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Election 2017

Fight to protect aquatic life

Work is under way to prevent the ecological damage that's contributed to the deaths of aquatic life in east Auckland's waterways. About 30 eels were...

Simeon Brown saddened by Winston’s decision

  Simeon Brown, MP for Pakuranga says he is disappointed with last night's announcement  that a Labour/NZ First/Green arrangement will form the new government. “I’m saddened by the decision made...

United Future to disband

United Future party leader Damian Light has announced the party will disband. Light, who stood as the party's Botany candidate in the 2017 General Election,...

Can the Labour coalition last?

National party whip and Botany MP Jami-Lee Ross has raised questions as to whether a NZ First coalition with Labour and Greens can last. “Already...

Winston chooses Labour

Winston Peters has revealed he has been offered the role of deputy Prime Minister as part of his negotiations with the Labour Party. Peters announced...

Advance voting starts on Monday

Voting in the 2017 General Election kicks off in earnest on Monday September 11 when advance voting places open, and will go through until...

Brown: “Thank you, Pakuranga”

As his first official act as Pakuranga’s new MP, Simeon Brown took to the streets waving the most important human hoardings of his campaign. The...

Local candidates respond to election results

Julie Zhu-local candidate for Green Party in Botany “I am definitely disappointed to see that only two per cent of local voters decided to vote...

Ross back in Botany

Jami-Lee Ross says he feels a bit like ‘mother hen’ during his first week back in parliament. The Botany MP has been re-elected by a...

LIVE: 2017 General Election

If you just couldn't wait until Election Day to cast your vote, you're not alone. More than 1.2 million New Zealanders cast an advance...

It’s National – but only just

    The National Party has swept to victory nudging Labour aside and in so doing casting NZ First into oblivion. In an ‘official’ count following Kids...

Bringing disability and politics together

Women in New Zealand started voting 124 years ago but it’s been only three years since Telephone Voting was introduced for the visually impaired...

Special lunch guest at Botany

It’s not every day that the Prime Minister, Bill English taps you on the shoulder and wants to know how you are doing. There was...

Growing pains for Hunua

Running as an Independent candidate for Hunua, it's not immediately obvious where Ian Cummings sits on the political scale. "Definitely not left...I'm a conservative as...

Better infrastructure for Hunua – Bayly

National MP Andrew Bayly says ensuring the Hunua electorate gets its fair share of infrastructure and resources is top of his priorities list. Bayly, who...
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