Dunne's Weekly

The rock and the hard place that has defined New Zealand’s foreign policy for the last decade or so is getting ever sharper and more uncomfo...

Since 1996 no new party has entered Parliament without either a sitting or former MP leading it. The Conservative Party in 2014 came close t...

Our system of government has been built on the partnership between Ministers and their public service officials to implement the government’...

Labour’s recently released party list is a job half-done. A positive aspect is that it has introduced a small pool of new talent that woul...

Parliament rose late last Saturday evening after a marathon period of Urgency passing legislation relating to last week's Budget and oth...

  With her latest Budget Finance Minister Nicola Willis has joined some very unlikely company. In 1972 then Finance Minister Rob Muldoon c...

  It is often said that Oppositions never win elections because governments lose them. In other words, if a government is unpopular enough i...