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Media Campaign Against Luxon Risks Backfiring

Journalists are further degrading the public’s trust in them.

18 March 2026
nz politics

Making English Official Is A Sly Winner

Winston Peters snookers the naysayers.

06 March 2026
nz politics

Luxon Finds Merit In Treaty Principles After All

PM echoing Seymour’s views flies under the radar.

23 February 2026
opinion

Councillor Refuses To Kowtow To Marae Protocol

Hastings politician won’t compromise his values.

02 February 2026
nz politics

Hipkins Revives Failed 2023 Election Tactics

Labour leader tries to reheat the soufflé.

21 January 2026
nz politics

Hard Choices.

If she is serious about balancing the books, and restoring Pay Equity, Labour’s finance spokesperson, Barbara Edmonds, cannot avoid imposing austerity on her party’s own voters.

04 December 2025
nz politics

Stanford Redeems Herself With Reverse Ferret

Furore over Treaty flip-flop boosts her credentials.

17 November 2025
nz politics

Mystery surrounds Hipkins’ claim about covid inquiry suppression order.

The covid-19 royal commission says it has no knowledge of a suppression order that would prevent Labour leader Chris Hipkins from appearing at a public hearing to detail his decision-making during the pandemic.

12 September 2025
nz politics

Rawiri Waititi’s gift to the coalition

The government is always going to win a showdown between order and anarchy.

04 June 2024
nz politics

Bryce Edwards: Discontent and gloom dominate NZ’s political mood

The usual honeymoon experienced during the first year of a first term government is entirely absent. The political mood is still gloomy and discontented, mainly due to dark economic times.

02 May 2024