This week on Q+A

Sunday 28th July, 9am

On the programme this Sunday, Prime Minister John Key is in South Korea. We talk to him about spies and find out what's holding up a trade deal there.

We speak to David Shearer about the overheated housing market.

Also, Kiwifruit marketing body Zespri's been under fire over corruption in China, we'll ask the CEO, Lain Jager, about bribes and grower discontent in the industry.

And we talk to the new voice of political satire, Ben Uffindell, who’s only 22, has just launched his own political party, and already managed to upset some politicians.

On the panel this week, political scientist Dr Bryce Edwards from Otago University, NZ Herald columnist Fran O'Sullivan, and Unite Union's Matt McCarten.

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