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Audrey Young: Women move up the Govt ranks
Kerry Woodham: Vote for Winston and you get other NZ First members? Really?
The post mortem after the election has been interesting on the radio this week. The number of people…
John Armstrong: Labour must wield knife to be in shape for voters
Prepare the high altar for sacrifice. The Labour Party can dither no longer. Some of its most sacred…
David Farrar: Shearer the right man
Political pundits were stunned yesterday when Labour List MP David Parker pulled out of the race for the Labour leadership…
Rudman: Maggie's prickly message to mayor seems a bridge too far
The garden-guru MP's message to Len Brown that there would be a CBD rail link before a...
Claire Trevett: Davids back out there to get votes
On election night, as Labour supporters waited for their leader to arrive to concede defeat, the sharks were circling. All…
John Armstrong: Shearer's move all about playing the long game
Throwing his hat into the ring for the job of Labour Party leader is an audacious move on David Shearer's part. But it…
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Fran O'Sullivan: Global crisis set to test National
John Key has won a clear mandate to partially privatise state assets to help eliminate the Budget deficit. But storm clouds gathering on the international horizon will test National's economic management during its second…
John Armstrong: Win huge triumph for Key
So close ... but for a percentage point or two, John Key and National would have achieved the seemingly impossible last night and been able to govern alone. The Prime Minister may rue his tactical mistakes in giving Winston…
Bernard Hickey: We're no-idea Nellies
New Zealand has just gone through an election campaign as if in a daze. We woke up the morning after that white-knuckle World Cup final and the party that followed with a bad case of blurred vision. National and Labour…
Matt McCarten: Labour's love lost to Green
It was never in doubt that John Key would be Prime Minister today. In every election the voters collectively have two questions in their subconscious: Has the Government been so bad that we should toss them out? And is…
Deborah Coddington: Key and Goff no pushovers
It's better to fall on principle than stand on lies and there's no way John Key will sink to Winston Peters' level, go back on his word and form a government by doing a deal with New Zealand First. Not that he needs to…
Jonathan Milne: Hits to Key love affair a thing of the past
Election 2005. Lovelorn David Turnock flew a small plane in circles around the Sky Tower then crash-landed it in the harbour. He walked away with only a few bruises and is now back working for an aviation company. "I'm…
Kerre Woodham: Key drops ball, we get Winston Peters
Before I begin this rant, I want to say that I live in a house where none of us thinks the same politically. Indeed, I have swung madly over the past three elections and I don't think I have a political axe to grind. I'm…
David Farrar: Post-election possibilities
Today's NZ Herald DigiPoll paints a fascinating potential electoral outcome. Their poll predicts National will get over 50% of the vote, yet could fail to form a Government. Those who are not experts on electoral systems…
Morgan Godfery: Vote strategically and bring in more Maori MPs
It is a three-way contest in the Maori electorates between Labour, the Maori Party and the Mana Party. While competition is healthy, such a situation will fragment and dilute the influence of the Maori vote. Under MMP we…
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Herald on Sunday editorial: Perception has become reality
When Prime Minister John Key challenged the doubters…
Parties at odds over drop in crime
Police Minister Judith Collins says it is sad that…
John Armstrong: 'Green Wave' shows party is serious
We've had Bill Birch's Think Big, Roger Douglas' free…
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One o'clock, United Future; two o'clock, Act; three o'clock, the Maori Party ... it is politics' version of speed-dating. It might take a bit longer than the three one-hour-long meetings John Key has scheduled for this…