In the lead-up to the election, the New Zealand Association of Scientists, the Public Service Association and the Centre for Science in Society collaborated to bring you a political discussion on Government as the funder of science and employer of scientists.

A panel of science spokespeople from the major New Zealand political parties were invited to join us for this pre-election discussion, hosted and facilitated by Rebecca Priestley, Associate Professor in Science and Society at Victoria University of Wellington.

Rebecca Priestley served as MC and the panel was made up of 

• Eugenie Sage (Green) 
• Parmjeet Parmar (National) 
• Ayesha Verrall (Labour) 
• Ben Wylie-van Eerd (TOP)