カテゴリー: Labour party
The party’s supporters feel like it got a kicking from everyone. After a dire result, analysts pointed to its inability to meet its lofty aspirationsIt was an assessment with a distinctly New Zealand flavour. “At the end of the day, there’s one unavoid…
Bucking global trends, polls find young voter support higher for National and right coalition than Labour as election nearsWhen New Zealand’s Labour party was elected in 2017, commentators heralded the “youthquake”. Jacinda Ardern had brought a dose of…
With Jacinda Ardern gone, her party’s political capital has been squandered. But a turnaround is possibleIt looks like curtains for New Zealand’s Labour government.The party won its best result since 1946 just three years ago, as voters rewarded Jacind…
Greens co-leader James Shaw says Labour shouldn’t count on its support in upcoming election amid glacial progress on emissionsSpeaking to a room full of supporters in downtown Auckland on Sunday, New Zealand climate minister James Shaw’s frustration ha…
Questions of sovereignty, inequality and New Zealand history hang in the background as political speeches foreshadow a future in which relationship with Māori plays a central roleAt the estuary bridge connecting Waitangi’s treaty grounds to its townshi…
New Zealand is still deciding what her political legacy will look like, but the crowds at her last engagement gave the sense of the end of an eraFrom the moment of her arrival, Jacinda Ardern is surrounded by a crush of people: hundreds gather to ask f…
The daughter of an abattoir worker and fruit picker, Sepuloni could have exactly the expertise the PM needs to tackle a brutal cost of living crisisCarmel Sepuloni admits her father, who arrived from Samoa in 1964 unable to speak English, had difficult…
Chris Hipkins promises a ‘solid’ government that will focus on bread-and-butter issues, in the wake of the international stardom of Jacinda ArdernJacinda Ardern has a natural presence most politicians would sacrifice a kidney for.She spoke like a norma…
Incoming prime minister echoes Jacinda Ardern’s promise to cut back Labour’s agenda to focus on cost of living issuesNew Zealand’s next prime minister, Chris Hipkins, has promised to cut back government reforms to focus on the “global pandemic of infla…
Sole nominee secures Labour endorsement for prime minister, with Carmel Sepuloni as deputy, and incumbent’s last engagements on TuesdayChris Hipkins will be New Zealand’s next prime minister following a formal vote that endorsed him as Jacinda Ardern’s…
The New Zealand Labour party is racing to find Jacinda Ardern’s replacement, with votes among MPs set to begin on SundayNew Zealand’s prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, will step down no later than 7 February after her shock resignation on Thursday in whi…
‘The difference you have made is immeasurable,’ says Canadian prime minister Justin TrudeauThe US president, together with the prime ministers of Canada and Australia, have paid tribute to their New Zealand counterpart, who shocked the world by announc…
New Zealand PM tells party conference ‘we are not done yet’ as poll shows Labour’s support at 5-year low ahead of elections in 2023In the darkened amphitheatre of a south Auckland conference centre, a youth choir swayed, as crowds waited for the prime …
Many cities chose conservative candidates but the results were less about national trends than local conditionsEvery year between 2008 and 2016, political commentators would reliably announce that former prime minister John Key’s “honeymoon” was finall…
The rules should not allow an MP to be reading cabinet papers in July and then lobbying former colleagues in OctoberEvery year, New Zealand’s headline writers get a chance to clap the country on the back.There is nothing we love more than being “first …