Nine years of Winston Peters? Critics imagine a future of endless culture wars, deregulation and political horse trading stretched across a decade.
For decades New Zealand relied on migrant workers to prop up the economy, while trapping many in a temporary visa system with little long-term security.
The weirdest thing about Javier Milei may not be the dead dog stories anymore. Allegations around disinformation networks and political money are becoming far harder to ignore.
If the Prime Minister truly believes Winston Peters put politics ahead of the national interest, how can he possibly keep him as Foreign Minister?
Chris Finlayson’s call for “war” on NZ First says something brutal about National right now: one of the few people still willing to fight no longer sits in caucus.
Winston smells blood. Luxon looks weaker by the day. And as the economy slides deeper into crisis, the coalition’s civil war is becoming impossible to hide.
Winston Peters is tearing chunks out of National while Luxon looks too weak to stop him. The question now is whether this coalition crisis is entirely deliberate.
ACT wants a NZ version of ICE. But is this policy, or a desperate bid to outflank Winston on immigration?
Luxon wanted New Zealand to back the Iran war. Winston exposed it. Now the coalition looks like it’s tearing itself apart.
A Super El Niño is coming, and it could smash through New Zealand’s climate denial, insurance system and political complacency all at once.