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The Dancing Queen: The lesson delivered was as old as electoral politics itself: Dance with the person you came with. Or, more prosaically:...

A Damn Near-Run Thing: The 2005 General Election was very far from being a triumph of New Zealanders’ tolerance and generosity. In reali...

Things That Make You Go - Hmmmm:  “All right. Let me come at this another way. I’m guessing that what you’ve got in that box contains nam...

I Have A Dream: Andrew Little's address to the Labour Party Conference was a bold and moving restatement of core Labour aims and ob...

Paradise Delayed: Thousands gather in Wellington's Willis Street in 1931 to watch the election results posted by The Evening Post ne...

Getting The Visuals Right: John Key's decision to lend the National Party's support to the so-called "Anti-Smacking Bill...

Who Governs? Every three years New Zealanders elect a new House of Representatives which, in turn, decides which party, or combination of pa...

Tell it like it is, Phil: Labour's story is the story of everything New Zealanders love about their country: its egalitarianism; its det...

In the Role of Van Helsing: Like so many of his colleagues in the news media, broadcaster Sean Plunket would like to be the one who finally ...

Praying for another chance? The current alignment of political constellations could hardly be more propitious for Winston Peters and NZ Firs...