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Focus on Politics
A weekly analysis of significant political issues.
On RNZ National, Friday after 6.30pm and Saturday at 5.10pm. Online article publishes 10am on Saturdays.
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Focus on Politics: Conversion therapy
6 Aug 2021Legislation banning gay conversion therapy, a practice described as monstrous and traumatising, is making its way through Parliament but not everyone is on board. Read more Audio
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Education system grapples with te reo Māori, tikanga and systemic racism
31 Jul 2021In today's Focus on Politics podcast, Māori News Journalist Jamie Tahana and Education Correspondent John Gerritsen look at a suite of new initiatives being brought in to improve Māori achievement… Read more Audio
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Hate speech debate gets mired in politics
In today's Focus on Politics podcast, Political Reporter Anneke Smith explores how the conversation on hate speech shifted - from an effort to curb terrorism to a political bunfight - and what the… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: NZ’s not-so-healthy homes
16 Jul 2021The Government is feeling the heat from those left in the cold. RNZ political reporter Charlie Dreaver takes stock of New Zealand's not-so-healthy homes and the standards meant to improve them. Audio
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Focus on Politics: OT back under-fire
9 Jul 2021Leaked footage of a young person being manhandled at an Oranga Tamariki care and protection unit has put the agency back under the microscope. RNZ political reporter Katie Scotcher examines the events… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Goodbye Muller
2 Jul 2021The National Party is back in the headlines for all the wrong reasons, with revelations former leader Todd Muller was pressured to retire after being dobbed in for anonymously criticising a… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Defence under Labour
25 Jun 2021In Focus on Politics, RNZ political editor Jane Patterson digs into Labour's plan for the Defence Force, now it is unshackled from last term's coalition constraints. Audio
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Focus on Politics: Stage Four
18 Jun 2021This week brought some more clarity to the country's Covid-19 vaccine programme as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealed the first details of the wider roll-out to the general population. RNZ deputy… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Nurse Strike
11 Jun 2021About 30,000 nurses, midwives and other health workers have been on a seven-hour strike after nurses voted to go ahead with a strike having rejected a revised pay offer from district health boards. Audio
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Focus on Politics: ScoMo in Town
4 Jun 2021Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison made use of the Trans-Tasman travel bubble, flying into Queenstown for a sit-down meeting with NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern - one of her first since the… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Samoa in Turmoil
28 May 2021Samoa is in the grips of a constitutional crisis: a bitter power struggle between two competing governments and two political heavyweights. Both sides are claiming power and accusing the other of a… Read more Audio
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Focus on Politics: Budget 2021
21 May 2021Beneficiaries will reap the rewards of this year's Budget with a welfare boost billed as the "biggest in a generation". Audio
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About Focus on Politics
A weekly analysis of significant political issues.
On RNZ National, Friday after 6.30pm and Saturday at 5.10pm. Online article publishes 10am on Saturdays.
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