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9/11, Campaign Chaos and Rogue Machines
September 14, 2026 · 53 minHosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines marks the 25th anniversary of September 11 with a deeply personal account of the night the world changed — and then turns to an election campaign generating more heat than light…
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August 31, 2026 · 49 minHosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns in a week dominated by tax promises nobody can keep, a CEO pay packet that defies all decency and a rare moment of cross-party agreement on social media and children that…
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August 24, 2026 · 51 minHosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns to its usual programming for an episode that is almost entirely about the health of democracy itself: in New Zealand’s hospitals, in its political donation system, in its…
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Live Q&A: New Zealand's Greatest Mistake, the Foreshore Lie and Who's Worst
August 17, 2026 · 42 minHosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson with special guests Helen Clark and Tracey Martin, this bonus episode brings together the questions from the live Q&A sessions at both the Auckland Q Theatre and Wellington Hannah Playhouse…
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Penk, Peters and Citizens Arrests (LIVE with Tracey Martin)
August 15, 2026 · 1 hr 6 minHosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines goes live at the Hannah Playhouse in Wellington — sold out in a week — with a very special guest: Tracey Martin, former deputy leader of New Zealand First, former Minister for…
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Numpties, Captains Calls and the Populist Menace (LIVE with Helen Clark)
August 10, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minHosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines goes live at Q Theatre in Auckland — with a very special guest: the Right Honourable Helen Clark, former Prime Minister, former UNDP Administrator and member of The Elders. An…
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Peters' Dying Light, Data Debate and Disappearing Commissioners
August 3, 2026 · 47 minHosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns with an episode that opens on Winston Peters telling a Green MP to go back to his own country and calling China’s leaders liars — and asks why the Prime Minister is…
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Double Standards, Tariff Hypocrisy and Parliament on the Clock
July 27, 2026 · 50 minHosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns to a week that generated more podcast fallout than any episode before it — the Stuart Nash story broke on this show — and moves through Trump’s forced labour tariffs, the…
About the show
A weekly podcast about the political landscape in New Zealand and around the world. Proudly going beyond the headlines, looking at the structural challenges, challenging the status quo and explaining our place in the complex geopolitical stage. Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson.
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