Despite a deteriorating economic outlook and inconvenient calculations, Nicola Willis and Chris Luxon insist that they can deliver promised tax cuts without new taxes or higher borrowing. Or that’s the intention, at least. Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas chew over the fiscal predicament.
Plus: is the new fast-track consenting law, which concentrates immense power in the hands of Chris Bishop, Simeon Brown and Shane Jones, a necessary circuit breaker or a lurch towards Muldoonism? What to make of Winston Peters’ ramblings about Nazism, DNA and co-governance? And while Chumbawamba have urged New Zealand's veteran tub-thumper to cease and desist, is a better template for his contribution one of the Gallagher brothers?
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A conversation with Grant Robertson at the cricket
An untimely case of entitleditis
Ia manuia lau malaga, Efeso Collins
Waitangi spiders and the Winston scriptures
The three-headed taniwha
2023: A year in review
The Spinoff presents SUPERPOD 2023
Luxon and the rizz
The Weet-Bix coalition
Big rock energy and coalition talks
Post-election special: back on one track or other
Election night special: a debrief
Panic at the Briscoes
Chris Hipkins is relentlessly positive
Winston Peters? I don't know her
Megapod 22: Can Annabelle, Ben and Toby make it out alive?
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