Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, September 6th, 2026 - 4 comments
This week the Government reluctantly reversed its intent to allow homeless teenagers to be prosecuted if they did not move to somewhere less safe when required to move on by police.
Written By: - Date published: 10:51 am, September 1st, 2026 - 18 comments
“Nurses who trained here should be able to work here. A good job. A future here at home. Better starts now.” – Chris Hipkins
Written By: - Date published: 11:49 am, August 17th, 2026 - 50 comments
There is now a 50-50 chance that the government will change in November 2026, and Labour must have the plan to fully shift power beyond Parliament. This is how you do it.
Written By: - Date published: 4:06 pm, August 6th, 2026 - 8 comments
In the week that the Prime Minister offended small business, unemployment rose to 170,000 and over 6% in the North Island, and the Reserve Bank continues to raise interest rates, Labour showed, again, why the public knows they are better for small business than any other party.
Written By: - Date published: 12:17 pm, August 6th, 2026 - 20 comments
In a 2026 election beset already by bombast and hyperbole, is the big-policy-first approach of the left still working?
Written By: - Date published: 9:33 am, July 23rd, 2026 - 29 comments
With the demise of Stuart Nash’s planned resumption of his political career the question has to be asked, did Stuart Nash leave NZ First or did NZ First leave Stuart Nash?
Written By: - Date published: 1:47 pm, July 22nd, 2026 - 10 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: 4:18 pm, July 18th, 2026 - 6 comments
Norman Kirk once said people do not ask for much: someone to love, somewhere to live, somewhere to work, and something to hope for.
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, July 14th, 2026 - 64 comments
The latest RNZ Reid Research Poll suggests that the chances of Christopher Luxon needing a new job after the next election are increasing.
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: 10:11 pm, July 5th, 2026 - 1 comment
On Thursday, Victoria Coleman handed over a petition at Parliament calling for the Disability Support Services Bill to be scrapped — 16,458 signatures got in five weeks while she cares full-time for her seven-year-old son Levi. Campaigning on top of that responsibility tells you whats at stake for thousands.
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: 8:58 am, June 15th, 2026 - 16 comments
It is strange for a party in power finishing its first term to call a media event on a Sunday just so it can attack the opposition. But this is what happened yesterday.
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: 8:55 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 32 comments
There are still those who pine, from the readership of Jacinda Ardern’s biography, for a state that is perfectly kind, does everything with speed and authority, and brims with patrician wisdom for us all. Her 1.5 terms held many instances in which the state operated on the extremes of control to respond to massive crises.
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: 9:36 am, May 2nd, 2026 - 83 comments
Superannuation is the ultimate Don’t Go There of New Zealand politics. But unless this benefit becomes means tested rather than subsidises rich asset-hoarding old people, it is going to sink every other part of the government.
Written By: - Date published: 1:15 pm, April 30th, 2026 - 40 comments
Opinion – Jacinda Ardern was a great Prime Minister and her loss was actually ours.
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: 5:54 pm, April 21st, 2026 - 65 comments
The world is turned upside down and challenges progressive politics to change gear.
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: 1:49 pm, March 6th, 2026 - 10 comments
Latest poll results show a gain of 10 seats by Labour but don’t forget the voter disenfranchisement laws and NZME’s Editorial Direction is still to come
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: 10:22 am, January 2nd, 2026 - 8 comments
What will election year 2026 bring to Aotearoa?
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