The Working Group - NZ’s Best Weekly Political Podcast

The Working Group podcast takes a deep dive into three major issues gripping New Zealand - foreign policy's delicate balancing act between global powers, the upheaval in the country's media landscape, and the ambitious but controversial infrastructure projects on the table. Pulling no punches, this daring podcast occupies the radical center to unravel New Zealand's most consequential issues.

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Join Martin Bradbury, Damien Grant, Simon Wilson and Michael Wood for a no-holds-barred dissection of New Zealand's political tumult. We're slicing through media trust issues, tackling worker safety, and wrestling with climate policies amid the cattle industry chaos. Expect explosive debates and radical insights as we expose the political and ecological crossroads defining Aotearoa. Brace for impact – this is the unvarnished truth ...

Join firebrand host Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury as he rallies New Zealand's sharpest political minds to slice through the haze of Kiwi controversies in a no-holds-barred dissection of tax cuts favoring the rich, educational equity, and the tectonic shifts in social reform. This episode is a searing critique of the Labour Party's leadership and an audacious defense of cultural spaces, all while standing at the frontlines of the nation'...

TONIGHT: You read me right! David Seymour, Willie Jackson and Libertarian Darth Vader Damien Grant in our special last show of the year!

We bring actual debate to the NZ Political Panel circuit.

You can’t get this on The Spinoff, NZME, Newshub Nation, AM Show, RNZ, TVNZ – you can only get it on The Working Group!

ISSUE 1 – Review the first week of the new Government

ISSUE 2 – Review the Political Year
(Crime/Environment/Po...

New Zealand's political arena is more like a gladiator pit than a parliament, and we've got front-row seats to the latest skirmishes. My guests, Q+As Jack Tame,  the ever-incisive Moana Maniapoto and the acerbically witty Damien Grant, join me to unpack the government's controversial plays. From the resurrection of high-octane firearms to the socio-economic chess game of tobacco taxation, we don't just throw punches – we analyze th...

Issue 1: Chippy's Ceasefire Captains Call

Issue 2: Coalition Negotiation Games

Issue 3: Xi and Biden's rapprochement and impact for NZ

and Issue 4: Grim Economic Christmas for many Kiwis this year

It’s Politics done unlike anywhere else.

The podcast broadcasts from our purpose built studio bunker ADJACENT to Mediaworks studios on YouTube &  The Daily Blog and posted up afterwards on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Rova & YouT...

TONIGHT: Legal representative of Slytherin House and Union Delegate for the Sith Matthew Hooton, NBR Senior Journalist Maria Slade and Libertarian Voldemort, Damien Grant.

Issue 1: Latest negotiations to form Government becomes the dance of the 7 veiled threats

Issue 2: Pacific Island Forum and our future with China

Issue 3: 300 000 in housing and power poverty plus 600 000 needing food banks monthly plus 55% of kiwis struggling...

TONIGHT: ACT Party Sith Lorde Brooke Van Velden, the last socialist standing Shane Te Pou and Libertarian Voldemort, Damien Grant.

Issue 1: Specials are in – final result ramifications

Issue 2: Government negotiations and Winston’s games

Issue 3: Chippy re-elected as Leader evidence Labour learnt nothing

and Issue 4: ACT criticise Chloe for pro-Palestinian chant

It’s Politics done unlike anywhere else.

The podcast broadcasts ...

TONIGHT: National Party MP Chris Peck, Former Labour Party Chief of Staff Matt McCarten and Libertarian Darth Vader, Damien Grant.

Issue 1: Banning Gang Patches while promoting Natural Glow – Is Mark Mitchell the new Suzanne Paul?

Issue 2: Coronial inquiry vs Winston

Issue 3: 57 dead children since the creation of Oranga Tamariki

and Issue 4: Hands up who is sick to death of hearing about Chippy’s new Girlfriend and the demise ...

TONIGHT: The Working Group Election Special: What Election means for the Right with ACT Party Leader David Seymour, Right wing Svengali Mathew Hooton and Libertarian Darth Vader Damien Grant

Issue 1 – What does the result mean for National?

Issue 2 – What does the result mean for ACT?

Issue 3 – What does the result mean for NZFirst?

and Issue 4 – Where to now for the Right?

It’s Politics done unlike anywhere else.

The podc...

TONIGHT: The Working Group Election Special: What went wrong for the Left with Māori TV current affairs host Moana Maniapoto, Former Labour Party Chief of Staff Matt McCarten and Libertarian Darth Vader, Damien Grant

Issue 1 – Labour – what the hell happened?

Issue 2 – Greens celebrate but have lost power

Issue 3 – Māori Party wins big

and Issue 4 – Where to now for the Left?

Next week we will review the Election for the Right...

TONIGHT: We wrap the Election Campaign and make Election night predictions with Māori Party President John Tamihere, Right wing Svengali Matthew Hooton and Libertarian Darth Vader, Damien Grant

Issue 1 – Election Campaign 2023 – highs and lows

Issue 2 – Finance Debate between Grant and Nicola 

Issue 3 – National refused to rule Winston out, then ruled him in and are now begging voters not to vote for him?

and Issue 4 – Election...

The third of 7 election debates. Live from Everybody club, Auckland.

Election 2023: Taxpayers' Union | The Working Group Party Policies Debate

Participants: Labour - Willie Jackson

National - Simeon Brown

ACT - David Seymour

Green - Ricardo Menéndez March

NZ First - Jenny Marcroft

Māori - John Tamihere

Issue 1: Economy and Cost of Living

Issue 2: Crime

Issue 3: Co-governance, the Treaty and Extremism

Issue 4: Climate ...