The First One-Term National PM Since 1975. Unless.
Say Mowbray’s line out loud or sit with Rowling. Electorate National. Party ACT or NZ First. MMP is built for it.
Te Pati Maori
Hung. And Hipkins Still Has a Job.
Eight-point lead. Hung parliament. Opportunity at 9.5% and holding the knife. The gallery built the Trojan horse. Labour on 24. Hipkins still has a job.
New Zealand and the Sovereignty Machine
The lesson is brutal but clear: in the modern political arena, fractured individual forces are doomed to failure. A collection of solitary actors, no matter how principled, will always be crushed by a disciplined, coordinated machine.
Quick Hit: The Painter Went Surfing
Labour's $1.3b CGT assumes the painter still turns up. Grant says he goes surfing.
Good Enough for TPM. Good Enough for the Coalition.
If TPM can work MMP, National voters should too. Electorate National. Party ACT or NZ First.
Hipkins Says One Tax, Waititi Booked the 8th
Hipkins has one tax. Waititi put the rest on the table and named the day.
Labour’s Māori Seat Suicide Pact: Butt Hurt vs Butt Hurt in a Pre-Coalition Brawl
This contest is a genuine test of whether these two can ever function together. Labour needs the seats to get close to power. Te Pāti Māori needs to hold them to keep their leverage.
Court Forces Te Pāti Māori To Reinstate Rebel MP but She Is Already Eyeing the Door
Just remember Chris Hipkins and the Labour Party need Te Pāti Māori to form a government. Imagine the shemozzle that will create.
Ngāpuhi Finally Had Enough of Te Pāti Māori’s Tiresome Antics
Te Pāti Māori can apologise all they want, as Waititi did at the pōwhiri, even offering his “head” if Ngāpuhi thought he had done wrong. But actions speak louder than words and this latest stunt shows they have learned nothing.
Māori Nationalism Takes a Hammering in 2025
Despite Henare’s bold assertions, Hipkins has kept quiet so far about any plans he might have for reinstituting aspects of co-governance if Labour wins office – and the legacy media seem disinclined to ask.
Te Pāti Māori’s Circus Act Hits a Judicial Speed Bump: Kapa-Kingi Back in the Tent for Now
Te Pāti Māori might fancy themselves as the voice of Māori aspiration but, right now, they’re looking more like a bunch of clowns who’ve forgotten their script.
Te Pāti Māori’s Civil War Just Went Full Jerry Springer – And The Youngest Kid Is Begging Mum And Dad To Stop Fighting
The Māori seats gave us this circus. Maybe next election the voters will finally decide they’ve had enough of the soap opera and send the whole lot packing. One can but hope.
Te Pāti Māori Implodes: Expulsions Spark Open Warfare and Leave Labour in a Bind
This fiasco is going to get worse before it gets better. Factions are dug in, egos are bruised and the left’s dreams of a comeback just got a whole lot messier.
Te Pāti Māori’s Open Warfare: Tamihere’s Faction Takes on the Rest
Ironically, Te Pāti Māori is now practising the old tactic of divide and conquer on themselves. Managing the ‘uppity natives’ by splitting them apart? They are doing it to their own ranks.
Te Pāti Māori Implodes: Greed, Grifters and the Impending Labour Coalition Nightmare
Forget the courts or party meetings: sort it out on crate day at a South Auckland pub. Beers flowing, fists optional and maybe they’ll hash out who’s the biggest rangatira over a few dozen.
Face of the Day
Kapa-Kingi claimed her Te Tai Tokerau electorate committee was not invited to attend Thursday’s meeting and had not been afforded a right of reply. “As far as I’m concerned, this so-called suspension, it has no mana.”