In 2023, special votes meant National lost 2 seats and could not govern with ACT alone. The Green Party and Te Pati Māori gained after special votes were counted (special votes include from people who ...

The radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime … The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in ...

Perhaps the biggest news from a jam packed news week is how, under National’s Health Ministers Shane Reti & Simeon Brown, Health NZ illegally hid staffing data for over a year to conceal their ...

Watching NZME Newstalk ZB is like watching Fox News to my mind. Earlier in the year, Fox hosted then “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency) head Elon Musk where he spouted the “benefits” of his ...

Some suggestion that Rayner's misdemeanour of ignoring legal advice to consult a tax expert was weaponised by the Labour right to damage her. Which raises the possibility that they may have even ...

Classic Key clanger By: Demeter - 3:43 pm, March 18th, 2010 - 6 comments In this article, in which a Kaikoura Whale Watch spokesman states the bloody obvious (that if New Zealand turns pro-whaling his ...

David Seymour is on a roll. He keeps popping up in the media talking about how his Treay Principles Bill is a good thing and will not completely undermine the Treaty of Waitangi. He has been ...

If he is one of the O'Dea family from Kupe St, in Orakei, none of them were what you would call "bright". In the 1960's old Mrs O'Dea would go off her meds intermittently and run up and down Kupe St ...

OK, so what’s been happening on 7AA then? The government wants to repeal it. It honours and entrenches the Treaty of Waitangi into the legislation, it honours and respects Maori customs and culture – ...

If Peters holds the balance of power in 2026 – no doubt your policy would comfort the left as they sit on the opposition benches again. Politics is the art of the deal. If you want any chance to ...

I get the impression he was never going to practice engineering long being groomed in canada to end up in front of the libertarian think tank that ACT represents. Nice for some to know no matter how ...

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other ...