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The Maxim Institute Podcast is a chance for you to be a part of the conversations our team have as we do research and analysis of politics and policy in New Zealand. From behind the scenes chats about our research, to in depth discussion with our event speakers and experts from New Zealand and around the world, these podcasts will dig in to the deeper ideas that shape the way we live together.
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Russian Spy Claims, National Rules Out TOP, and Minor Party Politics | The Select Committee
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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Kiwi Power, Council–Iwi Agreements, and Cook Strait Ferry Names | The Select Committee
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Jul 22, 2026 |
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Paul Henry Joins ACT, the Polls Tighten, and New Zealand–India Ties Deepen | The Select Committee
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Jul 15, 2026 |
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Voting Rights, VPNs, and China’s Missile Diplomacy | The Select Committee
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Emergency Housing Targets, Political Centrism, and the Data Centre Panic | The Select Committee
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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The Greens’ Wealth Tax, Compulsory KiwiSaver, and Political Neutrality | The Select Committee
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Public Sector Scandal, Election-Year Sparring, and Wellington Hears a Hooton | The Select Committee
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Jun 17, 2026 |
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The China Ban, Labour’s Campaign Kick-Off, and will the Rural Vote Turn Red? | The Select Committee
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Defence Freeloaders, AI Welfare Decisions, and Winston’s Rugby Rescue | The Select Committee
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Budget Cake, Climate Courts, and Duck-Faced Horses | The Select Committee
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May 28, 2026 |
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Slashing the Public Service, Banning Social Media, and Buying BNZ | The Select Committee
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May 20, 2026 |
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Corruption, Superannuation, and Fake Polls | The Select Committee
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May 13, 2026 |
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The Modern Slavery Bill
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May 10, 2026 |
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Immigration, Marriage, and National Defence | The Select Committee
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May 06, 2026 |
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Truancy, Trade Deals, and the National Party Pivot | The Select Committee
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Luxon, Supermarkets, and the State of the Planet | The Select Committee
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Clickbait, Selective Framing, and Trust in Media
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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Euthanasia Amendment Bill Threatens Conscience Rights
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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National’s Billion-Dollar Gas Terminal
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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NZ’s Housing Debate: What’s Driving the Divide
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Why Palliative Care Matters: A Conversation with Hospice NZ’s Wayne Naylor
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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The $200m Initiative Changing Social Housing: Steven Moe on Impact Investing
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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The Promise of Social Impact Bonds
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Stephenson’s Euthanasia Amendment Bill Is Not What Kiwis Voted For
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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End of an Error: What Replaces NCEA?
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Dignity, Death, and Choice: Amanda Achtman on Euthanasia and Culture
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Lessons from Canada: Euthanasia in New Zealand
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Tim Wilson | Grievance Rules? Why Distrust Needn’t Destroy Us
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Dr Juliet Chevalier-Watts | Why an Atheist Academic Changed Her Mind on Churches’ Tax Status
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Our Jenga towers are tipsy
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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Jason Heale | Feeding our children or dependence?
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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Thomas Scrimgeour | The world is cooling
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Tim Wilson | Posie Parker, Destiny Church, and Policing Protest
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Josiah Brown | Can we rebuild together?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Tech advances won’t fix humanity’s reckless streak
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Jason Heale | The TikTok dilemma
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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Tim Wilson | Christmas Burnout: Symptom of a Deeper Malaise
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Josiah Brown | Climate finance is a hot mess
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Thomas Scrimgeour | Resurrectionists
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Health providers’ rights facing a dead end
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Jason Heale | Parents, not policies: Our best defence against social media
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Tim Wilson | Why Taylor Swift lost the US election
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Thomas Scrimgeour | Rocking chair to nowhere: America and New Zealand 2024
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Stephanie Worboys | Why our young are leaving, why they may not return
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Euthanising oversight
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Jason Heale | Super-Ageing Disgracefully
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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Marcus Roberts | Don’t Believe In God? Why you still need Religious Freedom
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Tim Wilson | A Defence of Inauthenticity
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Alexandra Lay | Digital dilemma: Why Gen Z needs books more than ever
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Professor Nicholas Aroney | Why NZ didn't become part of Australia
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Thomas Scrimgeour | Where social investment fears to tread
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Living in the red chair
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Dr Stephanie Worboys | Pandora’s Box: The perils of gene technology
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Jason Heale | The geopolitics of our energy crisis
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Josiah Brown | Time to trade in: NZ healthcare needs an upgrade
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Tim Wilson | The Conspiracy Olympics
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Even public schools need charter schools
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Aug 02, 2024 |
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Thomas Scrimgeour | Know your limits
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Jason Heale | What makes Kiwis Kiwi?
