Tag: NZ elections

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

By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific People running foodbanks in South Auckland say poverty is deepening among the Pacific community, and the high demand they...

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...

By Justin Wong, Local Democracy Reporter An ACT candidate has withdrawn from a new Wellington electorate race at November's election, after failing to declare her...

INTERVIEW: By Ibrahim Othman In an unprecedented move on New Zealand's political scene, the Free Palestine Party Aotearoa has been launched with the Palestinian cause...

ANALYSIS: By Adrian Beaumont, The University of Melbourne While the tide well and truly went out on Labour on election night in Aotearoa New Zealand,...

By Lydia Lewis and Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalists Pacific leaders fear they will have little or no voice in the new National-led government in...

By Debrin Foxcroft, Finlay Macdonald, Matt Garrow and Veronika Meduna, The Conversation From winning a single-party majority in 2020, Labour’s vote has virtually halved in...

RNZ News Social media users in Aotearoa New Zealand are being warned not to make posts on voting or any aspect of political campaigns come...