Written By: - Date published: 1:47 pm, July 22nd, 2026 - 3 comments
The Green Party’s Kiwipower policy has a lot of similarities to the policy that the Greens and Labour jointly launched in the 2014 election. It will again be major issue in this election.
Written By: - Date published: 10:31 am, July 21st, 2026 - 8 comments
Our reliance on fossil fuels is a ticking timebomb, There Are Real Alternatives, and the Green Party have a plan
Written By: - Date published: 3:34 pm, July 20th, 2026 - 16 comments
The Greens’ energy policy is about reducing costs to citizens, and making our generation system more resilient
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 pm, July 16th, 2026 - 26 comments
“Workers deserve the right to safe, fair and decent work, and being automatically a part of a collective is one of the best ways to ensure their rights will be fought for.”
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 pm, July 14th, 2026 - 13 comments
Michael Laws and Paul Henry are planning a return to Parliament. Laws as a potential New Zealand First MP and Henry as an Act MP. Does Parliament really need more shock jocks?
Written By: - Date published: 1:14 pm, July 9th, 2026 - 7 comments
I was struck by just how out of touch Simeon Brown is with the frustration of residential consumers of electricity. The ever rising prices, the frequent outages, and the stupidity of our electricity market. National’s fast-track doesn’t address any of that, nor their minuscule solar plan. Labour’s plan is a more useful fast-track to transform our real productive economy. Far more so than just exporting profits offshore from mining and data centres
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, July 9th, 2026 - 25 comments
This is a very impressive policy from Labour
Written By: - Date published: 7:59 am, June 29th, 2026 - 14 comments
Chris Hipkins’ speech at the Labour Party conference yesterday
Written By: - Date published: 6:11 am, June 22nd, 2026 - 48 comments
“Enough is enough. No more tinkering around the edges. It’s time for the super-rich to pay their damn taxes”
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 pm, June 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
In the United States and in New Zealand the current administrations wish to speed up the finalisation of election results by supressing the right to vote.
Written By: - Date published: 10:55 am, June 14th, 2026 - 159 comments
The Opportunity Party which has a suite of progressive policies thinks that it can work with National, even though National’s priorities should be an anathema to it.
Written By: - Date published: 12:10 pm, June 10th, 2026 - 44 comments
Labour’s recently announced list contains a number of new impressive candidates and is clear evidence that the party is being rejuvinated.
Written By: - Date published: 1:36 pm, May 22nd, 2026 - 6 comments
The coming oil shock is not just about oil. The future is baked in, and its not good. National’s backward-looking budget will make it much worse.
Written By: - Date published: 9:48 am, May 21st, 2026 - 13 comments
Wellington is being deliberately targeted by National and it is destroying the third largest region of New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 7:14 pm, May 9th, 2026 - 55 comments
Does the centre left need Te Pāti Māori to win the election?
Written By: - Date published: 1:58 pm, May 1st, 2026 - 6 comments
When Ambassador Chen Mingming sent Zhang Wei in 2005 to ask me whether Winston Peters would follow government policy, I said I didn’t know but would ask. I did, and he did.
Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, April 26th, 2026 - 46 comments
The Peters-Willis-Jones stoush during the past week underlines the importance of Labour indicating that it will not go into coalition with NZ First after the next election.
Written By: - Date published: 1:26 pm, April 21st, 2026 - 36 comments
Any time a political leader has to put their position to a vote, they become a dead pigeon. David Lange knew winning the vote didn’t end the matter.
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 am, April 21st, 2026 - 28 comments
“The plan would electrify homes, transport and industry, ending New Zealand’s dependence on unpredictable global fossil fuel markets, cutting household power bills, and building real energy security at home.”
Written By: - Date published: 3:17 pm, April 18th, 2026 - 36 comments
My hunch is that Luxon stands down as Prime Minister, to be replaced by Mark Mitchell.
Written By: - Date published: 9:45 am, April 17th, 2026 - 48 comments
We need to stop slagging off the people who have the only chance of forming a centre left government this year.
Written By: - Date published: 9:42 am, April 17th, 2026 - 34 comments
National is leaking like a sieve. Either a coup is under way or a group of disgruntled MPs are busily attempting to destabilise Luxon’s leadership. Either way this is not good for National.
Written By: - Date published: 4:46 pm, April 11th, 2026 - 36 comments
An ideological reflex to an economic challenge has severe limitations by design.
Written By: - Date published: 9:06 am, April 2nd, 2026 - 59 comments
reasons to feel hopeful but not complacent.
Written By: - Date published: 2:57 pm, March 25th, 2026 - 31 comments
The Government’s targeted fuel support is pork-barrelling.
Written By: - Date published: 5:53 pm, February 28th, 2026 - 29 comments
Hannah Spencer’s stunning win for the Greens in the the UK’s Gorton and Denton by-election has some lessons for political strategists here as well.
Written By: - Date published: 2:28 pm, February 3rd, 2026 - 28 comments
Chris Hipkins, Marama Davidson, and Chloe Swarbrick speak on unity, working together while being separate partners, and the upcoming election.
Written By: - Date published: 2:29 pm, February 1st, 2026 - 61 comments
Current polling suggests that we may witness something that has not happened before, a one term National Government. But this may mean Labour making a deal with Winston Peters. What should Labour do?
Written By: - Date published: 6:05 am, January 25th, 2026 - 47 comments
Ten months to go and there is no political party currently countering the sustained rise of New Zealand First.
Written By: - Date published: 11:16 am, January 20th, 2026 - 17 comments
Christopher Luxon’s latest State of the Nation speech suggests that over summer he has been spending more on his Spotify summer list than he should have.
Written By: - Date published: 3:24 pm, January 18th, 2026 - 16 comments
When intensely watching the orange orangutan in the White House we miss the invisible gorilla in the oval room.
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