Podcast appearances and mentions of Winston Peters

A new law has been drafted to ban social media for under-16s in New Zealand. Robbie Nicol joins Toby to answer all the big questions. Which platforms meet the definition of “social media”? How will it be enforced? When will the rules kick in? And is it really a government bill? Winston Peters doesn't think so. We work through some of the objections, from NZ First, Act, the Greens and Labour. (Since this podcast was recorded, Labour has announced it will support the bill on first reading, and urged the government to proceed before the election.)Plus, in How Good, Alex Casey sings the praises of Lynda Topp on Guy Montgomery's Spelling Bee.At Large with Toby Manhire is produced by Te Aihe Butler, Jin Fellet and The Spinoff. Read more at ⁠thespinoff.co.nz⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China fired a nuclear-capable missile into the South Pacific. Then its neighbours couldn't agree to condemn it. The missile came down in waters close to Tuvalu's exclusive economic zone a month before foreign ministers met at the Pacific Islands Forum in Suva, Fiji. Australia's Penny Wong and New Zealand's Winston Peters pushed for a joint statement. Nauru and Kiribati refused to sign even the weakest version. Both have taken Chinese money and built closer ties with Beijing, and it showed. China is pressing south in other ways too: a security deal with the Cook Islands, coast guard vessels probing deeper into the region, and a clear interest in the minerals under the seabed.Journalist Anna Fifield, who reported across Asia and the Middle East for the Washington Post and the Financial Times, asks whether Australia's much-praised Pacific reset is as solid as Canberra claims. She also takes on New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon surviving a second leadership challenge before the 7 November election, Vietnamese President To Lam's charm offensive in Australia and New Zealand, and Kim Jongn's apparent grooming of his teenage daughter to inherit North Korea. Hosts Geraldine Doogue and Hamish McDonald steer a tour of a neighbourhood that suddenly matters far more.Guest: Anna Fifield, Independent journalist and foreign affairs commentator. Author of the Between Giants Substack.Recommendations: Anna – All Her Lives by Ingrid HorrocksGeraldine – World War II With Tom HanksHamish - Unsettled by Kate GrenvilleGet in touch:We'd love to hear from you! Email us at global.roaming@abc.net.auFind all the episodes of Global Roaming now via the ABC Listen App or wherever you get your podcasts. 

The Migrant Workers Association organised a protest against the rising tide of racist and anti immigrant rhetoric from political parties and leaders as the elections near. Winston Peters' racist tirade against Lawrence Xu-nan in parliament, alongside his party's anti immigrant rhetoric aimed at harnessing votes by dividing the working class and distracting from failures of their policies were key issues that motivated the protest. The protest featured satirical street theater, which evoked a triggered response from Winston Peters. Among other things, we discuss the contradictions within Winston Peters' politics and the history and intent of street theater within protest movements. We're joined by Anu Kaloti and Joe Carolan.Recorded 10/08/2026This episode's co-hostsJosephineTimestamps0:00 Opening4:30 Background on the Protest9:20 The Power of Street Theatre15:40 Attacking Protesters20:20 Aftermath 28:20 Caucus Today35:45 Western Democracy Model57:45 ClosingIntro/Outro by Jiahu SymbolsSupport us here: https://www.patreon.com/1of200

