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The Northland by-election

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 2:30 pm, January 30th, 2015 - 163 comments

A by-election is imminent – so how does Labour win in a safe National seat?

Labour’s plan vs National’s plan

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:34 pm, January 28th, 2015 - 43 comments

The choice is clear.

Andrew Little State of the Nation in 2015

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:00 am, January 28th, 2015 - 302 comments

The speech notes from Andrew Little’s State of the Nation speech delivered this morning

Who was the better economic manager – Helen Clark or John Key?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 6:59 pm, January 20th, 2015 - 150 comments

Sometimes a simple graph is much more eloquent and powerful than a whole lot of words …

Espiner profile on Andrew Little

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:30 pm, January 20th, 2015 - 17 comments

Guyon Espiner has a paywalled profile of Andrew Little up at The Listener.

RMA reforms … be very afraid

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:00 am, January 20th, 2015 - 97 comments

Nick Smith today announced proposed changes to the Resource Management Act. It is likely he will resuscitate the reforms that were stalled after Peter Dunne refused to support them last year. ACT’s David Seymour has said he will support the changes even though he did not know what they are. Treasury are to release a paper with proposals for change. Updated lprent – yep National stupidity reprised.

Andrea Vance on Andrew Little’s game plan

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:30 am, January 19th, 2015 - 94 comments

Andrew Little will give his state of the nation speech on 28 January. What can we expect to see in it?

TV3, Cameron Brewer and more of the same

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:06 pm, January 17th, 2015 - 39 comments

TV3 recently interviewed Cameron Brewer to provide adverse commentary on a story about Labour seeded by David Farrar and Cameron Slater. And they did not even mention Brewer’s links to the National Party.

Dirty Politics in 2015

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:53 am, January 13th, 2015 - 81 comments

Political Scientists Bronwyn Hayward and Mark Boyd were interviewed on Radio New Zealand yesterday on New Zealand politics in 2014 and what happened during the election. They talked extensively on dirty politics, on the role of the media and how things can be improved in 2015.

What John Key actually believes in

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:21 am, January 6th, 2015 - 146 comments

Charlie Mitchell of the Dominion Post has analysed John Key’s formal speeches since 2007 to see what has from time to time been uppermost in Key’s mind. The results are interesting to say the least.

‘The future will be green or not at all’

Written By: karol - Date published: 9:41 am, January 2nd, 2015 - 275 comments

Yesterday, on Outspoken at RNZ, Craig McCulloch interviewed Jeanette Fitzsimons, Gareth Morgan and Metiria Turei on the future of the Green Party. Morgan wants the Greens to shift away from “scary” economic policies. Turei and Fitzsimons explain why not.

Top MP tweeters ….?

Written By: karol - Date published: 9:54 am, December 29th, 2014 - 27 comments

Claire Trevett in the NZ Herald has an article on her chosen top MP tweeters, now that Judith Collins has vacated her (alleged) position as “Minister of Twitter” Not quite my list of top tweeters… and yours?

Andrew Little’s adjournment speech

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:00 am, December 15th, 2014 - 6 comments

Well worth a look. A straight talker, with a sense of humour, freshness and vigour.

Oppose the housing sell off!

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:11 pm, December 10th, 2014 - 4 comments

A last-minute, urgent appeal from Phil Twyford – oppose the sell off of state houses – today!

New Zealand Betrayed – Again

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 3:05 pm, December 10th, 2014 - 95 comments

A guest post from BLiP on Labour’s support for the “terrorism” legislation.

First review results

Written By: lprent - Date published: 6:56 am, December 9th, 2014 - 111 comments

“Labour’s review panel has reported its findings back about the party’s election campaign and the reasons for the low 25 per cent result, identifying problems ranging from a failure to unite behind former leader David Cunliffe to resourcing and confusion over its “Vote Positive” slogan.”

Poor (and rather pathetic) Bomber

Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:52 pm, December 8th, 2014 - 109 comments

Martyn Bradbury is still ‘leading’ the left from the behind. My focus on this site is how to reduce all the costs. One of those costs over the last year has been complaints about us from inside the NZLP. That is why I decided last month to drop my membership. Bomber snarkily whining up his ego looks like another wasteful cost.

Today’s DomPost cartoon

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:08 am, December 8th, 2014 - 27 comments

Andrew Little grows into his role as Labour leader.

Is John Key on the skids?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:25 pm, December 3rd, 2014 - 85 comments

In the House today Megan Woods embarrassed John Key with some very simple yet direct questions about Jason Ede. Key’s attempts to joke away the issue was met with silence from his side of the house. Dirty Politics is clearly having an effect.

Andrew Little: the future of work

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:03 am, December 1st, 2014 - 98 comments

The text of a speech delivered by Andrew Little this morning

Save Our State Houses: Labour Party

Written By: karol - Date published: 8:26 am, November 28th, 2014 - 12 comments

Kevin Hague says, the government’s plan to replace state housing with “social housing” will make the affordable housing crisis worse & is “economically reckless”. The Labour Party have circulated a petition to save state houses from being sold by the NZ government.

Moira Coatsworth announces resignation

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:00 am, November 27th, 2014 - 7 comments

Labour Party president Moira Coatsworth has announced that she will stand down as Party President in December.

Key will apologise to Slater but not Billingsley or Vance

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 7:30 am, November 25th, 2014 - 21 comments

John Key has apologised to Cameron Slater for releasing an email which details a campaign against a senior Public Servant.

Polity: New Labour lineup: 8/10

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:53 pm, November 24th, 2014 - 21 comments

Rob Salmond has a look at the new Labour lineup. “…a consistent display of clarity and unity and being on New Zealanders’ side is what is needed from Labour right now”. Gives it an 8 out of 10

Little announces Labour’s new front bench

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:09 am, November 24th, 2014 - 170 comments

Andrew Little has announced Labour’s new lineup.

Key in for the long term?

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:33 pm, November 22nd, 2014 - 38 comments

John Key’s election as chair of the International Democratic Union is significant. Key succeeds John Howard who has led the IDU for the past 12 years. Key’s acceptance signals that like four-time winner Howard, Key plans a long career as Prime Minister of New Zealand. This news should be a wake-up call for the Labour Party’s review of its election organisation and party structure.

’81: knowing your position

Written By: karol - Date published: 9:21 am, November 22nd, 2014 - 103 comments

Andrea Vance has written an informative article about Andrew Little. In it, among other things, we learn that Little remembers exactly which side he was on during the 1981 Springbok rugby tour.

Labour and the unions

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:26 am, November 19th, 2014 - 109 comments

In which I ponder my 2c on the leadership race, and the path ahead for Labour and the unions…

A late run succeeds

Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:08 pm, November 18th, 2014 - 46 comments

On October 4th Andrew Little was looking to see if he was even going to be in Parliament because he hadn’t achieved the near impossible task of winning New Plymouth. He was at the bottom of small list and only got back into parliament on special votes. But Andrew Little has a well deserved reputation is a organiser and a campaigner. It showed.