The Hand Mirror

Part of the series Nominate 2016 , hoping to open up local government a bit so y'all will at least think about running in 2016.   Fai...

Post-election, my bus driver last night waxed lyrical about John Key "not having a mandate to sell state assets, 75% of New Zealanders...

Jared at Left Wing rants has written an excellent overview of political parties and their attitudes to/policies on reducing family violence:...

I'm not going to be looking at broader issues about the addresses in the post, but am quite happy to have those discussions in comments...

I'm super happy to be able to kill two birds with one stone and write a post that serves as not only a suffrage day post but also part o...

It's election year, and Family First are responding by running a poll about how the government should leave families alone, except poor ...

Metiria Turei, co-leader of the Green Party, gave a speech in reply to the Prime Minister's opening address to the House. It is a stunni...

So just before the polls closed I posted my endorsements for the Wellington local body elections. A number of candidates posted on replies ...

it's been a nice weekend, after some very good election results around the country. i thought i'd put up some random thoughts specif...

The results of the Auckland elections are in. The headline news is that Len Brown beat John Banks.* In other news from Auckland, our own ...

The time has come again where I have to try and figure out which of the various candidates for local body elections I can bear to vote for. ...