On Q+A, Marae Investigates & Sunday - 6th November

5th November 2011

On Q + A
9am Sundays on TV ONE

In their first television debate, National’s Bill English and Labour’s David Cunliffe are live with Guyon Espiner to discuss the big economic questions. In an in-depth interview over two segments, we’ll explore the major parties’ plans for growth and jobs, wages and tax. Will they work? And how will they affect you?

And we reveal the One News-Colmar Brunton poll results on business confidence and the age of retirement.

Just ahead of the Greens’ campaign launch, we cross live to Wellington to interview co-leader Russel Norman. Paul Holmes will talk to him about poverty, polls and coalitions.

And we stop in at New Plymouth, the country’s most marginal electorate. Hadyn Jones meets National MP Jonathan Young and Andrew Little, the former Labour president who wants to win back the seat.

On this week’s powerhouse panel, Dr Jon Johansson is joined by Gareth Morgan and Michael Barnett.

Q+A, 9-10am Sundays on TV ONE. Repeats at 9.10pm Sundays, 9:05am and 1:05pm Mondays on TVNZ 7

On Marae Investigates
10am Sundays on TV ONE

The Maori Party’s Rahui Katene is bristling with determination but can she keep her seat? We meet the candidates battling to win the hearts of Te Tai Tonga voters in the coming election. We’ll talk politics with Willie Jackson and meet the Northland hapu fighting for the right to use their own water. Plus 2 Degrees is releasing the world’s first Te Reo Smart Phone. We’ll check it out and give one away to a lucky viewer.

On SUNDAY
7:30pm Sundays on TV ONE

BEFORE WE SAY GOODBYE
Pat Davison adored her son …and Sean adored his mum. After all she had given him the best of everything …education, travel and her time.
For decades they were inseparable. But then a cruel twist of fate would leave Pat dead and her son in the dock facing a charge of attempted murder.
How did life go so horribly wrong?
CORRESPONDENT – John Hudson

HOPE IN A PILL
A few months ago Scott Sullivan was living the dream – a 39 year old senior banking executive with a beautiful wife and two gorgeous kids. Now he’s preparing to tell those kids he won’t be around much longer. He went to the doctors with a tingle in his arm and was delivered a bombshell known as MND – Motor Neurone Disease. No cure , no hope. The mind continues to function perfectly while the body steadily shuts down. However Scott is an ordinary man with extraordinary strength and courage. He’s helping others by being part of an international clinical trial. It won’t help Scott but it might , just might, help others.

THE LORD OF LIGHTNING
Kiwi blokes love their sheds ...love making stuff.
Most of it comes to nothing ... but the stuff going on in Carlos Van Camp’s shed is spectacular, globally spectacular.
Carlos has been tinkering with electricity since he was a kid ... seeing how far he can make it arc.
Now people are paying to watch him do it.
CORRESPONDENT – John Hudson