Q+A this week

Looks to be an interesting programme:

Guyon Espiner will delve into the eight boxes of documents released under the OIA this week and spell out the scale of the MPs credit card use.

Paul Holmes will talk to former party presidents Mike Williams from Labour and Michelle Boag from National. They know the MPs, the culture and the day-to-day pressure that our politicians are under. Is there a culture of hubris, or are our MPs misunderstood?

Then, New Zealand’s constitution. National and the Maori Party are committed to a constitutional review. In a special debate, former prime ministers and constitutional heavyweights Jim Bolger and Mike Moore talk to Paul Holmes about whether we need a written constitution, about the MMP referendum, the status of the Treaty of Waitangi, republicanism and more. Do we need to rein in our politicians?

Dr Jon Johansson from Victoria University will be joined by Tainui chair and former New Zealand First MP Tukuroirangi Morgan plus lawyer and former ACT MP Stephen Franks on the panel.

Tuku will feel vindicated, as it was Labour who went after him for his $79 undies!