"You can't be the minister responsible for preventing family and sexual violence if you don't have a grasp of what the issue is," Seymour told Lloyd Burr.
On Saturday, many Aucklanders are planning to head to Albert Park to take part in the protest against the anti-trans activist Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull.
"We are the experts, we know what we're talking about, we're the ones that are at the coalface," kindergarten teacher Rhiannon Morris told Tova O'Brien.
Following Stuart Nash's breach of police independence, Chris Cahill told Tova O'Brien "there's got to be that independence between the three legs of the state".
"They were pretty much told to try and block it out, block it out with your left ear if you can, put a plug in there or whatever," Paul told Lloyd Burr.
"The $51 million that was spent on consultants to dream up a cycleway over the Auckland Harbour Bridge, we're going to stop that stuff," Willis told Tova.
"I was promised everything that a 13-year-old girl could possibly dream of… but then I started getting letters to say that I had to have sex with him," Stefanie Hinrichs
"Everyone should feel like they can participate in democracy, because if they don't, what the hell are they going to do?" Director Tony Sutorius told Tova O'Brien.