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Patrick Gower interviews Labour's Grant Robertson
Saturday, 7 November 2015, 5:50 pm | The Nation
Robertson backs away from Labour’s 2014 Variable Savings Rate policy to influence monetary policy, admitting it’s a “complicated policy” and he can’t commit to it. Says 45% of jobs in NZ may be gone in 10-15 years and praises a Denmark-style ... More >>
Patrick Gower interviews Labour leader Andrew Little
Saturday, 7 November 2015, 5:49 pm | The Nation
Little says a Labour government won’t bring in a capital gains tax in its first term. “We won’t introduce it in our first term, and we won’t introduce any change that significant to the tax system, any material change to the tax system, ... More >>
Lisa Owen interviews Nick Smith
Sunday, 1 November 2015, 12:24 pm | The Nation
On The Nation:Lisa Owen interviews Environment & Housing Minister Nick Smith Environment Minister says he’s purposefully ‘keeping the door open’ to more genetically modified organism (GMO) releases and “we are not ruling out making ... More >>
Lisa Owen Interviews Metropolitan Mayors
Saturday, 31 October 2015, 10:24 pm | The Nation
On The Nation: Lisa Owen talks to Auckland Mayor Len Brown, Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown & Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel More >>
Lisa Owen talks to Russel Norman
Saturday, 31 October 2015, 6:48 pm | The Nation
Norman says he’s told Labour Party it was a “mistake” to roll David Shearer as leader. “I think it could well have changed the course of the election. I do believe that. I think they made a mistake.” Says Labour’s problems in the lead-up ... More >>
Patrick Gower interviews Health Minister Jonathan Coleman
Saturday, 24 October 2015, 5:46 pm | The Nation
Minister doesn’t know what’s happened to the estimated 160,000 patients who failed to get a specialist appointment after being referred by their GP but is now trying to find out Major work underway to count and understand what’s happened ... More >>
The Nation 24/10/15: Obesity, Afghanistan, Little
Friday, 23 October 2015, 4:33 pm | The Nation
Patrick Gower sits down with the Health Minister Jonathan Coleman to talk about whether his new obesity plan is ambitious enough, what’s happening to tens of thousands of patients who aren’t getting to see specialists, and whether National is really ... More >>
On The Nation: Lisa Owen interviews Sir Jim McLay
Sunday, 18 October 2015, 12:19 pm | The Nation
Lisa Owen interviews NZ's Representative to the Palestinian Authority Sir Jim McLayMore >>
Lisa Owen interviews Labour MP Kelvin Davis
Sunday, 18 October 2015, 12:12 pm | The Nation
Lisa Owen: And one of Little’s men, Corrections spokesman Kelvin Davis, is on his own journey to visit New Zealanders held in a detention centre on Christmas Island, which is now called the Kiwi Alcatraz. 3News political reporter Brook Sabin is travelling ... More >>
Lisa Owen interviews Chief Ombudsman Dame Beverley Wakem
Sunday, 18 October 2015, 12:09 pm | The Nation
Prime Minister’s attitude to the Official Information Act is “cavalier” and shows “a disregard for the law”, says Ombudsman, though she admits she hasn’t spoken to him about it Says she does not think the OIA has become more politicised, ... More >>
Lisa Owen interviews Trade Minister Tim Groser
Sunday, 11 October 2015, 9:50 am | The Nation
Groser says TPP would “in principle” still allow any future NZ government to introduce a capital gains tax or stamp duty on foreign property buyers “I guess, if you wanted to drive foreigners away and send a message to the world New Zealand’s ... More >>
Lisa Owen talks to CTU president Helen Kelly
Saturday, 10 October 2015, 1:26 pm | The Nation
Kelly says she has taken cannabis oil for cancer pain relief and plans to seek Government permission to access it legally “I’m actually going to write to Peter Dunne, who’s got permission to give me cannabis oil, and I’m going to ask him to do ... More >>
Patrick Gower interviews GCSB acting director Una Jagose
Monday, 5 October 2015, 10:32 am | The Nation
Jagose says GCSB doesn’t focus on who is responsible for cyber attacks on NZ companies & government departments but on protecting networks and systems instead. More >>
Lisa Owen interviews Richard Dawkins
Monday, 5 October 2015, 10:17 am | The Nation
Lisa Owen: You're back with The Nation. Well, world-famous scientist Richard Dawkins is no stranger to controversy. The evolutionary biologist shot to fame with his book The Selfish Gene and cemented his reputation as a strident atheist with another best-seller, ... More >>
PM John Key: TPP, Aussie Deportations, Syria
Monday, 5 October 2015, 9:19 am | The Nation
Key says Australia will back down on its policy of deporting Kiwis sentenced to at least a year in prison: “I don’t actually think the Australian position’s sustainable over the very long term”. More >>
The Nation 3/10/15: Key at the UN, GCSB, Richard Dawkins
Friday, 2 October 2015, 5:27 pm | The Nation
Prime Minister John Key’s been on the world stage at the United Nations General Assembly, but what’s been achieved? 3News political reporter Tova O’Brien talks to him in New York about the TPP, the big powers facing off over Syria, and New Zealanders ... More >>
Lisa Owen interviews Madam Fu Ying
Saturday, 26 September 2015, 3:39 pm | The Nation
Lisa Owen interviews Madam Fu Ying, the foreign affairs committee chair of China’s National People’s Congress Says Chinese Ambassador has told her “more and more” Chinese companies are interested in investing here as NZ has “consistent policy” ... More >>
Lisa Owen interviews Social Development Minister Anne Tolley
Saturday, 26 September 2015, 3:37 pm | The Nation
Tolley says NZ needs “a lot more” caregivers and "definitely looking” at paying and supporting them more; reveals plans for a new 'A team' of caregivers for the most troubled kids. “We’d be looking for some people with some extra ... More >>
The Nation: CYF; chair of China’s Foreign Affairs committee
Friday, 25 September 2015, 5:24 pm | The Nation
Another damning report of Child, Youth and Family this week, so what happens next? We talk to Social Development Minister Anne Tolley about her plans to overhaul the organisation and whether that means more funding or just a moving of deckchairs. More >>
Lisa Owen interviews Green Party co-leader James Shaw
Saturday, 19 September 2015, 8:13 pm | The Nation
Shaw says the Greens haven’t spoken to Labour yet about a joined-up policy presentation, but will “float” it because it’s important for voters to see what an alternative government will look like Owen: So it is something you’d like to achieve? Shaw: ... More >>
