Tag: NZ elections 2026

COMMENTARY: By Sean Ackland I'll be a tap dancing hippopotamus before I let a handful of billionaires and their political beneficiaries rob us of the...

By Jo Moir, RNZ political editor Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins says National is only in pole position to form a government in New Zealand...

COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Worst threesome ever. Let’s be honest. The last three years has been a shit show for New Zealand. While...

By Jale Moala Qiulae Wong may have failed to win her electorate seat in New Zealand's general election on Saturday. Still, the Fiji-born political newcomer...

ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw “New Zealand has spoken,” Labour leader Chris Hipkins said to the party faithful on election night, before adding: “It may take...

RNZ News With more than 90 percent of the vote counted in the New Zealand general election, the final result was still up in the...

Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party has criticised the NZ Electoral Commission for failing to take any action against what it says has been...

RNZ Most of New Zealand's North Island and the upper South Island is under a severe thunderstorm watch as voters head to the polls on...

ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan New Zealand First leader Winston Peters -- a veteran of 18 general elections -- has called this long and sometimes fractious...

By Coco Lance of RNZ Pacific Aotearoa New Zealand will decide its next government on Saturday, November 7. But for many voters, the choice comes...

By Layla Bailey-McDowell of RNZ and RNZ Digital reporters Seven political parties have gone head to head in TVNZ's Kaupapa Māori Debate, clashing over Te...

By Christina Persico of RNZ Pacific Early voting has opened for the general election in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand uses MMP, mixed member proportional representation....

COMMENTARY: By Saige England I cast my vote. Did it today. And I resisted the temptation to dance around the voting floor yelling the rebel...

RNZ Pacific reporters Samoa's Prime Minister La'aulialemalietoa (La'auli) Leuatea Schmidt paused talks on a refreshed treaty with New Zealand until after the New Zealand general...

ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report In what is probably one of its most shameful acts ever, the Pacific Islands Forum...

ANALYSIS: By Mohan J. Dutta Count the hands the footage passed through. Whakaata Māori reported the video first. RNZ said it had independently obtained...

Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party has condemned the New Zealand government for its "shameful" failure to walk out of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: By Martyn Bradbury The Kingmakers debate on TVNZ last night was won by the two Queens, Chlöe Swarbrick (Greens) and Qiulae Wong...

By Coco Lance of RNZ Pacific Attendees at a Māngere candidates forum say they want clearer answers from those seeking to represent the electorate, particularly...

KNIGHTLY VIEWS: By Gavin Ellis Two months out from New Zealand's general election, and we have yet to see new policy from any of the...

Asia Pacific Report Four opposition party spokespeople today condemned the New Zealand coalition government’s Palestine policies and called on voters to oust it and elect...

Asia Pacific Report The Free Palestine Party is now an official list party and will be on every ballot paper for New Zealand's general election...