This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Has National and the country given up on farm emissions? When does Labour throw a punch? And more from the whiny, wet, negative land called NZ.

The Raw Politics team is joined by Newsroom senior political writer Marc Daalder this week, just in time to discuss National's big call to delay making farmers pay for agricultural emissions and to weigh up whether NZ is a whiny, negative country.

Daalder replaces political editor Jo Moir who is on well-deserved, pre-election leave in the Pacific.

The team also focuses on Labour and Chris Hipkins' tentative approach to releasing policy so far this year, contrasting that with big bold swings on tax and wealth by the Greens and a steady drip-feed of announcements big and small from Act and National.

This week's question is whether we agree with Chris Luxon on New Zealand being wet, whiny, negative and inward-looking. Short answer: inward-looking perhaps, whiny mainly because of the economy and weather.

Every Friday, Jo Moir, Sam Sachdeva and Tim Murphy talk through the big issues and scrutinise politicians’ performances in a lively 25-minute show aiming to take viewers and listeners inside the actions and motivations of our elected leaders.