Stuff
Christopher Luxon survived another leadership challenge, but his 76-second victory lap gave meme-makers considerably more material than it gave reporters.
NZ Herald
Te Pāti Māori is dismissing comments from Labour leader Chris Hipkins saying it is “unlikely” Te Pāti Māori would have senior roles in a future coalition led...
National minister Chris Bishop said he backed Luxon, and emphasised that the meeting was called due to the leadership threat from Penk.
NZ Herald
The Opportunity Party would be “very open” to a confidence-and-supply agreement with the next government, rather than a formal coalition, “if it means we can...
Former Prime Minister John Key talks NZ’s financial services, the country’s future, Donald Trump, and how the economy is going to be the big election issue
NZ Herald
Labour says its “door is open” to Opportunity but senior government roles for Te Pāti Māori are “unlikely” in any future coalition as leader Chris Hipkins...
RNZ
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has removed Chris Penk's ministerial portfolios.
Stuff
In a blink-and-you-miss-it press conference at Parliament today, Luxon said he had the “full support” of his caucus.
The poll landed as National MPs met behind closed doors this morning before deciding they still wanted PM Christopher Luxon as leader.
RNZ
An "urgent in-person" National Party caucus meeting is underway in Wellington.
NZ Herald
Christopher Luxon has dropped in fresh polling tracking the country’s preferred Prime Minister. Luxon’s popularity as National Party leader and Prime...
RNZ
Christopher Luxon's leadership is on the line as he prepares to front a do-or-die meeting with his National Party caucus in Wellington on Wednesday morning.
RNZ
As Christopher Luxon's leadership comes under fresh pressure with rumblings of a rolling, who else could be lined up to take the top job?
The Conversation
Whatever the outcome at tomorrow’s caucus meeting, Christopher Luxon has been found wanting as a political leader. But so has Labour’s Chris Hipkins.
NZ Herald
National leader Christopher Luxon has called an extraordinary meeting of his party caucus following revelations from the Herald of discontent among MPs about...
RNZ
Christopher Luxon's grip on his leadership is again being questioned following a week of communication gaffes and a fresh report his MPs are unhappy.
Stuff
An environmental group says the RMA Reform Minister’s decision to reject urgent land-use protections for flood-hit Tairāwhiti is “indefensible”.
NZ Herald
Discontented National Party MPs hit the phones on Monday, with one MP confirming to the Herald that they had fielded “several” phone calls about a potential...
"There was not a single person in the Labour team who thought that we should be open to working with NZ First, given their recent behaviour."
RNZ
Christopher Luxon says raising the fuel excise tax and imposing an accommodation levy could be on the cards if National is re-elected.
Waatea News: Māori Radio Station
The Green Party is challenging the Government’s claims of fiscal responsibility, arguing its spending cuts are shifting costs from the Crown’s books onto struggling households. Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says the […]
RNZ
National's debt reduction target is the least ambitious it could possibly be, says a leading economist.
From mergers to standoffs, councils nationwide raced to finalise Head Start proposals before Sunday's deadline.
Bugger the pollsters: The Spinoff reveals who actually has the most clout in parliament.
"If the Crown's own books aren't in order, the whole country stays exposed and vulnerable to major shocks here at home and abroad."
RNZ
Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill both successfully led hand-picked Cabinets that included their own fiercest rivals in order to forge a team of the most able.
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