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Lotto - Oops, I Mean KiwiBuild Ballot - Winners:  Derryn Jayne and Fletcher Ross  pose with Phil Twyford and Jacinda Ardern outside their...

The Red Dawn: The labour movement conceives political power as a force residing not in charismatic leaders, but in the democratic electo...

Tweet Surrender: Paradoxically, Duncan Garner's use of Twitter to announce a move against the leadership of David Shearer may, by a...

Mixed Messages: Labour promises the woman of the 1940s (and her children) a "place in the sun". That message, updated for the ...

There Can Be Only One: The ingredients were all there for a major political upset. Just under 60 percent of the voters of Ikaroa-Rawhit...

Unusual Circumstances and Decisions: Somehow the Auditor General's finding that Shane Jones did not act improperly in granting citiz...

  WHAT A DIFFERENCE  a year makes! In this "Politics Chat", recorded in the television studio of the University of Otago's...

In Full Cry: In a perverse political version of the blood initiation, members of the Shearer and Robertson factions have guaranteed them...

Collision Course:  Following Charles Chauvel's resignation from Parliament - allegedly after being told that, as an ally of David Cun...

Reaching Out To The 'New Majority': The Green's Metiria Turei is hoping that by inviting idealistic New Zealanders to join h...

Reading The Signs: An early leadership vote in Labour's new Electoral College poses as many political risks for David Shearer as it...

What Lies Beneath? The most plausible explanation for David Shearer's incoherence as a political leader is that he is masking his tr...