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Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report.

Last week saw the National Party go through a period of suspected internal conflict, after a leadership challenge was mounted against Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Following a multi-hour long caucus meeting, Luxon spoke to media, claiming he has the full support of his caucus. National MP and former minister Chris Penk was subsequently stripped of his portfolios. The incident has raised concerns over Luxon's ability to lead both his party and the country, especially as this is not the first leadership vote this year.  Also last week, the ACT Party proposed two new policies they would campaign on in the leadup to this year's election. First, thanks to calls for a bed levy in Auckland, ACT has instead posed a local tourism dividend that would come directly out of central government funding. They say this dividend would be better suited to address the problem of local government funds for tourism and arts/culture, though some have been sceptical.  The second ACT party proposal is to make student services fees at universities voluntary, so that students can choose the services they'd like to pay for from a checklist.  To discuss each of these issues News Director Castor spoke with the ACT Party's Simon Court, beginning with the National Party leadership. 

After a busy week in the beehive, Labour MP Ginny Andersen and National MP for Otaki join Nick Mills to dissect the hot topics of the week. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon faced a vote of confidence yesterday and came out victorious. Chris Penk has been dropped as a minister. Costley says Luxon has the full support of his caucus as leader of the National Party. Our panel debate how unified the party are, and if the country is better off with Luxon as leader. Also on the agenda is the potential for forced council amalgamation, and the polls showing the Opportunities Party may be the deciders this election. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has survived a second leadership challenge in months, telling reporters yesterday he is determined to get back to work and win the election. Ingrid Hipkiss spoke to Ben Thomas, who was press secretary to Chris Finlayson in the previous National Government, a columnist, and a director of public affairs firm Capital.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is staying in the top job. He's emerged from another confidence vote with the support of his caucus. National MPs were summoned to Wellington for an urgent meeting this morning - after speculation about a potential coup. The meeting ran for three hours. But, questions remain... What happened behind closed doors? What will happen to the detractors? Today on The Front Page, NZ Herald senior correspondent Katie Bradford joins us from Wellington to break it all down. Follow The Front Page on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. You can read more about this and other stories in the New Zealand Herald, online at nzherald.co.nz, or tune in to news bulletins across the NZME network. Host: Chelsea DanielsEditor/Producer: Richard MartinProducer: Jane YeeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I feel very sorry for Christopher Luxon. And that was how I felt too watching the coverage last night. Reporters falling over themselves at Wellington Airport asking him questions that he was never going to answer. And watching some of his colleagues who, in the last few days, were saying he was their man and they had no interest in getting rid of him. Last night, they were saying next to nothing. And that's being generous. “I'm on the phone mate,” was Chris Bishop's lame reply. Stoney silence was Erica Stanford's. I feel sorry for Christopher Luxon because, despite his many, many political shortcomings, let's not forget he was the guy who put himself forward to take on a party that was in complete disarray. He didn't have to. But he did. Sure, there was all the usual ego involved. But he did it. He took it over, sorted things out and led it to a significant victory in 2023. And, on the basis of most recent polls, it looked like National was or is on track to be able to form the next government in some way, shape or form come November, as well. Which is why what's happening today is so weird. Just 87 days out from the election. It follows a difficult couple of weeks for Luxon, with him copping flak for using Defence Force aircraft, criticising the business sector and surprising his colleagues with a captain's call on an MMP referendum. Which has had the vultures in his caucus circling all over again. Christopher Luxon doesn't need me to feel sorry for him. He's a grown up. But he doesn't deserve this. And the party needs to ask itself, what does National need right now? My answer, is it needs to stick with Christopher Luxon. If it doesn't, National will be toast. Because who could trust this lot ever again? Because all this talk about doing it for the country and fixing the basics and building the future will mean nothing to voters. The only thing the MPs wanting Luxon to go are worried about is building their future. The other thing the National Party needs, aside from keeping Christopher Luxon as leader, is it needs Luxon himself to run the party the way Helen Clark or John Key would. If he's stays on as leader, he needs to do an immediate cabinet re-shuffle and tell those ministers plotting to get rid of him that their days are numbered. That would mean the likes of Erica Stanford, Chris Bishop and Chris Penk losing their portfolios. Some people think they're great ministers. But there are plenty more fish and no one is indispensable. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The National Party caucus is currently meeting following renewed speculation over Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's leadership.

Jo Moir joins John Campbell ahead of this morning's special caucus meeting where Prime Minister Christopher Luxon's leadership is on the agenda.

