Cross Party Lines

52:30

Hollow Promises, Billionaire Games and the Brexit...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/10/05

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines opens with a tribute to former Speaker Adrian Rurawhe — a man of great humility, dignity and genuine cross-party respect — before turning to the final sprint of the election campaign: empty promises from every direction, billionaires gaming the electoral system, the minor parties’ kingmaker debate, and a Burnham bounce that might finally put Brexit on trial.All thanks to Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi Owned Insurance Brokerage.In this

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48:56

Empty Seats, Dirty Work and Blue Waves

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/09/28

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns to dissect party launches, Nicky Hager’s latest book, the US midterms and the Xi-Trump summit that produced two pandas and precisely nothing else.Proudly supported by our Foundational Partner Frank Risk Management - the 100% Kiwi owned insurance brokerage.In this episode:* Party launches: Labour’s energy versus National’s empty seats — Phil went to one launch and won’t make you guess which one. Audrey Young’s verdict — Labour had it

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52:21

Policy Overload, Debt and Disorder

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/09/21

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns for a week of policy overload, parliamentary chaos, and language in the House that both men thought they’d never hear. With 46 days to go, the episode cuts through the confetti of promises to ask which ones are serious, which are wacky and which are simply dishonest.Thanks to Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi Owned Insurance Brokerage and our Foundational Partner for the podcast.To hear more from the Both Sides Now Podcast, use

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53:06

9/11, Campaign Chaos and Rogue Machines

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/09/14

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines marks the 25th anniversary of September 11 with a deeply personal account of the night the world changed — and then turns to an election campaign generating more heat than light and an AI warning that even the people building it are frightened by.All thanks to our foundational partner Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi Owned Insurance Brokerage.To hear more from the Both Sides Now Podcast, use this link.In this episode:* September 11 —

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59:28

Vacuum in the Pacific and Lies on the Billboards...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/09/07

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 Owned

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49:18

Tax Lies, Perverse Pay Packets and Social Media...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/08/31

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 a

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51:29

Hospital Crisis, Dirty Money and Trumps Midterm...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/08/24

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 a

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41:44

Live Q&A: New Zealand's Greatest Mistake, the...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/08/17

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 the Kirk

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66:05

Penk, Peters and Citizens Arrests (LIVE with Tracey...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/08/15

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.Thanks

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62:08

Numpties, Captains Calls and the Populist Menace...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/08/10

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines goes live at Q Theatre in Auckland — with a very special guest: the Right Honourable Helen Clark, former Prime Minister, former UNDP Administrator and member of The Elders.An episode that moves from a government having a terrible week to the West Bank, and doesn’t pull a single punch along the way.All thanks to Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi Owned Insurance Brokerage. Find out more at frankrisk.co.nz.In this episode:* A bad week for

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47:03

Peters' Dying Light, Data Debate and Disappearing...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/08/03

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns with an episode that opens on Winston Peters telling a Green MP to go back to his own country and calling China’s leaders liars — and asks why the Prime Minister is applying a different standard to racism than he did to sexism.Proudly brought to you by Frank Risk Management, the 100% kiwi-owned insurance brokerage. Find out more at frankrisk.co.nz.In this episode:* Peters goes off the rails — again, and possibly for the last time —

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49:50

Double Standards, Tariff Hypocrisy and Parliament on...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/07/27

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns to a week that generated more podcast fallout than any episode before it — the Stuart Nash story broke on this show — and moves through Trump’s forced labour tariffs, the Iran quagmire and a parliamentary endgame that Phil and Chris think is being handled badly.All thanks to our foundational partner, Frank Risk Management - the 100% Kiwi owned insurance brokerage. Find out more at frankrisk.co.nz.In this episode:* The Nash fallout,

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50:34

Shock Jocks, Bin Faces and the Destruction of Legacy

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/07/20

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns with a week so packed it barely fits into an hour — Paul Henry joins ACT, Andy Burnham becomes Britain’s fourth Prime Minister in five years, Farage faces a comedian with a bin on his head, and back home, the government’s RMA and consent law moves prompt one of Chris’s angriest moments yet.Thanks to Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi Owned insurance brokerage.In this episode:* Paul Henry, celebrity candidates and the history of

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48:54

Red Carpets, Empty Roads and Pacific Diplomacy

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/07/13

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines opens with a tribute to Sam Neill — actor, environmentalist and proud New Zealander. Then it’s into a packed episode that moves from Modi’s visit to Pacific power plays, and closes with a verdict on the Roads of National Significance that is not kind.Thanks to our Foundational Partner, Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi owned insurance brokerage.In this episode:* Modi in Auckland — a historic visit with an unresolved $35 billion question —

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47:40

Pacific Missiles, Zombie Candidates and Unpopular...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/07/06

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines opens with breaking news — a Chinese missile test heading for the South Pacific — before working through a packed episode that moves from America at 250 to Brexit at 10, and closes with a forensic dissection of New Zealand Firsts increasingly chaotic behaviour inside the coalition.Thanks to our foundational partner Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi-owned insurance brokerage.In this episode:* China’s missile test and a new American

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49:18

Trade Skills, Clean Energy and Opportunities Up

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/06/29

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines goes fully domestic this week — a weekend of wall-to-wall policy announcements gives the panel plenty to work with, a centrist party is suddenly polling close to the threshold, and a government that spent three years going hard on conservation and fisheries has quietly started walking backwards.All thanks to Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi Owned Insurance Brokerage.In this episode:* Labour’s apprenticeship push, National’s solar moment

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52:36

Wasted Millions, Starmer Sacrificed and Cross Party...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/06/22

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns for a policy-heavy episode — a weekend of conference announcements, party platforms and pre-election positioning gives Phil and Chris more material than they can get through in an hour, and they try anyway.All thanks to Frank Risk Management, our foundational partner and the 100% kiwi owned insurance brokerage.In this episode:* $32 million, nothing to show and the eternal curse of government IT — Immigration New Zealand’s biometric

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53:28

Trumps War, Commuter Policy and Missing Money

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/06/15

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines returns for an episode that moves from the Iran peace deal to the election campaign taking shape around them.And all thanks to our foundational partner, Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi Owned Insurance Brokerage.In this episode:* The Iran deal — incomplete, expensive and Trump’s to own — A purported peace deal between the US, Israel and Iran arrived as this episode was recording, and both Phil and Chris give it a cautious and sceptical

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51:22

Beijing, Buried Emails and Telling America Where to Go

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/06/08

Hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines welcomes Phil back from China with a packed episode that moves from the streets of Beijing to the corridors of Parliament — and closes with a sharp verdict on American politicians who can’t stop telling other countries what to do.Thanks to our foundational partner, Frank Risk Management, the 100% Kiwi owned insurance brokerage.In this episode:* Phil’s China dispatch — infrastructure, trade and a more controlling Beijing — Phil’s first China

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51:24

Budget In, Stuart Out — and Is Australia Actually...

Cross Party Lines ·

2026/06/01

Hosted by Chris Finlayson, Cross Party Lines welcomes a familiar face from across the Tasman, special guest co-host Annette King — beaming in from Sydney while Phil is in China.All thanks to our foundational partner, Frank Risk Management. The 100% kiwi owned insurance brokerage.🎟 Live shows — Auckland 8 August, Wellington 12 August. Podcast listeners get pre-sale access. Head to tapliveevents.com and use code CPL26 (all caps).In this episode:* Nicola Willis’s budget — a bit of this, a bit of that

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