The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - What Do Our Politicians Actually Do?

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The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta - What Do Our Politicians Actually Do?

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In this episode of The Hard Stuff, presenter Nigel Latta takes a peak behind the curtain of the Beehive in Wellington. Here, he looks at the lives of politicians — the pay, the perks and the scrutiny from the public. Latta talks with MPs, the Speaker of the House and political scientist Dr Bryce Edwards to make sense of the "special subset of society" that runs Aotearoa. Juggling the workload, the cutthroat debating chamber and the complexities of gotcha journalism, Latta wonders if politicia...

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2016

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