Latest from Audrey Young on politics

Salute to a 'fairly good bastard'

Labour's ex-President Mike Williams had some of the best lines at the Labour Party conference in Rotorua.

Petition organiser seeks personal time with Key

Larry Baldock's open letter is critical enough of Key personally for him to be justified in avoiding any personal meeting.

Spat over Maori seats reflects badly on select committee process

Let's not be too hasty in our praise for Act leader Rodney Hide in standing by his principles over Maori seats on the Auckland super-council.

Hide's Maori seats threat - principle or strategy?

Tongan ferry victims must not be failed again

A plague on both their houses

English and Goff are over-cooking their plight and virtue in the ministerial housing row to ridiculous effect, writes Audrey Young.

Parochialism alive and well in National

It is an indictment on the National Party that such a high calibre candidate as Wira Gardiner could not even be elected to the party's board, writes Audrey Young.

Paula Bennett, beneficiaries and bullying

Welfare minister Paula Bennett has sounded half-hearted in defending the release of the welfare bill paid to two critics of training allowance cuts.

Why the fuss over shipping container prisons?