VOV1 - Sau khi kết thúc chuyến thăm Australia, trưa (10/8), Tổng Bí thư, Chủ tịch nước Tô Lâm đã rời Australia để tới thăm New Zealand từ ngày 12/8 đến ngày 14/8. New Zealand đang mong chờ được đón Tổng Bí thư, Chủ tịch nước Tô Lâm tới thăm.New Zealand đang rất mong chờ được đón Tổng Bí thư, Chủ tịch nước Tô Lâm tới thăm trong khuôn khổ chuyến thăm cấp Nhà nước đầu tiên của người đứng đầu Đảng và Nhà nước ta tới nước này.Trong trao đổi với phóng viên Đài TNVN thường trú tại Australia theo dõi khu vực Châu Đại Dương, Ngoại trưởng New Zealand Winston Peters khẳng định, chuyến thăm “phản ánh sự tin tưởng và nền tảng mà New Zealand và Việt Nam đã xây dựng trong hơn 50 năm qua”. Ngoại trưởng Winston Peters nhấn mạnh hiện tại, quan hệ giữa hai nước trải rộng trên các lĩnh vực từ thương mại, giáo dục, hợp tác phát triển, an ninh tới mối liên hệ giữa người dân hai nước. Việc quan hệ song phương nâng cấp lên Đối tác Chiến lược Toàn diện vào năm 2025 đã ghi nhân sự phát triển trong mối quan hệ này cũng như tham vọng chung của hai nước trong việc có thể cùng nhau làm đạt được thêm nhiều thành tựu.Ngoại trưởng Wintons Peters nhận định, việc tiếp xúc thường xuyên giữa các nhà lãnh đạo tạo điều kiện để hai nước thảo luận trực tiếp về các ưu tiên, hiểu hơn quan điểm của nhau và vạch ra định hướng để mở rộng quan hệ. Và điều này được thể hiện rõ qua chuyến thăm Hà Nội vào tháng 11/2025 của Ngoại trưởng Winston Peters. Trong chuyến thăm này, hai nước đã ký Chương trình Hành động giai đoạn 2025-2030 nhằm cụ thể hóa quan hệ Đối tác Chiến lược Toàn diện và thảo luận về cách thức triển khai kế hoạch này trong đó bao gồm cả việc cùng phối hợp chặt chẽ hơn trong các vấn đề khu vực.Ngoại trưởng Winston Peters khẳng định, chuyến thăm New Zealand của Tổng Bí thư, Chủ tịch nước Tô Lâm diễn ra trong bối cảnh Việt Nam đang ngày càng có nhiều ảnh hưởng hơn trong khu vực và thế giới. Mục đích của chuyến thăm là để tăng cường hoạt động thương mại, hợp tác an ninh, làm sâu sắc thêm các liên kết giáo dục và tạo ra nhiều cơ hội cho người dân hai nước. Nó cho thấy cả hai nước đều mong muốn duy trì mối quan hệ mang lại lợi ích lâu dài cho cả hai bên.Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao New Zealand Winston Peters. (Ảnh: TTXVN)

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Labour's definitively ruled out a coalition deal with New Zealand First post-election. Leader Chris Hipkins says his MPs have unanimously decided they won't work with Winston Peters' party, after comments made by Peters and Deputy Shane Jones were labelled 'racist'. Hipkins says a pattern of behaviour's escalated and he won't put up with the overt racism NZ First indulges in. Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper says new polling data shows the left-leaning parties are seeing a drop in the polls and the coalition is in a good position to get a second term. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pacific foreign leaders have failed to agree on a joint statement about the nuclear-capable missile China fired into the region's waters last month. Winston Peters has been pushing his counterparts to take a stand during today's Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers meeting in Fiji. Political reporter Lauren Crimp was in Suva and has more.

Christopher Luxon spent much of this week putting out fires of his own making. And others set by Winston Peters. RNZ's deputy political editor Craig McCulloch has more.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

It is hard to pin down a minister in Question Time, when each has a doppelgänger ready to deflect the blame or shoulder the responsibility. Winston Peters this week said more or less 'you should ask the other Winston, here's not here right now'. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

Tensions with China and New Zealand's interest in a new defence treaty will be on the agenda for today's annual Pacific Islands Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting. Winston Peters has travelled to Fiji along with counterparts from 17 other Pacific countries. Political reporter Lauren Crimp spoke to John Campbell from Suva.

On the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast for Thursday, 6 July, 2026, Winston Peters says Christopher Luxon's pledge to look at a referendum on MMP is a sign of desperation. We talk to a pharmacist about whether they're prepared to treat more conditions, as ACT wants them to do. Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown on the number of passengers he hopes will catch the City Rail Link. And on The Huddle, Mike Munro and Jordan Williams discuss Chris Luxon - one of them says he's a dead man walking. 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.

