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Audrey Young: Put up or apologise – Verrall walks a fine line with Levy slur
OPINION: Prosecuting your case is very different to attacking someone personally.

Audrey Young: Winston Peters dings PM on coalition anniversary
OPINION: It's a fraught business when political leaders talk about each other.

Audrey Young: Shallow takes on Treaty hīkoi underestimate its power
OPINION: Change is coming – whether critics like it or not.

Audrey Young: KC smackdown – top barristers join Treaty bill backlash
OPINION: Protesters have some heavyweight legal experts on their side.

Audrey Young: Trump 2.0, Treaty bill tweaks and a media brickbat
OPINION: Kamala Harris conceded with a speech full of soaring and meaningless rhetoric.

Audrey Young: Trump warnings fall flat in final days of presidential race
OPINION: Damnation be damned – American voters won't be swayed.

Audrey Young: Biggest losers – Andrew Bayly, Darleen Tana and Tory Whanau blow it
OPINION: Bayly can kiss goodbye to a second term as a minister.

Audrey Young: 'You'd be limping' – senior MPs bring schoolyard politics to Parliament
OPINION: Parliament's a serious place, but sometimes the silliness wins.

Audrey Young: Govt wasting time and money on pointless election promises
OPINION: Why draft a bill that's going nowhere? Or amend sports rules for no reason?

Audrey Young: Labour's howls of protest have a whiff of hypocrisy
OPINION: If only the Opposition had practised what they preached when they were in charge.

Audrey Young: Te Pāti Māori MP scores spectacular own-goal over 'lies' slur
OPINION: Tākuta Ferris proved his point with his own blatant porky.

Audrey Young: David Seymour's Treaty bill is already a disaster
OPINION: No, we don't yet have a draft. But we have at least one unworkable principle.

Audrey Young: New Māori Queen begins her reign with a deep well of goodwill
OPINION: Also in this week's wrap – Shane Jones takes his medicine.

Audrey Young: The mother of all political questions - Hipkins wades into Māori sovereignty debate
OPINION: Also in this week's wrap – the controversial comments that won't go away.

Audrey Young: If Seymour can't stop dissing the boss, he shouldn't be Deputy PM
OPINION: Act's leader is pushing his luck over the Treaty principles bill.

Audrey Young: Government on track for post-Olympic policy sprint
OPINION: Also in this week's wrap – the PM's embarrassing benefit blunders.

Audrey Young: Hipkins' political radar way off with petty, outdated questions
OPINION: Kiwi voters are worried about many things. Lapel pins are not one of them.

Audrey Young: Urgent action required as Act, Te Pāti Māori battle rages
OPINION: The temperature at Parliament has reached boiling point.

Audrey Young: Caring words for abuse survivors are easy. Actions won't be
OPINION: Many of the royal commission's recommendations run contrary to the Govt's agenda.

Audrey Young: Trump shooting and Treaty fights – the political heat is on
OPINION: As Donald Trump's lead extends, NZ has some big foreign policy calls to make.

Audrey Young: Disturbing undertones in Te Pāti Māori's messaging
OPINION: Ads promoting Budget day protests featured guns against a fiery backdrop.