Wholesale energy prices are the highest since October 2018, with hydro-lake levels only 32% full. 

Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones joins Tim Beveridge on The Weekend Collective to discuss what can be done to help. 

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Wholesale energy prices are the highest since October 2018, with hydro-lake levels only 32% full. 
Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones joins Tim Beveridge on The Weekend Collective to discuss what can be done to help. 
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Shane Jones: "New Zealand has the most expensive power prices in the world"

The number of households living in emergency housing has dropped by a third from December 2023 to June 2024. 

Auckland saw the biggest drop, from 624 households to 354 households. 

Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka joins Tim Beveridge on The Weekend Collective to discuss what caused the drop and where to go from here. 

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The number of households living in emergency housing has dropped by a third from December 2023 to June 2024. 
Auckland saw the biggest drop, from 624 households to 354 households. 
Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka joins Tim Beveridge on The Weekend Collective to discuss what caused the drop and where to go from here. 
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Tama Potaka: Emergency housing numbers drop by a third

Act MP Karen Chhour has raised concerns with Parliament becoming an unsafe working environment following personal attacks surrounding her youth offender boot camp. 

Former Speaker of the House Sir David Carter joins Tim Beveridge on The Weekend Collective to discuss whether the conversation around race relations will ever cool down. 

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Act MP Karen Chhour has raised concerns with Parliament becoming an unsafe working environment following personal attacks surrounding her youth offender boot camp. 
Former Speaker of the House Sir David Carter joins Tim Beveridge on The Weekend Collective to discuss whether the conversation around race relations will ever cool down. 
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David Carter: The Maori Party make debating difficult

The National Party announced a policy today to improve achievement levels in maths, following their Annual General Meeting this weekend. 

Education Minister Erica Stanford joins Tim Beveridge on The Weekend Collective to discuss this and more. 

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The National Party announced a policy today to improve achievement levels in maths, following their Annual General Meeting this weekend. 
Education Minister Erica Stanford joins Tim Beveridge on The Weekend Collective to discuss this and more. 
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Shane Jones: "New Zealand has the most expensive power prices in the world"

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