Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand forges deeper ties with NATO

Christopher Luxon is finding his foreign policy feet.

Now eight months into the job, New Zealand’s Prime Minister is in Washington DC this week to attend the NATO summit.

It is the third year in a row that Wellington has been invited to the annual gathering of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the West’s premier political and military alliance.

Peter Wilson: Week in Politics - Hipkins makes a captain's call as Labour slides in the polls

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins' decision to rule out a capital gains tax or a wealth tax if Labour wins the election seemed to take everyone by surprise this week.

He was in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, attending the NATO summit, when he made what he confirmed was a captain's call.