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Josiah Brown | Populism: Democracy’s stress test?
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Tim Wilson | A Hymn to Handwriting
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Jul 01, 2024 |
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Madeleine Smith | Want to buy your child anxiety? Get them a smartphone
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Why choice in education really is choice
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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Thomas Scrimgeour | Between the devil and the deep blue sea
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Jason Heale | A Prescription for Our Defence (and other) Ills: Conscription
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Josiah Brown | Crime’s jigsaw: The missing pieces
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May 28, 2024 |
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Tim Wilson | How to see through squid ink
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May 21, 2024 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Everyone pays when speech isn’t free
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May 14, 2024 |
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Dr Stephanie Worboys | Why Trust is a Must
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May 09, 2024 |
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Thomas Scrimgeour | How Will We Remember Them?
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May 01, 2024 |
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Marcus Roberts | Immigration: Getting Beyond the Number 8 Wire
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Jason Heale | Rethinking MP’s Remuneration
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Tim Wilson | Protesting Too Much
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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Josiah Brown | Un-Civil religion at the end of the rainbow
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Cake one day, crumbs the next
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Thomas Scrimgeour | How to build political immortality
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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MIC 17 | Hijacking the school bus: Ideologies, curriculum, and teacher training
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Marcus Roberts | A slow-moving, silent revolution
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Jason Heale | What Newshub’s Death Really Means
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Natasha Baulis | While We Were Sleeping
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Josiah Brown | Putting the ‘local’ back in local government
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Only better tech can recharge the EV revolution
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Tim Wilson | The Treaty Debate: What People Are Getting Wrong
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Marcus Roberts | An “independent foreign policy”? No thanks.
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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Jason Heale | Our character deficit and how to fix it
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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Natasha Baulis | Why the Word “Genocide” Shouldn’t Be Over-used
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Your phone is listening with Jisoo Kim
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Winston vs. the media (again): The trust dust-up
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Marcus Roberts | Yes/No: The right way to go?
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Jason Heale | Should Free Speech Have Limits?
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Natasha Baulis | Prizewinning Birds Vs. AI
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Marcus Roberts | The Global Gloaming
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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2023 Sir John Graham Lecture | Rebuilding Trust: Populists, Elitists, and the Future of our Democracy
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | A government that divides us won’t stand
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Tim Wilson | To the New Government: Please, Let’s not Abuse Urgency
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 13
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Josiah Brown | Ask Not What Your Government Can Do for You
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 12
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Jason Heale | Talk to me
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | NZ’s curriculum fails the test
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 11
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Grading our Curriculum: Failing students, teachers, and the evidence test
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 10
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Marcus Roberts | Distrust: Rational or Irrational?
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Natasha Baulis | Why do I have to go to school?
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 9
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Natasha Baulis | Beyond Emotivism: How does this make you feel?
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 8
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Tomorrow’s Teachers | Recruit, (re)train, and retain
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 7
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Marcus Roberts | Demographics, debt and deflation in our biggest market
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 6
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Jason Heale | Keep it 18
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 5
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Teacher Education
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Jason Heale | Boys Education
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 04
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Marcus Roberts | Hard Lessons From COVID
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Getting more bungle and less bang for our buck
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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MIC 16 | A War For Your Wallet: The Cost of Living Crisis Election
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 03
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 02
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Maximise: Election 23 | Episode 01
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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MIC 15 | AI and Our Elections: Is Democracy Under Threat?
