Election 2023 Archives

Peters’ week of talking bulldust

Week in Review: The NZ First leader shows there’s madness to his method, attempting to hog the limelight in the new Govt’s first week

Ayesha Verrall grew immensely as a politician in her first term in Parliament. Now she looks to expand from health to another hot button portfolio

Christopher Luxon’s new 100-day plan of action has a lot of aspiration but not quite as much substance

Governments govern and oppositions oppose, in the same way they did under First Past the Post

Will the incoming government favour Pākehā Baby Boomers in its policies or will it look to the growing future generations of Māori and Pasifika?

Reimagining our world as one where race has no relationship to what happens in our lives is doomed to fail

Tax cuts and repealing Labour’s laws are the Government’s focus for the next few weeks

by Jo Moir 27/11/202327/11/2023

Casey Costello isn’t the first to have a meteoric rise to MP and Cabinet minister on the same day

‘Settling some personal grievance claims, they remained hurt that I had no real empathy for their feelings’

Act and NZ First went all-in on policy over portolios, the coalition agreements show

National’s top performers have been rewarded with plum Cabinet positions in the new government

by Jo Moir 24/11/202324/11/2023

The first media conference between the parties gave an insight into what the next three years will look like