7.30pm Live Tonight: The Working Group with Brad Olsen, Matthew Hooton and Damien Grant
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Panelists tonight: Economist Brad Olsen, NZ Herald Svengali Matthew Hooton + Libertarian cheerleader and Stuff columnist Damien Grant.
Issue 1- Has OCR cut saved or betrayed the NZ Economy?
Issue 2 – Luxon yelling at Councils – justified or audacity too far?
Issue 3 – Electricity market meltdown + Fast Track powers (minus the fast or the track) – is this Government’s infrastructure process a joke?
and issue 4 – The New Foreshore and Seabed confiscation makes Helen Clark look reasonable
7.30pm LIVE TONIGHT – The Working Group with Minister Karen Chhour, Labour Party Finance Spokesperson Barbara Edmonds and libertarian cheerleader Damien Grant
Panelists tonight: Minister Karen Chhour + Labour Party Finance Spokesperson Barbara Edmonds + Libertarian cheerleader and Stuff columnist Damien Grant.
Issue 1: Orr blinks and slashes the OCR as NZ Economy melts down – what happens next?
Issue 2: Welfare and Disability sanctions will do what exactly?
and Issue 3: the repeal of 7aa – will it save our kids?
7.30pm LIVE TONIGHT: The Working Group with Former Police Association President Greg O’Connor on criticisms of Nicole McKee
Panelists tonight: Former Police Association President and current Labour MP Greg O’Connor + Right Wing Think Tank NZ Initiative Svengali Dr Octavious Hartwick + Libertarian cheerleader and Stuff columnist Damien Grant.
Issue 1: Will Adrian Orr cut the OCR? Is that light the end of the inflation tunnel or a train coming for the Economy?
Issue 2: Who is to blame for Electricity price shocks? The National Party or the National Party?
Issue 3: New Draconian Welfare Punishments and Tama Potaka’s magical homeless children wand
and Issue 4: Police Association vs Nicole McKee
7.30pm LIVE TONIGHT: The Working Group with Cameron Bagrie, Damien O'Connor and Damien Grant
Issue 1: Market meltdown as Late Stage Capitalism implodes - will Global recession follow?
Issue 2: National Party Conference highlights a Party with zero vision
Issue 3: Andrea Vance on Identity Politics, Karen Chhour and ACT Party race baiting
and issue 4: What Winston's false anti-Trans tweet and the anti-Muslim fascist attacks in UK have in common
The Working Group with Matthew Hooton, Maria Slade and Damien Grant
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Panelists tonight: NZ Herald Columnist Matthew Hooton, Business Journalist Maria Slade and Stuff columnist Damien Grant.
Issue 1: The Manufactured Crisis in Health was funded by borrowed tax cuts - can National get away with it?
Issue 2: The Government's war on Māori continues, when is too much redneck policy too much?
Issue 3: Is the Economy in worse condition than the market currently recognizes?
and Issue 4: Latest Tana drama inside the Greens - 'who will rid me of this turbulent electric bike Priest'?
The Working Group with Michael Wood, Craig Renney and Damien Grant
Panelists tonight: CTU Economist Craig Renney, Former Labour Party MP and Union Hitman Michael Wood and Stuff columnist Damien Grant.
Issue 1: Shane Reti amputates public health - what happens next?
Issue 2: OCR holds but only because economy is tanking
Issue 3: The irony of starting Boot camps while apologising for abuse in State care
and Issue 4: Biden steps down - is Kamala Harris the solution?
The Working Group – Simon Wilson + Arena Williams + Damien Grant
Panelists tonight: NZ Herald columnist Simon Wilson, Labour Party MP Arena Williams and Stuff columnist Damien Grant.
Issue 1: Trump assassination attempt and impact
Issue 2: Cruelty of National Party Welfare Policy
Issue 3: Extraordinary Darleen Tana Interview
and Issue 4: The 40 year neoliberal experiment in NZ politics
The Working Group with David Seymour, Matthew Tukaki and Damien Grant
Panelists tonight: ACT Party leader David Seymour, Political Commentator Matthew Tukaki and Stuff columnist Damien Grant.
Issue 1: The Darleen Tana fisco reaches Alamein Kopu and Elizabeth Kererkere levels of satire
Issue 2: Luxon in NATO, will he bring us back AUKUS pillar 2?
Issue 3: OCR decision, Shane Jones Q+A interview and a crumbling NZ economy
and Issue 4: The Snapchat Smear - when should men talk to children?
The Working Group with Willie Jackson + Max Harris + Damien Grant
Panelists tonight: Labour Party MP Willie Jackson, Political Commentator Max Harris and Stuff columnist Damien Grant.
Issue 1 – Newshub closes this week, what impact on Fourth Estate Journalism?
Issue 2 – Latest NZ Economic Data is a red flag bingo – how bad is it going to get?
