This weekend on The Nation...

West Auckland's Waipareira Trust has been one of the biggest supporters of charter schools, but they've just pulled the plug on plans for one with more than 100 kids already signed up. Why, and what next for the Act Party's signature policy? Lisa Owen talks to Te Whanau O Waipareira Trust chief executive John Tamihere and Education Under-Secretary David Seymour.

As Donald Trump is officially crowned the Republican candidate for the US Presidency, Newshub political editor Patrick Gower heads to the Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, to find out what's next for the Never Trump movement with the campaign's leader Kendal Unruh.

And Chasing Asylum director Eva Orner on why she wanted to shame Australia for its policy on asylum seekers and how she got footage from Manus Island and Nauru.

We'll discuss all this and more with our panel: former National Party leader and Reserve Bank Governor Don Brash, former Green Party chief of staff Andrew Campbell, and Newshub political reporter Maiki Sherman.

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