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Euthanasia Amendment Bill Threatens Conscience Rights
25 mins; March 17, 2026
National’s Billion-Dollar Gas Terminal
14 mins; February 18, 2026
NZ’s Housing Debate: What’s Driving the Divide
27 mins; January 28, 2026
Why Palliative Care Matters: A Conversation with Hospice NZ’s Wayne Naylor
26 mins; December 16, 2025
The $200m Initiative Changing Social Housing: Steven Moe on Impact Investing
23 mins; December 03, 2025
The Promise of Social Impact Bonds
23 mins; November 26, 2025
Stephenson’s Euthanasia Amendment Bill Is Not What Kiwis Voted For
29 mins; November 11, 2025
End of an Error: What Replaces NCEA?
35 mins; September 18, 2025
Dignity, Death, and Choice: Amanda Achtman on Euthanasia and Culture
26 mins; September 03, 2025
Lessons from Canada: Euthanasia in New Zealand
25 mins; August 26, 2025
Tim Wilson | Grievance Rules? Why Distrust Needn’t Destroy Us
15 mins; April 01, 2025
Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts | Why an Atheist Academic Changed Her Mind on Churches’ Tax Status
16 mins; March 26, 2025
Maryanne Spurdle | Our Jenga towers are tipsy
16 mins; March 19, 2025
Jason Heale | Feeding our children or dependence?
16 mins; March 12, 2025
Thomas Scrimgeour | The world is cooling
17 mins; March 04, 2025
Tim Wilson | Posie Parker, Destiny Church, and Policing Protest
14 mins; February 25, 2025
Josiah Brown | Can we rebuild together?
11 mins; February 19, 2025
Maryanne Spurdle | Tech advances won’t fix humanity’s reckless streak
16 mins; February 10, 2025
Jason Heale | The TikTok dilemma
17 mins; February 04, 2025
Tim Wilson | Christmas Burnout: Symptom of a Deeper Malaise
18 mins; December 19, 2024
Josiah Brown | Climate finance is a hot mess
15 mins; December 10, 2024
Thomas Scrimgeour | Resurrectionists
18 mins; December 04, 2024
Maryanne Spurdle | Health providers’ rights facing a dead end
21 mins; November 28, 2024
Jason Heale | Parents, not policies: Our best defence against social media
18 mins; November 20, 2024
Tim Wilson | Why Taylor Swift lost the US election
16 mins; November 13, 2024
Thomas Scrimgeour | Rocking chair to nowhere: America and New Zealand 2024
15 mins; November 05, 2024
Stephanie Worboys | Why our young are leaving, why they may not return
17 mins; October 29, 2024
Maryanne Spurdle | Euthanising oversight
18 mins; October 22, 2024
Jason Heale | Super-Ageing Disgracefully
17 mins; October 13, 2024
Marcus Roberts | Don’t Believe In God? Why you still need Religious Freedom
20 mins; October 02, 2024
Tim Wilson | A Defence of Inauthenticity
15 mins; September 29, 2024
Alexandra Lay | Digital dilemma: Why Gen Z needs books more than ever
20 mins; September 18, 2024
Professor Nicholas Aroney | Why NZ didn't become part of Australia
27 mins; September 18, 2024
Thomas Scrimgeour | Where social investment fears to tread
15 mins; September 11, 2024
Maryanne Spurdle | Living in the red chair
16 mins; September 04, 2024
Dr Stephanie Worboys | Pandora’s Box: The perils of gene technology
15 mins; August 29, 2024
Jason Heale | The geopolitics of our energy crisis
16 mins; August 24, 2024
Josiah Brown | Time to trade in: NZ healthcare needs an upgrade
15 mins; August 13, 2024
Tim Wilson | The Conspiracy Olympics
11 mins; August 08, 2024
Maryanne Spurdle | Even public schools need charter schools
17 mins; August 01, 2024
Thomas Scrimgeour | Know your limits
16 mins; July 23, 2024
Jason Heale | What makes Kiwis Kiwi?
14 mins; July 15, 2024
Josiah Brown | Populism: Democracy’s stress test?
