{"podcast":{"title":"Cross Party Lines","slug":"cross-party-lines-7562106","podcast_index_feed_id":7562106,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/6741293.rss","website_url":"https://crosspartylines.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/6741293/e9a8cf48c31f0e62acfae7772e0130fd.jpg","author":"Cross Party Lines","episode_count":50,"summary":"A show and community that help you unpack New Zealand politics in a fast-changing world order, hosted by Phil Goff and Chris Finlayson.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T16:18:12.660915+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cross-party-lines-7562106"},"episode":{"title":"Live Q&A: New Zealand's Greatest Mistake, the Foreshore Lie and Who's Worst","slug":"live-q-a-new-zealand-s-greatest-mistake-the-foreshore-lie-and-who-s-worst","published_at":"2026-08-17T16:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cross-party-lines-7562106/live-q-a-new-zealand-s-greatest-mistake-the-foreshore-lie-and-who-s-worst","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cross-party-lines-7562106","url":"https://crosspartylines.substack.com/p/live-q-and-a-new-zealands-greatest","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211503412/362bfea70ef55e1eeea2771d6697e19a.mp3","summary":"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 government’s superannuation scheme in 1975 — for short-term political advantage — is the single most costly decision in New Zealand’s modern history. * Energy, health, the Crown-Māori relationship and urgency in Parliament — The audience covers the waterfront. On energy: all three panellists back pumped hydro over an LNG terminal, and Phil draws a line connecting Malcolm Turnbull’s climate pragmatism to what New Zealand’s current government is getting catastrophically wrong. * AI, trans rights, capital gains tax and the Opportunities Party — The rapid-fire second half covers the issues the audience most wanted answered. On AI: Tracey always says please and thank you to AI, because when they take over the world she intends to be fine; Phil is more concerned about the military applications. Along the way: a four-year term referendum that never happened and probably should have, Chris’s view that the Intelligence and Security Committee should be chaired by a senior opposition MP rather than the Prime Minister, why the UK delegation that came to study New Zealand’s select committee process now has a better system than we do. Cross Party Lines exists to lift political literacy and create space for calm, good-faith political conversation. New episodes every Tuesday. If yo…","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2504,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/cross-party-lines-7562106/episodes/live-q-a-new-zealand-s-greatest-mistake-the-foreshore-lie-and-who-s-worst/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/cross-party-lines-7562106/live-q-a-new-zealand-s-greatest-mistake-the-foreshore-lie-and-who-s-worst.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}