OPINION: He has survived the year pretty well.

OPINION: We’re getting back on track, the PM’s intoned time and time again.

OPINION: Being in the audience of his long lunch my expectations were obviously high.

OPINION: Leading a coalition Government needs a rhinoceros hide.

OPINION: Protest and the months that follow it will benefit two diehard political enemies.

OPINION: Any Māori grievance you could ever think of will be embraced by the hīkoi.

OPINION: We’ll find out over the next four years whether he’s peacemaker he claims to be.

OPINION: Harris and Trump are hurtling toward the November 5 US election.

OPINION: If you have wondered how Tory Whanau could win mayoralty, then wonder no more.

OPINION: Luxon’s fuse is becoming a little short with the all-right-for-some whingers.

OPINION: It is exacerbated by the quality of questions they are asked.

OPINION: Trump produces jaw-dropping, off-the-rails stuff in TV showdown.

OPINION: The day they become Prime Minister is the day the writing’s on the wall.

OPINION: If you go into politics you live in a goldfish bowl.

OPINION: NZ has finally come out of scientific hibernation and into the real world.

OPINION: National’s the Grim Reaper if you listen to Māori Party co-leader.

OPINION: The formal part ethnicity played in hospital waiting lists caused a storm.

OPINION: When you defiantly sit on the findings of a report, speculation becomes rife.

OPINION: It’s not often that you would feel the need to jump to the defence of politician.

OPINION: Winston Peters argues the Covid inquiry should have been canned.

OPINION: PM's trade mission to Japan's been pretty successful but who would have noticed?

OPINION: Like the rest of the business sector, farmers are feeling the pinch.

OPINION: Act reckons Nicola Willis could have gone further on the Budget.

OPINION: There are a couple of things that have stuck in my craw.

Simon Court says he suffered serious injuries and the shooter was arrested and charged.

Opinion: The Ardern/Hipkins Government has failed on so many fronts.

OPINION: Why Chris Hipkins didn't sack him, to begin with, is beyond belief.

Health officials said it was an important step in reducing historical health inequities.

OPINION: Perception doesn’t pass the sniff test, opportunities to fix issue weren't taken.

Opinion: There are surely more humanitarian ways of dealing with overstayers.

OPINION: Ardern's unknowingly become an expert at doing the dance of the unveiled.

OPINION: Bloomfield's resignation would have come as no surprise to Ardern.

OPINION: The sermon sounded like the same script they had preached so many times before.

OPINION: What's happening to democracy, let alone the promised transparency of this Govt?

OPINION: Is it about power or just plain incompetence?

OPINION: The camp's become a well-fed, ordered hippie village of sorts.

OPINION: From the beginning the Prime Minister has preached kindness.

COMMENT: Don't hold your breath, as you may clog up the threatened hospital system

OPINION: It should come as no surprise to Ardern why her popularity's on the wane.

OPINION: Covid for Ardern and her band of weary warriors is their ticket to ride.

Opinion: Simon Bridges made the right call today.

OPINION: It was like a script straight from Pink Panther and bumbling French inspector.

OPINION: Press conferences with politicians generally have always been torrid affairs.

OPINION: Ardern's first visit in almost three months was virtually over before it began.

OPINION: Like everything with Govt, it seems to me transparency is like mud in your eye.

OPINION: Why is nothing ever Jacinda Ardern's fault...

OPINION: A transparent administration? What bollocks.

OPINION: PM can't say how long we'll be on the road and where the map will take us.

OPINION: Observe the body language of the PM and the pressure she's under seems obvious.

OPINION: The past five weeks in Auckland has been a shemozzle.

OPINION: Speaker Trevor Mallard is convening a skeleton Parliament today.

OPINION: We've been told repeatedly from the Beehive's 'Pulpit of Truth' to be kind.

Ross Ardern was a junior police officer who had not believed it should be part of the job.

OPINION: It seems Health Ministry didn't know whether it was coming or going this week.

OPINION: Official Fiji numbers clearly disguise what's really happening.

OPINION: Willie Jackson should apologise for failing to answer legitimate questions.

They're Scott and Jenny to our PM and our first couple are Jacinda and Clarke to their PM.

OPINION: Mallard's pathetic excuse says he didn't know the definition of the accused word.

OPINION: Like a lot of things this Government proposes, we'll have to wait and see.

COMMENT: Hosking's remarks on being asleep at the wheel are, frankly, a bit rich.

OPINION: It seems Jacinda Ardern simply wants to drown out the noise surrounding her mate.

OPINION: This Government's good at making an announcement about an upcoming announcement.

OPINION: The PM is a celebrity leader and she's determined to keep it that way.

OPINION: They should lead their flock by example, not by doing a runner.

OPINION: For starters, take those deliberate rulebreakers to task and prosecute them.

OPINION: Mallard may be safe in his job but is now without any moral authority.

OPINION: What's so special about businesses in the Cook Islands?

OPINION: Before his peers, Trevor Mallard was in a hole and just kept digging.

OPINION: This whole issue has been a travesty on so many fronts.

A parliamentary staff member was sent packing after being accused by Mallard of rape.

OPINION: Barry Soper on what it would take to overturn today's cannabis vote.

Regional Development Minister is understood to be planning his biggest spend yet from PGF.

COMMENT: Some consistency and maybe a little more forethought would be nice.

COMMENT: Read their lips, there'll be no new taxes, other than for the wealthy.

COMMENT: Jacinda's promise to make Matariki a public holiday will help nab the Maori vote.

COMMENT: Level 2.5 is like being freed from prison but returning at midnight.