Winston Peters has offered up a theory on why the Prime Minister has expressed interest in an MMP referendum. Chris Luxon said he's like to get a public vote on MMP if National returns to power, alongside a four-year term. Peters says there will not be any change to our electoral system - and that National's getting desperate because polling's not looking good. "I've watched their body language and there's a huge stress on them at the moment because of the energy crisis we've got, the fact that we've got delayed recovery...and all those things are stressing them out." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Winston Peters believes the Prime Minister's suggesting an MMP referendum will backfire. Chris Luxon says if re-elected, he'll support revisiting that, and discussing a four-year Parliamentary term. Peters has suggested Luxon's poor polling is what's making him want another look at MMP. Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent Barry Soper unpacked the reactions to Luxon's statements. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join Wallace for New Zealand's most explosive 30 minutes of politics. He is joined by panellists Jenna Lynch, Poto Williams and Grant Duncan. Winston Peters faces the heat over "racist" comments made in Parliament, Christopher Luxon gets scoffed at for an apology he made, and how are voter enrollments tracking with an earlier deadline this election?

Well, I've come back from holiday to find Christopher Luxon having the week from hell, haven't I? The small business comments, the Winston Peters "go back to where you came from" comments and now Choppergate. The latest with Choppergate, by the way, is that the event Chris Luxon was telling Mike Hosking about on Monday, where he finished up in Whanganui at 10:30 and then had to get back to Auckland, was in fact a National Party fundraiser. Now, that would be a big no-no if he were using a Defence Force flight to get to a National Party fundraiser because you can't use Defence Force aircraft to get yourself re-elected, can you? But it is not a no-no because that is not what he was doing. He was using the flight not to get to the fundraiser but to get from the fundraiser to an event in Auckland the next day. His office says that was a prime ministerial event and that makes it acceptable. As far as I'm concerned, prime ministers should be allowed to use the Defence Force, within reason, to get around the place. The Defence Force has to keep those aircraft flying. They have to complete a certain number of flying hours and surely, if the choice is between flying for the sake of it or flying for an actual reason, the practical option is to choose the actual reason. That's what this is. Also, come on, we've got to stop nitpicking legitimate uses of things like Defence Force flights, for God's sake. Whether you like Christopher Luxon or not, whether you vote for him or not, he is the Prime Minister. That is the most senior elected position in New Zealand. It is a job that requires constant travel and work. The Defence Force should be flying him around the place to cut down his travel time, simply so he can use that time for something more productive. It is neither novel nor new that this happens. Go and watch the Jacinda documentary on Netflix. She gets picked up from Clarke's parents' holiday home in Gisborne in a Defence Force chopper. Prime ministers have been flown around the country, and around the world, by the Defence Force for decades. It says more about us, I think, than it does about Chris Luxon that this is an issue. Now, the other two issues Luxon is dealing with this week are proper problems that do warrant debate: his small business comments and Winston Peters' racist comments. But this, Choppergate, is just nitpicking. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Winston Peters is not apologising for his comments towards a Green MP last week - comments that politicians across the House, including the Prime Minister, have said are racist. Christopher Luxon says there's an election coming, and people can have their say then. Labour's response? Fire him, and let's go to the polls now. Political reporter Giles Dexter has more. RNZ deputy political editor Craig McCulloch spoke to Melissa Chan-Green and gave his analysis.

