PoliticsClaire Trevett: Peters' poos crusadeCOMMENT: NZ First leader Winston Peters dug up an old bone to chew on.29 Mar 04:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettTrevett: offal tomorrow for pud todayCOMMENT: Having delivered the offal, Prime Minister Bill English is preparing to present the pudding: tax cuts, writes Claire Trevett.08 Mar 04:00 PM
New ZealandBill English's super own goalCOMMENT: Prime Minister Bill English has torpedoed his own campaign line of certainty.05 Mar 09:36 PM
New ZealandTrevett: Little's cunning plansCOMMENT: Labour leader Andrew Little's week of cunning plans included installing Jacinda Ardern as deputy and getting into NZ First leader Winston Peters IOU list.03 Mar 04:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettClaire Trevett: For whom the Rooster crowsLabour leader Andrew Little's Chinese horoscope reveals Bill English and Winston Peters are a perfect match.01 Feb 04:00 PM
New ZealandTrevett: English has smile for all occasionsCOMMENT: An odd affliction seems to have affected PM Bill English in Europe: he has forgotten John Key's name.17 Jan 04:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettOdd outbursts in huge week of changeCOMMENT: The departure of John Key and rise of Bill English as Prime Minister prompted some unexpected reactions.14 Dec 04:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettNats rump revels in glorious anarchyCOMMENT: Alas, poor John, an ominous rumbling noise started in the bowels of the party's massive backbench rump. It could not be ignored.07 Dec 04:30 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettTime of schemes and deals and election dreamsIt'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.30 Nov 04:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettLesson: It pays to check the numbersCOMMENT: The theme of the Labour Party conference last weekend was "Backing the Kiwi Dream", writes Claire Trevett.09 Nov 04:00 PM
New ZealandTrevett: fresh hell for RobertsonCOMMENT: Grant Robertson is having a hard time explaining Labour's proposed 'training levy'.05 Nov 03:55 AM
OpinionClaire Trevett: Labour's spring cleanCOMMENT: Labour is slowly shedding its stockpile of former leaders as both David Cunliffe and Phil Goff retire - leaving just David Shearer standing in 2017.02 Nov 04:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettA fool and his money are soon partedHaving been forced to show his surplus, Finance Minister Bill English is having to parry all manner of raids on the kitty.26 Oct 04:00 PM
New ZealandTrevett: English the tax cut coquetteThe surplus has opened the curtain on the John Key and Bill English Tax Cut Show.13 Oct 04:41 AM
OpinionClaire Trevett'Beware PM's hunt for expired ministers'COMMENT: The Prime Minister has sounded the warning for his three-yearly check of the best-before dates of ministers.12 Oct 04:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettFeathers fly in danse macabre at BeehiveCOMMENT: It was Real House Roosters of the Beehive kind of stuff, an A-grade brouhaha.23 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettNZ politics: Water, a new party and piesIt 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.31 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettTime to weigh up NZ's term at UN top tableCOMMENT: Claire Trevett assesses New Zealand's term at the UN's top table.24 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettLost luggage bill off conveyor belt and into fireNo 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.17 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettMinisters in the firing line as Little takes aimLabour 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.10 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettClark snub sound of a party standing its groundThere has been a slight irony in developments around the race to be UN Secretary-General this week.03 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettClaire Trevett: Rats! Labour caught in a trap of its own makingKey's goal was to make New Zealand pest-free by 2050. The conservationists cheered aloud.27 Jul 05:30 PM
New ZealandClaire Trevett: Little's policy may do the trickCOMMENT: Yesterday, Andrew Little was at the New Lynn Community Centre to deliver the policy he hopes will win Labour the next election.10 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettClaire Trevett: Housing crusade fits well with Labour's historyToday is Labour's centenary, which the party intends to celebrate by releasing its 2016 housing manifesto.06 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettClaire Trevett: House antics rather like trial over Queen's tartsThe Shewan report should have been a major victory for Labour.29 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettCongestion tax not yet done and dustedCOMMENT: You know things are getting weird when Treasury Secretary Makhlouf starts channelling the Victorian era and Oscar Wilde to talk about Auckland.24 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettTrevett: Key u-turns to get Crusher on his casePrime 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.22 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettKey walks line between world and NZCOMMENT: For those who travelled to Taji with PM, his decision to extend the deployment of 120 troops to train Iraqi forces had a sense of inevitability.20 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettClaire Trevett: Small parties under pump as polls loomCOMMENT: Late phase of election cycle adds further tension to Act and United Future's need to back National while keeping their own supporters happy.17 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettClaire Trevett: Be careful what you wish forCOMMENT: What the Maori Party sees as credit, National knows some will see as blame - and it suits National to let the Maori Party take the blame.10 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettClaire Trevett: Labour-Greens creation offers something for allCOMMENT: Like a good piece of art, the one-page agreement between Labour and the Greens had something in it for everyone.03 Jun 05:00 PM
New ZealandClaire Trevett: Dishwater-dull Budget cleans knife for tax cutsCOMMENT: The Government did not need to win any votes from the Budget - it just needed to ensure it did not lose any.27 May 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettClaire Trevett: 'Boring' Bill loves to be Budget crowd-pleaserCOMMENT: Housing issues of all shapes are popping out for the Government like a game of whack-a-mole.20 May 05:00 PM
OpinionClaire TrevettClaire Trevett: National keeps tax cut card in back pocketCOMMENT: It is not often that the big surprise in a Budget is something that will not be in it at all.13 May 05:00 PM
