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...
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...
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...
Sellout or saviour? Potaka’s controversial DOC plans
Forest and Bird, the Labour Party and luminaries like Helen Clark have mounted a full-on campaign against the Government over its proposals to revamp...
Can superannuation save the Nats list MPs
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon yesterday threw caution to the wind and abandoned his party's 51-year-long opposition and proposed making KiwiSaver compulsory.
The proposal itself is...
Media Council rejects Ani O’Brien’s complaint against POLITIK
Media Council Case 3867 Decision
OverviewThe Spinoff published an article on March 19, 2026, titled "Should Chris Hipkins’ private lifebe the public’s business?"POLITIK published an...
Why the Nats are putting the boot into NZ 1st
Finance Minister Nicola Willis wasted no time yesterday putting the boot into New Zealand First Minister Shane Jones over his travel expenses.
Willis was responding...
Labour and NZ1st set out their bottom lines
Over the weekend, National has gone into full campaign mode while Labour and New Zealand First are already setting bottom lines for any post-election...
While farm exports boom small cracks appear in the Nats rhetoric
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon yesterday continued to bask in the warm glow of farmer approval at the New Zealand Field Days, even though some...
Down on the farm; a new Christopher Luxon
In what may well have been a foretaste of the election campaign, a relaxed and confident Prime Minister turned up at the Farm Field...
Labour’s risky strategy to crush the Maori Party
Labour's list yesterday with its elevation of sitting Maori MPs to high list positions is clearly an attempt to starve Te Paati Maori of...
