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Turns out John Key was right this morning. There wasn’t very much in the way of ambition or target setting in that speech from the PM today.  But we expect

Peter Goodfellow retains control of National, while his challenger David Carter immediately resigns.

Some party members are furious after board elected without rural directors.

“It is presumptuous and disrespectful to make a decision of such cultural importance for the country without engaging all who live there,” Smith wrote. Collins said she agreed with Smith and that people deserved to have a say on a matter of such importance. Do you think we need a referendum on the name of New Zealand? Share your opinion in the comments below. “People are starting to get, I think, quite tetchy about that, they’re feeling like they’re not being included in that debat...

Photo: RNZ / Dom Thomas National MP Stuart Smith made a statement yesterday saying New Zealanders should get the chance to vote on the idea, and this morning he took it a step further, saying the name Aotearoa should be banned from all official documents. "I cant understand why the government cant have the confidence in their own position to actually go to the public, unlike John Key," he said, referencing the ill-fated referendum held on changing New Zealands flag. Smith said the idea of a ref...

By John Tamihere Judith Collins has spent a lot of money and effort in defining a national debate. A debate commenced while she was a senior Cabinet Minister. A debate consented to whilst she was a high-ranking Government Minister in the John Key administration. He Puapua is a paper discussing how Aotearoa may implement its agreement to the Indigenous Rights Debate. Let’s be clear, Collins is not making hate speech. She is knowingly enriching it, emboldening it and inciting it. I have written...

"Honest conversations" .. Act New Zealand leader David Seymour speaks to a crowd of about 90 people in Oamaru on Saturday. PHOTO: REBECCA RYAN “It’s a little bit like that great Michael Jackson song – all I want to say is that they don’t really care about us.” At a public meeting in Oamaru on Saturday, Act New Zealand leader David Seymour said as rural New Zealand was facing an avalanche of new regulations, and feeling forgotten by the Government, more people were looking to Act for a...

Many Australians and New Zealanders no longer want to visit Fiji July 27, 2009 Australian tourists are picking lesser-known Pacific islands for their tropical winter breaks to avoid the political instability in military-led Fiji, leaders claim. Australian tourists are picking lesser-known Pacific islands for their tropical winter breaks to avoid the political instability in military-led Fiji, leaders claim. The leaders of two Pacific nations, Samoa and the Cook Islands, say their tourist number...

Why the RBA got it wrong on immigration and wages More migrants do not mean lower wages. The real picture is much more complex than the political debate allows for. Share Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe opened a can of worms last week on the Big Australia debate, surprisingly claiming immigration was one of several factors that had contributed to weak wages growth over the past decade. On cue, but somewhat taking Lowe’s comments out of context, anti-immigration One Nation leade...

Most of these are routine political marketing steps, such as completing graphic design, preparing “lines” for MPs and the leader, and writing press releases. Also listed is “Briefing Don B” – a task allocated to leader Judith Collins. No other former leader of the party is listed to be briefed. Brash famously made a similar attack against alleged Māori separatism with his Orewa Speech in 2004, which saw his party vote shoot up in the polls. He took this attack to the 2005 electio...