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The Spinoff
16-07-2025
- Politics
- The Spinoff
Gone By Lunchtime: ‘The one thing they could blow up the government over'
We rattle through the reg stan bill, its advocates, its dissenters, and the tension it has created within the coalition. There has plenty plenty of heat, and occasional shafts of light, in the arguments around the government's regulatory standards bill (or reg stan bill, as nobody except the Gone By Lunchtime podcast is calling it). In a new episode of the Spinoff politics chinwag, Annabelle Lee-Mather, Ben Thomas and Toby Manhire discuss the bill, its ambitions and the criticisms levelled against it. And another thing: the way the legislation has become a source of some tension between the Act and New Zealand First Party, amplified by a cameo appearance by a United Nations special rapporteur. Also on the pod: the state of play in the Tāmaki Makaurau byelection, and the state of yuck in Wellington local body politics. You'll never guess what we heard from the friend of a neighbour of a colleague about Ray Chung.
The Spinoff
02-07-2025
- Politics
- The Spinoff
Gone By Lunchtime: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the supermarket
We discuss our issues. With an election about 15 months away, there are few better ways to get a sense of the political terrain than the Ipsos Issues Monitor, a survey that tracks the issues of greatest concern to New Zealanders, the parties they consider best equipped to deal with those issues, and how all of that has changed over time. In a new episode of Gone By Lunchtime, The Spinoff's politics podcast, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas assess the latest edition of the study. Cost of living had been subsiding in recent surveys, but the line has now poked back upward, with 55% picking it as one their three chief concerns. At the same time, respondents have, by a narrow margin, nominated Labour as the party better equipped to deal with the problem. Health, meanwhile, is second on the list of concerns, underscoring the challenge being taken on by Simeon Brown as health minister. Also on the agenda for discussion: Shane Jones is promoting a bill that would oblige Ngāpuhi to undertake a single commercial treaty settlement; does he have a point? And we reflect on the formidable legacy of Takutai Tarsh Kemp, Te Pati Māori MP for Tāmaki Makaurau since 2023, who died suddenly last week at the age of 50.
The Spinoff
18-06-2025
- Politics
- The Spinoff
Gone By Lunchtime: New Zealand bestrides the globe, punching above our tightrope
Christopher Luxon is off to China and Europe in a world on fire. Around the world, the flames of aggression and instability are burning. As Christopher Luxon arrives in China his immediate challenge is to douse the alarm from several former politicians and ensure that the relationship with leaders in New Zealand's biggest export market are sweet. From there, the New Zealand prime minister is off to Europe and another guest spot at Nato, who are meeting in the Hague. In a new episode of Gone By Lunchtime, Toby Manhire, Ben Thomas and Annabelle Lee-Mather chew over the shifting global dynamic he'll encounter, with escalating conflict between Israel and Iran, Trump quitting G7 early and ongoing devastation in Ukraine and Gaza. More prosaically, will Luxon welcome a chance to stride the international stage after a bit of a media flub on sick pay just before he left? Plus: a word on a sweary scrutiny week.
The Spinoff
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Spinoff
Gone By Lunchtime: New polls, old PMs and a sacrificed goat
At the political half-time mark, we assess the ritual changeover, a brace of new surveys and a very New Zealand altercation at the music awards. We're officially in the second half of the term, a milestone marked by the historic handover of the hallowed deputy prime minister amulet from Winston Peters to David Seymour. The moment comes with pageantry, a flurry of interviews and a pair of new polls, which deliver intriguing, and sometimes divergent results. In a new episode of Spinoff politics podcast Gone By Lunchtime, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas pore over the results and what they mean for the parties and the politicians in the post-budget, post-pay-equity-reshape wash-up. Plus: Jim Bolger and Jacinda Ardern have both been in the headlines in recent days. What do these returns tell us about the performance of their Chris-themed successors? And Chris Bishop found himself in a media moshpit after the Aotearoa Music Awards for calling the Stan Walker Toitū Te Tiriti parade 'crap' and earning the most painful denunciation imaginable: being called a dickhead by living legend Don McGlashan.
The Spinoff
22-05-2025
- Business
- The Spinoff
Gone By Lunchtime x When The Facts Change: A Budget special
Bernard Hickey crunches the numbers in a special Gone By Lunchtime meets When the Facts Change crossover episode. In the year of growth, Nicola Willis has presented a growth budget. But does the Investment Boost initiative, which speeds up depreciation for businesses, promise the kind of growth that the economy needs? In this special Spinoff pod for budget day, Toby Manhire asks Bernard Hickey for his take on the headline changes, and whether or not David Seymour's earlier commentary that his colleague Brooke van Velden had 'saved the budget' through its controversial and hurried changes to the pay equiry scheme, has been proven true. Plus: what are the cumulative impacts of the changes to KiwiSaver and Best Start, as compared to the SuperGold cohort? And how much did the global political and economic volatility influence the documents published today?
