Three Gals One Beehive

Waste not, want not

This week the gals talk ferries, Bishop’s bridge, new leaders new names, and not so clean cars.
Yass Queen to Deborah Russell so we can stop lying to the government and Beehave Mate to those pesky young people.

Sex, drugs and gun control

Brigitte and Esther are back this week diving into the Police scandals, more funding for tackling meth and the next installment of the Te Pati Maori drama. The rewrite of the Arms Act is covered and the two gals dance around the asset sales debate.
 
Yas Queen goes to the unanimous support for congestion charging 
 
Beehave Mate to the five senior cops who covered up abuse allegations at the highest level

The Michelin Guide to Cockroaches

This week the Gals talk about school boards and Te tiriti, a controversial Bill, supermarkets and the measles outbreak.
Yass Queen to Parliament’s top animal lover and Beehave Mate also has an animal theme.
Question Time: what are the black and white tiles?

He’s a beautiful man

This week the Gals talk about Labour’s tax plans, the new curriculum, a couple of Bills of interest, and, of course, more Te Pāti Māori drama! Yass Queen to Sir Wira Gardiner and Beehave Mate to Kevin Rudd. Question Time: why do regional councils have Chairs instead of Mayors?

The Emergency Coalition

This week Brigitte and Esther talk mega strike politics, Labour's various policies, and the MACA Bill. Incredibly, the two gals find common ground on education policy. 
The Yass Queen goes to the emergency coalition of National, Labour and ACT who car pooled their way down to the Capital.
Beehive mate goes to those who think it's okay to use violence to get their political points across. 

Drama, cows and new Mayors

This week the Gals battle tech issues both in NZ and Bali to chat about local election results, Te Pāti Māori drama, emissions and reading.
Yass Queen to Jim Bolger and a great question from a listener about Parliament legislating over judicial decisions. Happy listening!

Tough love nits and lies.

This week Esther and Brigitte break down a week of data and numbers, analyse broken windows, stay optimistic on a peace deal in the middle east and give a shout out to Paddy Gower.

Morten is one angry democracy nerd

Welcome back to our Gal Esther! This week the Gals talk about earthquake strengthening changes, energy, letter gate and New Zealand’s stance on Palestine. 
 
Brigitte is very aggrieved at the Electoral Commission, Esther volunteers as campaign manager for Judith Collins and Georgie weeps once more at the lack of bipartisanship in politics. 

Here a sod, there a sod, everywhere a sod sod

This week the Gals chat about the economy, the mood of the boardroom, Palestine, Trump and the United Nations and NZ First invokes the agree to disagree clause. 
 
Yass Queen to our first female Reserve Bank governor and Beehave Mate to some serious flip-flopping. 
 
Question Time: what do you make of the growing online political scene in NZ? 

Georgie for Mayor

This week the Gals are joined by special guest Ranjani Ponnuchetty from Local Government New Zealand to talk all about local government and the current election round. 
 
How do you vote? What does local government do? What role does central government politics play in local government? Bed tax and GST sharing? 
 
Ranjani answers all these questions and more. Happy voting!

Listen to your wife, Stu!

This week Georgie and Brigitte chat about a rather vulgar description of women, the Tāmaki Makaurau by-election,  superannuation and a Green Party resignation. 
 
Georgie launches a call to action to save art history and Brigitte shows some love to community boards. 
 
Yass Queen to cocktails and Beehave Mate to the former Samoan PM for refusing to concede power. 

Don’t rain on my parade

This week the Gals chat about China and Ukraine, regional airlines, immigration and a whole lot of health sector bits and bobs. 
Yass Queen to the ladies and Beehave Mate to a Kiwi Aussie. 
Question Time: can you explain party affiliations in local government politics?

Half time talks: Hon Nicola Willis

In this episode the Gals chat to Hon Nicola Willis - Minister of Finance, Economic Growth and Social Investment - about budgets and tax, misogyny and pay equity.

LIVE IN THE CAPITAL

This week the Gals ventured out of the recording studio to a Women in Business event hosted by the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and Forsyth Barr and talked about Election 2026.

Albo Luxo Did a Hongo

This week, Esther, Georige and blast from the past, former co-host Holly Bennett returns to talk NCEA, people’s select committee, Green ambition, Aussie visitors and what happened at the Marae? 
Listener question: comes from a long time fan who's looking to be filled in on the past 7 weeks of political news.