Everybody's talking about the Opportunity Party and I'm not quite sure I believe they're anything more than a bit of a sideshow. They haven't cracked 5 percent yet but anyway, there we go. Sir Ian Taylor wrote an opinion piece that was published by Stuff. In it, he said that throughout his life he's been a centre-left voter. That's been his political home. But during the whole Covid period, with the Labour Party's response to Covid and the way it wasted its supermajority when it had, you know, all the power in the House, he became disillusioned. He started talking to people from the National Party and saw that they were having conversations. They were talking to business as well and he says that's what he wanted. He didn't want a party telling him what to do in the way he felt Labour did. So he changed his allegiance, after a lifetime, to the National Party. But now he's becoming disillusioned with National as well, because he believes the tail is wagging the dog. He thinks that, on issues such as the Treaty Principles Bill, pay equity, school lunches and so on, ACT and New Zealand First have too much power. He even suggests that Winston Peters has more influence in the coalition Government than Christopher Luxon and the National Party. So he's disillusioned with them too, and he's starting to say, "I'm flirting with Opportunity because they want to have a conversation." That's what their leader has said: "I want to get away from tribalism." Sir Ian has found himself hacked off with the Labour Party, hacked off with the National Party and hacked off with the whole MMP system. He's been quite beguiled by Opportunity, which says it wants to have a conversation. Now, the problem I have with that is that you don't vote for a party simply because it isn't one of the other two parties that have dominated politics for the past 40 years. You don't vote for someone because you don't want to vote for someone else. You vote for them because of the policies they have. And with Opportunity, as soon as they mentioned a universal basic income, I thought, "Well, I'm out." I've been reading about universal basic income for 30 years. I don't believe it's going to work. Many economists say it's not going to work. Then they added a land tax and I thought, "Well, that's not going to work either." In fact, as we've seen in the costings, all of this is going to cost the country an enormous amount of money. So I'm not voting for Opportunity. It's a sideshow. Sure, it's getting some publicity but I was amazed that Sir Ian Taylor, like too many New Zealand voters, seems to vote for people simply because they're not the people he doesn't like anymore. And that's his only reasoning. Crazy. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Winston Peters is not apologising for comments labelled racist by MPs - including the Prime Minister. Peters last week responded to heckling about vaccination from Green MP Laurence Xu Nan by telling him to go back to his country, saying people there lie like a flatfish. Newstalk ZB reporter Azaria Howell says Finance Minister Nicola Willis has voiced disappointment with Winston Peters' stance. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Huddle, Auckland Councillor Maurice Williamson and former Auckland mayor Phil Goff joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! Chris Finlayson recently described Winston Peters as 'old and angry' in an interview. Do we agree with this? The Auckland Chamber of Commerce and Northern Infrastructure Forum have released a joint call to split up the big power gentailers. Are they right? What could this mean for Kiwis and their power bills? New data shows a concerning percentage of Kiwis don't know the rules of the road. Are we surprised about this? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Greens co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick is defending claiming Parliament's Speaker has double standards. Gerry Brownlee asked Swarbrick to leave the House, after she criticised him not making Winston Peters apologise for accusing Labour's leader of making a false statement. Swarbrick says it came not long after the Speaker made her apologise and withdraw her accusations that a Government minister had made false statements. "I can acknowledge the Speaker has a hard job, but really - all we can ask for is that if his job is to referee, that he applies the rules equally." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Labour leader Chris Hipkins discusses Winston Peters' comments; Local board member raises concerns over fast track process; Westpac chief economist on fuel prices and unemployment; Dr Bev Lawton discusses cervical cancer screening review; Quake experts discusses NZ's alert system and preparedness

Liam, Phil and Susie discuss recent events in politics including Winston Peters' comments in the House toward Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan.Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

The Migrant Workers Association is defending its graphic protest, in which a dummy of Winston Peters was beheaded with a guillotine near Auckland's downtown train station. The display in Te Komititanga square aimed to challenge the Foreign Minister telling a Chinese Green MP to 'go back home'. Peters has called for action against the mock execution. But Association President Anu Kaloti's reiterating that this was purely satire. "It's symbolic, no one's head has been chopped off, it was an effigy - and the guillotine that was used wasn't a real guillotine." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast with Andrew Dickens for Monday, 3 August, 2026, we ask Migrant Workers Association of Aotearoa president Anu Kaloti if she'll apologise for "guillotining" Winston Peters in a protest. Constitutional lawyer Graeme Edgeler tells us if it's a good or bad thing that the Coalition government's passed a record amount of legislation under urgency. Former Silver Fern Temepara Bailey on the sweet success of our gold medal-winning Commonwealth Games netballers. And on The Huddle, Phil O'Reilly and Josie Pagani on whether beheading is befitting for a migrant protest. 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.

