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Audrey Young: Infection spreads to National's front bench
COMMENT: There is always a "but" with Boag.
Political Roundup: NZ First's 'virtue signalling' against immigrants
It's no surprise that proposal showing party is still anti-immigration came out at AGM.
Kiwi perspective on American politics
COMMENT: It was even better getting a kiwi perspective on American politics.
Trump: 'Flynn was treated unfairly'
Analysis: Trump criticises the intelligence community and the media for the news reports that ultimately led to national security adviser Flynn's resignation.
Odd outbursts in huge week of change
COMMENT: The departure of John Key and rise of Bill English as Prime Minister prompted some unexpected reactions.
Nats rump revels in glorious anarchy
COMMENT: Alas, poor John, an ominous rumbling noise started in the bowels of the party's massive backbench rump. It could not be ignored.
Plethora of options for new top team
COMMENT: The contest to become Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister is starting to look like an elaborate wiring diagram.
Time of schemes and deals and election dreams
It's less than a year until the next election and judging from all the talk there are set to be more deals on the table than at a Trump casino.
Garrison Keillor: Done. Over. He's here. Goodbye.
COMMENT: Raw ego and proud illiteracy have won out and a severely learning-disabled man with a real character problem will be president.
Election break-down: How the US voted
Donald Trump is the president-elect of the United States of America, and he did it by completely blowing up the electoral map.
Braunias: Trump, a thrilling, scary mask
COMMENT: He was the slime that oiled the old, deserted machinery of American politics, and got it running.
Lesson: It pays to check the numbers
COMMENT: The theme of the Labour Party conference last weekend was "Backing the Kiwi Dream", writes Claire Trevett.
Two months to get a grip on Trump
Perhaps the best feature of the American electoral system is that it gives us two and a half months to recover our composure before the new president takes office.
Barry Soper: Life goes on in NYC during election
COMMENT: When the final result's declared, those packed into the bars in the Big Apple will be none the wiser.
NZ politics: Water, a new party and pies
It came as something of a shock to get off the plane after a week in New York to hear calls for a state of emergency to be declared in safe little old New Zealand.
Time to weigh up NZ's term at UN top table
COMMENT: Claire Trevett assesses New Zealand's term at the UN's top table.
Lost luggage bill off conveyor belt and into fire
No man is an island according to John Donne, but poor old National MP Nuk Korako must have felt that way as he stood to defend his member's bill in Parliament this week.
Ministers in the firing line as Little takes aim
Labour leader Andrew Little's first move on the first day back at Parliament after a month's recess was to announce he had found the silver bullet to solve the housing crisis.
Clark snub sound of a party standing its ground
There has been a slight irony in developments around the race to be UN Secretary-General this week.
Democrats Trumped - chaos as strategy
Trump's loose and provocative talk about the Russians and Clinton's emails seemed beyond even his standards for creating turmoil and controversy.
Claire Trevett: Rats! Labour caught in a trap of its own making
Key's goal was to make New Zealand pest-free by 2050. The conservationists cheered aloud.
Trump's major moment to persuade
COMMENT: Donald Trump has left himself with a mighty challenge for the final day of the Republican National Convention.
Trump undercuts key Nato commitments
Trump has called into question whether, as president, he would give Nato the assurance that the full force of the US military has their back.
Miles-Mojab: Talk can end terror
COMMENT: There is no doubt that Isis is barbaric, but so are the military responses of the West that contributed to its creation in the first place.
Claire Trevett: Housing crusade fits well with Labour's history
Today is Labour's centenary, which the party intends to celebrate by releasing its 2016 housing manifesto.
Claire Trevett: House antics rather like trial over Queen's tarts
The Shewan report should have been a major victory for Labour.
Trevett: Key u-turns to get Crusher on his case
Prime Minister John Key has done so many u-turns this week he is in danger of coming to the attention of his boyracer-car-crushing minister Judith Collins.