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Listen to The Country online with Jamie Mackay: NZ First’s Shane Jones on ‘woke’ banks

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New Zealand First Minister Shane Jones spoke to The Country's Jamie Mackay today. Photo / Mike Scott

New Zealand First Minister Shane Jones spoke to The Country's Jamie Mackay today. Photo / Mike Scott

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with New Zealand First Minister Shane Jones, who talked about his fight against “woke” banks.

He also gives his opinion on Green MPs and former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern.

On with the show:

Shane Jones:

The Minister for “Digging it Up, and Damming it Up” gets on the front foot and takes it to “woke” banks limiting the productive sector, Green MPs, and his former leader Dame Jacinda Ardern.

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Jane Smith:

This North Otago farmer, and award-winning environmentalist, also wades in on “woke” banks and Pāmu.

She also looks at whether self-shedding sheep will render the strong wool industry redundant.

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Emma Higgins:

Rabobank’s senior ag analyst previews the bank’s commodity outlook for this year, in a report titled “All Aces in Ag for 2025″.

Mark Leslie:

The chief executive of Pāmu defends the state-owned enterprise’s financial performance and the rationale for not putting it on the state asset sales chopping block.

Chris Russell:

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Our Australian correspondent talks lamb, chicken, lobsters, bananas and sport.

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