Prime Minister John Key on
the highs and lows of 2015. Lisa Owen asks him about
Australian detainees, poverty, polls and u-turns. And are we
at war with Islamic State?
Then, as New Zealand features
in an ISIS video we ask Police Commissioner Mike Bush in his
first television interview if we’re prepared for a
Paris-style attack. Was it OK for police to “blacklist”
Dr Jarrod Gilbert? And are the Police unwittingly
racist?
Also in his first television interview, the United
States Ambassador to New Zealand Mark Gilbert talks ship
visits, climate change and the TPP.
We’ll discuss all
this and more with our panel: Morning Report’s Guyon
Espiner, political scientist Jon Johansson, and Metro’s
Simon
Wilson.
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