“Cat cuts” and Budget Bonanza

The Budget Bonanza!  What got money, what got cut and what surprised us. The Gals tell you everything you need to know about Budget 2024.  Plus two Beehave Mates for men behaving badly.

The Gals find the potash stash

This week the Gals talk housing, more pre-Budget announcements, and some forgotten political donations. We chat about the new minerals strategy, a soggy press conference and Holly is disgusted by a cheeky question from a listener.  Catch you for the Budget Bonanza next week!

Budget Biz and boys trips

This week the Gals talk about pre-Budget announcements (roads, schools and defence), the future of the Christchurch Call and the situation in New Caledonia.  Our Yass Queen crown goes to an Aussie budget initiative and an MP gets the Beehave Mate title for the week.

MP tea, train wreck press conferences and woke sushi.

This week the Gals talk about a big funding boost to Corrections (and the awful press conference that announced it), MPs behaving badly and FOMO over Auckland’s water deal. Holly has some issues with strong language used by Te Pāti Māori, Brigitte can’t change a lightbulb and Georgie consumes too …

Pay rises, planting seeds and Pharmac.

This week the Gals talk about the end of the James Shaw era, politicians getting pay rises, Winston Peters and his latest legal kerfuffle and Pharmac funding. Our Yass Queen goes to democracy wine, the world’s worst arts spokesperson gets our Beehave Mate and we answer a listener’s question about …

Demotions, doctors and good doggos.

This week the Gals discuss the first Ministerial demotion of the Coalition Government, junior doctors going on strike, threats against MPs and a failed summons to the Waitangi Tribunal. Brigitte puts her democracy nerd hat on to answer this week’s listener question and we crown our first non-human…

Truancy, traffic lights, and targets!

In this week's pod Georgie is away, so the two other Gals play! Get up to date on the latest traffic light system the government is rolling out (don't worry no COVID-19 in sight) and Holly asks what do we do about the cows? Brigitte shares why the Easter Bunny may soon be able to get a drink during…

Action Plans and aquabots.

This week the Gals talk about the new 36-point Government Action Plan and whether you can run a country like a company. In other business, we talk about attracting more teachers to New Zealand, cash-strapped councils and how the Government plans to make doing some DIY a bit easier. An awesome gro…

Slicing and dicing – tax and dolphins.

This week the Gals talk about being hacked by a so-called friend, sliced up dolphins, tax and changing one’s mind on period poverty. Holly fires a senior public servant (Brigitte just relegates them to cleaning duty) and Georgie sips cognac…. The results were interesting. See omnystudio.com/liste…

In support of the humble wine biscuit!

This week the Gals discuss the economy, Chumbawamba, wine biscuits and what the heck our spies are up to. Holly has some thoughts on the Government’s expectations of Kāinga Ora, Brigitte crowns a voting stuff-up as our Beehave Mate for the week and Georgie speaks about how Winston Peters has impro…