Metiria Turei
Former Member of the New Zealand ParliamentWikipedia
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Oct 29, 2026
Marnie DunlopGUEST
I think the Greens have...
Marnie DunlopGUEST
And I actually rang Metiria Turei the other day, and I was like, hey, do you have anything...
Marnie DunlopGUEST
How is
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she? She's great.
Chlöe SwarbrickGUEST
All of this kind of bottom line stuff and the rule in, rule out game, I think is ultimately to the detriment of our politics and our democracy.
Toby ManhireHOST
But it is true that in 2017, I remember talking to James Shaw and Metiria Turei about this.
Toby ManhireHOST
There were these... budget responsibility rules, I think they were called.
Toby ManhireHOST
And there were various sort of bullet points that included sustainable operating surplus across an economic size, reducing debt, blah, blah, blah.
Tim BeveridgeHOST
It's another thing to be campaigning and take the photo with the thumbs up to people who have to do some pretty serious offending to get their patch.
Tim BeveridgeHOST
I think it's played badly for the Greens, maybe not as badly as Metiria Turei doubling down on her dishonesty all those years ago.
Tim BeveridgeHOST
I'll go, start with you, Wills.
Wilhelmina O'KeeffePANELIST
Yeah, 100%.
Bryce EdwardsGUEST
Uh, they've been able to kind of channel that discontent in a way that they don't, in my view, not often, but they're really doing it very well at the moment.
Bryce EdwardsGUEST
I think under Metiria Turei, they often were able to be a bit more zeitgeist.
Bryce EdwardsGUEST
Um, and if you think back to, what was it, 20, 2017 when Metiria Turei sort of came out and, um, talked about her experiences at a, as a beneficiary, you know, it was quite a sort of left-wing, anti-establishment sort of campaign.
Bryce EdwardsGUEST
And we saw the Greens jump in support.
Bryce EdwardsGUEST
They went up to about 15% on the basis of her kind of really speaking out in a radical way.
Oscar KightleyGUEST
Yeah
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
... how bad is this for the Greens? Like, g- o- on a scale of, you know, oh, look, old mate was stealing stuff from, from Scotties down the road, and nothing really happened to the polls through to Metiria Turei, the welfare fraud, and the polls crashed, where are we?
Liam HehirGUEST
Yeah, it's really bad.
Liam HehirGUEST
I mean, I take a really different view to Oscar.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
You think I've got a fact wrong here.
Liam HehirGUEST
Just a little bit.
Liam HehirGUEST
So, uh, if you go back to the, uh, 2017 election, uh, when Metiria Turei, um, you know, confessed to her historic, you know, in the years, uh, past, uh, benefit fraud, um, it didn't actually have a devastating effect, effect on the Greens' polling right away.
Liam HehirGUEST
Um, in fact, actually the Greens went up a little bit.
Oscar KightleyPANELIST
Yeah
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
... how bad is this for the Greens? Like g- o- on a scale of, you know, oh, look, old mate was stealing stuff from, from Scottie's down the road, and nothing really happened to the polls, through to Metiria Turei, the welfare fraud, and the polls crashed, where are we?
Liam HehirPANELIST
Yeah, it's really bad.
Liam HehirPANELIST
I mean, I take a really different view to Oscar.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Liam, you want to pick me up on something? You think I've got a fact wrong here.
Liam HehirPANELIST
Just a little bit.
Liam HehirPANELIST
So, uh, if you go back to the, uh, 2017 election, uh, when Metiria Turei, um, you know, confessed to her historic, you know, in the years, uh, past, uh, benefit fraud, um, it didn't actually have a devastating effect, effect on the Greens' polling right away.
Liam HehirPANELIST
Um, in fact, actually, the Greens went up a little bit.
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Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Heather, I think this is a Metiria Turei moment.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
The Greens today have made a huge mistake.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Steph.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
I mean, I'm not being unkind to them.
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
We all get a bit cocky when we're on a high, eh? And we're like, "We can do anything," and then next minute...
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
And last time they were cruising real high, it was Metiria Turei, and I've ...
Heather du Plessis-AllanHOST
Like, y- you can correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like they were up in the same place that they are now, like 15% or something like that.
MagentaHOST
Uh, a political figure, alive or dead, that you admire?
Lisa Te MorengaGUEST
Well, um, I, I start- I joined the Green Party because of Metiria Turei when she-
MagentaHOST
Hmm
Lisa Te MorengaGUEST
... was elected as the leader.
MillyHOST
Mm.
Chris FowlieCORRESPONDENT
Uh, Metiria Turei as well, started as, uh, secretary of the Legalize Cannabis Party.
MillyHOST
Yep.
Chris FowlieCORRESPONDENT
So, uh, it has had this kind of incubator thing of, uh, you know, some pretty, uh, awesome people coming out of it.
MillyHOST
Mm.
Chris FowlieGUEST
Uh, Metiria Turei as well, started as, uh, secretary of the Legalise Cannabis Party.
MillyHOST
Yep.
Chris FowlieGUEST
So, uh, it has had this kind of incubator thing of, uh, you know, some pretty, uh, awesome people coming out of it.