Tova
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Tova O’Brien hosts Stuff’s political podcast holding the powerful to account and putting the concerns of real people front and centre.
With regular guests Andrea Vance, picking the winners and losers of the week in Snakes and Leaders, and Luke Malpass, calling key moments for the coming week in Beehive Buzz.
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CREDITS
Host and producer: Tova O'Brien.
Sound design, audio editing and mixing: Connor Scott and John Ropiha.
Executive producer: Chris Reed.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 66 episodes
- ICYMI: Going nuclear - ‘We are entering an era of a new global arms race’ · 25 minA year ago this week, Tova talked to James Acton, co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C. Amid wars in…
- Introducing: TFN - The F#$%ing News with Paddy Gower · 1 minThe F#$%ing News flips the script on the news - short, upbeat, inspirational and f%$#ing good fun journalism with the nation’s favourite everyman reporter, Paddy Gower. TFN sees…
- Politicising the Police: an interview with “wokester” Police Commissioner Andrew Coster · 53 min · Episode 46National once called him the “wokester” commissioner, now they’ve secured him a plum new job heading up the government’s new social investment agency. Police Commissioner Andrew…
- Goldsmith on gangs · 53 min · Episode 45As the Government ramps up its war on crime, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith joins us to talk anti-gang laws and why the Attorney-General made no “specific statements” on whether…
- Democratic or dangerous: What you need to know about developments with the Treaty Principles Bill · 1 h 12 min · Episode 44ACT’s push for a Treaty Principles Bill was a lightning rod throughout last year’s election campaign and has never been far from the headlines since. This week has seen…
- Talking tax - and the rest - with Labour leader Chris Hipkins · 1 h 14 min · Episode 43Chris Hipkins was our very first guest one year ago. He was Prime Minister then - a lot’s changed. After leading Labour to electoral defeat, he and the party have regrouped and…
- SOS - Save Our Stores: Behemoths of fashion, retail and hospo join forces to solve the sectors in crisis · 53 min · Episode 42Retail spending is lower than during the GFC. Retailers are going to the wall more than any other business and Retail NZ’s latest survey shows 43% of businesses are unsure…
- Champion or showman: An extended interview with Shane Jones · 51 min · Episode 41New Zealand First's de facto deputy is a self-proclaimed champion of the regions and unashamedly pro-mining, fishing and forestry. His hobbies include waging war on supermarkets…
- Sir Ashley Bloomfield on the health of our health service · 1 h 4 min · Episode 40In an exclusive interview, perhaps the most famous health figure in Aotearoa takes aim at talk of a failing system and bloated bureaucracy - but doesn’t dispute that both staff…
- Can he fix it? How new health kingpin plans to resuscitate a system in crisis · 1 h 8 min · Episode 39After losing confidence in the leadership and financial acumen of Health New Zealand-Te Whatu Ora, the Government has parachuted in an all-powerful specialist to fix the broken…
- ‘These questions are revolting’ - an interview with Children’s Minister Karen Chhour · 53 min · Episode 38The welfare of children, particularly the at-risk and vulnerable, is rarely far from the headlines. The Royal Commission report on abuse in care, the opening of the Government’s…
- Money, morale and mobsters: An extended interview with Police Minister Mark Mitchell · 1 h 10 min · Episode 37As the fallout from an acrimonious pay dispute continues, frontline cops told the Tova pod this week that the Government had “destroyed morale”. The minister responsible fronts…
- Bonus opinion: 'This is the worst of us' · 3 minTova offers her thoughts on the outcome of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse in care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Despatch from D.C. - a game-changing fortnight in US politics · 45 min · Episode 36Wow. They say a week is a long time in politics. In the United States, the last two have seen the political landscape change perhaps forever. Bullets, conventions and nominations…
- Red, White and Bruised. The diabolical debate. · 36 min · Episode 35The first US presidential debate of 2024 was at once historic, agonising, painful and deeply troubling. Have your toes unfurled? Your stomach un-knotted? Your wince de-winced?…
- An extended interview with Chloe Swarbrick · 41 min · Episode 342024 has been tough for the Greens. Multiple MPs - Golriz Ghahraman, Darleen Tana, Julie Anne Genter - have been making headlines for the wrong reasons and there have been…
- Going nuclear: Weapons, war and whether to debate our nuke-free stance · 1 h 8 min · Episode 33The battle lines are being (re)drawn in the world of geopolitics: wars in Europe and the Middle East, tension over Taiwan, Putin visiting North Korea. So, more than three decades…
- Scams, fraud and deception: Are we tough enough on white collar crime? · 1 h 22 min · Episode 32No one knows exactly how much fraud costs New Zealand each year, but it runs into the billions. Yet significantly fewer people are being convicted than two decades ago. Why? And…
- Big Budget Special · 39 min · Episode 31Happy Budget Day! The Tova pod takes you behind the scenes at Parliament as Nicola Willis unveils the Government's first bash at the books. We bring you expert reaction from…
- Bills, bills, bills and the Budget · 57 min · Episode 30With the cost of living crisis hitting hard, we assemble a panel of Kiwis doing it tough or feeling the pinch in what politicians love to call the squeezed middle. We ask how…