Issue 3 – Biden Vs Trump 1st Debate – is the Orange Fascism of the American Midnight upon us?
and Issue 4 – The boring UK Election, The sacre bleu French Election + New Caledonia friction
The Working Group with Seeby Woodhouse + Ani O'Brien + Damien Grant
Panelists tonight: Voyager CEO Seeby Woodhouse, Political Commentator Ani O'Brien and Stuff columnist Damien Grant.
Issue 1: We are all Aratere now - what this fiasco means for infrastructure in NZ
Issue 2: Military Boot Camps + more Police foot patrols = what exactly?
and Issue 3: National fulfils half its cancer promise for twice the cost
The Working Group with David Parker + Matthew Hooton + Damien Grant
Panelists tonight: Labour MP Intellectual Genius David Parker, NZ Herald columnist Matthew Hooton and Stuff columnist Damien Grant.
Issue 1 – Is this Government a one term Government?
Issue 2 – How bad will the NZ Economic Recession be?
and Issue 3 tonight – Latest Chinese revelations & who is the bigger threat to NZ? Beijing or Washington?
The Working Group with Barbara Edmonds + Simon Court + Shane Te Pou
Panelists tonight: Labour Party Finance Spokesperson Barbara Edmonds, Māori Broadcaster and political commentator Shane Te Pou and ACT Party MP, Simon Court
Issue 1 - Fast Track protest vs Māori Party allegations
Issue 2 - The realities of a vicious Budget
And Issue 3 - ACT Party conference dreams of 15% and the rise of the hard right
It’s Shakespearean vaudeville politics
The Working Group pre-budget 4 Economists of the Apocalypse Special: Hooton + Damien Grant + Brad Olson
Panelists tonight: NZ Herald Columnist Matthew Hooton, Economist Brad Olsen and the Libertarian Cheerleader Damien Grant.
Issue 1 – Can Nicola Willis really borrow for tax cuts and get away with it?
Issue 2 – What are the political and economic consequences of underfunding public services?
and Issue 3 – This weeks budget predictions
The Working Group with Sue Bradford, Simon Wilson and Stuff Columnist Damien Grant
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Panelists tonight: NZ Herald Columnist Simon Wilson, Left wing Jedi Sue Bradford and the Libertarian Cheerleader Damien Grant.
Issue 1 – How compromised is Bill English and National over Kianga Ora reforms?
Issue 2 – 1 weekend, 3 political parties, 4 speeches – who won?
and Issue 3 – OCR, Economy and next weeks budget – predictions
It’s Shakespearean vaudeville politics
The Working Group with Herald Columnist Fran O’Sullivan, CTU Economist Craig Renney and Stuff Columnist Damien Grant
Panelists tonight: NZ Herald Business Columnist Fran O’Sullivan, CTU Economist Craig Renney and the Libertarian Cheerleader Damien Grant.
Issue 1 – TVNZ Poll plus latest Labour Internal Poll = Right Wing Meltdown or Socialist false dawn?
Issue 2 – Luxon minus two Ministers = tough leader or panicked knee jerk?
Issue 3 – NZ Economy + Geopolitical tensions + late stage capitalism = what for politics?
7.30pm LIVE TONIGHT: The Working Group with Simon Wilson, Michael Wood and Damien Grant
As the rest of the media industry die – The Working Group, New Zealand’s greatest weekly political podcast THAT IS NOT FUNDED BY NZ ON AIR, returns 7.30pm live tonight for our 2024 Season!
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Panelists tonight: Stuff Columnist and Libertarian Cheerleader Damien Grant, E Tu Union Boss Michael Wood and NZ Herald columnist Simon Wilson
Topic 1 – Is the NZ mainstream media industry broken and what does that mean for Fourth Estate Journalism and Democracy?
Topic 2 – Brooke Van Velden’s Q+A interview and the problem of ACTs social policy vandalism
Topic 3 – Are attempts to rule methane out a new quack science for the Political Right to ignore climate change?
The Working Group - Damien Grant, John Tamihere and Shane Te Pou
The Greatest Weekly Political Podcast (not funded by NZ on Air) is back!
The Working Group Auckland Central Debate – will Chloe hold her seat?
Auckland Central Debate live at 7pm on Tuesday night between:
Chloe Swarbrick – Greens
Mahesh Muralidhar – National
Oscar Simms – Labour
Feliz Poole – ACT
The Working Group/Taxpayers’ Union Post Leaders Debate analysis live from Backbenchers Pub
This week something very special. TVNZ are hosting their first leaders debate at 7pm, and we will be watching it live at the Backbenchers Pub and at 9pm we will go live with a panel of pundits to debate who won and lost the first debate.
Taxpayers’ Union Northland Electorate debate hosted by The Working Group
This week we go to the crucial seat of Northland where Shane Jones will try and take the electorate from Willow Jean? Will National win? What about ACT? What about Matt King?
Labour – Willow-Jean Prime
National – Grant McCallum
ACT – Mark Cameron
Green – Reina Penney
NZF – Shane Jones
Democracy NZ – Matt King
