What does Budget 2024 tell us about the current government? Muddle on?
Read MoreCoalition of the Unwilling?
National Party
National, ACT & NZ First: Delivering the sun or just beach cricket?
Turmoil in the National Caucus
Andrea Vance’s ‘Blue Blood: The Inside Story of the National Party in Crisis’ provides broader insights about how Parliament works than just National’s troubles.
Read MoreThe Ambiguity of Labels
Simon Bridges’ memoir, ‘National Identity: Confessions of an Outsider’, illustrates that humans are more complicated than the categories we put them into.
Read MoreThere can be only one... reason Collins is still in her job
Looking back to this point in the last political cycle, you see Labour tearing itself apart and fighting for the future of the party. National is facing the same crisis, but no-one seems to want to lead
Read MorePotential attack lines in the campaign's final week
It’s been a clean campaign so far, but in the final week could parties go more negative? Where are the potential attack lines for those looking to take votes of their opponents?
Read MoreMañana Politics
Just where in the economic spectrum does the current National Party stand?
Read MoreNational's problem with privacy and privilege
National’s pattern of mishandling the private data of New Zealand citizens has again landed it in hot water. Is the party’s new leader willing to act or will he try to sweep it under the carpet?
Read MoreThe party of mixed messages
Future or past? Merit or representation? This leader or one of the previous ones? National has been making some headlines this week and getting on the news. But not in ways that helps Todd Muller
Read MoreTodd Muller: National's new dad who forgot to build the cot
Todd Muller’s first week as National’s leader made you want to look away in discomfort and raised the question whether National is entering the Shearer/Cunliffe phase of Opposition.
Read MoreGuest post: So, just who is Todd Muller?
Todd Muller was National’s inevitable leader who never was, until he became it, writes National Party insider Hamish Price.
Read MoreGuest Post: So that’s the leadership sorted. What now for National?
A leadership coup so close to a general election isn’t the ideal situation for a party in freefall but by electing Todd Muller as its new leader the National party may see a positive turnabout in fortune writes John Elliot.
Read MoreThe Nats shouldn’t be in with a shot. They are. Here are 5 reasons why.
Just how is it that National appears to be on the edge of victory this year?
Read MorePolitics Preview 2020: The one thing each party can control
Happy new election year! Each of the parties in parliament will be faced with an array of politics they can’t predict or control. But some things are clear, even on new year’s day. So these are the things they will be looking to control in 2020
Read MorePolitics Review 2019: Progress all round
The past year has been one of pretty positive progress by all the parliamentary parties. Let’s take a look at what they’ve achieved in 2019
Read MoreYou’ll never guess who supports a universal child tax credit…
Further confirmation of the way forward for National.
Read MoreCGT: A bad idea finally put to bed once and for all
Labour came to the only logical conclusion, with a little help from its friends. A Capital Gains Tax was little more than scratching an itch of its voting base, but would have done little for the country and the government
Read MoreSimon Bridges, National and the Serious Fraud Office - what does it all mean?
The Police have referred their investigation into $100,000 in donations to the National Party to the Serious Fraud Office. It's hard to know just what that means, except that it's the quintissential political "bad look".
Read MoreSteven Joyce and the turning of the tide
Of course there was nothing else for it. Steven Joyce was never going to sit there and fade into insignificance. So now National begins its true test, and it could signal a realignment on the right of New Zealand politics
Read MorePredictable polls and bye-bye Bill
As all things new come to dominate New Zealand's political landscape, National will be forced more quickly than it hoped to confront its own need for change. Tonight's poll offers succour for the party, but tolls the bell for Bill.
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