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Current affairs.
Interviews with MPs Chris Carter and Bill Birch.
“Housing Minister, Chris Carter is shortly to seek Cabinet agreement to a set of proposals to make it easier to buy a house. He's doing so against a background of continuing immigration, rising house prices and mortgage interest rates which have led one recent study to conclude that by 2016 less than 60% of Aucklanders will own their own home, but already housing developers are claiming the Minister's ideas will lead to the proliferation of poor quality housing.
Just when you thought all he did was run New Zealand Post and KiwiBank Jim Bolger is back in the news. Victoria University is this weekend holding a conference featuring many of his former colleagues to re-examine his eight years as Prime Minister and he himself opened the conference with an account of how he told the Queen New Zealand would eventually become a republic. But in many ways Mr Bolger is an enigma difficult to pin down ideologically, probably his closes political friend and ally was former treasurer and minister of almost everything else, Bill Birch." agendatv.co.nz; 25/05/2007