National is caught on the wrong side of an argument it doesn't want to be having, because it's already busy losing another argument it doesn't want to be having. Know what I mean?
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The Beehive Christmas list 2011 – Ho ho ho!
Lookee here, Santa has come early for all those boys and girls in parliament. So what did he bring the politicians? Did they get what they wanted – and what they deserved? Let's sneak a cheeky peak
Read MoreWhy National likes Winston's recent (but very modest) success
National is going after Winston Peters with all guns blazing. This must mean that they really are scared of him ... right?
Read MoreGoverning alone - time to talk about power
Little more than a week out, National is still holding a majority in the polls. It's time to talk about what it means if that's how it winds up on election night
Read MoreLucky, lucky Peters. But can Winston win?
Winston Peters wins the oxygen of media attention and gets back in the game. But do we really want him back? Or has his time passed?
Read MoreWinston Peters' last roll of the dice: bugger 'em all
It's his way or the highway for Winston Peters, after a speech today ruling New Zealand First out of government. Either the disgruntled rally to his flag or he's history
Read MoreWinston Peters past his sell-by date?
It only took a moment, an instinct to get the last word. But Winston Peter's closing remarks on Q+A raise questions about his conviction and comebackability
Read MorePoll of Polls: Plus Ça Change
Many polls. Much excitement. Little change.
Read MoreA call to arms: Peters and Brown enter the battlefield
Winston Peters and Len Brown both made declarations of intent at the weekend that promise a battle royal on the right of New Zealand politics
Read MoreSuper-City needs super-glue
The rush to reshape
It’s whisky time for Labour
A close look at voting patterns reveals that New Zealand First and the Maori Party will be firmly in Labour's sights as they plan a 2011 comeback
Read MoreNational News Brief, Thursday January 22
New Zealand celebrates Obama's inauguration; Offenders owe $78m in unpaid reparations; Winston Peters to stay on; White supremacist "mini-state" planned for north Canterbury; and more
Read MoreOur last Poll of Polls
Crunching the numbers in the last, late polls. Is there a swing further right? Is Winston toast? Has the Maori Party lost its kingmaker's crown?
Read MoreWhat New Zealand would look like under a Labour-Greens-Progressives coalition
What impact would the Greens have on a fourth-term Labour-led government? And the truth about the difference between the right and left in this election
Read MoreThere's actually only one John Key, just not the one on show
National's campaign is hiding a front bench full of 1990s-style free marketers behind John Key's well-scripted one-liners
Read MoreNational News Brief, Tuesday October 28
Bottom-lines on display in minor parties debate; home ownership set to rise as rates fall; National outspends Labour on infrastructure; Kiwi dollar plunges; and more
Read MoreThis week's poll of polls and coalition musings
With little movement this week's poll, we look at bottom-lines and why New Zealand First seems to be anchored at around three percent
Read MoreNational News Brief, Monday September 29
National would abolish Maori seats; tax cuts about to hit; anti-smacking bill still unpopular; more milk woes; boost for yellow-eyed penguin; and more
Read MoreNati0nal News Brief Thursday, September 4
World Cup quarterfinal venues revealed; Teachers want fewer tests in high school; Defence report says military struggling to fly, sail, and fight; NZ First paces possible police probe; and more
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