You've got to ask yourself: what on earth was the Migrant Association thinking? This comes after its stunt of guillotining an effigy of Winston Peters because it believes he's racist. It obviously disregarded the fact that many supporters of Peters believe unmitigated immigration allows undesirable migrants to flood the country, the type who think nothing of guillotining a politician or anybody else they disagree with. All it does is reinforce the stereotype of the violent migrant coming to replace the existing population. This is what Peters is railing against. And it's happening at the same time as the case of Ann Widdecombe that rocked the UK, a politician who was bludgeoned to death with a hammer for the crime of being a politician. Now, this was the same example used by people who found Paul Henry's statement about shooting Chris Hipkins distasteful, albeit a joke prompted by some radio jocks. So, if the Migrant Association thought this stunt would strengthen support for its position, then it has clearly failed. I think it should apologise. But that doesn't seem likely because, so far, it has defended the stunt as satire, which it wasn't. As Paul Henry discovered, there is nothing funny about suggesting the assassination of a politician. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tonight on The Huddle, Phil O'Reilly from Iron Duke Partners and Child Fund CEO Josie Pagani joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! The Migrant Association is under fire for their stunt where they guillotined an effigy of Winston Peters. What do we make of this - will they lose support? Should they apologise for this? Concerns have been raised over the Government's record amount of legislation under urgency. Should we be worried abut this? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week, NZ First leader Winston Peters made derogatory comments towards Green Party MP Lawrence Xu-Nan. The comments echoed racist stereotypes about immigrants and led to strong backlash from members of the public and politicians across parliament. This is not the first example of discriminatory comments from NZ First politicians this year. Candidate Stuart Nash spouted misogynistic rhetoric about National MP Katie Nimon earlier this year, and Deputy Leader Shane Jones made some derogatory comments about Indian migrants even earlier in the year. While MPs continue to call out these comments, little is being done to actually respond to them, especially as ACT and National continue to support NZ First in power. Also this past week saw the Ministry for Regulation advising that legalising plug-in solar could provide significant benefits. While plug-in solar rarely generates enough electricity to power a home, it can alleviate power costs especially in sunny months, reducing the burden on households and the electrical grid.  For this week's catchup with ACT's Simon Court, News Director Castor asked about each of these issues, beginning with NZ First leader Winston Peters' comments.

This week on the Sunday Panel, Coast Day host Lorna Riley and Newstalk ZB host Roman Travers joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! A new MSD report has confirmed that child poverty has gotten worse over the last few years. How can we fix these alarming statistics? What can we do? Winston Peters has prompted backlash over his controversial comments targeting a Green MP. Does there need to be more accountability? Particularly given Winston is Foreign Minister and this made global headlines? Phone etiquette - do we need a warning every time someone tries to call us? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There are about 97 days until we vote in the general election. I hope most of those days are better spent than with this week's spite and showboating. Winston Peters has spent decades proving he can bluster his way through most controversies, but his performance in the house has brought his role as Foreign Minister under scrutiny. Let's be clear, neither Peters nor the Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan covered themselves in glory in the House this week. Their exchange during a public debate where Peters told Xu-Nan to "go back to your own country" was attention seeking and designed to generate headlines as these days viral clips are valued more in modern politics than persuasive arguments and debate. Xu-Nan interjections about Peter's vaccine status were provocative but, considering his position, Peter's response was worse. If Peters was simply the leader of New Zealand First this week, the temptation would be to shrug, roll your eyes and file the skirmish away under “classic Winston”. Political theatre has always been part of his brand, and he probably calculated the exchange would resonate with his base. Election campaigns reward sharp elbows. But Peters is also NZ's Foreign Affairs Minister and spends his time, we would hope, nurturing our relationships with other nations. When your words prompt a formal diplomatic protest from China and make headlines around the world, they stop being just domestic political theatre. China is New Zealand's biggest trading parter, and the Foreign Minister's job is to advance New Zealand's interests, not create diplomatic fires. Ministers often survive offensive remarks, but Foreign Ministers should be held to a different standard because every word can have a diplomatic consequence. Peters knows this better than anyone. Decades of experience don't excuse the lapse, they make it harder to defend. Christopher Luxon's response - 5 out of 10. He deserves some credit for calling the comments “outrageous”, “very offensive and completely inappropriate", and racist, but stopped short of imposing any consequences, and expressed confidence in Peters as Foreign Minister. So, strong diagnosis, weak prescription from the Prime Minister. As you would expect the opposition has called for Peter's sacking, a position backed by former leaders Helen Clark and Don Brash. Everyone is using this spat as a means to campaign. Luxon's told a public meeting on Friday that the answer was "pretty simple." "Party vote National," he said. With three months until the election we can unfortunately expect more provocation, more culture war politics and more headline chasing. This may energise parts of New Zealand First's base, but it risks alienating other voters who are sick of the drama and desperately looking for rational, thoughtful conversations about issues and what matters. There is a reason the Opportunity Party is doing well in the polls. It's not necessarily about their policies - the party also appeals to people who are fed up with the status quo and the same politicians playing the same tiresome games. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The prime minister says Winston Peters' comments about a fellow MP are racist, but he still has his confidence as Foreign Minister. Pressure has been building on Christopher Luxon to do something after the New Zealand First leader said a Chinese-born Green MP should go back to his own country, and that is where 'they lie like flatfish'. Former leaders Helen Clark and Don Brash have weighed in, saying there's a strong case for sacking the foreign minister but it would likely trigger a snap election. Political reporter Russell Palmer spoke to Melissa Chan-Green. 

