Mike Williams
Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams discuss the Government's Immigration `announcement', housing, the "dead rat" season prior to election year, the surplus and the death of unionist Helen Kelly. Audio
Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
Mike and Matthew discuss the fallout from Colin Craig's defamation case, Auckland mayoral hopeful Phil Goff's new tax plan and Hobson's Pledge. Audio
Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
The New Zealand First conference, the ongoing fallout from the Hawkes Bay water contamination and the Auckland Mayoralty race. Audio
Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
Politics from the left and right, with Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton: The latest polls, lost luggage legislation, local body elections - Auckland messes and Wellington scraps and cannabis reform. Audio
Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
Mike and Matthew discuss the Auckland Unitary plan and a victory for New Zealand in the dispute over nuclear armed warships. Audio
Floods threaten to cut off Katikati
The Bay of Plenty town of Katikati is on the verge of being cut off as a flooded stream threatens a bridge north of the town on State Highway Two. Meanwhile north of Katikati, Thames Valley Civil… Audio
Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams unpick the Australian election and the Government's billion dollar infrastructure loan fund. Audio
Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
How the Green-Labour memorandum of understanding has gone down. Audio
Political commentators Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams
The Budget's short honeymoon, and forecasts for growth and dairy price recovery... really? Audio
Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
It's Budget week. Tax cuts are out, so what's in? And Labour's Andrew Little has already leapt in with a speech questioning what it will do for 'middle' New Zealand. Audio
Political commentators Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton
Mike Williams and Matthew Hooton discuss hints of tax cuts for the National's next election campaign, fallout from the Panama Papers and the Auckland mayoralty race. Audio
Mike Hosking disses Maori wards
Mike Hosking has caused ire by suggesting New Plymouth Maori should stand for Council without the benefit of a Maori ward, an argument countered by invoking studies that show continuous and sustained… Audio
Twist on the Europeans to discover NZ
History professor Paul Moon talks about a not-new claim that the first Europeans to discover the New Zealand were Spanish or Portugese. Audio
No organised after ball for Mt Hutt College
Mt Hutt College acting principal Kristine Canham talks about how the withdrawl of supervision by the Ashburton Community Alcohol and Drug Service has stopped the after-ball party. Audio
Panel Says
What the Panelists Tim Watkin and Mike Williams have been thinking about. Audio
Corporate debt
Westpac chief economist Dominick Stephens discusses corporate debt and the warnings being issued. Audio
Property bought by foreigners
Figures showing the number of foreign buyers of New Zealand property have been released for the first time. Westpac's Dominick Stephens talks about whether 3% is more or less than expected. Audio
Panama Papers Elvis and Allan Hubbard
Tax expert Mark Keating discusses the locals implicated in the Panama Papers. Audio