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Natasha Baulis | Fishing for Truth
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Natasha Baulis | Coronation
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Natasha Baulis | Hedgehog Diplomacy
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Sisilia Teu | Critical thinking or Censorship?
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Marcus Roberts | Prisoners Voting Rights
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Maryanne Spurdle | Charities
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Jason Heale | Asking the Right Questions of Our Leaders
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Marcus Roberts | The Art of Political Defection
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Marcus Roberts | Policy Bonfires
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Sisilia Teu | TikTok
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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'Alapasita Pomelile | Attendance Officers
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Jason Heale | Te Pukenga
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Sisilia Teu | AI in Education
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Marcus Roberts | Foreign Policy
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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'Alapasita Pomelile | The crisis crisis
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Josie Pagani and Tim Wilson on The Place We Call Home
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Kieran Madden | Boys Education
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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Tim Wilson | Anger is the cake of the internet
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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'Alapasita Pomelile | Education
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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Jason Heale | Safety
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Marcus Roberts | Mandatory Voting
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Jason Heale | Character Test
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Tim Wilson | Data & Statistics
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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The New Economic Normal with Brad Olsen
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Sep 30, 2022 |
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'Alapasita Teu | Truancy
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Jason Heale | Death Rate
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Marcus Roberts | Policy Debates
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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'Alapasita Teu | Online Regulation
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Marcus Roberts | Informal Empire
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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MIC COVID and Our Constitution: How A Pandemic Affected Our Body Politic and Culture
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Aug 19, 2022 |
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Dr Rowan Light on Anzac Day
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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Beyond The Shadow of Debt
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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22. Josie Pagani and Tim Wilson on "Age is not your identity"
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Book Club 7 | The Quest for Community
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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21. The Urgent Case for Accessible Palliative Care
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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20. Paul Henderson on Artificial Intelligence - Part One
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Book Club 6 | Breaking Bread with the Dead
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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19. Ven Dr Lyndon Drake & Julian Wood on debt, COVID-19 recovery and where to from here?
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Book Club 5 | Together
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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18. Professor Graham Le Gros on vaccines, safety, and COVID-19
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Mar 25, 2021 |
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17. Bronwyn Wood & Rowan Light on Education, History, and the NZ school system
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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16. Jeremy Waldron | "A Letter from America" (2017)
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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15. Ursula Elisara on foster care, trauma and love
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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14. Te Karere Scarborough & Tim Wilson on "Repairing the Fabric of the Universe"
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Book Club 4 | Small is Beautiful
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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13. Rowan Light & Ryan Donaldson on youth unemployment
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Book Club 3 | Man's Search For Meaning
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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12. Julian Wood on the economy, employment and election promises
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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11. Dr Stephen Child and Danielle van Dalen on the End of Life Choice Act
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Book Club 2 | The Decadent Society
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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10. Tom Simpson & Richard Ekins on trust
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Book Club 1 | Road to Character
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May 15, 2020 |
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9. Hon Sir Pita Sharples – Woven Together
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May 15, 2020 |
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8. Rowan Light on the protest and patriotism of ANZAC day
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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7. Julian Wood talks PGF, immigration, and what to do with dying towns
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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6. Alex Penk - An exit interview
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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5. Leilani Tamu on the "Pacific workforce challenge"
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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4. David Hall and Alex Penk on hate speech and free speech
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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3. Max Rashbrooke and Kieran Madden on poverty, inequality, and good government
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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2. Dr Kathryn Mannix on dying, death, and wisdom in an age of denial
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Oct 03, 2019 |
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1. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela on injustice and reconciliation
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Introducing the Maxim Institute Podcast
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Sep 06, 2019 |