Lessons from Waitangi, tackling the housing crisis, investigating claims regarding New Zealand's behaviour in Afghanistan... it's almost as if three years aren't nearly enough, huh?
PM Ardern braves the 'interesting' Laneway bFM bus phone connection to talk Ratana, Waitangi, mental health and child poverty... before whizzing to Laneway itself for a bit of an opening mihi. Choice one.
Congratulations are in order for NZ's first family - and being a recent(ish) father himself, Mike's as pleased as punch. And just what is a piece of errant budget modelling code? Or, more importantly, _whose responsibility_ is a piece of errant budget modelling code?
We farewell the year with a Prime Minister that may not have ever guessed they'd be the bearer of that particular title come 2017's end. What should we be proud of as New Zealanders this year? And what should we work on harder in the next?
On today's chat with our Dear Leader: New Zealand's growing prison population; our heartbreaking suicide numbers; and a dose of 'What Trumpy Did Next'.
What's all this 'Speargun' business then? What does the new government think of mass surveillance? And now that Andrew Little's Healthy Homes Bill has passed in to law, what changes can we expect?
Is it secret, is it safe? Or is 'the secret document' just a molehill with a flag stuck in it? Speaking of flags... how much money are we expecting certain government plans to cost?
Someone left Sarah with the keys to the phone today and your poor Prime Minister had to deal with it. As if she didn't already have enough on her plate. Sheesh.
PM Ardern's back from Australia having asked some tough questions and made some kind offers, neither of which seem to have been met gratefully by our antipodean cousins. Maintaing a busy schedule and a level of practical positivity in the face of disturbing new MBIE numbers ain't enough for our PM though - she's still got time for you-lot. Listen in.
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