Politik reports: But Labour may have got the jump on ACT with its leader announcing that it is highly unlikely to go into coalition with the Greens or Te Paati Maori, but instead will simply do confidence and supply agreements with the two parties. This will actually make any Government less stable, and actually make…
Labour and Te Pati Maori
Labour and Te Pati Maori
16 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: 2026 general election
Who gets in on Labour’s List?
08 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: 2026 general election
Labour have released their party list. People want to know who is likely to get in as a List MP. First how many overall seats will they get? On the average of the public polls it is 39. Then it is how many electorates will they win? Well purely on applying the current party vote…
Who gets in on Labour’s List?
The Free Palestine party shows that political advertising for parliamentary parties should not be taxpayer funded
05 Jun 2026 Leave a comment
in defence economics, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: 2026 general election, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left
A new political party “Palestine Free from the River to the Sea” are explicitly saying that “Our purpose in creating a party is not to seek power, but to raise awareness. If we can reach 500 members quickly we will qualify for government funding to be used in campaign advertising. Every cent will go towards…
The Free Palestine party shows that political advertising for parliamentary parties should not be taxpayer funded
How Te Pāti Māori and the Greens have put Labour in check on the election-year chess board
27 Jan 2026 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: 2026 general election
* Chris Trotter writes – Chess is war on 64 squares. War is politics by other means. Unsurprising, then, that the moves of chess players and the moves of politicians have much in common. Above all other objectives the political strategist seeks to position adversaries where they can do the least harm. Enemies only become dangerous […]
How Te Pāti Māori and the Greens have put Labour in check on the election-year chess board
How the Labour Party will campaign in 2026
24 Jan 2026 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand Tags: 2026 general election
This week Chris Hipkins gave us the clearest picture yet of how Labour plans to fight the 2026 election. His speech at the party’s caucus retreat in West Auckland, and then a rally-style address to party activists, revealed a strategy that combines class-based attack lines, relentless positivity, and a narrowed focus on kitchen-table concerns. But […]
How the Labour Party will campaign in 2026
If the election was scheduled for next week, Hipkins could win – but (luckily for Luxon) it’s next year
26 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in economic growth, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: 2026 general election
Chris Trotter writes – “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune”. Those words, taken from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, are often quoted in the context of politicians facing the hard choice between doing it now, or not doing it at all.
If the election was scheduled for next week, Hipkins could win – but (luckily for Luxon) it’s next year
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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