Luxon + Trump. Labour + capital gains tax. Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori = schism?<\/p>\n
In his first face-to-face encounter with Donald Trump, Christopher Luxon has exchanged hair jokes and golf banter, shared a view on tarrifs and, unlike so many of his counterparts around the world, avoided public humiliation. Does that, when combined with political developments at home, mean that back-on-track level has at last been achieved?<\/p>\n
In the latest installation of the Spinoff\u2019s politics podcast Gone By Lunchtime, Toby Manhire, Annabelle Lee-Mather and Ben Thomas deliver their verdicts on the latest from the prime minister\u2019s travels in Asia, Winston Peters\u2019s woke obsesssion with pronouns<\/a> (geopolitically speaking) and Labour at last solving the challenge of how to define the capital gains tax it will take to the next election \u2013 by defining it as: three free GP visits for all.<\/p>\n Plus: is Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori on the brink of a schism as a vote is taken to suspend Mariameno Kapa-Kingi? And Vale Jim Bolger, who has died at the age of 90.<\/p>\n Follow Gone By Lunchtime<\/a> on Apple Podcasts<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> or wherever you listen to podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luxon + Trump. Labour + capital gains tax. Te P\u0101ti M\u0101ori = schism? In his first face-to-face encounter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30210,42,43,135,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-110869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-gone-by-lunchtime","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}