This weekend on The Nation...

...it’s double trouble with two Cabinet ministers.

With the promised surplus this year seemingly off the cards, who’s going to feel the pinch in the coming year? Finance Minister Bill English gives his last TV interview before this year’s Budget to discuss the outlook for the economy, when that elusive surplus will materialise, and who needs to take responsibility for the housing shortage in Auckland.

Then Corrections Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga talks to Lisa Owen about the new privately-run prison that’s taking its first inmates shortly. How will a global outsourcing giant do a better job than our state-run prisons and how will it fit into the Government’s goals to cut reoffending and the crime rate?

We’ll discuss all this and more with our panel: former Labour Party president Mike Williams, Hive News Publisher Bernard Hickey, and former Act Party leader Jamie Whyte.

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