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Christopher Luxon and the art of offsets

Will the National Party leader push climate policy into the never-never, environment editor David Williams asks

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Peters rules out NZ Labour, lashes Ardern

The path to a third term for Jacinda Ardern's government has been made a little shakier after her former deputy Winston Peters ruled out working with Labour.

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Luxon's climate policy 'donut' no anomaly

The National Party leader's repeated gaffes on climate policy are moving from exceptions to the norm.

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Grappling with Governmental gobbledygook

If the past few years have taught us nothing else, it’s that communication can make or break a government strategy.

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The fixation on a PM’s COP-out

Should we care Jacinda Ardern has skipped every UN climate summit?

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Michael Pascoe: Will NSW’s political parties put people before donors? Don’t bet on it

Will the NSW government get out from under the thumb of the gambling industry? Alan Kohler writes he's not betting on it.

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To understand what Xi Jinping's concentration of power really means, we must turn to history

After he secured an unprecedented third term as the leader of both Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the country’s Central Military late last month, Xi Jinping led the seven-member Standing Committee of the Politburo on a visit to Yan’an. This is the CCP’s sacred revolutionary base from where the first-generation…

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Money for dams dries up as good water management finally makes it into a federal budget

A story from the early days of the Abbott government still circulates in the halls of Parliament House.

The Conversation

National wants to see NZ better reflected in its MPs

National’s deputy leader is confident her party members want to see New Zealand better reflected in its MPs, starting with the Hamilton-West by-election on December 10.

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Public servants know 'three-fifths of bugger all': Littleproud

The Labor government will scrap a key Coalition funding program, replacing it with two new grants programs.

Newcastle Herald

The National Party gift that keeps on giving

Independent MP Gaurav Sharma is a godsend for the National Party

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Former New Zealand PM John Key says he would have voted for Trump and Bolsonaro

Influential National party figure said he had never voted ‘anything other than right’, but that some on the right were ‘getting pretty crazy’

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The dragon in the room

Testimony from an expert witness on China's overseas influence operations never made it to the High Court trial of local Chinese and others hiding donations to Labour and National.

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Brown momentum vs Collins machine

Who can pull out a decisive late move - will celebrity endorsements be enough, will thousands of phone calls get voters off their couches, or will the biggest budget prevail?

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Williamson sparks up the east

So goes Howick, maybe so goes the city - it’s another fixture to watch in the results for next week’s local body election in Auckland

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Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party sees support rise for first time in two years, New Zealand poll shows

PM says scrapping of last Covid protections boosted support, halting a slide in popularity accelerated by cost of living pressures

The Guardian - AU

Time is running out on the Murray-Darling plan. Should Tanya Plibersek reach for the big guns?

NSW and Victoria have dragged their heels and now risk the federal government taking over Australia’s most important river system

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Nicola Willis strikingly absent from Uffindell report

Nicola Willis’ distance from the Sam Uffindell saga raises questions about whose political brand is more important to the National Party – hers or Christopher Luxon’s.

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Broken Hill National Party members resign days after state election preselection

An outgoing Nationals candidate says party polling results are "pretty hard to swallow" and prompted him to resign just days after winning a spot on the state election ticket.

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Luxon not keen on Uffindell report seeing light of day

it seems Christopher Luxon would rather deal with a negative news cycle than throw sunlight on the reports’ findings.

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The terror of publishing Nicky Hager

"Every book could destroy the company", writes Nicky Hager's publisher

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Western Australian Nationals candidate Merome Beard named winner in North West Central by-election

Only half of the North West Central electorate's registered voters appear to have cast a ballot.

Tribune News Service

Jacinda Ardern’s feted COVID response could yet be her undoing

The pandemic response that swept Jacinda Ardern to a second term as New Zealand’s prime minister may end up costing her a third.

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Seymour takes aim at those not debating serious policy

If the GST on KiwiSaver debate is anything to go by, David Seymour says he is deeply sceptical about the country’s ability to have a serious policy debate at next year’s election

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What happens when your classmates keep leaving? The impact of school transience on pupils ‘left behind’

The claim last week by National Party leader Christopher Luxon that 100,000 New Zealand schoolchildren were chronically truant quickly turned into an argument about terminology, statistics and how to interpret them.

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