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Senior Minister and long-time Labour MP Megan Woods has no interest in becoming Prime Minister.
Newstalk ZB understands Woods won’t be throwing her hat in

As the dust begins to settle after Jacinda Ardern’s shock resignation today, things are just getting started behind the scenes as higher-ups in the Labour

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the Hamilton West MP will no longer receive support from the party, or have access to the caucus in any way.

The Labour Caucus has voted to expel Dr Gaurav Sharma from caucus, effectively immediately

HamiltonWestMPGauravSharmahasbeenexpelledfromtheLabourPartycaucus.

Gaurav Sharma says the Labour caucus has voted to expel him.
When we were in the room nobody wanted to talk about how we arrived at that point, he told m

SharmahascalledforanindependentinvestigationintohisallegationsofbullyingbyParliamentaryServices,partywhipsandtheprimeminister’soffice.

Why vote Labour if Māori interests can’t be progressed? With the 2021 Budget, Willie Jackson and the Māori Labour Caucus just answered that. $973 million in funding for Māori on top of last years $900 million. That’s $1.873billion in two years. What did the Māori Party achieve in 9 years under Key? They introduced Whānau Ora and repealed the loathsome Foreshore and Seabed confiscation but aside from a $5000 a head fundraiser dinner with John Key, the Māori Party never delivered anythi...

The If-Ruth-Richardsons-Mother-of-All-budgets-had-a-30-year-old-brought-up-in-poverty-and-couldnt-buy-a-house Budget - Winners and Losers    For a 2021 Budget, this was all about desperately attempting to repair the 30 year damage of Ruth Richardson’s Mother of All Budgets while waking up the slumbering corpse of Muldoon’s Think Big economic nationalism. There is a miserly upgrade of welfare. Māori Caucus Forced over $973m in extra funding. Climate change gets sweet fuck all. Infrastr...