Show Notes
This week on The Bradbury Group, Martin Bradbury is joined by Labour Party candidate Karen Nēpia, columnist Simon Wilson, and political commentator Matthew Hooton for another full-throttle argument about New Zealand politics.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins joins the show to take aim at ACT and New Zealand First’s immigration policies, the growing fuel crisis, and the extraordinary public clash between Christopher Luxon and Winston Peters over New Zealand’s response to the war with Iran.
Former Labour leader, Auckland mayor and British High Commissioner Phil Goff also joins Martin to unpack what Winston Peters’ release of Cabinet emails says about Luxon’s leadership, New Zealand’s foreign policy credibility, and whether the Prime Minister is out of his depth on the world stage.
The panel digs into three big questions:
Can Winston Peters keep undermining Luxon without consequence?
Are ACT and New Zealand First using immigration as an election-year dog whistle?
And should New Zealand help Trump reopen the Strait of Hormuz, or force America and Israel to fix the crisis they created?
It is fiery, messy, sharp and very Bradbury.
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