Prime Minister Chris Hipkins had a fine rant on Sunday. The shape of Labour’s campaign, and ruling out NZ First, is clearly a Hipkins view of the world, with the party’s caucus only consulted on Sunday morning just ahead of his speech. With 20 or more MPs currently
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura Under a National government, many more New Zealanders will gain access to essential cancer treatments. The National Cancer Control Agency has identified 13 cancer treatments as either lifesaving or life-prolonging and currently, these treatments lack funding in New Zealand. These therapies target lung, bowel, kidney,
Bryce Edwards Dr Bryce Edwards is the Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz National is not only winning the race towards the general election finish line, but is also miles
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Labour’s vote has collapsed into the 20s as the centre-right grabs a lead in the latest 1News Verian poll. While the news might sound good for National, there is still the Luxon problem to deal with. Labour has sunk below 30% in the party vote in the latest 1News
Fear has been instilled in parts of New Zealand’s female population by the activist left’s ludicrous insistence that trans-women are ‘actual’ women and should have access to women’s public facilities, with the media jeering and laughing at their fears and the traditional, factual interpretation of “women’s”
This article won’t be pleasing for the Never Winston brigade: those who are so blinded by their allegiance to the wet and woke National Party that they can’t see that Winston Peters is actually saying the things National Party leaders used to say, back when they stood for
Let me start with the obvious. Either National or Labour are going to win. Both outcomes are as bad as each other. If you find it hard to imagine a government as bad as or worse than the present then consider this: Luxon has virtually said he’ll get in
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Broadcaster Tova O’Brien is now writing for Stuff. In a recent piece she mocked National Leader Luxon for his lack of charismatic personal support. Given that she lost her previous media job for precisely the same reason, namely the absence of audience support, this is
Stuart Smith National MP Kaikoura There are no easy answers when it comes to reducing emissions. Some call for a significant reduction in energy consumption to mitigate emissions, but that would have a significant impact on our standard of living. Others argue that the efforts of smaller nations, like New
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Above are my poll predictions, net of the nutter under 5% riff-raff (Tamaki, Opportunity Party et al). Including NZ First as anti-government, those numbers amount to 2 in every 3 voters being anti-government. Much of Labour’s lost vote will go to the Greens and the