16 mins; July 09, 2024
Tim Wilson | A Hymn to Handwriting
13 mins; July 01, 2024
Madeleine Smith | Want to buy your child anxiety? Get them a smartphone
15 mins; June 26, 2024
Maryanne Spurdle | Why choice in education really is choice
17 mins; June 18, 2024
Thomas Scrimgeour | Between the devil and the deep blue sea
13 mins; June 11, 2024
Jason Heale | A Prescription for Our Defence (and other) Ills: Conscription
17 mins; June 05, 2024
Josiah Brown | Crime’s jigsaw: The missing pieces
14 mins; May 27, 2024
Tim Wilson | How to see through squid ink
12 mins; May 20, 2024
Maryanne Spurdle | Everyone pays when speech isn’t free
17 mins; May 14, 2024
Dr Stephanie Worboys | Why Trust is a Must
14 mins; May 09, 2024
Thomas Scrimgeour | How Will We Remember Them?
13 mins; May 01, 2024
Marcus Roberts | Immigration: Getting Beyond the Number 8 Wire
12 mins; April 23, 2024
Jason Heale | Rethinking MP’s Remuneration
11 mins; April 21, 2024
Tim Wilson | Protesting Too Much
11 mins; April 16, 2024
Josiah Brown | Un-Civil religion at the end of the rainbow
15 mins; April 08, 2024
Maryanne Spurdle | Cake one day, crumbs the next
14 mins; March 26, 2024
Thomas Scrimgeour | How to build political immortality
15 mins; March 20, 2024
MIC 17 | Hijacking the school bus: Ideologies, curriculum, and teacher training
62 hours 37 mins; March 18, 2024
Marcus Roberts | A slow-moving, silent revolution
16 mins; March 13, 2024
Jason Heale | What Newshub’s Death Really Means
19 mins; March 06, 2024
Natasha Baulis | While We Were Sleeping
19 mins; February 29, 2024
Josiah Brown | Putting the ‘local’ back in local government
13 mins; February 22, 2024
Maryanne Spurdle | Only better tech can recharge the EV revolution
14 mins; February 15, 2024
Tim Wilson | The Treaty Debate: What People Are Getting Wrong
13 mins; February 08, 2024
Marcus Roberts | An “independent foreign policy”? No thanks.
12 mins; February 01, 2024
Jason Heale | Our character deficit and how to fix it
12 mins; January 25, 2024
Natasha Baulis | Why the Word “Genocide” Shouldn’t Be Over-used
13 mins; January 16, 2024
Your phone is listening with Jisoo Kim
63 hours 32 mins; December 20, 2023
Maryanne Spurdle | Winston vs. the media (again): The trust dust-up
15 mins; December 07, 2023
Marcus Roberts | Yes/No: The right way to go?
13 mins; December 04, 2023
Jason Heale | Should Free Speech Have Limits?
11 mins; November 19, 2023
Natasha Baulis | Prizewinning Birds Vs. AI
11 mins; November 09, 2023
Marcus Roberts | The Global Gloaming
13 mins; October 31, 2023
2023 Sir John Graham Lecture | Rebuilding Trust: Populists, Elitists, and the Future of our Democracy
50 mins; October 30, 2023
Maryanne Spurdle | A government that divides us won’t stand
13 mins; October 26, 2023
Tim Wilson | To the New Government: Please, Let’s not Abuse Urgency
12 mins; October 18, 2023
Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 13
18 mins; October 15, 2023
Josiah Brown | Ask Not What Your Government Can Do for You
12 mins; October 11, 2023
Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 12
18 mins; October 08, 2023
Jason Heale | Talk to me
11 mins; October 05, 2023
Maryanne Spurdle | NZ’s curriculum fails the test
13 mins; October 03, 2023
Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 11
16 mins; October 01, 2023
Maryanne Spurdle | Grading our Curriculum: Failing students, teachers, and the evidence test
13 mins; September 28, 2023
Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 10
16 mins; September 24, 2023
Marcus Roberts | Distrust: Rational or Irrational?
12 mins; September 22, 2023
Natasha Baulis | Why do I have to go to school?
13 mins; September 20, 2023
Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 9
22 mins; September 18, 2023
Natasha Baulis | Beyond Emotivism: How does this make you feel?
11 mins; September 13, 2023
Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 8
16 mins; September 11, 2023
Tomorrow’s Teachers | Recruit, (re)train, and retain
18 mins; September 06, 2023
Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 7
19 mins; September 04, 2023
Marcus Roberts | Demographics, debt and deflation in our biggest market
13 mins; August 30, 2023
Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 6
19 mins; August 28, 2023
Jason Heale | Keep it 18
15 mins; August 24, 2023
Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 5
17 mins; August 21, 2023
Maryanne Spurdle | Teacher Education
15 mins; August 17, 2023
Jason Heale | Boys Education
11 mins; August 16, 2023
Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 04
18 mins; August 14, 2023
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