Inspired by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon calling an emergency caucus meeting, Si, Lana & The Breakfast Club decided it was time to address the true elephant in the room... who actually leads this show?!

National will struggle to show they are a unified caucus if Prime Minister Christopher Luxon survives a leadership challenge today, political commentator Bridget Morten says. “They can't let this drag on any longer,” Morten told Ryan Bridge. She says that if Luxon were to survive, it'll be difficult for them to demonstrate that this kind of speculation won't plague them all the way through to Election Day. If National and Luxon were voted back into power on November 7, people would also question if he would survive a second term as leader. Asked if Luxon's likely challenger Erica Stanford was too unknown this close to an election, Morten said there were “a lot of really experienced senior ministers who have spent a lot of time around politics and actually delivering”. “So I don't think you can say it's a completely unknown quantity. I think a lot of people actually know a lot about these different politicians and what they might look like as leaders.” Whether or not the leader changed, National's MPs needed to stop talking about themselves and start talking about what voters wanted, or risk being a one-term government, Morten said. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast for Monday, 10 August, 2026, ACT leader David Seymour explains why he's at odds with National on tax policy. Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown tells us why he's so against the controversial Delmore development. Heatha from Harcourts says she's just being herself with her videos getting millions of views on social media. And on The Huddle, Josie Pagani and Phil O'Reilly discuss a bad week for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. Get the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast every weekday evening on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has suggested a higher fuel tax, a bed tax and a bank levy could be discussed as part of a second term, but the ACT Party's not so keen. Leader David Seymour says voters don't want new taxes, and there's a possibility that they could grow as discussions continue. He says income tax started out as a small percentage impacting a handful of earners, and now we all pay up to eight times that starting rate. "That's just a perfect example of why you say you're going to put a tax just on banks...but we all know that the customers will pay that." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report.

Politically-speaking, the current MMP coalition government is the most successful one we've ever had. Because, unlike coalitions of the past, the minor parties - ACT and NZ First - have managed to maintain their presence and identity. In the past, the minor parties have been swallowed up by the bigger parties and, generally, disappeared from view. This time around it's a completely different story. With ACT and NZ First making their presence well and truly felt. Not just recently. But for the whole term. Some might put that down to Christopher Luxon's failure to keep David Seymour and Winston Peters under control. But no one can say that ACT and NZ First have disappeared off the radar the way the Maori Party did after being in cahoots with National. Even the Greens found the confidence and supply arrangement they had with Labour between 2017 and 2020 took the spotlight off them. This time, though, we've had a coalition government like never before. In that none of the parties have become bit players. So, from a purely political perspective, it's been a raging success. But Christopher Luxon wants a referendum on our voting system to find out if people are still happy with MMP. He's obviously not a fan, because he says he doesn't want to work with “yahoos and numpties” in a coalition cabinet. His ham-fisted announcement on Newstalk ZB yesterday was news to his caucus colleagues. It was news to his coalition partners too. With Winston Peters describing it as an “inexplicable power grab”.But I reckon that if we didn't have MMP, there'd be a truckload of people unable to bring themselves to vote in this year's election. That might be an easy thing to say, given we've had MMP for the past 30 years and because MMP has given us more voting options. But the idea, after all this time, of going back to the days where it was pretty much Labour or National doesn't sound great, does it? And, whatever your politics, you'vec got to say that the choice and the variety MMP gives us is brilliant. There's certainly no way I would want to see it go. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon decided to suprise his collegues by announcing he intends to do another MMP referendum if he gets re-elected. Marcus chatted with listeners about MMP, referendums, Shawshank Redemption, and the freezing blast hitting the country. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do we need a dedicated plane for the Prime Minister? I'm starting to think that we do. Before now, though, I've been of the opinion that we're New Zealand for goodness sake, we're not the United States, so why should we blow money on a plane? But, after listening to Sir John Key talking to Heather last night about Christopher Luxon using the Air Force to get him around a bit, I'm thinking it would make sense. Heather was talking to him after Chris Hipkins ripped into Luxon for getting the Air Force to fly him from Whanganui to Auckland after being at a National Party fundraising dinner. Which was kind of dodgy. Because, if Christopher Luxon was going there as the National Party leader as part of his campaign to get re-elected in November, then he shouldn't be using the Air Force to get him there. Which is why Labour's Chris Hipkins is accusing Luxon of using the Defence Force as his own “private fleet”. But the way the Prime Minister's Office explains it, is that he got to the fundraising event on a commercial flight. But left afterwards on the Air Force flight, so he could get to Auckland for prime ministerial commitments. What happened is that he needed to get to Auckland for Sir Bill Birch's funeral. Which meant some re-arranging of the schedule and him needing to travel sooner than was originally planned. You could say he flew there as the National Party leader and left with his Prime Minister's hat on. So, a bit of dancing on the head of a pin there. The reason we're talking about this is because this wasn't just a one-off. It follows a string of times the PM has used the Air Force to get him around. Generally, it's accepted that during a civil defence emergency, for example, the PM will jump on a Defence Force plane or helicopter. John Key flew to Christchurch in a Defence Force plane pretty much straight after the 2011 earthquake. Christopher Luxon's been doing the same sort of thing during more recent emergencies. But, in the last week or so, there have been reports about him getting the Air Force to fly him to non-emergency events such as an event he went to at Mystery Creek in 2024 and a trip in 2025 to visit the Kmart distribution hub in the Hamilton area. Overall, since becoming Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon has flown 41 domestic flights with the Air Force, which, according to official documents, weren't part of a disaster or civil defence emergency response. I'm with Sir John Key on this, whose view is that it makes sense for the PM to use the Air Force planes because they're there, anyway. The crew have to be paid, anyway. And what would you rather? A plane and crew sitting on the ground doing nothing? Or a plane and crew helping the Prime Minister make the most efficient use of his time? What's more, it hasn't just been the Prime Minister on these flights. There are staff and security and all the usual hangers-on. So pretty cost effective when you consider that we'd, otherwise, be buying all these people tickets to fly on commercial flights. So, when you consider that, doesn't it make sense for the Prime Minister to have a dedicated plane available at all times? I think it does. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If former British prime minister Harold Wilson was right and a week is a long time in politics .. yesterday must have felt like a long week for our Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.

