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9/11, Campaign Chaos and Rogue Machines
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- Cross Party Lines
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- Sep 14, 2026
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Summary
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 — where they were, what it meant and the wars that followed — Phil was Foreign Minister when the call came through at one in the morning from his driver: go downstairs and turn on the television. By the time he got there, the second plane had hit the South Tower. Chris had just returned from three months studying Latin in Rome with a drunk monk from Milwaukee. Both share vivid personal accounts of the hours and days that followed. * Campaign week: KiwiSaver, student loans, supermarkets and the same old Peters playbook — Labour’s KiwiSaver policy gets a broadly positive reception — raising employer contributions to six percent over four years, with employee contributions defaulting to four percent but not mandated, addressing the million New Zealanders contributing nothing and losing their employer match. The Greens’ state-owned supermarket proposal gets a more sceptical hearing: Phil’s nuclear option would be forcing Pak’nSave to divest from its parent, bringing real competition rather than a government-owned operator with no track record in retail. National’s transport policing announcement — fifty officers for the CRL — draws a wry Chris story about being abused on the Karori bus and not one passenger helping, and his firm view that police should at minimum patrol that rou…