Labour's Carmel Sepuloni

It’s been a massive couple of weeks for everyone - the government included. Minister Responsible for the GSCB and SIS, Andrew Little, talks to Stewart Sowman-Lund for his weekly slot on the Wire. This week, could more have been done to stop the Christchurch Mosque Attacks? And what surveillance powers already exist?

This week, Green MP Golriz Ghahraman's Electoral Strengthening Democracy Bill has proposed a number of changes to New Zealand’s electoral system. A couple of those include lowering the MMP threshold from 5 to 4 percent, outruling overseas political donations, and overturning a ban on prisoner voting. Stewart Sowman-Lund spoke with Minister Little about all of that and more. Have a listen.

Minister Andrew Little returns to The Thursday Wire to discuss Aotearoa's relations with China, and the media's inflation of the ongoings, as well as the upcoming "Strengthening the Criminal Justice System for Victims survey". 

Andrew Little returns to talk to Oscar about Treaty settlements and the recommendations made to Aotearoa at the United Nations Universal Periodic Review.