There are two types of people in the world. There are the ones who think Prime Minister Christopher Luxon shouldn't be apologising for what he said to business owners at a meeting in Rotorua the other day. And there are the ones who think he should. And I'm one of them. Because what he said was so dismissive and so tone deaf, that he had no other option but to apologise. Which he did yesterday. What happened, is the Prime Minister was at a business breakfast in Rotorua organised by the local Chamber of Commerce. Which, you would think, would be the type of gathering where there'd be absolutely no chance of him putting his foot in it. Because business people are his people, aren't they? But he did. And, quite rightly, he has apologised. Because if I was one of those business owners at that event, I would be furious. It happened when the Rotorua Business Chamber's Melanie Short stood up and said the city had experienced the “sharpest fall” in business confidence in almost a decade. She said: “The affordability of doing business, it's getting harder and harder. How long can we hang on?” Christopher Luxon, though, wasn't having any of that sort of talk. He told her that her view was “quite negative”. He said New Zealand businesses needed to move away from a “parent-child mentality” of waiting to see what the government is going to do for them. “Who cares what the government will think or do?”, he said. Which I thought was a staggering comment to make, considering he is the leader of a political party that bangs on all the time about National being the party for business people. Thankfully, the Chamber of Commerce boss wasn't going to be shut down and went on to tell him about the Chamber's Business Pulse survey, that's done twice a year. She told him that the latest survey had found optimism among members in relation to where the economy is going had dropped 62 percent. And that members' confidence in their own businesses had dropped 43 percent. And that they were absorbing a lot of the rising costs they're dealing with, rather than passing them on. Because business is down enough, without giving customers more reasons not to buy their products or use their services. But Luxon was having none of it. He told the people in the room that, if they weren't “retooling and radically disrupting” their businesses then “you ain't doing your job”. He said he knew the reality of running a business. And said when he was, “the last person I wanted to ever talk to as a CEO was the government.” He said: “I'm a business person. I'm building a kick-ass company that actually has commercially superior returns, great customer experience and awesome internal culture.” And he went on to say that, when he returned to New Zealand after working overseas, he found that business people here had a “parent-child mentality” and were too hung up on what the government was going to do for them rather than just getting on with it. He said: “Who cares what the government thinks or does? Our job is to be adult, adult, adult”. Telling his audience to “go out there and smack it and go create the road”. Over the weekend, his office was complaining that his comments hadn't been reported accurately. But, by late yesterday, he realised he'd put his foot in it and apologised. As he had to do. Because, even though he's a former chief executive of Air New Zealand and even though he's had very senior roles with Unilever in Canada and the U.S., Christopher Luxon has never done what most of those people in that business breakfast have done. He has never started or owned his own business. He's been the highest paid employee of some big business organisations, but he's got no experience of opening or running a business of his own. Particularly, a small business. Which most businesses in this country are. Which, apparently, are best represented by the party Christopher Luxon leads. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report.

