About this podcast
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.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 74 episodes
- Raw Politics: And now, the end is near... · 40 min · Season 3 Episode 12This week on the Raw Politics podcast: the major parties and blocs are locked in a wrestling hold and no one will tap out A deadlock on the night, or a counter-intuitive moment…
- Raw Politics: Overhang together or they all hang separately · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 11This week on the Raw Politics podcast: what's all this talk about an election overhang? Plus the Greens, the quiet giant of this campaign Will the campaign for an overhang in…
- Raw Politics: Health crisis consumes Simeon, Opportunity consumes Winston · 37 min · Season 3 Episode 10This week on the Raw Politics podcast: One last chance to hear the wisdom and biting analysis of the great Sam Sachdeva as he signs off after a decade with Newsroom With 16 days…
- Raw Politics: Qiulae wants a mobile number, Labour wants a fair go · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 9This week on the Raw Politics podcast: a major star in a minor debate, Labour’s rising star, and old political stars sharing the campaign limelight New Zealanders watched a…
- Raw Politics: At the risk of being cancelled... · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 8This week on the Raw Politics podcast: can Luxon find his debate A-game, fiscal holes swallowing everyone, and relief at NZ First's party list Does it matter who's the better…
- Raw Politics: The sun will come out, tomorrow · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 7This week on the Raw Politics podcast: voters get their last look at the books, will strategic voting help or harm National, plus Opportunity’s bottom lines The big reveal is…
- Raw Politics: Things get dirty · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 6This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Are dirty politics happening before our eyes? Bouquets and brickbats for Parliament; and the Hager book assessed How big a deal for voters…
- Raw Politics: The end of an era for the two major parties · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 5This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Is National and Labour's dominance over? Politicians get desperate on supermarkets; plus what to do about the police Are we at the end of…
- Raw Politics: Labour grabs the defibrillator, Greens think outside the (red) square · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 4This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Labour’s search for its second wind, hands up for a public supermarket, and Paris in election time Eight weeks until the election and…
- Raw Politics: Draining the swamp and entrenching the Treaty · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 3This week on the Raw Politics podcast: the coalition eyes drastic change in the public service, Te Pāti Māori eyes drastic change in our constitution, plus why health imperils…
- Raw Politics: The kids bring National and Labour together · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 2The country’s two biggest political parties found common ground this week not once, but twice. Well, kind-of, temporarily, with not much grace or real commitment. Today, the Raw…
- Raw Politics is back: 11 weeks of tax attacks ahead · 28 min · Season 3 Episode 1The election is 78 days away so it’s over time to start tuning in to what’s going on in the world of politics. Our Raw Politics podcast is here to help. From today, Raw Politics…
- Raw Politics picks the best and worst of 2024 – and 2025 · 43 min · Season 2 Episode 32On 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 Four different MPs are…
- Throwing in the towel on climate and the foreshore · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 31This 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 Climate change is…
- Labour's year of living anonymously · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 30This 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 Labour's…
- Six months in a leaky Bill · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 29This 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…
- MPs face-off over the Great Divide · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 28On this week’s Raw Politics podcast: The Act and Māori parties at point-blank range, plus the risk of the Crown apology petering out Parliament saw two historic days this week…
- Act finally gets its shot at the Treaty · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 27This week on the Raw Politics podcast: David Seymour floats a new law labelled the single greatest breach of the Treaty of Waitangi. Plus political editor Laura Walters joins us…
- America’s final election? · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 26This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Who’s closing it out best ahead of next week’s US election; Act’s education wins; plus relaxing the checks on your new house The end of…
- Send in the Crown(s) · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 25This week on the Raw Politics podcast: This Govt was going to be push localism but is instead pushing in on cities and regions. Plus: Time for the Greens to rediscover the…
