As part of the Broadcasting Act 1989, the Electoral Commission determines the amount of funding each eligible party receives in accordance with the statutory criteria which includes the number of votes each party and its candidates received at the last general election, the number of MPs a party has, relationships
The ACT Party is doing some… interesting things. Recently ACT announced deputy leader Brooke van Velden is standing against Simon O’Connor in the Tamaki seat. Why do that? That’s a safe seat for National and some are concerned if right voters are splintered, that it raises the possibility
“I just want to make it clear, here, that Te Paati Maori’s not left or right – we are Maori and we are straight up the guts,” Rawiri Waititi said in a Newshub interview yesterday. He says they want to hold the balance of power and they don’t want
Last week, Waatea News talkback host John Tamihere interviewed the chairman of the Waikato-based Tainui iwi, former MP Tuku Morgan, about the future of freshwater. It was clear from their on-air ‘chat’, that as far as iwi leaders are concerned, Labour’s Three Waters reforms are just a stepping-stone towards
Does Luxon have no idea what he is doing? National should be sweating, because Chris Hipkins is stealing their lines. […] The problem for National is that a whole bunch of traditionally National leaning voters will not hate what they hear today. That [Hipkins] wants us to become the best little
On Friday in Howick, Winston Peters delivered his state of the nation speech to a packed and overflowing audience. Not long after, Newshub, the go-to media outlet for ACT Party attack pieces, was telling us that apparently Winston Peters was a liar regarding He Puapua. Some commenters on Friday night
Mark Freeman Collective, strategic voting is the way to get a minor party into Parliament in the upcoming general election, says a group that’s offering to advise voters on how to do that. Voters United are a Wellington-based group concerned about government overreach and the direction the elected political
Helen Houghton New Conservative co-leader New Conservative is halfway to seats in Parliament and will continue to rise in the polls over the coming months. The possibility of a smaller party entering Parliament is not only highly likely come election day but will be a reality due to the many
The Blonde Is the current voting system working as it should? I would say No. I believe that voters are subjected to misleading information – ‘misinformation’, as it’s known. When MMP was introduced it was explained simply as one vote for your candidate of choice and one vote for your
Here we are into the second month of the new year with an election looming in what will feel like a very short eight months. Whoever would have thought in December, as we were approaching Christmas, that the new year would bring so much change so quickly. With Jacinda Ardern’
I’m always constantly perplexed as to why National ever bothers to go to Ratana each year and be harangued by Maori. When Chris Finlayson was the Treaty Negotiations minister I always thought it was because he enjoyed getting an annual kick in the balls and really enjoyed the spankings.