A Rotorua business leader told Prime Minister Christopher Luxon about the city's struggling economy at a function, prompting the PM to tell business owners to 'be adult'. Luxon was in Rotorua last week with appointments including the recent Business Chamber Westpac Smarts Breakfast. Newstalk ZB political reporter Ethan Griffiths says Luxon's comments have prompted outrage, with Labour condemning him for 'lecturing' business owners about the state of the economy. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A Rotorua business leader told Prime Minister Christopher Luxon about the city's struggling economy at a function, prompting the PM to tell business owners to 'be adult'. Luxon was in Rotorua last week with appointments including the recent Business Chamber Westpac Smarts Breakfast. Newstalk ZB political reporter Ethan Griffiths says Luxon's comments have prompted outrage, with Labour condemning him for 'lecturing' business owners about the state of the economy. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I wonder if Christopher Luxon woke up this morning and thought he might have jumped the gun a bit yesterday, saying he wasn't interested in working with Opportunity. Possibly not. Because, as one political commentator said recently, the National Party leader and Prime Minister has a few faults, but self-doubt isn‘t one of them. Either way, I think he should be having second thoughts. Because, when you've got a party sniffing around the 5 percent mark needed to get into Parliament, there's a very real chance they'll be needed down the track. And I think Christopher Luxon might very well have to eat his words come election night and get on the blower to Opportunity leader Qiulae Wong and ask her to forget about what he said yesterday. I'm confident in saying that because I've been amazed at the number of people across the political spectrum who have told me that they're thinking very seriously about voting for Opportunity in November's election. Now I know thinking about voting for them and actually voting for them are two different things. But I think ruling them out of any arrangement after the election is very shortsighted. Of course, as soon as you mention Opportunity, people start reminding you about their land tax policy. Which is one of the reasons why Christopher Luxon says National doesn't want a bar of them. With Luxon saying that National doesn't do business with “people who want to increase taxes”. Which is consistent with what National is saying in its pre-election advertising about Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori tripling our taxes. So Luxon is very much “on brand” with yesterday's announcement. But, when you look at the state of the coalition right now, the National Party is going to need as many friends as it can get come November. And, if you look at the state of the country right now, I think Opportunity is one of the very few parties prepared to front up and state the obvious. That we can't expect things like hospitals and schools and the pension, without doing our bit and paying our taxes. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National's announced it will gradually extend paid parental leave to 30 weeks if elected in November. Since 2020 primary carers have been eligible to 26 weeks paid leave following the birth of a child. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

