Chris Hipkins

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455 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 8 Jun

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Unfiltered with Dave Letele · #47 Chris Hipkins · 25 Apr 2026 podcast

And I just kind of found my groove there.

I really enjoyed it.

I hadn't been a very good secondary school student.

So my first year at university was a bit patchy.

You know, my grades weren't that good and everything.

But then I kind of got into it and I found my zone and I found politics through that and got involved in student politics at university and everything.

And that was a bit accidental, too.

It was a bit out of self-interest.

Because, you know, as a student who was paying my own way through university, I went along in a student protest, protesting against the increase in student fees.

And I got arrested.

You got arrested?

I got arrested.

I wasn't doing anything wrong, just to be clear.

I wasn't doing anything wrong.

And...

And I felt this sense of injustice.

You know, I was on the forecourt of Parliament protesting against, it was a national government, of course, protesting against them and got arrested and thought, this is not right.

You shouldn't be arrested just for exercising your right to protest.

Anyway, we went through all the court system and everything, and we had some great lawyers who did it pretty much for free for us.

And the courts also agreed with us.

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