This from New Zealand (reserve) Halfback TJ Perenara. "The values that she (Jacinda Ardern) stands by, and my family's always been strong Labour and I’m proud to be strong Labour as well." Its a rare thing to hear an All Black endorse the Labour party-...
I've read the NZ Herald's Election 2017 page and I've assumed that it has taking in the Special votes because I've noticed that four seats-that had Labour winning the electorate vote, but National winning the party vote- has now seen the Labour candidate ...
Is it unusual that Maungakiekie has a National candidate that wins the seat, but not the party vote? If Labour does indeed win the Party Vote in that seat, I wonder why the voters didn't cast their electorate vote for Priyanca?
Chris Carter is right with regards to looking after the different ethnic groups voters. I think the Nat's have a head start there. I wandered over to the National party website and they have a page with different party groups, that includes different ...
When I watched the RNZ coverage (Freeview channel 50) of the election, the Dunedin reporter there said the same thing as said by Siobhan. He went to 3-4 student flats and struggled to find any Labour supporters-only National and TOP supporters. According ...
I hope Jacinda Ardern refrains from accepting the Mt.Albert nomination (by-election OR general election) if it comes her way. It seems that she developed a good understanding of the Auckland Central Electorate, she has been nibbling away at Nikki Kaye's ...
Something random: I was wondering if anyone out there knows if this Ofisa Tonu'u from http://www.labour.org.nz/auckland_candidates (Puketapapa Local Board) is the former All Black?
This is a very good piece about the 'middle' ground. Wouldn't look out of place in an op-ed section of a newspaper OR a mainstream news website. Well done RobEgan.
I stand to be corrected: But wasn't RNZ the most listened-to radio station in NZ-according to some survey? (Not the recent one. I think that was more towards commercial radio stations.) If that is the case, then they did well-despite the funding freeze. Is...
RIP Martin Crowe-one of New Zealand's greatest ever batsman. :-(
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