First up, former prime Minister Helen Clark says Winston Peters is inviting a sacking after he told Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan to "go back to your own country" during a debate in Parliament. Political commentator Michael Swanson joins the panel to discuss if Peters has gone too far this time and what the options are for Christopher Luxon. Then, New Zealand's super and KiwiSaver settings have been on the pre-election stage from across the political spectrum. But a KiwiSaver lobby group is calling for bigger promises/changes. One of which, is putting to bed a loophole which enables businesses to opt out of employee contributions. Kirk Hope, chief executive of the Financial Services Council NZ explains to the panel why this loophole needs to be obliterated.

Winston Peters tells a Green MP to go home and the political world goes into full meltdown. Labour and the Greens are calling it racism, but is it actually prejudice or just classic Winston attacking a political ideology? We break down the Parliament circus, the deafening double standards, and why everyday Kiwis struggling with mortgages are fed up with the endless outrage machine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Did you see even Don Brash reckons Luxon should fire Winston as Foreign Minister? Before anyone gets their hopes up, this never going to happen. If the PM cut Winston loose, the government would fall apart. That would kill not only Luxon's current term but his ambitions for a second. MMP is a game of swallowing dead rats. Campaign-mode Winston is the political equivalent of one of those giant New York sewer rats. With the plague. Gross. Unsightly. A pain the arse. But impossible to get rid of. The PM has so far handled the situation well, using the playbook of Jacinda Ardern and Helen Clark to deal with his brain farts. Those calling for his sacking are hypocrites to their party. Carmel Sepuloni sat round the cabinet table with Winston POST two Wongs don't make a White. The faux shock and outrage only make their own leader look weak. If 'Go Home Gate' is so outrageous and egregious, why hasn't Chris Hipkins ruled Winston out? He did so about this stage of the election cycle in 2023. Why not last night? Why not this morning? I text Hipkins today to ask exactly this question. Why not rule him out ever being foreign minister, at least? Guess what? Crickets. Radio silence. Why? Same reason as Luxon. They need him. Or might need him. Luxon, because he's no John Key and doesn't have the arty vote to govern without New Zealand First. And Hipkins, because if he did get enough support to cross the finish line, he'd rather do it alongside Winston Peters than Te Pati Maori. The fact is, Winston can say what he likes and he knows it. His comments aren't popular with most fair-minded kiwis, but then, really, neither are the Chrises'.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The opposition is demanding the Prime Minister take action after Winston Peters said a Green MP who moved to New Zealand should go back to his own country. The New Zealand First leader in Parliament responded to some heckling from Lawrence Xu-nan with an abusive rant. Political reporter Russell Palmer spoke to Melissa Chan-Green.

There's been condemnation across the House after Winston Peters told Green Party MP Lawrence Xu-Nan to go back to his own country. The Chinese-born MP, is a New Zealand citizen and has lived in New Zealand since he was a child. The Chinese embassy has raised the matter with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Giles Dexter reports.

