Dunne's Weekly

New Zealanders have an often-contradictory view about what they expect in their politicians. At one level, they are frequently dismissive ...

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...