger management levels, acne in the decline - what on earth is there to talk about?

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