A former minister for international trade believes comments made in the House by Winston Peters were untidy, saying international relationships need mutual respect. The Chinese Embassy has lodged representations with MFAT over Peters' derogatory comments to Chinese-born Green MP Laurence Xu-Nan. Former Speaker of the House and National party minister Sir Lockwood Smith told Mike Hosking Peters holds the foreign affairs portfolio at all times. He says the dilemma is now Chinese leaders know in dealing with him, what Peters really thinks of them. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Green MP told to go back to his own country by Winston Peters says the NZ First leader conducted himself 'carelessly'. After Lawrence Xu-Nan heckled him about his vaccination status, Peters fired back and today said he was 'supporting democracy'. Chris Luxon's labelled it 'attention seeking'. Xu-Nan says it was an attack on his identity. "What is also important is freedom of expression - it doesn't necessarily mean freedom from consequences." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Winston Peters is defending his comments, which coalition partners Chris Luxon and David Seymour have labelled 'attention-seeking'. The New Zealand First leader yesterday responded to Chinese-born Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan heckling over vaccinations, by telling him to go back to his own country. Luxon says Peters has a long track record of inappropriate comments designed to get people talking about him. Newstalk ZB reporter Azaria Howell says Labour has also condemned Peters' comments and called for his resignation. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Winston Peters has a point - but is making it terribly. In fact, if you've been following what happened in the House yesterday, it doesn't actually make all that much sense. But the bit the media is focusing on is the part where Winston tells Green Party MP Lawrence Xu-Nan to "go back to your own country". I don't like it when Winston does this. It gets personal when it shouldn't be. The fact is, Lawrence Xu-Nan is a New Zealander. End of. He's allowed to ask questions in Parliament as an MP. He's allowed to shout across the House during question time like the rest of the mob, unless the Speaker says stop. He has the same rights to speak his mind as anyone else. That's the beauty of a democracy. Every man and his dog will debate whether this is racism or something else. What it's not is hate speech. Hate speech is what old mate Brian from Destiny Church said the other week, talking about physical violence to groups of people. Back to Winston - he has now embroiled himself in a fight with the Chinese embassy, having a hissy fit at the Ambassador. This should surprise no one. It's Winston being Winston. The metamorphosis from Minister to campaigner is almost complete. His skin is almost shed. A butterfly is breaking free from its chrysalis! But Winston is right about one thing. We're lucky to live here and not China. Opinions, freedom of expression, access to the internet and the right to elect your political leaders are not virtues of their system, but ours. It's an autocracy. The system we hold dear allows Lawrence to ask questions and shout inside our Parliament - but also protects Winston's right to say off-colour comments in return. Taste is an entirely different question and, on this point, I find Winston off-putting. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive Full Show Podcast with Ryan Bridge for Thursday, 30 July, 2026, Winston Peters is getting told off by the Prime Minister for telling a Green MP to go back to his country. That MP, Lawrence Xu-Nan, tells Ryan what the consequence should be. We speak to a high school principal about why 15% of teens are leaving school without any NCEA qualifications. Auckland FC have a shiny new coach from Portugal. The club's CEO Nick Becker is pretty excited about it. Ryan asks if the new guy can get us back-to-back A-League Championships. And on The Huddle, Gareth Hughes and Maurice Williamson get riled up about the government saying there won't be a ban on the sale of fireworks. 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.

