Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Is the coalition really in crisis?

Look, I’m not as excited about the Winston Peters-Chris Luxon emails meeting as clearly some people are.

I mean, there are people predicting the collapse of the coalition as a result of this and others describing it as a coalition in crisis.

Barrie Davis: From Consultancy to Co-governance

At the 2023 election many New Zealanders voted for the present Coalition in the expectation that would result in the removal of the maorification of our constitution. Is the Coalition meeting that expectation? Given the results, how should we now approach the next election?

Ryan Bridge: We need to break away from coalition governments

Yesterday was MMP in action.

It was exhibit A of a coalition government.

Without a single party with a clear mandate, you end up with piecemeal positions. You get a report done then you cherry pick which options are palatable to everybody and effective for nobody.

Ryan Bridge: The Coalition needs to tighten its agenda

In the last week we’ve had a smorgasbord of small, seemingly minor stories hitting the headlines.

Helmets or no helmets for cyclists. Which name comes first on the cover of our passports. A ban then reversal on marshmallows in hot chocolates from the coffee machine at hospitals.

Not a single one of these stories is significant on their own.

Clive Bibby: The minor parties in the Government Coalition are proving to be its greatest strength

This weeks’s unsurprising but welcome poll result reinforces the opinions expressed in this column in more ways than one. And I expect the dramatic increase in support for the Coalition’s minor parties at the expense of Labour’s creaky alliance to continue until election day. 

Last election I voted strategically wanting to ensure a National led Government - I gave my Electorate vote to National and my Party vote to Act.

Peter Williams: Iwi with their hands out before Otago development

No dooey until there’s more hui

The Fast Track Approvals Act is supposed to be a panacea for development. But as Port Otago and a leading logistics company are finding out it is far from smooth sailing because of one issue – the requirement in the Act to consult with iwi, and then to probably to pay them for the privilege.

The story goes like this.

Barry Soper: Are we seeing the first cracks in the new Government?

So are we, as has been widely reported, seeing the first major cracks in the National-led coalition Government?

Of course we are not. How on earth anyone can believe that three political parties, in this case, can surrender their identities at Government House when they're sworn in is nothing short of fanciful.

Beg-to-differ clauses have been in coalition agreements ever since coalition Governments came into being under MMP in 1996. The only time they haven't been in place was of course during the unbridled Labour Government over the last three years, and look where that got us.

John Porter: Why We Must Re-Elect the Current Government

On October the 23rd a majority of New Zealand said they had had enough. The Labour Government of the previous six years was swept from office in a near landslide.

New Zealanders made their views on the future of co-governance quite clear. On election night it was a resounding: ‘We do not want it!’

Bruce Logan: Coalition Government needs to display more of its conservative instinct

In spite of an inadequately educated media seduced by multicultural dogma and its insistence on designer tribalism, the Coalition Government needs to display more of its conservative instinct and confidently remind New Zealanders of some simple but critical truths. For example, to recall GK Chesterton’s claim, Tradition is the democracy of the dead. It means giving a vote to the most obscure of all classes: our ancestors.

Is there some light near the end of the tunnel?

Chris Trotter: Where The People Walk

WHAT PASSES for “Left” commentary these days insists that New Zealand is living under a “hard-right” government. Clearly, these commentators are unfamiliar with what constitutes a hard-right government. Equally clearly, they know next to nothing about New Zealand political history. Compared to the governments of Bill Massey, George Forbes, Sid Holland and Rob Muldoon, the coalition government of Christopher Luxon is a decidedly mild affair. The Left has mistaken a moderate and well-signalled political course correction for a reactionary reversal of progressive fortunes.

NZCPR Newsletter: Regime Change

The nonchalant response of new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to the media’s outrage over Deputy PM Winston Peters’ jibe they’d been ‘bribed’ by Labour is indicative of a seismic regime change that’s underway in New Zealand.

Clive Bibby: Suddenly - yesterday’s news is no more

It will not have escaped those who have survived the ravages of Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle and are living day to day as per kind favour of Central Government, that those responsible for this mayhem are slowly being exposed and brought to justice for their own fraudulent actions. All quiet on the “slash” front is one reason why we have cause for optimism.

Mind you, it has taken a rejection of the previous government and an “opening of the books” before we are able to see the full extent of the Labour Government’s betrayal of the trust it had been given only three short years ago.

Ross Meurant: Sir Winston – I was wrong

As one digests the impact Winston Peters has had on New Zealand’s future, since the coalition got seated in the House, I am compelled to say, I was wrong.

I did not expect Winston to measure up to his pre-election predictions that he would rectify the wrongs of the Labour government’s term of what I consider to have been, a term of terror.

NZCPR Weekly: Coalition Deals

We are witnessing a remarkable turnaround in New Zealand politics.

The Coalition agreement entered into by National, ACT and New Zealand First reflects the first three-party coalition deal in our country’s history.

Democracy can be seen to have prevailed, with MMP delivering what a majority of New Zealanders want.