"Together, we went hard and early to fight COVID." Keep Reading

Analysis: Jacinda Ardern wins praise for her Matariki holiday policy, National promises to wage another war on P and Winston Peters has to learn a new way of campaigning, Peter Wilson writes. Keep Reading

ANALYSIS: Judith Collins baits Labour on 'abandoned' feebate scheme. Keep Reading

Politicians are known for talking around the point, but what if they don't have the time? In a new series The Elevator Pitch, party leaders have the length of a lift ride to convince voters which box to tick. Keep Reading

Is the 2020 election result really the foregone conclusion that the polls and commentators are suggesting? Josh Van Veen suggests otherwise, pointing to some of the shortcomings of opinion polling, which could have some politicians saying “bugger the pollsters” on election night. In November Keep Reading

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Politicians have pivoted to online video like lions in heat. José Barbosa has trawled through the top five parties' social media feeds to learn their secrets of going viral.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yUBV9NaBGw The online video space is changing all the time. If you work in this sector Keep Reading

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New Zealand is a world leader in compassion and it is time to make that count, Dr Libby Smales writes. Two hospices have recently announced they... Keep Reading

'The Outliers', as we're calling them, are the small parties also striving for a place in Parliament - an array of colourful characters with starkly different, sometimes controversial, policy manifestos. Keep Reading

The Labour Party is promising to bring forward its goal of 100 percent renewable electricity generation by five years to 2030. Keep Reading

Labour's tax policy is tentative, but is it also 'right for right now'? And is it negotiable? Judith Collins' policy releases point to less Crusher, more Kinder. Plus, how to mess up TV debates and the Matariki mood. Keep Reading

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"It's a real soft, moderate response compared to what could have potentially taken place." Keep Reading

OPINION: Labour's proposed tax hike takes the system in the opposite direction to our neighbours across the Tasman. Keep Reading

'Average' working NZ parent pays smallest proportion in tax in OECD. Keep Reading

Labour and the Greens have both recently announced taxation policies.  Meanwhile there is no sign of any fiscal policy or alternative budget from National. Keep Reading

Power Play - Call it what you want - canny politics or a left-wing betrayal - Labour's tax plan is far from transformational. Even National could barely muster much outrage. Keep Reading

"We would legislate for an annual increase to keep up with cost of living increases." Keep Reading

National's Dr Shane Reti and Labour's Chris Hipkins join Checkpoint to discuss how we balance immediate needs in a health crisis against increasing longer term demands on the health dollar. Keep Reading

"It's a Government that I've got to say is very dodgy with what it says and even dodgier with what it does." Keep Reading

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Raising the top personal income tax rate will push house prices higher, according to past research going back to 2007 by Westpac chief economist Dominick Stephe... Keep Reading

It’s results season for many of New Zealand’s biggest corporates, which find themselves awkwardly announcing large profits, with the wage subsidy helping them get there. We’re now approaching six months since the dread of late March, when over the course of a few fearsome days New Zealand closed Keep Reading