About this episode

Louise Upston discusses her role as Leader of the House and the challenges of managing the Government's legislative programme.

Louise Upston gives her take on her new part-time full-time job: managing the Government’s entire legislative programme as Leader of the House. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

People in this episode

Guest: Louise Upston

Topics covered

• legislative programme
• politics
• government management
• leadership
• public service

Keywords

• Leader of the House
• legislation
• government
• politics
• Louise Upston

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Organizations: Government, RNZ

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