Quick Hit: The Briefing Was Promising. The Department Wants Easier Weekends.
A September briefing said the second military-style academy cohort had not reoffended. Officials are now looking at less intense weekends because staff got tired.
NZ Politics
The Centre Wants the Minors Shut Out
Guy Haddleton wants National and Labour to combine forces and review MMP. Voters just grew the smaller parties. The establishment’s answer is to lock them out.
Why Is Ardern Joining the School of Public Health?
And so a left-wing NZ ex-PM who was nothing less than a thug during Covid gets offered an academic job here. You tell me if you think a conservative ex-politician has remotely the same post-politics chances of uni employment as the lefty ones.
This Is What Is Wrong with National
Like Australia’s coalition, they think doing more of what’s cost them will be a winner next time.
The Wash up From the 2026 Election
If Luxon gets rolled, and he should, he won’t have far to roll to find his next job. The chair is staring him in the face. It’s exactly like his and only a few steps away.
Why Is Luxon Courting Opportunity?
Right now, prior to the final vote count, he can keep his powder dry.
He Only Calls It Manipulation When It Doesn’t Help Him
Hipkins says National is clinging on by manipulating the electoral system. Te Pāti Māori ran an overhang strategy, too, and he needs those seats.
It Is So Glorious
I love it when voters give the smarty pants in the media-government-lobby industrial complex the two-vote salute.
A Landslide
How did we go from an electoral system that gave us a government on election night to one where we must wait three weeks for the politicians to begin negotiating what we voted for?
Looking Forward With Tactics or Strategies
Tactics like election bribes win battles. Strategies like perpetual split voting win wars.