The Latest One News Verian Poll
It’s only one poll, but it’s broadly in line with other recent polls.
People who rent their home shouldn’t have to get sick or complain before the safety of their home is tested and guaranteed.
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Chlöe Swarbrick
Does Policy Still Win the 2026 Election?
In a 2026 election beset already by bombast and hyperbole, is the big-policy-first approach of the left still working?
The Greens in their own words
The co-leader speeches at the AGM, and the new policy of a 1 year moratorium on AI data centres.
Defusing the goddamn ticking time bomb
Our reliance on fossil fuels is a ticking timebomb, There Are Real Alternatives, and the Green Party have a plan
Greens’ State Of The Planet Calls For National Electrification Plan
“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.”
Game on: Labour and the Greens speak to media from Waitangi
Chris Hipkins, Marama Davidson, and Chloe Swarbrick speak on unity, working together while being separate partners, and the upcoming election.
What is the point of taxation?
Chloe Swarbrick and the Greens are changing the narrative on what tax is for.
NZD Freefalls & NZ First Linked To Green Party Attack Ads
Headlines: NZD free falls, misleading Green Party attack ads linked to NZ First, making NZDF lethal, and American billionaires regret support for Trump
What Tamatha Paul Really Said
Tamatha Paul’s comments on policing have been criticised by Luxon as “insane” but a closer look at what she really said shows how much her comments have been taken out of context.
Meanwhile, National’s law and order track record is only deteriorating.
The Greens plan for a Green Budget
The Green Party co-leaders gave their annual State of the Planet speech yesterday.
Latest opinion poll – Labour overtakes National
That grinding noise you can hear from the Parliamentary precinct is the sound of National backbenchers sharpening their knives getting ready for a change of leadership. Because the latest Curia poll shows National has fallen behind Labour in the preferred party stakes.
Political comeback – Getting the sequencing right
A notably different approach to sequencing political comeback was on show at the VUW post-election seminar last week. Luxon put rebuilding the party first, Hipkins put it last. On policy Luxon was bottom-up and early, Hipkins was top-down and late.
Green Budget Day 2023
“All of these things were impossible, until they weren’t” – Chloe Swarbrick
Chloe Swarbrick: We don’t live in a game of Monopoly
The case for redistribution of wealth in New Zealand.
“Labour… stop playing by this tired, neoliberal playbook”
Chloe Swarbrick, the cost of living crisis, and what the economy is for.