Full Show: 1 November 2026

Erica Stanford: National's 'value for money' turnaround in education

Erica Stanford was named as the top-performing government minister in the 2026 Mood of the Boardroom survey. As well as juggling immigration and the Abuse in State Care Inquiry portfolios, in education Stanford has led one of the biggest state reforms this term: a new curriculum, a new qualification, and the standardisation of teaching practices across the country.

She joins Jack Tame the week before the election, and days after the release of a Waitangi Tribunal report finding that the removal of Treaty obligations from school boards breached the Treaty of Waitangi.

Labour's Arena Williams on why NZ needs ban on price gouging

The cost of living has been central to Labour's campaign for the 2026 general election. Alongside one of their headline policies of splitting up big supermarket players operationally to bring down prices, Labour also wants to immediately draft new legislation to ban the practice price gouging: large players using their market power to artificially raise prices of essential goods.

Labour's commerce and consumer affairs spokesperson Arena Williams joins Jack Tame.

Political ad expert rates parties' flashy campaigns

Fake podcasts, AI-generated smash-and-grabs, and trotting out some well-known faces - with one week until voting closes, political parties are throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks in the competition for eyeballs.

Whena Owen sits down with political scientist and author Claire Robinson to sift through some of the campaign materials from Election 2026.

One week out from the election, what is NZ's foreign policy future?

For decades, National and Labour have mostly left foreign affairs out of politics. Now they appear to be veering in different directions, with Labour calling out the National-led government for following the US too closely.

Foreign affairs correspondent and author of Between Giants Anna Fifield joins Jack Tame to preview what New Zealand's foreign policy could look like after November 7.

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