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Raw Politics

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  • Raw Politics: At the risk of being cancelled...

    October 8, 2026 · 33 min

    This 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 talker in a leaders' debate? Does even one vote move into the…

  • Raw Politics: The sun will come out, tomorrow

    September 30, 2026 · 30 min

    This 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 over and the economy might well get a lot better a lot more…

  • Raw Politics: Things get dirty

    September 24, 2026 · 32 min

    This 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 is the latest string of misleading, dirty and sometimes…

  • Raw Politics: The end of an era for the two major parties

    September 17, 2026 · 33 min

    This 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 days for the dominance by two big anchor parties in our…

  • Raw Politics: Labour grabs the defibrillator, Greens think outside the (red) square

    September 11, 2026 · 33 min

    This 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 Labour gets shocked out of its sleepwalk to possible…

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  • Raw Politics: Draining the swamp and entrenching the Treaty

    September 3, 2026 · 29 min

    This 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 every government The Government's making no secret of its plan…

  • Raw Politics: The kids bring National and Labour together

    August 26, 2026 · 30 min

    The 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 Politics panel discusses Labour’s decision to back…

  • Raw Politics is back: 11 weeks of tax attacks ahead

    August 20, 2026 · 28 min

    The 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 returns every Friday to dissect the major issues in politics…

  • Raw Politics picks the best and worst of 2024 – and 2025

    December 12, 2024 · 43 min

    On 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 nominated by our four Raw Politics panelists for the honour of…

  • Throwing in the towel on climate and the foreshore

    December 5, 2024 · 42 min

    This 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 hard and changing New Zealanders' attitudes and behaviour seems…

  • Labour's year of living anonymously

    November 28, 2024 · 34 min

    This 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 MPs and party members gather in Christchurch this weekend, a…

  • Six months in a leaky Bill

    November 21, 2024 · 38 min

    This 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 COP29. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon did not meet the Treaty…

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About the show

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. Watch Raw Politics every week on YouTube or listen on your favourite podcast app. And send us your burning political questions to laura.walters@newsroom.co.nz and we’ll endeavour to find the answer and explain the issues.