Michael Laws
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Oct 27, 2026
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Six representatives set out their views before more than 200 people at Rippon Vineyard last night.
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Opportunities Kayla Kingdon-Bebb questioned if large and complex developments suited the fast-track process, whereas New Zealand First's Michael Laws defended mining.
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The party representatives were quizzed on how to improve health care in Otago.
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Labour's Waitaki candidate Damien O'Connor criticised the outsourcing of public services.
Bob McCoskrieHOST
I think that would have actually been quite exciting.
Bob McCoskrieHOST
Yeah, and Michael Laws could have represented New Zealand first, and maybe we can find someone.
Peter WilliamsGUEST
Well, even Shane Jones.
Peter WilliamsGUEST
Shane was running the show.
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Simon O'ConnorPANELIST
the platform.
Simon O'ConnorPANELIST
And I'm thinking...
Peter WilliamsGUEST
platform is about as politically right amongst the new zealand media you know right leaning amongst the new zealand media as you can get why not go on there and of course the longer he has the standoff with with plunkett and with michael laws for that matter the more he gets abused and the more he goes down in the estimation of the listeners that that particular outlet has Does Luxon appear on RCR? I don't think he does.
Peter WilliamsGUEST
He obviously doesn't come on Family First.
Richard HarmanGUEST
And, of course, the other big question is going to be how big are ACT and New Zealand First? And ACT is possibly a little easier to work out in terms of who they might want as ministers, but I suspect there'll be a bit of a scrap with New Zealand First over who they want as ministers.
Richard HarmanGUEST
I'm sure the Peters will want to put Michael Laws in there.
Richard HarmanGUEST
And Luxon somewhere said he wouldn't work with him, which is understandable, I suspect.
Ben Chapman-SmithHOST
If National does get the majority and they get that phone call from opportunity and Luxon takes it, does he survive?
Richard HarmanGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Ben Chapman-SmithHOST
Just a very quick tangent.
Ben Chapman-SmithHOST
You mentioned Michael Laws.
Ben Chapman-SmithHOST
What do you make of Paul Henry? How long is he going to stick around for?
Jack TameHOST
The Waitaki electorate is one of the bluest in the country, having been held by Nationals since 1990.
Jack TameHOST
But a three-way race could upend that, with incumbent MP Miles Anderson facing challenges from veteran Labour MP Damien O'Connor and broadcaster Michael Laws.
Jack TameHOST
Sam Olley reports.
Sam OlleyCORRESPONDENT
Waitaki, named after the river running through the centre of the electorate, is enormous.
Sam OlleyCORRESPONDENT
And this election, the Waitaki candidates include three men who've sat in Parliament before.
Sam OlleyCORRESPONDENT
Damien O'Connor, a Labour MP during every term since 1993.
Sam OlleyCORRESPONDENT
Michael Laws, a National, then New Zealand First MP in the 1990s.
Sam OlleyCORRESPONDENT
And Miles Anderson, who won the seat for National in 2023.
Jack TameHOST
The Waitaki electorate is one of the bluest in the country, having been held by Nationals since 1990.
Jack TameHOST
But a three-way race could upend that, with incumbent MP Miles Anderson facing challenges from veteran Labour MP Damien O'Connor and broadcaster Michael Laws.
Jack TameHOST
Sam Olley reports.
Sam OlleyCORRESPONDENT
Waitaki, named after the river running through the centre of the electorate, is enormous.
Sam OlleyCORRESPONDENT
And this election, the Waitaki candidates include three men who've sat in Parliament before.
Sam OlleyCORRESPONDENT
Damien O'Connor, a Labour MP during every term since 1993.
Sam OlleyCORRESPONDENT
Michael Laws, a National, then New Zealand First MP in the 1990s.
Sam OlleyCORRESPONDENT
And Miles Anderson, who won the seat for National in 2023.
Jo MoirHOST
Well, yeah, and think about all the personalities that they'll be dealing with in New Zealand First and Enact that have come in.
Jo MoirHOST
Paul Henry, Michael Laws, maybe they're the ones who start picking up those ministerial posts that have been vacated.
Tim WatkinHOST
And we come back to who's picking up those phones as well.
Tim WatkinHOST
Gosh, November's
Jo MoyerHOST
Well, yeah, and think about all the personalities that they'll be dealing with in New Zealand First and Enact that have come in.
Jo MoyerHOST
Paul Henry, Michael Laws, maybe they're the ones who start picking up those ministerial posts that have been vacated.
Tim WatkinHOST
And we come back to who's picking up those phones as well.
Tim WatkinHOST
Gosh, November's going to be an interesting month, isn't
Peter WilliamsHOST
All right.
Peter WilliamsHOST
Do you believe that in retrospect, and I spoke with Michael Laws about this last week, and I think we're in agreement about this, the Bradford reforms of 1998 have been a disaster for New Zealand in that the competition has not increased, the prices have not gone up, and with the government owning a majority shareholding in those share market listed gen tailors, they've really got no great desire to split them up because they lose the profits and therefore lose dividends to the government.
Craig StoboGUEST
Yeah, I think there's a fair degree of cop or criticism to be levelled at the settings in the sense that you've got the regulator, the EA, and then three of the four major gen tailors are government owned and an important dividend stream.
Craig StoboGUEST
et cetera, going to the taxpayer.
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Peter WilliamsHOST
I mean, it's about 15 kilometres from where I live, so I've got a vested interest.
Peter WilliamsHOST
I've got to say at the moment, Craig, I'm agnostic about it.
Peter WilliamsHOST
When you drive past McCrae's, as I'm sure you will have, it's quite confronting, isn't it? I know Michael Laws was underground there just last week.
Peter WilliamsHOST
But just to drive, I think the main road through McRae's down to Middlemarch goes basically right through the middle of the gold mine.
Bob McCoskrieHOST
And what about New Zealand first? Well, Winston's up there with a number of other MPs, including a couple of national MPs, as one of the most socially conservative voters.
Bob McCoskrieHOST
But he will have a list MP, Michael Laws, who is a big proponent of euthanasia.
Bob McCoskrieHOST
But, well, then again, they will also have Alfred Ngaro, who will be championing the Judeo-Christian DNA of New Zealand.
Bob McCoskrieHOST
And they're not exactly fiscally conservative.
Sam SachdevaGUEST
Uh, you've got Miles Anderson, the incumbent, who's running against Damien O'Connor from Labor.
Sam SachdevaGUEST
But the wild card there is Michael Laws, who is running for New Zealand First, a big name.
Sam SachdevaGUEST
Does he somehow take an, enough votes off the right and off National that, that Labor can somehow sneak through there? Now, don't know that that's gonna happen, but that is fascinating to me.
Sam SachdevaGUEST
And conversely, you've got Wigram in Christchurch, which has been a Labor stronghold, a progressive stronghold.
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