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Showing posts with label Election 2026. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Election 2026. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

NZCPR Newsletter: Deciding Election 2026

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For decades, New Zealand has been undergoing a quiet constitutional revolution. What was once largely unnoticed is now becoming increasingly...
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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Is The Nats’ Strategy To Condemn Its Coalition Partners Madness?

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On The Platform , Michael Laws asks "Is the Nats’ strategy to condemn its coalition partners just desperate madness"? Click to vie...
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Monday, May 11, 2026

Ryan Bridge: NZ's isolation is a blessing and a curse

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It'd be easy to draw comparisons and parallels between our upcoming election and the local and federal upsets in Australia and the UK at...
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Saturday, April 25, 2026

Clive Bibby: All the world’s a stage and men and women merely players

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No matter how many times I read Shakespeare’s plays, I marvel at his ability to offer us mere mortals advice that remains timeless in its ap...
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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Maths doesn't lie - Luxon is out

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In my opinion, National MPs need to bite the bullet and ask Chris Luxon to step aside. I don’t enjoy saying this because personally I like C...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

NZCPR Newsletter: Warning for National

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Political polls provide a snapshot of voters’ views at a particular moment in time. While polls conducted months before an election cannot r...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Ryan Bridge: The issues we care about

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We have a new issues poll out this morning. It's from IPSOS. 1000 people. Was taken after Waitangi weekend. The numbers are bad for Nati...
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Sunday, March 1, 2026

Clive Bibby: Do policies determine elections?

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Why is it that transformative policies have rarely determined the outcome of New Zealand elections? This time could be different! I have vot...
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Friday, February 13, 2026

Clive Bibby: Success in politics is all about timing

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Political survivors are more often than not those who choose the moment to make a move that will save their heads when everyone else is losi...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Don't forget a Chippy-led Government comes with Green baggage

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You know what that Labour and Green Party unity news conference at Waitangi today looked like to me? It looked like desperation. Parties don...
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Saturday, January 31, 2026

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Winston Peters might be story of the year

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Now, listen — I think it’s a little early in the year to be making too many predictions about election year. But having said that, I do thin...
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Thursday, January 22, 2026

Perspective with Ryan Bridge: Is this National's election to lose?

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So we've got an election date, and it's the date pundits have been picking since late last year - November 7th. This election is Nat...
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Mike's Minute: Election issues are already popping up

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We are standing by for the election date today. It’s not what it was, kind of like budgets. The suspense, the scuttlebutt, the guessing game...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Perspective with Ryan Bridge: Should Luxon rip the band-aid off?

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It is election year, of course, and I reckon we should get this thing over and done with quickly. Let's rip the band-aid off - Luxon sho...
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Friday, January 16, 2026

Best of 2025: Ryan Bridge - My prediction for the 2026 election

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Like it or not, next year's big dance in politics will ultimately be decided by the few, not the many. Most MMP elections have been. Min...
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Bruce Cotterill: Christopher Luxon leadership - Why National would be ‘nuts’ to roll him

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The past couple of weeks have seen plenty of conjecture about the future of Christopher Luxon as the leader of the National Party and hence,...
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Saturday, December 13, 2025

JC: No Bias in Two Recent Polls

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Looking ahead to 2026 election year, my money is on the re-election of the coalition. Nobody could honestly say the two polls released this ...
Friday, December 5, 2025

JC: Labour and Left Media Have High Hopes

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Last weekend the Labour Party held their annual conference: their tax talkfest where they chew the fat and think about how many new taxes th...
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Thursday, December 4, 2025

David Farrar: Labour winning all the Māori seats would be good for NZ

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Radio NZ reports : “I think Te Pāti Māori has got themselves into a world of difficulty. They’re not in any fit shape to play a constructive...
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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

JC: Will Winston Go Right or Left?

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An article in the Weekend Herald by political reporter Jamie Ensor discussed the growing ties between NZ First and Labour. Factually, I cou...
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