HeyJaredCross Party Lines
A weekly podcast about the political landscape in New Zealand and around the world. Proudly going beyond the headlines, looking at the structural challenges, challenging the status quo and explaining our place in the complex geopolitical stage.
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- Sep 7, 2026
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- Jul 6, 2026
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Vacuum in the Pacific and Lies on the Billboards (Live at WORD Christchurch) (opens the original)
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Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson , Cross Party Lines takes to the stage at The Piano in Christchurch for a sold out live episode that opens with a tribute to the resilience of Cantabrians and closes with a plea to get on the electoral roll before 25 October. In between: the Pacific being carved up by superpowers, an election campaign built on little lies and big lies, and the strategic questions nobody in Wellington wants to answer. All thanks to Frank Risk Management - The 100% Kiwi Owne
Tax Lies, Perverse Pay Packets and Social Media Meltdowns (opens the original)
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Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson , Cross Party Lines returns in a week dominated by tax promises nobody can keep, a CEO pay packet that defies all decency and a rare moment of cross-party agreement on social media and children that both men want to see survive the campaign. All thanks to Frank Risk Management - the 100% Kiwi owned insurance brokerage and proudly the foundational partner of Cross Party Lines. In this episode: * The tax debate nobody’s having honestly — National is running
Hospital Crisis, Dirty Money and Trumps Midterm Nightmare (opens the original)
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Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson , Cross Party Lines returns to its usual programming for an episode that is almost entirely about the health of democracy itself: in New Zealand’s hospitals, in its political donation system, in its local body elections and in the United States with 74 days to go. Thanks to Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi owned insurance brokerage. Get more info at frankrisk.co.nz. In this episode: * Health, housing and the election’s tier-one issues — Phil opens with
Live Q&A: New Zealand's Greatest Mistake, the Foreshore Lie and Who's Worst (opens the original)
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Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson with special guests Helen Clark and Tracey Martin , this bonus episode brings together the questions from the live Q&A sessions at both the Auckland Q Theatre and Wellington Hannah Playhouse shows. All thanks to Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi owned insurance brokerage. The audience asks, the panel answers: * What was New Zealand’s biggest missed political opportunity? — Phil and Chris are in rare and emphatic agreement: Sir Robert Muldoon winding up
Penk, Peters and Citizens Arrests (LIVE with Tracey Martin) (opens the original)
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Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson , Cross Party Lines goes live at the Hannah Playhouse in Wellington — sold out in a week — with a very special guest: Tracey Martin, former deputy leader of New Zealand First, former Minister for Seniors and Children, and current CEO of the Aged Care Association. An episode that moves from the psychodrama of National’s leadership crisis to the slow-motion crisis in aged care — with an insider’s account of life in the New Zealand First caucus along the way.
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