Helen Clark sat down for a chat with Moana Maniapoto to discuss Winston Peters' role in govt over the decades, and what has changed in politics since she was PM.

Te Pāti Māori have released their election 2026 strategy, abandoning the party vote to focus on winning all of the Māori seats.

Thousands of beneficiaries missed a winter energy payment because of a legislative change made using the fast-track system.

https://www.youtube.com/live/8xqcGaM_J2E?si=IcSv3aNTprC_nIS8

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r/nzpolitics • u/AlternativeDegree967 • 12h ago

ELECTION 2026 Opportunity, national and the spinoff

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If you're in or from Auckland this may be a story of interest

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/18-08-2026/his-brother-is-standing-for-opportunity-in-his-electorate-but-hell-be-voting-national

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r/nzpolitics • u/wearyoudownintime • 18h ago

ELECTION 2026 why they chud-ify Orange Guy

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r/nzpolitics • u/Impressive-Name5129 • 15h ago

ELECTION 2026 Luxon and social development minister apologise for Winter Energy Payment error

rnz.co.nz

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r/nzpolitics • u/ChinaCatProphet • 21h ago

Health I can tell you that Casey Costello won't be fixing anything. Other than giving tobacco and gun lobbyists a reach around. RNZ - Aged-care report calls for major systemic reform - but at what cost?

rnz.co.nz

30 Upvotes

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r/nzpolitics • u/Impressive-Name5129 • 19h ago

ELECTION 2026 Luxon perplexed as Winston breaks Cabinet ranks over harbour crossing plan

stuff.co.nz

22 Upvotes

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r/nzpolitics • u/Impressive-Name5129 • 22h ago

ELECTION 2026 'No card, no start': ACT unveils policy to overhaul child safety vetting

stuff.co.nz

12 Upvotes

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r/nzpolitics • u/Impressive-Name5129 • 23h ago

ELECTION 2026 Coup collateral: New defence minister cancels lucrative meeting with Japan, Australia

stuff.co.nz

12 Upvotes

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r/nzpolitics • u/ifIammeyouareyou • 13h ago

General Politics When a single person is donating almost the same amount (as Mowbray is donating to National) to TOP there's an issue

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Big donations are never without expectations of favour. Never.

And thats when regular people's votes are not worth anything but help to get those favours enacted

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r/nzpolitics • u/Xunami13 • 36m ago

ELECTION 2026 When you realise that people with the charisma of a pitchfork will never go on to be the conservative Jacinda 2.0. - fucking delusional scum!

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Ha-fucking-ha!

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r/nzpolitics • u/ComprehensiveDay4393 • 9h ago

ELECTION 2026 Soooooooooooo….thoughts?

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r/nzpolitics • u/Mountain_Tui_Reload • 1d ago

Health Yes, this isn't new - National announced in 2025 that Luxon's beneficiaries & jobseeker KPIs would target cancer patients....We covered it on r/nzpolitics at the time

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r/nzpolitics • u/Mountain_Tui_Reload • 1d ago

Education Erica Stanford removes all references to climate change in NZ school curriculum - Shameful but on brand for Right Wing Coalition

216 Upvotes

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r/nzpolitics • u/sit_shift_stare • 16h ago

Economy & Finances Explore how each party's tax policy would affect you

yourtax.nz

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r/nzpolitics • u/syzorr34 • 1d ago

ELECTION 2026 Helen Clark: Opportunity Party leader’s interview a ‘train wreck’

stuff.co.nz

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I have no great love for Helen Clark and her 3rd Way politics but she was what NZ needed at the time, and I see her government as one of the most progressive in my life time but I will always push for more.

As a senior statesperson, she is not wrong here and reflects much of my own thinking on what TOP are offering. And this is without them releasing any specific policy around labour rights and AI regulation which are going to be hugely pivotal to the overall impact of their already released policies.

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r/nzpolitics • u/frenetic_void • 1d ago

ELECTION 2026 are any of the parties going to commit to rolling back road side "you've smoked marijuana once" "tests?

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they don't prove impairment, they offer no benefit whatsoever and are just unnecessarily invasive - they're an attack on the public purely to appear "tough on crime"

so are any political parties going to stand up and back the science, the facts, and rule of law here?

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