Dr Bryce Edwards NZ Politics Daily Political Roundup

 The Labour Government is currently fighting on multiple fronts that threaten its popularity in the run-up to next year’s election….

Will the looming economic recession kill off Labour’s re-election chances? Is the Reserve Bank making things worse? And could a…

Items of interest and importance today VOTING AGE Henry Cooke (Guardian): New Zealand’s supreme court has forced voting age on…

Sixteen-year-olds aren’t about to get the right to vote anytime soon. Despite yesterday’s Supreme Court declaration that a voting age…

By Geoffrey Miller As the FIFA World Cup gets underway in Qatar, it is worth looking at the state of…

As Government politicians put the boot into National’s bootcamp announcement yesterday, Christopher Luxon would have been celebrating. His populist announcement…

Items of interest and importance today FOREIGN AFFAIRS Claire Trevett (Herald): Russia, China, a Trump comeback – PM Jacinda Ardern…

This week global anti-corruption agency Transparency International released a report on lobbying, which described New Zealand’s lack of regulation as…

By Geoffrey Miller New Zealand’s independent foreign policy is back.That’s a key underlying message from Jacinda Ardern’s trip this week…