The big Opportunity
The stalemate revealed between the two main parties in last night's One News Verian poll, and the rise of the Opportunity Party, raises a...
Shane Jones goes full nationalist
New Zealand First deputy leader Shane Jones says the party has been approached by Australian merchant bankers saying that the New Zealand arms of...
It’s getting “very very” tight
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon yesterday conceded that the election was “very, very tight”.
That is as near as you’ll get to him admitting he is...
The first real campaign clash
Finance Minister Nicola Willis yesterday launched into Labour’s Fiscal plan, claiming the party had made a major error which would see it having to...
Seymour takes on Willis
ACT’s KiwiSaver announcement yesterday would be the first step towards major adjustments to the New Zealand Superannuation pension.
ACT leader David Seymour didn’t mention this...
Kingmakers leave crown unclaimed
The Stuff Kingmakers' debate last night left us not much wiser as to how the minor parties were actually going to go about "making"...
Gone by Christmas?
Nicola Willis yesterday presented Treasury’s Pre-Election Economic and Fiscal Update as a victory lap, pointing to a promised return to surplus by 2028/29 as...
Hipkins comes out of the shadows
Labour leader Chris Hipkins yesterday came out of the shadows of three years in opposition and his so-called "small target" strategy and blasted his...
How the Reserve Bank created the recession
The review of the Reserve Bank during Covid published yesterday is a damning indictment of how it went about its tasks between 2020 and...
Nicky Hager takes on Jordan Williams and the hard right
In what was probably one of the biggest book launches Wellington has seen, the investigative journalist Nicky Hager unveiled his latest book, "Dirty Work",...
Labour’s political trap snares National
The political brawl over New Zealand’s grocery prices escalated yesterday, with Labour pledging to forcibly split the wholesale and retail operations of Woolworths and...
Willis’s supermarket plan “bonkers”
National, for the second time this week, has startled its political allies with another populist economic move.
On Tuesday it angered its coalition partners...
Coalition fractures over tax cuts
National turned up at the Business New Zealand pre-election conference yesterday in Wellington bearing gifts.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis was all but promising more tax...
Hipkins goes home to try out his campaign
Labour leader Chris Hipkins went home last night to Lower Hutt, where he grew up, and held a public meeting, a preview of what...
Peters breaks with NZ foreign policy (again)
Less than a week after he was a party to a Pacific Islands Forum Declaration committing Forum nations to the Paris Accord and greenhouse...
