Three Gals One Beehive
Join Georgina Stylianou, Brigitte Morten and Esther Robinson as they buzz through the spin, the jargon and the pointy-heads of New Zealand politics so you don‘t have to. The self-confessed political geeks will bring you a weekly update of all things politics but will try and make it sexy. Ok so maybe not sexy sexy, but not boring!
Episodes

7 days ago
7 days ago
This week the Gals talk about the PM’s Singapore trip, immigration, local government amalgamation and email-gate.
Yass Queen to the Singaporean PM for an emotional speech, Beehave Mate to David Seymour and Wayne Brown’s childish squabble.
Question Time: How do petitions become laws?

Friday May 01, 2026
Friday May 01, 2026
With over two thirds of this election term complete, the Gals take the opportunity to talk to politicians about how it is all going.
In this episode, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, MP for Te Tai Tokarau has a kōrero with the Gals about winning the her seat by about 500 votes in 2023, whānau, Te Reo Māori and that strange place called Parliament

Friday Apr 24, 2026
Friday Apr 24, 2026
This week the gals are talking about the outcome of National's marathon caucus meeting, Treaty Clauses, the politics of signing a free trade deal with India and the State of the Planet.
Yass Queen and Beehave Mate go to international contenders this week and a great question on the benefits of Single Transferable Voting (STV) versus the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) voting systems.

Friday Apr 17, 2026
Friday Apr 17, 2026
This week the Gals talk about our weather warning systems, the future of the Broadcasting Standards Authority and NZ First attracting some big guns.
Yass Queen to Hungary and Beehave Mate to our outdated sex offence laws.
Question Time: what should the government look to do in terms of the debt trajectory in the Budget? The Gals’ opinions may surprise you!

Friday Apr 10, 2026
Friday Apr 10, 2026
This week the Gals discuss the evolving situation in the Middle East, a whole bunch of economic and polling numbers, another set of blunders from our PM and a stolen election. Yass Queen to ceasefire negotiations and Beehave Mate to those who dislike feijoas. Georgie has been kicked out of the country as a result.

Sunday Apr 05, 2026
Sunday Apr 05, 2026
Half time talks: Laura McClure
In this episode the gals talk to first term ACT list MP Laura McClure about deep fakes, Shakespeare, the parliamentary biscuit tin, and Education.

Thursday Apr 02, 2026
Thursday Apr 02, 2026
In this week’s episode the gals talk fuel relief and fuel levels, fishing u-turns and the Cabinet reshuffle winners and losers. Esther shows off her impressive selection of National Party impersonations and Georgie defends the time she spent at the hairdresser.

Friday Mar 27, 2026
Friday Mar 27, 2026
In this episode the gals talk to Greens co-leader Chloe Swarbrick about the Greens chances to increase their vote, what she would do as finance minister and getting door knocked by David Seymour’s dad.

Friday Mar 20, 2026
Friday Mar 20, 2026
This week the Gals discuss fuel prices, diplomatic schmozzles in Samoa, a Labour Party reshuffle and the question of whether politicians’ private lives are fair game.
Yass Queen to Erica Stanford and Beehave Mate to the Labour Party for some social media trickery.
Question Time: are politicians’ private lives fair game? If so, what is the line?

Wednesday Mar 11, 2026
Wednesday Mar 11, 2026
This week the Gals were meant to be chatting to Te Pāti Māori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi but…. she had to reschedule waaaa.
So, we discuss the High Court ruling in Kapa-Kingi’s favour, the shocker poll and Luxon’s leadership, another Minister is goneburger and doing jumping jacks to fill up our cars.
No Yass Queen, no Beehave Mate, no Question Time. Enjoy!

Friday Mar 06, 2026
Friday Mar 06, 2026
This week the Gals discuss the evolving situation in the Middle East, changes to the Census, welfare clawbacks and changes to KiwiSaver for farmers.
Yass Queen to Spain and Beehave Mate to a Dunedin City councillor.
Question Time: why do we treat family violence and child abuse as a social issue to discuss rather than a national emergency to act on?

Friday Feb 27, 2026
Friday Feb 27, 2026
This week the Gals discuss move on orders and Chuck and Mary, new road rules, Labour’s State of the Nation and the People’s Select Committee report on pay equity.
Yass Queen to a US company behind Trump’s tariff take-down and Beehave Mate to the UK Government for passport chaos.
Brigitte gets out-nerded in a lively Question Time: “dinner with two PMs - who would you pick?”

Friday Feb 20, 2026
Friday Feb 20, 2026
This week the Gals chat about shagging spiders, housing and infrastructure, $9 tolls and “sportsing”.
Yass Queen to Larry and Beehave Mate to the English Language Bill.
Question Time: how hard is bipartisanship planning really?

Friday Feb 13, 2026
Friday Feb 13, 2026
This week the Gals chat about the LNG announcement and tax vs levy, COVID spending is back in the news, some wee wobbles and the employment shake up. Yass Queen to the Ovarian Cancer Foundation and Beehave Mate to Turd City.
Question Time: What is our favourite political scandal of all time?

Thursday Feb 05, 2026
Thursday Feb 05, 2026
This week the Gals chat about Waitangi, critical minerals and the unemployment rate.
Brigitte is fired from selecting Yass Queens and Beehave Mate to Peter Mandelson.
A thought provoking Question Time: How should each party approach election year?



