When the Government loses Mike Hosking on the price of butter narrative you know it's a bad look. Nicola Willis' chat with Fonterra will achieve nothing and it's all window dressing and it's the consumer that will foot the bill...literally.
Will butter prices be the downfall of this government? Will it remain the example of the cost of living crisis getting out of control and will we measure all our return as 'blocks of butter' as we head into the next election.
This week an open letter was sent to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters from 150 of Aotearoa’s writers, demanding they take urgent action regarding the atrocities in Gaza. Paul Maunder is the organiser of the Blackball Writers Festival, which is where the idea of the open letter came from, and joins us tonight LIVE at 9pm.
Roger Douglas was old and slow and, due to that, was given too much time on The Bradbury Group last night with at least one of the contributors saying Douglas' perspectives were from a different era and maybe it would have been better to leave them there.
Fallout from Mehdi Hasan's Surrounded as participants begin to feel real world consequences for the 8Chan perspectives.
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