Just Kyle and Branko this week, blitzing through a parade of major global developments: Abe dead; Johnson finished; Ardern hits Oz. Is the Australia-New Zealand partnership back? Is the government walking back on its drift toward the Washington orbit? And why is the media so damn soft on Luxon? We can't promise we'll give you the answer, but you'll at least enjoy the journey.
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The OG 3 (Branko, Kyle & Philip) caught up for a long chat covering a wide spectrum of issues. The Proud Boys have been declared a terrorist organisation. Rating the idea of Health NZ vs District Health Boards. Jacinda in Europe for a trade deal with the EU, speaking at NATO & great power aggression.
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Kyle, Jan and Rustie discuss the French Parliamentary elections and the by-election in Tauranga with the spectre of the reactionary right looming over both.
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Realism: these days, you either love it or hate it, with the Ukraine war and analysis of its causes and solutions prompting a debate about its merits. To cut through the noise, Danny Bessner joins Branko to explain the history of realism, what we can learn from it, what we should reject, and its stark limits.
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The ILO have dismissed Business NZ on FPAs. The He Waka Eke Noa plan has been released and is far too weak. The National Party are polling better & better under Luxon.
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Kyle hosts Adam and Pedagogy to discuss their experiences of teaching at the chalk-face while the Omicron wave rips through NZ schools. They discuss the challenges for students and staff as an under-resourced, poorly communicated health response from the Ministry flounders as we head into winter.
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An update on Business NZs FPA misinformation campaign (not mad just disappointed). Won't somebody please think of the children; Covid is ripping through our schools. Finally in geopolitics, the NZ government seems to have definitively chosen Team USA.
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After the political & media reaction to the 2022 budget, Paul, Kyle & Philip sit down to talk it through
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Kyle, Paul and Philip discuss Business NZ’s approach to FPAs, Tauranga by-election candidates and the Emissions Reduction Plan.
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Kyle and Justine speak with PSA Organiser Will Matthews about the Allied Health Workers strike and the current state of our health service.
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The team discuss the trespass notices for protestors at Parliament, the shifting tides of climate reporting and policy and the recent furore over a wealth tax.
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Kyle, Philip and Justine discuss the media and political discourse in the last couple of weeks about Ram Raids and Crime Waves, before a brief overview of Labour's incoming Three Waters restructure and the risks of conflating the issues involved.
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Kyle chats with Rustie and Joe about the context of the Australian election campaign, what's happening and the possible results.
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Kyle and Jan discuss Ardern's return to the world stage, China and US posturing over the Solomon Islands, a final note before the French election and the killing of Kaoss Price by police earlier in the week.
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1/200 tackles the election in France, where an uninspiring, racist centrist is once more the only thing standing between a victory for the Far Right.
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The 1/200 crew has taken a page out of Christopher Luxon's book and cut the crew to just two this week, for efficiency's sake. Philip and Branko discuss Luxon's blundering policy prescriptions and, speaking of things no one's thinking too much about, New Zealand's slow motion embroilment in the war in Ukraine.
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Kyle is joined by First Union’s Ed Miller to discuss Fair Pay Agreements and some of the recent campaigns to support workers in NZ.
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Philip, Paul and Jan discuss numerous issues in the week gone - the latest NZ political polling, the resignation of MoH leadership, housing policy, the IPCC report and finally a hat-tip to the upcoming French elections.
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Justine, Philip and Kyle pay tribute to Moana Jackson, discuss the recent April 1 policy changes to NZ’s welfare state, the resignation of Louisa Wall, and whether we’ll see a change in direction from the Greens that will push Labour from the left.
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