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Top 10 Taxpayer Talk Episodes
Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Taxpayer Talk episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Taxpayer Talk for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Taxpayer Talk episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
MPs in Depth: Ryan Hamilton
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06/26/24 • 28 min
This week on Taxpayer Talk is another episode in our MPs in Depth podcast series where we get to know Parliament's new MPs. In this episode, Connor sat down with National Party MP, Ryan Hamilton.
Prior to entering Parliament, Ryan was a Hamilton City Councillor, small business owner and had involvement in a number of community organisations. Ryan gives us an insight into his upbringing, the struggles of starting his own business, his experiences in local government and areas he thinks are in need of reform. Ryan also discusses the values that drive him and what he wants to achieve in central government politics.
Ryan's maiden speech can be watched here. Follow Ryan on Facebook here.
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MPs in Depth: Rima Nakhle
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08/29/24 • 29 min
This week on Taxpayer Talk is another episode in our MPs in Depth podcast series where we get to know Parliament's new MPs. In this episode, we sat down with National Party MP, Rima Nakhle.
Rima was elected as the MP for Takanini at the 2023 Election. She was born in Australia where she graduated from Western Sydney University with a Bachelor of Laws and was admitted to practice in New Zealand in 2014. Rima shares her journey into New Zealand politics and discusses her proud Lebanese ancestry, and her role in running a successful emergency and transitional housing service.
Rima's maiden speech can be watched here. Follow Rima on Facebook here.
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MPs in Depth: Grant McCallum
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08/23/24 • 29 min
This week on Taxpayer Talk is another episode in our MPs in Depth podcast series where we get to know Parliament's new MPs. In this episode, Connor sat down with National Party MP, Grant McCallum.
Grant was elected as the MP for Northland at the 2023 General Election. Grant is a farmer and has been involved with the National Party's environmental group, the Blue Greens, and also with Federated Farmers.
In this podcast, Grant and Connor discuss his upbringing, life before being an MP and touch on his political philosophy.
Grant's maiden speech can be watched here. Follow Grant on Facebook here.
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MPs in Depth: Carlos Cheung
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06/29/24 • 23 min
This week on Taxpayer Talk is another episode in our MPs in Depth podcast series where we get to know Parliament's new MPs. In this episode, Connor sat down with National Party MP, Carlos Cheung.
Carlos caused one of the greatest upsets at the 2023 Election when he unseated Michael Wood, winning the Mount Roskill seat off the Labour Party for the first time since it was created. Carlos was born in Hong Kong and moved to New Zealand as a teenager to attend boarding school at Auckland Grammar. He shares his early life experiences, challenges in adapting to a new culture, and his career shift from academia to property management. He has a PHD in biological science and did his thesis on diabetes-induced cardiovascular disease. He reflects on his motivation for entering politics, emphasizing community service and the desire to create impactful policy changes.
Carlos' maiden speech can be watched here. Follow Carlos on Facebook here.
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09/16/24 • 35 min
David Buckingham is a Queenstown-based employment relations consultant. He was the supporter who first uncovered the extraordinary behaviour of IRD leaking personal information to social media companies. Jordan sat down with him to talk about what he found, how, and what it means for your data.
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Simeon Brown on Gangs
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08/06/21 • 18 min
Max is joined by Simeon Brown to address exactly why the donation of 2.75 million to the gang-run Kahukura program was a poor decision by this government, and to rebut some of the points that have been brought up in support of it.
03/21/21 • 48 min
The Climate Change Commission plans to up-end our economy with a highly political, centrally-planned regulatory agenda. Jordan is joined by Oliver Hartwich, Executive Director at the New Zealand Initiative, to untangle this mess.
08/24/22 • 62 min
In this edition of Taxpayer Talk, the focus is on education. With literacy and numeracy standards falling dramatically across the country, long-time educator Alwyn Poole has just finished some extensive research to find which are our most successful schools academically. Using the percentage of students leaving school with University Entrance grades, the results may surprise and shock you. How come a Decile 1 school in South Auckland can produce better results than many far more affluent schools? Why do Catholic schools produce such good results? Does the Ministry of Education really care about falling academic standards?
Then on the Political Panel, former MP and Cabinet Minister Maurice Williamson and Taxpayer Union co-founder David Farrar talk about Parliament as a place to work, and is bullying in 2022 really just a stern talking to in 1992? And host Peter Williams responds to some of your correspondence received at [email protected]
08/18/22 • 29 min
Josh Van Veen from the Ratepayers’ Alliance sat down with independent mayoral candidate Wayne Brown to discuss why he is running and his plan to fix Auckland.
Peter Williams Hosts Taxpayer Talk: David Baker on Exposing Inefficiencies in our Building Sector
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05/13/25 • 46 min
This week Peter Williams is joined by social media sensation, David Baker, from Rapid QS. David is a quantity surveyor by trade, specialising in pricing residential buildings—and has spent the last year blowing the whistle on why so many public housing and infrastructure projects cost so much.
But price is just the start—David also raising growing concern with agencies being unable to explain why the costs are so high, and has stated a wide-ranging social media campaign to expose these costs and inefficiencies within the industry.
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FAQ
How many episodes does Taxpayer Talk have?
Taxpayer Talk currently has 164 episodes available.
What topics does Taxpayer Talk cover?
The podcast is about News, Podcasts, Economics, New Zealand, Business and Politics.
What is the most popular episode on Taxpayer Talk?
The episode title 'Peter Williams Hosts Taxpayer Talk: Derek Daniell on the farming emissions tax' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Taxpayer Talk?
The average episode length on Taxpayer Talk is 33 minutes.
How often are episodes of Taxpayer Talk released?
Episodes of Taxpayer Talk are typically released every 7 days, 1 hour.
When was the first episode of Taxpayer Talk?
The first episode of Taxpayer Talk was released on Mar 20, 2020.
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