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 democracyproject.nz Who will the new National Government listen to when it decides how to govern? An early indication may be seen
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Here are the post-election replays of The Crunch. This week’s guests were Matt McCarten and Rachel Stewart, and we did an election post-mortem. Enjoy! Help Fund Our NewsDesk We are building a NewsDesk, hiring journalists and taking the fight to the mainstream media. Will you help fund
On Saturday the NZ public gave their vote to a party led by someone with very little political nous, Luxon, a leader that is all mouth and no trousers. His support will come from ACT’s leader, a schoolboy with no history of achieving anything except getting votes by promising
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Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
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In my previous article I wrote about the babies that were reported to have been killed in Israel. I included the following link to an interview with a reporter from Israel: Another victim was mentioned in the interview, that I have left off for this article. I have not been
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The election result has almost biblical connotations, such was the magnitude of the defeat. As one who believes religion and politics should be kept at arm’s length, I hesitate to draw any similarities. But politically speaking we have had the parting of the Red Sea of many of the
bobmccoskrie.com Despite the optimism, the significant effort of time and expense, the passion, the utter hard slog, the results are in for the minor parties. Politics is a brutal sport. Good on these parties for putting their hand up and being willing to get involved. We need their voice
For the last few weeks we have had to endure a general election campaign. It consisted of all sorts of promises, publicity stunts, claims, counterclaims, scares, opinion polls and media commentary. Then the electorate voted. Many New Zealanders found it all highly entertaining – especially when their man got stuck into
