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The Spinoff
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Spinoff
Gone By Lunchtime: New polls, old PMs and a sacrificed goat
At the political half-time mark, we assess the ritual changeover, a brace of new surveys and a very New Zealand altercation at the music awards. We're officially in the second half of the term, a milestone marked by the historic handover of the hallowed deputy prime minister amulet from Winston Peters to David Seymour. The moment comes with pageantry, a flurry of interviews and a pair of new polls, which deliver intriguing, and sometimes divergent results. In a new episode of Spinoff politics podcast Gone By Lunchtime, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas pore over the results and what they mean for the parties and the politicians in the post-budget, post-pay-equity-reshape wash-up. Plus: Jim Bolger and Jacinda Ardern have both been in the headlines in recent days. What do these returns tell us about the performance of their Chris-themed successors? And Chris Bishop found himself in a media moshpit after the Aotearoa Music Awards for calling the Stan Walker Toitū Te Tiriti parade 'crap' and earning the most painful denunciation imaginable: being called a dickhead by living legend Don McGlashan.
The Spinoff
22-05-2025
- Business
- The Spinoff
Gone By Lunchtime x When The Facts Change: A Budget special
Bernard Hickey crunches the numbers in a special Gone By Lunchtime meets When the Facts Change crossover episode. In the year of growth, Nicola Willis has presented a growth budget. But does the Investment Boost initiative, which speeds up depreciation for businesses, promise the kind of growth that the economy needs? In this special Spinoff pod for budget day, Toby Manhire asks Bernard Hickey for his take on the headline changes, and whether or not David Seymour's earlier commentary that his colleague Brooke van Velden had 'saved the budget' through its controversial and hurried changes to the pay equiry scheme, has been proven true. Plus: what are the cumulative impacts of the changes to KiwiSaver and Best Start, as compared to the SuperGold cohort? And how much did the global political and economic volatility influence the documents published today?
The Spinoff
21-05-2025
- Politics
- The Spinoff
Gone By Lunchtime: House of C****
Reflections on haka-triggered bans and column-propelled C-bombs, and a couple of thoughts about the budget. A last-minute adjournment has kicked the debate around the punishments imposed upon Te Pāti Māori MPs down the road and past the budget, avoiding a possible burst of filibuster activity. All of that follows a controversial Privileges Committee decision to serve up suspensions that go well beyond anything seen before in an episode stemming from an extraordinary day in parliament six months ago. The air in parliament was already thick after a newspaper column used the C-word to describe several senior MPs and their decision to change pay equity rules. Act MP Brooke Van Velden, who'd been on the defensive over the reforms, pushed through under urgency, found a new, powerful voice, and spoke without asterisks. It all prompted such disarray in the debating chamber that Winston Peters, doyen of parliamentary decorum, denounced a 'House of Chaos' (an accidental allusion to the popular monthly techno night at Firecrackers nightclub in Ashburton). All of that is on the slate for Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas in this latest episode of the Spinoff politics podcast Gone By Lunchtime. Plus: we exclusively read the full text of the Budget Policy Statement and Estimates of appropriations that are scheduled for publication tomorrow.
The Spinoff
07-05-2025
- Politics
- The Spinoff
Gone By Lunchtime: Really, really, really urgent
The shock pay equity reform, a curious social media ban bill, and the lessons of Australia and the Trump effect. An overhaul of the pay equity process has been whisked through parliament under urgency in little over 24 hours. The changes, which tighten the criteria for making a claim for workers in female-dominated sectors and summarily halt 33 existing claims in the pipeline, have prompted a major backlash, in part for their substance and in part for the decision to push the reform through without the usual consultation under a select committee process or regulatory impact statement. In a new episode of our politics podcast Gone By Lunchtime, Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire discuss the unexpected announcement, the rationale for urgency, and whether it's too cynical to suspect the urgency might in truth be motivated by a a tricky budget a fortnight away, with suggestions these changes could save $10 billion over four years. And what of the response – is National risking the gains it has made among women voters? Also on the pod: at around the same time the pay equity changes were announced, Christopher Luxon was enthusiastically backing another bill that would follow Australia in banning social media for under-16s. This wasn't government legislation, however, but a member's bill. What is with the surge in these bills as mechanisms for party campaigning? What is the polling telling politicians about young people and social media? And does Luxon know he's the prime minister? Plus: Australians have returned Labor and Albanese to power in what is being called a 'bloodbath', hot on the heels of Mark Carney's big comeback in Canada. How big is the Trump effect, is it good news for the left or good news for incumbents, and how might New Zealand politicians look to seize upon the Trumpy moment? Follow Gone By Lunchtime on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.
The Spinoff
30-04-2025
- Politics
- The Spinoff
Gone By Brunchtime: The fizz and flop of Australia's election – and its lessons for NZ
With just a few days to polls-time, Ben McKay joins Toby Manhire to chat about the Albo v Dutto denouement. This Saturday Aussies will (compulsorily) head to the polls. At the start of the year, Labor under Anthony Albanese was staring down the barrel of defeat and the first one-term government for almost 100 years. But with a few days to go, the pollsters are all picking that he'll return to power. What changed? Where did Peter Dutton's makeover go wrong? What happened to the Coalition campaign? Did Donald Trump play a role? To tackle these questions, complete with yarns about salmon and wallabies and paddling pool anomalies, is Ben McKay, Pacific editor for AAP and an illustrious former inhabitant of the New Zealand press gallery. In a special edition of the podcast temporarily renamed Gone By Brunchtime in recognition of the time difference, McKay joins Toby Manhire to unpick all of that, what it means for the New Zealander pathway to citizenship, the New Zealand influence across the Tasman, and what political parties here might learn from there with 2026 just around the corner. Follow Gone By Lunchtime on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.
