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Audrey Young: Trump warnings fall flat in final days of presidential race

OPINION: Damnation be damned – American voters won't be swayed.

Audrey Young: Biggest losers – Andrew Bayly, Darleen Tana and Tory Whanau blow it

OPINION: Bayly can kiss goodbye to a second term as a minister.

Audrey Young: 'You'd be limping' – senior MPs bring schoolyard politics to Parliament

OPINION: Parliament's a serious place, but sometimes the silliness wins.

Audrey Young: Govt wasting time and money on pointless election promises

OPINION: Why draft a bill that's going nowhere? Or amend sports rules for no reason?

Cabinet minister Shane Jones talks about his role in Government

Cabinet minister Shane Jones talks about his role in NZ First. Video / Mark Mitchell

Audrey Young: Minister gets top marks despite $30m te reo raid

OPINION: Erica Stanford proved she could be ruthless when she needed some quick cash.

Audrey Young: Labour's howls of protest have a whiff of hypocrisy

OPINION: If only the Opposition had practised what they preached when they were in charge.

Audrey Young: Te Pāti Māori MP scores spectacular own-goal over 'lies' slur

OPINION: Tākuta Ferris proved his point with his own blatant porky.

Audrey Young: Disturbing undertones in Te Pāti Māori's messaging

OPINION: Ads promoting Budget day protests featured guns against a fiery backdrop.

Audrey Young: All eyes on Budget borrowing; brickbat for a nasty ad

OPINION: There's one line Nicola Willis really doesn't want to cross with her tax cuts.

Audrey Young: 'Targeted extermination' - tensions high over controversial bill

OPINION: Te Pāti Māori didn't hold back in the House - neither did Act's Karen Chhour.

Audrey Young: The best of a boring bunch of pre-Budget speeches

OPINION: Also in today's politics briefing - MP David MacLeod's donations drama.

Audrey Young: Badly behaved MPs needed a time-out

OPINION: Misconduct and extreme rhetoric have become too familiar in NZ politics.

Audrey Young: State schools 'converted' to charter schools? Brace for controversy

OPINION: David Seymour says a separate agency will oversee up to 50 new charter schools.

Audrey Young: Nicola Willis on the Budget - it's bad, but not 'Ruth Richardson bad'

OPINION: The fiscal news is grim, Willis admits, but an austerity Budget isn't the answer.

Audrey Young: The minister who made a criminal mess of Budget reveal

OPINION: Everybody - including the PM - left yesterday's press conference confused.