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In 2020 the Labour Government won 65 seats, with National taking only 33.  

The tides well and truly changed last night at the 2023 election, and to wrap it all New Zealand Herald's Thomas Coughlan joined Tim Beverage on the Weekend Collective.  

Plus, on Saturday, a major setback to the country's efforts for reconciliation with its First Peoples. Australia rejected a proposal to recognise Indigenous people in the constitution. 

Australian correspondent Murray Olds joined to talk about the upset. 

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David Seymour joined Roman Travers on the show to discuss why road tolls are the answer to fixing New Zealand roads, and Danika Mclean wrapped up NZ Firsts AGM.

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The Green Party announced their new renting policy to safeguard tenants from landlords. Ashley Church gives his thoughts on this, and Peter Dunne wraps up the week in politics.

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The National Party announced their new gang policy that would make a change to the sentencing act. Specifically, it would make being a member of a gang an aggravating factor. Paul Goldsmith joins Tim to discuss the policy in full.

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The results are in, and for many mayoral races around the country as well as a number of council seats, there’s been quite a bit of change.

We've seen Auckland and Christchurch swing from a left-leaning mayor to the right, Dunedin dump out a Green mayor, and Wellington bucking the trend and swung from Andy Foster on the right to Tory Whanau on the left.

Former National Finance Minister Steven Joyce joined The Weekend Collective to dissect the results and what it means.

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This week on Politics Central Tim Roxborough and Tim Beveridge talked to political analyst Chris Totter about Christopher Luxon and Brian Tamaki, Associate Professor of Psychology at Auckland University Danny Osborne about Disinformation in local body politics and more. 

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