News has a huge set of tools it can use to make you see, feel and interpret the world of politics - can you spot them and do you know how to deal with them?

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In This Week's The News, Dodgy actions look dodgy, with vanishing lobbyist emails, astroturf appointments over Maori representation for the election and conspiracy theorist behind the Wellington parliamentary occupation gets a Kings Birthday Honour.

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The dust from the Budget is settling and campaigns are firmly gearing towards the election now. On top of a review of the latest Campaign moments, I catch up with Northcote's Shanan Halbert to talk Tertiary Education and the Hon Willie Jackson to talk what Maori can take away from the budget.

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What’s that term for when the public sees you abusing entrusted power or resources for private gain for yourself or others?  I’m sure there’s a term, and a reason why people are using that term to describe the Coalition.

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During the 2023 Election, Luxon and his team were big on talking up Localism for local government. After 3 years it’s clear they didn’t believe in it at all, as we see them stepping in again to place racists and remove locals from the local government process.

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When the Kings Birthday Honours List includes someone so clearly partisan, bias and destructive but in support of the current regime, it looks like rewarding awful behaviour - but it’s also one of the ways authoritarian Governments use propaganda to campaign. So I figured we’d take a look at some other ways as well.

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There is a big difference between Public Interest and what the public is interested in, and as a state broadcaster with a charter remit that says “reach as many people as possible, the two can be mixed, confused and used to mislead - and that’s not great going into an election where we know some politicians are clearly corrupt, and algorithms are pushing their perspectives. 

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Matt Brachi, Labour’s Port Waikato Candidate is a lover of 80s pop culture, a Warhammer Cosplayer, a STEM teacher and running in an electorate where the current outgoing MP got drunk and yelled at workers, a local list MP worked for a race baiting right wing lobby group and oversaw the reintroduction of pro-smoking laws, and this year he’ll be up against the head of the oxymoronically titled Bluegreens (Nationals working group for Environmental policies) and an anti semitic admin of conspiracy theory groups who considers David Seymour left leaning. In this episode of Nerd Out With, I catch up with Matt to talk Ghostbusters, Warhammer and classic Pop Culture’s influence on students of today.

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There’s already been too much news this week so I’ve decided there will be no This Weeks the News This Week - well that and trying to get t the bottom of a technical issue…

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The Budget that was delivered might look and sound boring, it may use Nicola’s new made up accounting system to claim a surplus when there isn’t one in the future and will cause an exacerbation of more long term impacts that we’re seeing right now - so a typical National Budget really.

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