Tag: NZ elections

By RNZ News Housing and climate change caused the most heated exchanges at TVNZ's young voters debate in New Zealand last night, an event far...

By RNZ News With just under three weeks until the election, Newshub's new political poll shows the gap is closing between Labour and National, but...

COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce I’ll be honest, it was a long day yesterday so I only watched the first 10 minutes of the Leader’s debate...

ANALYSIS: By The Conversation Prime Minister and Labour leader Jacinda Ardern and National Party leader Judith Collins met tonight for the first televised debate of...

ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce National’s economic policy of temporary tax cuts for next month's New Zealand general election yesterday proved - if proof be needed...

RNZ's Meriana Johnsen speaks to Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori chair Rawinia Higgins as part of the Māori Language Moment. By Meriana Johnsen,...

COMMENT: By Bryan Bruce Let me start by putting my education cards on the table. I think public money should fund public schools. If you...

By RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has moved the election date by four weeks to October 17 and says she will not...

By Grant Duncan, Massey University If New Zealand can do grocery shopping under lockdown, we can vote under lockdown too. As much as supermarkets and pharmacies,...

By RNZ News Senior Labour MP Grant Robertson has rejected opposition National's suggestion that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern step back from announcements on covid-19 alert...

By Richard Shaw, of Massey University Strong team. More jobs. Better economy. So say the National Party’s campaign hoardings. Only thing is, last Sunday’s Newshub-Reid...

ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, of Massey University The starting gates in New Zealand’s September 19 election race are finally full. Labour’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...

ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce in the first of a series What is the purpose of an economy? I realised this morning that it is 7 years...

ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce The selection of Judith Collins by her colleagues as the new leader of New Zealand's opposition National Party is a last...

By RNZ News New Zealand's National Party has elected Judith Collins as its new leader to replace Todd Muller, with Gerry Brownlee as her deputy...

ANALYSIS: By Liam Hehir The detailed reasons for opposition National Party leader Todd Muller's shock resignation are something we are not yet given to know....

OPINION: By Frank Macskasy Winston Peters has called it: NZ First is going into coalition with Labour-Greens. In reality, it was the only decision he...

Jacinda Ardern's speech in full after being named next New Zealand prime minister. Video: Guardian Wires Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Queenmaker Winston Peters ended almost three...

By Kirsty Johnston of The New Zealand Herald Most of Golriz Ghahraman's childhood memories are of war. She remembers howling sirens, sending families scurrying into basements....

OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Any suggestion - such as by much of the mainstream media - that the Labour Party...

OPINION: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog In 2014, New Zealanders shrugged off dirty politics and mass surveillance lies and then voted National...

OPINION: By Willie Jackson Never before has Labour come from 23 percent to be neck and neck with National. Jacinda has touched people and made...