Should government departments be giving contracts to lobbying firms?
There needs to be further investigation into government agencies contracting firms that are involved in lobbying.
The 2023 Election in retrospect
This is where another layer of the 2023 election results becomes understandable: the surge in the Maori Party’s and the Greens’ seats.
Should we have a referendum on the Treaty?
As negotiations to form the next Government get under way in earnest, let’s hope that a referendum to define our political rights beyond any shadow of doubt is firmly on the agenda.
New Zealand needs a more working-class Parliament
Looking at the left, it’s unlikely that the Green Party can foster any sort of working-class politics, as their voting constituency is very much the professional managerial class.
Media struggles for answers after election
Journalists resort to imaginative reasons for Labour’s loss.
Hallelujah: first steps of progress at last
We would be most unwise, however, to conclude that life is automatically going to improve now that this truly awful Labour government is about to disappear
Beware of the media in the home-stretch
Why is no journalist writing about this, preferring instead to erect straw men to knock down as they work up unlikely tales about Chris Luxon’s problems with David Seymour and Winston Peters?
Will co-governance drive a counter-revolution?
Seymour is not for turning on a Treaty referendum.
The Angry Majority
It is the news media’s job to elicit information from politicians – not to prosecute them. Peters’ promise to sort out TVNZ should be believed. If he finds himself in a position to carry out his threat, then it will only be because the angry majority has had enough – and voted accordingly.
Ten reasons Labour’s support has halved
So why has Labour gone from such highs to such lows so quickly?