Bowalley Road

No Compromise! The price of not keeping faith with the voters can be high. The Coalition Government would be wise to learn from the Left’s m...

History Man: Does David Seymour have a case? Does history confirm that National campaigns from the right when it’s in opposition, only to g...

A Living Democracy - But Not A Tyranny Of The Majority: Wellington voters gather outside The Evening Post newspaper offices to see the resu...

Going Down: The question to be answered, then, is a simple one. If the controversial changes to the Green Party’s co-leadership rules proce...

Fifty Percent Plus One: New Zealand’s genuine-majority-delivering two-party system endured for five elections only (1938, 1943, 1946, 1949, ...

More Sinned Against Than Sinning: Even today, the man they cast as the villain of the piece; the person held responsible for the collaps...

"Have I Got A Deal For You!" If, in the course of debating the Waka-Jumping Bill, the Greens really have forfeited their soul,...

Mouth Wide Shut: James Shaw is hoping that if he and his caucus colleagues are seen as good team-players, then by 2020 the Greens will ha...

Surely Not! Can it be possible that at least two of the Green Party's core principles - "Social Responsibility" and "...

That'll Do: An awful lot of Kiwis either do not understand, or do not approve of, the way MMP operates. What we have here is MMP – wi...

Mixed Feelings About Mixed Member Proportional Representation: In 1993, New Zealanders embraced MMP partly out of conviction, but mostly ...

Thoughtful Workhorse: For doing most of this government's heavy lifting and for thinking about the half of the electorate who doesn...

Split Decision: Labour’s woeful 2014 Party Vote, at just 25 percent, was the party's worst electoral performance since 1922. Not so ...