Show Notes
Has Christopher Luxon lost the business community? Has Winston Peters become untenable as Foreign Minister? And does ACT seriously believe physically removing disruptive children will make schools safer?
Martyn Bradbury is joined by Labour candidate Michael Wood, BusinessDesk journalist Maria Slade and TOP’s Qiulae Wong for a combustible election-year argument about the economy, political racism, immigration, school discipline and the increasingly unstable coalition Government.
Plus, Opposition Leader Chris Hipkins explains why Winston Peters should be removed as Foreign Minister, while Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan responds to the personal attacks against him and the wider rise of race-baiting politics in New Zealand.
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