• Focus on Politics

  • By: RNZ
  • Podcast

Focus on Politics

By: RNZ
  • Summary

  • Weekly insight into the political issues that matter from RNZ's gallery team.
    (C) Radio New Zealand 2025
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Episodes
  • Waitangi Day from the Treaty Grounds
    Feb 7 2025

    In this week's Focus on Politics, Lillian Hanly goes to Waitangi and experiences the manaakitanga, the politics, and the ceremony of New Zealand's national day. Thousands of people make the trip north each year to the place where Te Tiriti was first signed - though this year, the prime minister was notably absent.

    Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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    16 mins
  • Oral submissions begin on the Treaty Principles Bill
    Jan 31 2025

    ACT leader David Seymour’s Treaty Principles Bill is being considered by the Justice Select Committee. It received an unprecedented number of written submissions and the committee made a selection to ensure hearing a broad range of views for the first sessions on the Bill. RNZ political reporter Lillian Hanly takes a look back at the first ten hours of oral submissions.

    Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

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    16 mins
  • 2024 in Politics: Change, Challenge, and Chuckles
    Dec 19 2024

    The end-of-year has arrived, and with it, the traditional suite of end-of-year reviews and thinkpieces. RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch looks back on the ups and downs of politics in 2024.

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    16 mins

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