Raw Politics

Every Friday, near the end of the political week, Laura Walters, Tim Murphy, Marc Daalder and a range of Newsroom's political reporters will dissect the big issues and put politicians’ performances under the microscope in a lively 20 minute show aiming to take viewers and listeners inside the beltway. Watch Raw Politics every week on YouTube or listen on your favourite podcast app. And send us your burning political questions to laura.walters@newsroom.co.nz and we’ll endeavour to find the answer and explain the issues.

Raw Politics is a news podcast hosted by newsroom.co.nz, with 62 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #32

  Raw Politics picks the best and worst of 2024 – and 2025

  Dec 11, 202443 minS2

  On this week’s Raw Politics podcast: We honour the standout performances and policies, good and bad, of this year, plus make our predictions for 2025<br /><br />Four different MPs are nominated by our four Raw Politics panelists for the honour of standout politician of 2024 – and consensus is hard to come by for many of our other accolades.<br /><br />The Raw Politics podcast weighs the good and bad for 2024 – leaders, new MPs, policy pushes, controversies and cringeworthy moments. A sneak preview: the cringe of the year is shared by two big names in Parliament, both for their actions captured on vid...

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  Episode #31

  Throwing in the towel on climate and the foreshore

  Dec 4, 202442 minS2

  <b>This week on the Raw Politics podcast: what voters want on climate change policy, will ministers ditch the foreshore repeal, plus Ayesha Verrall's faux pas</b><br /><br /><br />Climate change is hard and changing New Zealanders' attitudes and behaviour seems harder still for this Government and its predecessors. Should the coalition accept that's the reality and go slow and low in its ambitions for change?<br /><br />The Raw Politics podcast looks at the coalition's latest report on methane from farm animals – a dense scientific fig leaf that could allow ministers to let NZ do less to cut em...

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  Episode #30

  Labour's year of living anonymously

  Nov 27, 202434 minS2

  <b>This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Remembering Nikki Kaye, assessing the Labour Party one year on, and Christopher and Winston's nostalgia trip on foreign affairs</b><br /><br />Labour's MPs and party members gather in Christchurch this weekend, a year after a humiliating defeat took them from the historic, first majority MMP government into the wilderness, watching a centre-right coalition dismantle their legacy.<br /><br />The Raw Politics podcast assesses where the party finds itself, with the electorate and members of the public still not answering the phone, but too early to reveal a new strategy, policies or...

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  Episode #29

  Six months in a leaky Bill

  Nov 20, 202438 minS2

  <b>This week on the Raw Politics podcast: The hikoi’s over, now for a half year of claim and counterclaim, dissent and debate. Plus: NZ speaks out of both sides of its mouth at COP29.</b><br /><br />Prime Minister Christopher Luxon did not meet the Treaty Principles Bill hikoi crowd, sees “nothing” of merit in the Act-proposed law but the Parliament his Government dominates will spend six months debating a “divisive” measure.<br /><br />That’s because he has accepted there needs to be “aeration” of people’s views on the Treaty, and his party acceded to Act’s pressure to includ...

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  Episode #28

  MPs face-off over the Great Divide

  Nov 14, 202437 minS2

  <b>On this week’s Raw Politics podcast: The Act and Māori parties at point-blank range, plus the risk of the Crown apology petering out</b><br /><br />Parliament saw two historic days this week, one of great solemnity and unity, the other a raucous and high-stakes stand-off between political foes over the Treaty of Waitangi.<br /><br />Raw Politics looks first at the volatile reception for Act’s Treaty Principles Bill at its first reading, how parties performed to their voting bases, and what lies ahead now in select committee hearings over the next six months.<br /><br />Newsr...

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