Less than a 100 Days to go

Three girls, one beehive.

Buzzing through the spin, the jargon, and the pointy heads, so you don't have to.

Kia ora, welcome to Three Girls, One Beehive, and tonight we are coming to you live from Duncan Cotterill in Wellington.

Thank you.

Good evening, everyone, and thank you, Kate, and thank you to Duncan Cotterill for having us here tonight, letting us raid your beautiful Wellington waterfront offices.

As we're recording this, we should say that today marks a pretty terrifying political milestone.

because in just 100 days we are going to be voting for who we want to run our country.

So just 100 days till November 7th.

But as Kate said, I'm Georgie and my co-host Bridget Morton, Esther Robinson.

We thought we'd just let you know who the hell we are first.

Just a little bit of a warning, though.

I think it's also health and safety.

Georgie has a snot machine cold, we're going to call it.

And Esther fell off a ladder a couple of weeks ago, a bit concussed.

So what that's telling you is whatever their opinions are, mine are right, yours are wrong.

All right, shall I introduce Ms. Stiliano? Please do.

Okay, so Georgie Stiliano is a former journalist and a political advisor who's worked both sides of the house.

She's worked for both the National Coalitions and Labour Coalitions.

It's good to see she finally came to the right side in the end there.

But she now runs a public affairs and government relations firm called BRG, and she's also navigating a much harder coalition of a blended family of four children.

That's so true.

OK, this lady here, Bridget Morton, bit of a veteran of politics, both here and across the ditch, a lawyer, director of Franks Ogilvy.

She has run Nicola Willis' last two election campaigns and is currently running Chris Bishop's one, so we'll ask her questions about that at the end.

But basically it means her conflict of interest disclosure is longer than the Electoral Act.

Which, for the lawyers in the room, they're like, that's not that long, like, really.

And, of course, we've got Esther as well.

So she's a former Labour staffer, advised four different politicians during her time, which you can read what you want into that.

But she does have a Master's in Political Science.

That taught her mostly that there's no science in politics, mostly timing, luck and quite a lot of talent, which she has a lot of.

She's now the Director of Government Relations at One Plus One Communications and teaches yoga and spin in her spare time because I didn't know you had any.

So if you listen to our normal weekly episodes, we tend to do five bits of business.

So it's sort of like the five things we think that people need to know from politics across the week.

We're going to sort of zoom out a little bit tonight and just talk about obviously the impending election, but specifically how it's shaping up, some of the rhetoric that we're seeing, what the key policy areas of debate seem to be, and what businesses and just your average punter should be keeping an eye on when those election manifestos roll in.

Should we get into the business?

Let's do

it.