Tonight on The Huddle, Auckland councillor Maurice Williamson and former Green MP Gareth Hughes joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! Winston Peters is under fire over his comments directed at a Green Party MP - the latest in a long line of controversial statements made by NZ First candidates. Will this put voters off? How disappointing is this? National has backed down on the proposed backyard fireworks ban, sparking outrage from animal welfare groups. What do we make of this - should the Government have stuck by this? More kids than ever are leaving school without the proper qualifications - should we be worried about this? What does this mean for our education system? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the Prime Minister about Trump’s tariffs, whether bird flu’s here to stay, why he kicked TOP to touch, whether he needs the power to discipline Winston Peters and David Seymour, and what he’s doing in the Australian Women’s Weekly?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Conversations about reintroducing maximum sustainable employment to the Reserve Bank's monetary policy mandate and inflation targeting could be back on the table, following recent comments from Winston Peters. Peters had to let this issue go during the last round of coalition negotiations, but speculation indicates he's like to bring the issue up again the next time round. Infometrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen says there would be very little, if any, differences to the current state of the OCR if these changes were implemented. "The Reserve Bank is not dumb, they're not looking at the economy and going - well, if only we completely ignore the labour market. You can't ignore people in the economy and their jobs, so realistically - no , we wouldn't expect any real change." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Stuart Nash is out of politics for good after another massive, self-inflicted wound. After falling out of Cabinet under Labour and trying to rebuild his career with Winston Peters and New Zealand First, Nash lasted just one week before sending a text to former National minister Chris Finlayson criticizing a local Napier candidate. We look at how Winston Peters acted quickly to force him out, why Christopher Luxon ruled him out of Cabinet, and how Nash repeatedly ruined his own political comebacks through a lack of discipline and poor judgment. Plus, we speak with Mark Hooper, a Taranaki farmer with Federated Farmers, about the government stepping in to halt iwi co-governance agreements with local councils. We discuss what needs to replace these agreements under the new planning rules, the high costs and delays of cultural impact assessments for regular landowners, and why New Zealand needs a transparent, high-trust planning system that works for all farmers and ratepayers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Right, is it just me, or is there anyone else out there who thinks it's mighty rich of New Zealand First to force Stuart Nash to resign, given the candidates and MPs they have defended for some of the most outrageous things they have said? Is it not rich that Shane Jones was on the radio saying, "Mm, yeah, sensible for Stuart Nash to have resigned," when he is the guy who referred to the Prime Minister needing to get out the kneepads for Narendra Modi when he visited, and he is the guy who used the phrase "butter chicken tsunami"? Now, I was aware of what was happening about 7pm on Wednesday. What was going on was basically that New Zealand First told Stuart Nash that he needed to quit or be fired. He tried to fight his corner but he was unable to do so and he was basically told that was the end of it. I have to be honest, I was really surprised by this. If this were any other party, it'd be fine, but it's New Zealand First. It feels off-brand for New Zealand First. This is a party that's made a virtue of resisting the wokesters and resisting the mainstream media. And then, the minute the wokesters and the mainstream media get upset at Stuart Nash, New Zealand First doesn't even hold its line for 12 hours. It just folds immediately. I mean, that has got to shake the confidence of voters who are attracted to New Zealand First because they think the party is going to provide some sort of bulwark against the creep of political correctness and so-called wokeness. Apparently not. They will fold within 12 hours. Now, I can only guess at why New Zealand First has folded on Nash and not on Jones. I'm guessing it's because there are more women voters in New Zealand than there are Indian voters. I'm guessing it's because Winston Peters prides himself personally on chivalry towards women and this would actually personally offend him. I'm guessing it's because Nash was already on his last chance after the "What is a woman?" thing and the aggro texts to Todd McClay. I'm guessing it's because Nash was not going to win the seat of Napier anyway so this gets New Zealand First out of an embarrassing defeat by a woman who's apparently distracted by her toddler. Because otherwise, immediately agreeing with the wokesters and the mainstream media does seem like quite a weird thing for New Zealand First to do, don't you think? LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Zealand First candidate, Stuart Nash has united nearly all of Parliament against him, with MPs denouncing his latest comments as misogynistic, sexist and derogatory. Late last night New Zealand First leader Winston Peters said he had accepted Nash's resignation. Deputy political editor Craig McCulloch spoke to John Campbell.

Tonight on The Huddle, Childfund CEO Josie Pagani and Sherson Willis co-founder Trish Sherson joined in on a discussion about the following issues of the day - and more! The big topic of debate is the latest election policy announcements out of NZ First and Greens both focusing on drastically different approaches to energy. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Zealand First wants to invest in surveying the country's offshore basins for oil and gas supplies to use domestically and export around the world. Winston Peters announced the new policy at the party's annual convention in South Auckland. Political reporter Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira reports.

Tonight, on The Panel, Wallace Chapman is joined by panellists Richard Pamatatau and Nichole Lewis. First up, the Cook Strait ferries have been named - and Winston Peters is getting ahead of complaints. Then, permits are set to be easier to get for trappers of feral cats. Hunter and trapper Victor Tindale joins us to tell us what this means for him. Then, a single mother is finally in her own house after years of work. Hosanna Elers joins us to tell us how it feels to have a place to call home.

Winston Peters spoke to John Campbell following the weekend's visit by the Indian Prime Minister and last week's test of a nuclear capable missile by China in the South Pacific.