The way National is selling it tells you everything about how they operate. Steal the good ideas. Blame the partners for the hard bits. Hope the voters are too busy looking at the playground photos to notice the pattern.
Christopher Luxon says National will not do business with a party that wants to raise taxes.
So, what can New Zealanders expect from a Labour-Green-Opportunity-Te Pāti Māori coalition government? More power for those who run the system. Less power for those who own it.
A left-wing party that refuses to admit it is left-wing has been gifted credibility it has not earned, while the same media that spent years dismissing similar parties now act as its unpaid campaign managers.
If the Health Coalition wants to keep framing the issue as industry greed versus public good, it should at least drop the pretence that its solutions respect individual agency. They do not.
I am concerned about the possibility of Labour winning this election. However, I’m equally concerned that the next three years will be wasted by New Zealand First being part of the government after November 7.
If we don't reach climate targets, it doesn't matter.
Paul Henry played a dumb game and gave a dumb answer. Labour turned it into a full-scale moral panic. One of those is funny. The other is just sad.
If the Opportunity leadership is willing to go against the clearest preference of its own supporters, it should at least explain before the election how that might occur.
If Nash’s comments spark a proper look at how parental leave actually works for our elected representatives versus everyone else, then he has done the country a favour, clumsy wording or not.
Newsroom says polling data hint at a record election performance from NZ First. They reflected back to 1996 when the party registered as high as 29 per cent before settling back at 15 per cent. I would not be surprised if NZ First hit that target this time or surpassed it.
The Luxon years, the future, the battle for New Zealand’s democracy.
The flood of ‘free money’ in the form of the UBI will cause increased rents and inflation-driven price hikes.
Can Paul Henry’s star-power alone give ACT a lift in the polls? Undoubtedly, which is why ACT went to the effort of holding a press conference to announce a single candidate and express confidence that he would receive a high list placing.
Kiwis are not buying the gaslighting any more. If ACT wants to halt their polling slide, they need to ditch the contradictions and actually stand for liberty, not just talk about it when it suits.
It's sure to be second-time successful for the former TV host.
