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Focus on Politics for 10 September 2010
6:38 PM.Christchurch and its surrounding region now face a huge clean-up and rebuilding effort to restore homes, businesses, buildings and other infrastructure damaged by the quake. In Wellington the quake… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics for 3 September 2010
6:38 PM.This week the Government announced it would spend $1.75 billion to essentially bail out South Canterbury Finance. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 20 August 2010
6:37 PM.Rarely in this country has the dirty laundry of a governing political party been so thoroughly aired as has happened to the ACT Party. Heather Roy was unceremoniously rolled as deputy at a caucus… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics for 13 August 2010
6:38 PM.Auckland correspondent Todd Niall looks at the amalgamation of Auckland's eight local bodies into one super city and how it will change the power dynamics between the region and the Government. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 6 August 2010
6:38 PM.A week after his former MP, Chris Carter, said Labour could not win next year's election with him as leader, Phil Goff is adamant he is the best person for the job. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 30 July 2010
6:36 PM.Chris Carter's fall from grace within the Labour Party is complete, and his former colleagues are now intent on painting him as isolated and irrational. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 23 July 2010
6:38 PM.The Government this week finally admitted defeat on its plans to allow mining on protected conservation land. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 16 July 2010
6:37 PM.The National Party is holding its annual conference in Auckland this weekend. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 9 July 2010
6:37 PM.Monetary policy on the whole has tended to be supported on a bi-partisan basis by political parties but recently Labour has broken ranks calling for a rethink. Audio
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Focus on politics for 2 July 2010
6:35 PM.Households face higher prices from this week as the Emissions Trading Scheme pushes up the cost of power and petrol and ACC charges rise. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 25 June 2010
6:39 PM.Last week the Green Party co-leader, Russell Norman, got into a scuffle with security guards protecting the visiting Chinese vice-president Xi Jingping. Debate over the fracas dragged on throughout… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics for 18 June 2010
6:38 PM.The National-led Government has reached a deal with the Maori Party to repeal the contentious 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act and replace it with a new law. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 11 June 2010
6:38 PM.Shane Jones faces an uncertain political future after revelations this week he used his ministerial credit card to pay to watch pornographic movies at hotels when he was a Labour minister. Spending by… Read more Audio
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Focus On Politics for 4 June 2010
6:38 PM.Parliament's third largest political party, the Greens, are gathering in Christchurch this weekend for the party's annual general meeting. And for the first time in 15 years, it will be without the… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics for 28 May 2010
6:34 PM.Is the Government preparing for asset sales? Audio
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Focus on Politics for 21 May 2010
6:38 PM.In his Budget on Thursday the Finance Minister, Bill English, announced the most substantial change to the tax system since the goods and services tax was introduced in the mid-1980s. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 14 May 2010
6:36 PM.This week the Prime Minister ruled out giving back the Urewera National Park to Tuhoe as part of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement with the iwi. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 7 May 2010
6:35 PM.In just under two weeks the Finance Minister, Bill English, will deliver his second Budget. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 30 May 2010
6:38 PM.This week the Law Commission tabled a hard hitting report recommending a raft of changes to crack down on the misuse of alcohol. It wants to raise the age at which people can purchase alcohol to 20… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics for 23 April 2010
6:37 PM.This week the Maori Affairs Minister and Maori Party co-leader, Pita Sharples, flew to New York to ratify the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 16 April 2010
6:38 PM.For years New Zealand's anti-nuclear policy has been an irritant in the relationship with the United States. That appears to now be history, with this country's anti-nuke credentials the reason why… Read more Audio
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Focus On Politics for 9 April 2010
6:30 PM.One of the Maori Party's key policy goals is becoming a reality, with Tariana Turia named as the Whanau Ora Minister this week, and a group named to run the controversial new programme. It's being… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics for 1 April 2010
6:38 PM.This week the Government released a discussion document it hopes will finally resolve the disagreement over the Foreshore and Seabed Act. Audio
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Focus on Politics for 26 March 2010
6:38 PM.In late January, the Prime Minister John Key announced Steven Joyce would pick up tertiary education from his ministerial colleague, Anne Tolley, to give her more time to concentrate on her education… Read more Audio
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Focus On Politics for 19 March 2010
6:40 PM.The Government has again taken aim at the Public Service, with warnings of further job cuts, departmental mergers and the hunt for the source of leaked Cabinet papers. Already almost 1500 jobs have… Read more Audio