Now it's just over three months till the election. It is a really important election. New Zealand is struggling to get back on its feet economically. A lot of Kiwis are hurting, and they've been hurting for a long, long time. And they have to decide between a party that gives them stuff, “Oh look, we've got free stuff for you," or a party that is promised to fix things, “Hey, we're in charge here," but is still in the process of fixing things and hasn't fixed a great deal yet, “Oh, it takes time.” Or even whether they should give their vote to a shiny new party, “Hi, we're from TOP," utterly unproven, has some interesting takes on taxing the rich, but hey, at least it's not National or Labour, stuff National or Labour. I'll go with that nice girl in that shiny party that may well end up taking your land off you, but hey ho, there we go, at least it's not National or Labour. There is a lot to think about. There's a lot to consider, there's a lot to discuss, there are policies to pick apart, but instead we've spent a week of the 12 weeks we have left until the election fixated on stupid, crass, dumb stuff that politicians and would be politicians say. Should be a new media segment: Dumb Stuff Politicians Say. The media and the public are to blame equally. The media gets clicks on the website and eyes on social media and calls on talkback. Makes it easy, don't even have to work for them. The public can have a knee jerk reaction, “Oh, that's shocking," and an immediate opinion, “What a terrible person," without having to do the hard work of reading through policies and analysis of policies. And as expected, it didn't take Paul Henry long to be at the centre of a row when he was the guest of Radio Hauraki yesterday morning. JEREMY WELLS: Quick game of shoot, shag, marry. Chris Luxon, Chris Hipkins, and Winston Peters. Who are you shooting? Who are you shagging? Who are you marrying? PAUL HENRY: I mean, you know, you've got to shoot Hipkins, haven't you? WELLS: Okay, so Hipkins is no more. MANAIA STEWART: There's your headline. HENRY: Yeah, I'm shagging Winston. WELLS: And you're marrying Luxon. AYESHA VERRALL: That is absolutely inappropriate and these things do have to be called out because we can't just let death threats go in our political conversation. There are nutters out there who feed off these sorts of things and one day, you know, we can be in the situation which the UK is in where members of Parliament lose their lives. Oh, Ayesha Verrall, cool your jets. That was Ayesha on with my colleague Nick Mills in Wellington when she'd learned that Paul Henry had played shoot, shag, marry on Radio Hauraki. Death threats. The righteous indignation from Labour seems a bit OTT given Chris Hipkins participated in a similar game on The Project some years ago, except then as it was called kick, kiss, or marry. In 2023 Chris Hipkins said he would kick David Seymour, kiss Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to get it over and done with quickly, and marry Te Pāti Māori co leader Rawiri Waititi. Kick David Seymour! He's advocating violence! He wants people to hurt the ACT Leader! No, he doesn't. And nor does Paul Henry want to kill Chris Hipkins. They all just participated in a dumb media game and after Albanese got caught up in the shag, marry, date, and Kylie Minogue and all the trouble he got into with that, I'm sure we'll see cross party support from politicians of every hue and every party that they never play that stupid, stupid game in the media ever again. I mean, you heard one of the Hauraki hosts saying, “Oh, there's your headline," and it was. Then you've got the National Party who have got party-wide outrage after Stuart Nash's comments on Katie Nimon and saying, “Oh, she's bloody lazy," inferring she shouldn't have taken so much maternity leave or parental leave. Now, the social media post from every Nat you've never heard of decrying the comments, and deploring them, and the like could be seen as the Nats quite rightly looking after and supporting one of their own, or it could be seen as a party-wide instruction to shriek your outrage across every media outlet because we're polling badly with women and we want to show women that we love them really, it's just that the country can't afford the pay equity legislation that Labour promised the women. We've got Shane Jones and his knee pads comments and for all his purple prose, his grandiloquence, his circumlocution, his sesquipedalian tendencies, he's just as smutty as the next guy, loves a double entendre. But really, the column inches generated and the time wasted by that comment are just grist to his mill. This is what New Zealand First thrives on: agitate and offend people, then leap back decrying them all as “wokesters” and say, “Ugh, New Zealand First is here to man up, hey! You'll be able to knee pad your way around the bloody morning tearoom when New Zealand First is in power! Hey! Don't you worry about that!" I mean, it's just nonsense. Absolute nonsense. There are columns in the newspaper, there are columns online, there are radio programs where you can discuss in detail the policies of the different parties and how they'll impact on New Zealand now and in the future. But people don't read them. We can show you the figures. And that's people. That's the audience. They click on the knee pads, they click on Katie Nimon, they click on Paul Henry and the shoot, shag, marry. They do not click on Treasury's analysis of the Green Party's tax policy – well they do, but not in as nearly the same numbers. So it's on all of us, except not really us because we do talk policy more than your average radio program and you as the audience who make us the number one rating show do read, do absorb, do analyse the policies more than the average member of the public. But honestly, given that this is one of the most important elections we've got coming up, this is what's dominated the headlines for a week. We do get the government we deserve when shoot, shag, marry is the most read column for the week with 12 weeks to go for an election. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Zealand First's Stuart Nash is in trouble again for his comments about women. Politicians from across Parliament are outraged after the Napier candidate accused his competition of being lazy for taking maternity leave. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon reckons Mr Nash is channelling the online manosphere, while Nicola Willis says his attitude belongs in the 1920s. Political reporter Russell Palmer has more.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Minister Responsible for RMA Reform Chris Bishop spoke to the public today with more details about the RMA reform. Bishop confirmed all existing agreements, called Mana Whakahono ā Rohe, between councils and local iwi will be scrapped, replacing them with 'iwi participation agreements'. He told Heather du Plessis-Allan the one main goal is protecting Māori land, "and so the question is how you go about doing that in a streamlined way in the system where you don't have co-governance and you don't have broad cultural rights that are asserted". LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report.

