Q+A with Jack Tame
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Q+A with Jack Tame
NZ's leading politics programme. #nzqanda is made with the support of NZ On Air.
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387 episodes
Full Show: 30 August 2026
Willie Jackson: Labour's record on Māori issues
Labour lost all but one of the seven Māori seats at the 2023 general election. This year,...
War in Iran: NZ must reset foreign policy - expert
By some estimates, the war with Iran has now cost the United States more than 180 billion dollars. After peace talks broke down, US President Donald T...
Election 2026: The new electorate that's 'got issues'
Wellington Bays is the new name for what was the second-most left-voting electorate in the country in 2023. In the redrawn lines for Green MP Julie An...
Should NZ break up the gentailers? Energy boss responds
In an election year marked by energy policy, both New Zealand First and the Green Party are campaigning on breaking up the country's four gentailers,...
Willie Jackson: Labour's record on Māori issues
Labour lost all but one of the seven Māori seats at the 2023 general election. This year, to rival a controversial tactic from Te Pāti Māori asking vo...
Full Show: 16 August 2026
Former health boss: Why hospitals are overwhelmed
New Zealand knows that flu season can overwhelm frontline health services and still fai...
How to fix the economy? Be a 'good ancestor'
Economist and former Productivity Commissioner Ganesh Ahirao wants to see the way Governments plan borrowing and spending completely turned around: re...
What Kiwi soldiers in Ukraine want NZ to know
Since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, several New Zealand-trained soldiers have travelled to the other side of the world to take up the fight. The on...
Former health boss: Why hospitals are overwhelmed
New Zealand knows that flu season can overwhelm frontline health services and still fails to plan for it. Rob Campbell says the country needs a new, '...
The NZSAS combat soldier standing for parliament
Josh Jacobsen, a former NZSAS combat soldier, and a veteran of Afghanistan, holds an NZ Gallantry Medal - and a Green Party membership.
H...
Full Show: 16 August 2026
Paul Goldsmith: Expanding citizen's arrests, move-on orders, and voting law reform
After an eventful week led to senior minister Paul Gol...
Qiulae Wong: Why newcomer party wants stricter donation laws
In less than a year, Opportunity have gone from sub-one percent support to eight percent in the latest 1News Verrian poll. On those numbers, leader Qi...
Paul Goldsmith: Expanding citizen's arrests, move-on orders, and voting law reform
After an eventful week led to senior minister Paul Goldsmith being landed with 11 ministerial portfolios - possibly the most a single minister has eve...
Full Show: 9 August 2026
Simeon Brown: Energy prices, hospital pressures, and National's polling
With power prices in the spotlight, Energy Minister Simeon Brown...
New laws: Will voters be turned away?
In late 2025, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith celebrated the passing of a new law which he said would speed up the voting count after a general electi...
The last hold-outs against housing development
With just one new housing development, the town of Prebbleton, on the outskirts of Christchurch, could increase its total number of households by over...
Simeon Brown: Energy prices, hospital pressures, and National's polling
With power prices in the spotlight, Energy Minister Simeon Brown has become one of the key figures in Christopher Luxon's cabinet.
He joins Jac...
Full Show: 2 August 2026
Outspoken former Children's Commissioner cut short in role
Dr Claire Achmad was given around five weeks' notice that she would be exitin...
"Discriminatory" law focus of Green MP's bill
Migrant families can be split apart when family members are denied visas on the basis that their disability would be a burden to New Zealand's health...
Most people want fewer cars, Dutch academic says
Twenty years from now, people will look back on high speed limits we have in cities now and find them just as unbelievable as smoking indoors - a reli...
Outspoken former Children's Commissioner cut short in role
Dr Claire Achmad was given around five weeks' notice that she would be exiting her role of Children's Commissioner. First appointed to a five-year ter...
Spy allegations: NZ's relationship with Russia in focus
Russia's principal security service says a Russian citizen has been detained in the country's far East. The man is accused of spying for New Zealand's...
Full Show: 26 July 2026
Chlöe Swarbrick: Greens want one-year ban on AI data centres
The Greens have announced an election campaign policy to put a one-year moratorium...
Does NZ need move-on orders? "No" says former judge
Anthony FitzGerald served as a judge for 27 years and has seen first-hand the fortunes of Auckland's homeless caught in the justice system. This week...
Up-and-comers talk Stuart Nash, smartphone ban, and their leaders
Labour MP Arena Williams and National MP James Meager join Tova O'Brien to discuss the big stories of the week, including Stuart Nash's election-killi...
Does the deepfake bill go far enough?
First-term ACT MP Laura McClure captured headlines by holding up an image in parliament that appeared to show her naked: the image was a deepfake. She...
Chlöe Swarbrick: Greens want one-year ban on AI data centres
The Greens have announced an election campaign policy to put a one-year moratorium on the consenting and building of AI data centres in New Zealand, c...
Chris Penk: Defence workforce shortages
Former naval officer Chris Penk took over the helm of the defence portfolio from ministerial veteran Judith Collins in April of this year. Since then,...
Why Paul Henry thinks ACT can save New Zealand
Paul Henry has worked in broadcasting for more than forty years, becoming one of the most recognisable names in New Zealand television from his time a...
Alienation in the "ahistoric age": Sarah Irving-Stonebraker
Historian Sarah Irving-Stonebraker joins Q+A to discuss her ideas around increasing societal alienation, and in her view why diminishing knowledge of...
Clark, Ardern senior staffer up-close view of political contest
Mike Munro was one of the most senior behind the scenes figures in both Helen Clark, and Dame Jacinda Ardern’s governments.
In an interv...
Full Show: 28 June 2026
'Perverse incentive': MSD staff metrics include emergency housing grants
Ministry of Social Development (MSD) managers are being told th...
“Social conservatism”: Why Alfred Ngaro joined NZ First
Former National MP and minister Alfred Ngaro joins Q+A to talk about his political journey towards becoming a candidate for NZ First, his socially con...
“Prince of the provinces”: On the road with Shane Jones
Senior NZ First MPs are on a long tour of town halls around the country, with more than 30 dates planned before the election campaign begins.
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Why Labour thinks it can make rapid return to government
Labour strategists are hoping for a return to government just three years after one of their worst-ever election results. Campaign chair Kieran McAnul...
'Perverse incentive': MSD staff metrics include emergency housing grants
Ministry of Social Development (MSD) managers are being told they can face performance management if, among other measures, their staff approve too ma...
Full Show: 21 June 2026
Helen Clark: New Zealand's unsolved problems and fragile peace in Iran
Productivity, sensible taxation and the ballooning cost of superan...
Real estate agents, doctors shouldn't be punished for free speech: ACT policy
The ACT Party has introduced a new campaign policy which it says will stop professional regulatory bodies - like the Medical Council, or Real Estate A...
Live from National's 90th annual party conference
The Prime Minister and National Party faithful are gathering in Wellington for the party's 90th annual conference. With less than five months until th...
Helen Clark: New Zealand's unsolved problems and fragile peace in Iran
Productivity, sensible taxation and the ballooning cost of superannuation are among the uniquely thorny, long-lasting issues that New Zealand hasn't b...