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More power to Beehive
The Government is still under fire over its controversial Conservation Amendment Bill.
Already Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has had to back down over proposals to...
Making up is not so hard to do
Christopher Luxon escaped Parliament last night and found a packed meeting hall 20 kilometres away in Lower Hutt full of supporters.
Just over 150 had...
How not to organise a coup
The National Party's failed coup attempt yesterday has claimed its first victim.
After he was stripped of his portfolios earlier in the day, Kaipara ki Mahurangi MP Chris Penk last night announced he would no longer stand at the coming...
Numbers firm against Luxon
There were hopes last night that the Prime Minister might recognise the apparent difficulty of his position and resign.
It seems that numbers yesterday firmed against him.
But there was no real indication of what he might do.
One Minister told...
Unconfirmed reports say Nats want to vote tonight on Luxon’s leadership
There were unconfirmed reports last night that National caucus members were calling for a special meeting, possibly tonight, to consider the party’s leadership.
One source said the party had already planned a virtual caucus meeting on Wednesday on other matters...
Luxon, living dangerously
At a press conference on Saturday, the Prime Minister pointedly ducked a question about how many MPs voted in support of him during the Caucus vote of confidence in April.
The question speculated that he had the support of...
Dodging Xu Nan but running into the constitution
Parliament was yesterday treated to nearly a third of its Question Time being devoted to Foreign Minister Winston Peters dodging questions about what has been widely called his racist attack on Green MP Xu Nan last week.
For people cynical...
Red to Green to Wildcard: The Battle for Wellington Bays
Wellington Bays is a new electorate this election, but its history is a classic story of where the old Labour Party of manual workers, trade unionists and left-wing intellectuals came to die.
Now, this election it is a microcosm of...
China snaps
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ attacks on Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan, which were described by National Minister Simeon Brown as "racist", are fast becoming a diplomatic incident.
Peters broadened his attacks on Xu-Nan today to extend to generalisations about China and...
Greens in trouble
National candidate Candace Kinser would be likely to defeat Green co-leader Chloe Swarbrick in the Auckland Central electorate, according to a Curia Taxpayers' Union poll which POLITIK has obtained.
The poll showed Kinser on 22 per cent; Labour candidate Swarbrick...
Peters woos the anti vaxers
The second report of the Covid Inquiry released shows just how extensively suspicions based on misinformation about the Covid vaccinations spread through the population.
The report found that of the 64,000 claims of adverse reactions to the vaccines, only 784...
Bringing back Muldoon
As the full implications of the Government's resource management changes sink in, it is becoming clear that they mark a return to Muldoon-era-like central...
Report contradicts Government denials
The Climate Change Commission yesterday confirmed what farming leaders and the Agriculture Minister have been denying for some time.
On current settings, farming will not...
The two faces of NZ First
There are two faces to New Zealand First.
Their “annual” convention in Auckland over the weekend demonstrated that.
What emerged was, on the one hand, an...
Why famous faces fail in Parliament
The announcement that Paul Henry is to be an ACT candidate has thrown the political world into a state of excitement.
Could Henry be the...
NZ changes sides
The usually mild-mannered Chinese Ambassador in Wellington, Wang Xiaolong, came out yesterday all guns blazing at the New Zealand Government's latest attack on his...
Bad news for National
The Reserve Bank yesterday did exactly what the Government must have hoped it would not do.
It put a spanner in their re-election chances.
Not only...
Bad news for National
The Reserve Bank yesterday did exactly what the Government must have hoped it would not do.
It put a spanner in their re-election chances.
Not only...
Negotiating with Winston
As New Zealand First pumps out policy after policy and is polling high enough to be part of coalition negotiations after the election with...
We may not be able to afford Willis’s spending cuts
The International Monetary Fund yesterday wound up the pressure on both National and Labour on big gaps in their economic policies.
On National, the Fund...
The Department of No
In a phrase that will resonate across the public service in Wellington, a high-powered report into Treasury describes it as the "Department of No."
The...
Hipkins goes back to the future
You couldn’t do better to get an insight into the awkward coalition that is the 2026 Labour Party than to watch the new candidates...
Not quite a panic, but close
All the evidence suggests that the decision yesterday to withdraw the proposal to sell Department of Conservation land was a last-minute decision led by...
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