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In this week’s episode of Newsroom’s weekly politics podcast, we look at the PM’s foot-in-mouth over low-level business types, scrutinise Scrutiny Week and work out what species we should pay up to save.

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This week's recommendations:

Tim – A good look in The Guardian at the political weaponising of videos of Joe Biden – and Donald Trump to a degree – looking old and bewildered.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/a...

Marc – The New York Times article about key editorial figures at the Washington Post’s involvement in British phone-hacking scandals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/wo...

Laura – Marc Daalder’s article on David Seymour’s Snapchat interactions with school kids.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/06/20/sey...

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The hustler-in-chief Christopher Luxon almost managed to upstage his own visit to Japan this week, dissing some leading business figures and playing politics even ahead of his Air Force plane breakdown.

The Raw Politics team discusses if the latest case of prime ministerial foot-in-mouth matters, and if the substantive achievements of Luxon’s visit to Japan over-ride the awkward moments.

Then, panelists Laura Walters, Newsroom political editor, Marc Daalder, senior political writer and Tim Murphy, co-editor, scrutinise Scrutiny Week, the catchily named innovation at Parliament putting a whole slew of ministers in front of select committees for grillings over the Budget. We debate the benefits of performative politics vs real disclosure and hear how the once notorious National MP Sam Uffindell performs as a select committee chair.

Our listener question this week asks what native species is the most costly for the country to save, in light of Conservation Minister Tama Potaka’s admission it would be too costly to try to save everything. If there’s a price put on the fauna’s heads, watch out the kākapo.

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