OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Best speeches of the dayI'm not sure about the timing, but the day after Labour leadership coup rumours swept through Parliament, deputy leader Grant Robertson delivered a brilliant speech.10 Jul 08:50 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Academic up against heavies on GCSB billMost Western intelligence agencies had analytic teams that had developed whole disciplines around making sense of data, writes Audrey Young.05 Jul 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Key keeps spy bill ticking alongOne can only hope that John Key doesn't run his Cabinet meetings the way he is running the Intelligence and Security Committee meeting, writes Audrey Young.02 Jul 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Haka coaching goes down a treat in DCThe Air Force kapa haka group and band spent several hours yesterday with a couple of schoolboy rugby teams in Washington DC.22 May 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Kerry I'll be back to NZIt's usually the Terminator who says "I'll be back".21 May 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Wrong audience for Bolger tiradeAs a former Prime Minister and a man very firm in his views, Jim Bolger has always been a bit stroppy, writes Audrey Young.20 May 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Horomia - the good and the badThe late Parekura Horomia was universally liked and respected across Parliament when he died, but he didn't always have the respect, writes Audrey Young.30 Apr 07:10 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Charm and NZ-China friendship need boost of Fifth MilestoneWhen John Key met his second Chinese vice-premier in two days yesterday, he and Wang Yang shared a joke about the photo Key had seen of them hanging in Guangzhou's Foreign Affairs Museum.12 Apr 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: NZ gets a lot of attentionWhy does the world biggest country pay so much attention to such a small country as New Zealand?10 Apr 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Key raises a glass to China friendshipPrime Minister John Key begins his Shanghai schedule today where chicken is likely to be off the menu.08 Apr 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Sir Bob part of quest for waterfront investorsSir Bob Harvey arrived in China yesterday morning for the 22nd time.08 Apr 05:30 PM
New ZealandBlog: John Key in ChinaPolitical editor Audrey Young blogs from China, where the PM has arrived for a week-long tour.08 Apr 04:40 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: A new era of trust with ChinaThe new broom in the China leadership is ushering in a new era of trust in the relationship - after five years of a free trade agreement, writes Audrey Young.07 Apr 09:00 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Result clean sweep for John KeyIt is a judgment that effectively says to the Crown, "You've won this time but we're watching", writes Audrey Young.27 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: New Speaker tones down pomp but keeps ministers on their toesIt didn't take long for David Carter to settle in to his job in his first question time as Speaker - it was almost business as usual, writes Audrey Young.12 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Summit solves leaders' two prickly problemsOn the same day that NZ agreed to share Australia's boat people problem, Gillard agrees to look at collecting $600m in student debt from Kiwis in Australia, writes Audrey Young.10 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Anxious holiday for minister as Key mulls reshuffleParata may have been relieved when the State Services Commissioner told her this week that Longstone had agreed to resign, writes Audrey Young.19 Dec 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Exclusive club of the excludedIf the Electoral Integrity Act were still in force, Brendan Horan would also have been deemed to have resigned from Parliament, writes Audrey Young.04 Dec 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: US has reason to make Cambodia's summit its ownThe United States was admitted to the East Asia Summit only last year, six years after the first summit.18 Nov 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungPeters' serious stoush with SpeakerThe clear disrespect New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has for Parliament's Speaker, Lockwood Smith, is becoming more evident by the day, writes Audrey Young.17 Oct 09:39 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Facts and figures all add up...sort ofThe Greens and the Prime Minister have been contradicting each other this week over whether the manufacturing sector is in crisis, writes Audrey Young.09 Oct 04:30 PM
KahuKey 'culturally ignorant': King's manThe water rights issue heats up as Tuku Morgan replies to the PM's dismissal of Maori ownership, by calling him 'culturally ignorant'.16 Sep 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey Young: Government's water-rights dilemma becomes a tale of two huiThe unity on display at the Maori King's "people's hui" on water on Thursday wasn't exactly replicated yesterday at a gathering of iwi leaders.14 Sep 05:30 PM