Sir John Key isn't holding back on what he thinks about critics of the India Free Trade Agreement – like Winston Peters. The New Zealand First Leader has raised fresh concerns about the deal, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said New Zealand was committed to investing billions into the Indian economy. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says we've only committed to promoting investment. Former Prime Minister Key told Mike Hosking while the India FTA isn't perfect, it will open access to one of the world's great economies. He says anyone opposed to the Indian FTA is a clown who doesn't know much about economics. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Anna Fifield and Phil O'Reilly. First up, Kaikoura has been today's victim of ferocious weather, with the river bursting its banks. Motel owner Fiona Wei explains what she's seen. Then, China's latest missile tests in the South Pacific are "incredibly unwelcome" according to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. International relations expert Robert Patman gives his analysis. And The Post's national affairs editor Andrea Vance has come out of the blocks with a scathing opinion piece on New Zealand First's candidate list.

New Zealand Apples and Pears says trading with India is about getting money back in the pockets of growers. Sign off on the Free Trade Agreement is still making its way through Parliament, but Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says exporters are already laying the groundwork. India's grown from being our seventh largest market for apples, to the fourth – and the number of Indian tourists is also up. Apples and Pears CEO Danielle Adsett told Mike Hosking it's important to start allocating some quota towards the Indian market. She says exports have increased in anticipation of the agreement, and the industry is excited for the season ahead. Adsett told Hosking the agreement's potential is untold, but growth should continue. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has admitted he was unaware there was no night shelter in Auckland for people sleeping rough. Political editor Jo Moir spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report following his trip to Australia.

John Campbell speaks to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon; Paramedics to be authorised to prescribe some medicines; Power company complaints up 500 percent; School principal says students working more to help pay bills; Blair Tuke discusses push to ban bottom trawling.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon joined Heather du Plessis-Allan to chat about his Australia trip. Lat week, after it was announced four New Zealand MPs would be banned from China for a year, Australia commented condemning China's decision. Luxon responded saying it was not a matter for Australia to be involved in, but today he stated he was 'appreciative' of the support anyway. A focus of the trip was economic integration in a 'volatile world', including facilitating infrastructure partnerships. Luxon said "my job on those things is to be like the super salesman for New Zealand, really is how I look at the international part of my job." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're going to start today's show talking about our nuclear policy. That's because at a forum in Singapore Defense Minister Chris Penk said it could be "helpful" to have a conversation about Nuclear Free New Zealand. He made the comments in reference to Australia's agreement to acquire three nuclear powered Virginia Class submarines from the United States. Speaking on Morning Report today Prime Minister Christopher Luxon comprehensively ruled out any such conversation. Labour leader Chris Hipkins also dismissed the idea. But is it actually a conversation we should be having? Liam Hehir thinks so. The lawyer and former active National Party member joins Jesse to discuss.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report following Defence Minister Chris Penk's comments that it could be helpful to have a conversation about New Zealand's anti-nuclear stance.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks to Morning Report; Labour leader Chris Hipkins speaks to John Campbell; Erica Stanford discusses new trade academy funding; Former defence minister discusses NZ nuclear-free status; Oncology professor discusses new cancer drug breakthrough

There are three more sleeps to go until the Government's budget is revealed. But the government's warned the public there isn't much room for a traditional, election year lolly scramble. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke with John Campbell.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon joined Mike Hosking in studio this morning for their weekly chat. With the budget coming up this week they spoke about the pre-budget announcements so far, and what's yet to come. Luxon said that more spending announcements will be revealed on Thursday, but the budget is strict. "That's what we have to have, good fiscal financial discipline year in year out in order to get the ship, you know, the books back in order again." LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Sue Kedgley and Dean Hall. First up, a social housing shake up was on today's pre-budget menu. Chris Bishop announced reforms that'll save the government 387 million dollars over a twelve month period. It's about to get harder to qualify for a social house, and tenancy durations will be shortened. Then, last year, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced that he was 'deeply supportive' of banning social media for under 16s. But over the weekend the government scrambled to pause a member's bill from National backbencher Catherine Wedd which would see parliament vote on the social media ban. Why the cold feet?

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report.

GP shortage could worsen as student interest declines; Dr Ayesha Verrall discusses calls for health sector changes; Prime Minister Christopher Luxon speaks to Ingrid Hipkiss; Waitomo discusses fuel prices; Unemployment numbers higher for younger Kiwis

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Morning Report following his return from Singapore.

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is heading home with fuel security for New Zealand intact and some of the country's biggest businesses better connected to help weather the economic storm. RNZ political editor Jo Moir spoke to Melissa Chan-Green from Singapore.

Ben, Gareth and Kathryn discuss whether Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has the support of his caucus.