On Q+A This Week: Sunday 21st July, 9am

On the programme this Sunday, with the Reserve Bank threatening homebuyers that they'll need a much bigger deposit before they get a loan we ask will it work or will desperate buyers be forced onto the black market? We talk to Kirk Hope, CEO of the NZ Bankers Association, and to Housing Minister Nick Smith about a government solution.

Also on the programme, as calls grow for an investigation into new spying powers we ask NZ First leader Winston Peters what threats we face from extremists and terrorists.

And he mobilised thousands of young people into volunteer work after the Christchurch earthquakes, we talk to student Sam Johnson, the man John Key calls a future prime minister.

We'll take a look back at the political week with Political Editor Corin Dann and discuss the issues with our panel political scientist Dr Jennifer Curtin from Auckland University, former National MP Wyatt Creech and former Labour party candidate Josie Pagani.

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