The Monetary Policy Committee today voted 4 - 3 to hold the OCR at 2.75 percent. ... Global events are adding to near-term inflation pressures in New Zealand. Fuel prices have risen further because of ...

Former Opportunity Party board members have spoken out about internal disarray and tribal politics as polling suggests the party may hold the balance of power after November’s election. Speaking ...

For the third election in a row, Curia has done polls in the Māori electorates for Whakaata Māori (Māori TV). The results can all be found here. In four of the electorates TPM leads, in two Labour ...

I am married to a gorgeous lady - Luciana Soares Ramos - who came to NZ to live 18 years ago. Two years ago we traveled to Brazil to meet and spend time with her parents. Her mom is in her late 80s ...

Israel will have results in a few hours. The Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIPAC) has produced an excellent fact sheet on the election, which is very comprehensive. This is the first ...

The hysteria of the left continues to grow. Trevor failed to check where the advance voting places are, and claims that because his usual site was only open for 12 days, instead of 13 days, this is ...

As I have said on multiple occasions, I regard any attempts to deliberately engineer overhang seats as semi-undemocratic. MMP is designed to let the bloc with the most votes to form Government.

Had to laugh at the spin by the Ministry of Justice about the new digital court management system. After Law News reported on it, they sent in an op ed which claimed: LawNews’ September 30 article ...

The Green Party has lodged a formal complaint against the Sensible Sentencing Trust (SST), accusing the lobby group of impersonating the party with its latest election attack ads. ... The party said ...

Last week on my post 'Who might be an MP?' one reader commented: "Unless Labour, ACT, Green and NZF as well as National voters in the Hutt [South] electorate vote for Chris Bishop and party vote for ...

They’re called the “bureaucratic priesthood” - powerful officials in Wellington who ministers must work with to deliver their promises but who think they, not democratically elected politicians, ...

Advance voting has started for the general election, and enrolment has closed. Left parties, supported by the media have been wailing about this being some sort of massive voter suppression device.