PremiumPremiumPoliticsAudrey Young: Trump shooting and Treaty fights – the political heat is onOPINION: As Donald Trump's lead extends, NZ has some big foreign policy calls to make.18 Jul 05:15 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Disturbing undertones in Te Pāti Māori's messagingOPINION: Ads promoting Budget day protests featured guns against a fiery backdrop.31 May 12:29 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: All eyes on Budget borrowing; brickbat for a nasty adOPINION: There's one line Nicola Willis really doesn't want to cross with her tax cuts.28 May 12:37 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: 'Targeted extermination' - tensions high over controversial billOPINION: Te Pāti Māori didn't hold back in the House - neither did Act's Karen Chhour.23 May 11:23 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: The best of a boring bunch of pre-Budget speechesOPINION: Also in today's politics briefing - MP David MacLeod's donations drama.20 May 11:30 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Badly behaved MPs needed a time-outOPINION: Misconduct and extreme rhetoric have become too familiar in NZ politics.17 May 12:03 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: State schools 'converted' to charter schools? Brace for controversyOPINION: David Seymour says a separate agency will oversee up to 50 new charter schools.14 May 12:27 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey 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.09 May 11:37 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: The minister who made a criminal mess of Budget revealOPINION: Everybody - including the PM - left yesterday's press conference confused.06 May 11:21 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Peters switches from statesman to street-brawlerOPINION: Also in today's political wrap - what on earth is up with Green MPs?03 May 12:27 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Peters has the most to complain about after grim poll resultOPINION: The poll will only prove to Peters' team that statesmanship doesn't win votes.30 Apr 12:25 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: National's comeback kid has a lot on his plateOPINION: Three years ago, 'Goldie' was in the political doldrums.26 Apr 12:16 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: What if Government loses Waitangi Tribunal fight?OPINION: Both parties have talked themselves into a pistols-at-dawn showdown.23 Apr 12:45 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Police push their luck on pay as mass layoffs continueOPINION: Police's flat rejection of the latest offer seems slightly detached from reality.19 Apr 12:53 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Government on collision course with Waitangi TribunalOPINION: An already tense relationship just got a whole lot worse.16 Apr 12:52 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Luxon can't talk down seismic foreign policy shiftOPINION: Today's NZ-US statement virtually signs us up to Aukus II.12 Apr 12:51 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Labour takes aim at Luxon's targets... and missesOPINION: Voters don't have a problem with setting targets, so why does Labour?09 Apr 12:43 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Māori wards set to become next race relations flashpointOPINION: Both National and Labour have played a part in the growing controversy.05 Apr 12:05 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Government ropes in old mates for new jobsOPINION: Two more former National ministers were roped into jobs advising new Government.28 Mar 10:31 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Collins keeps her cool as spy revelations heat upOPINION: For the first time, hackers have targeted the heart of NZ's democracy.26 Mar 01:04 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Willis blindsided by disability support controversyOPINION: The Finance Minister was not best pleased to start her week with a PR disaster.22 Mar 12:12 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Peters rubs salt into wound with 'fiscal hole' claimOPINION: Peters' race comments aren't the only ones that likely gave the PM a headache.18 Mar 11:14 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Hero to zero in 6 months - the Green Party's horror runOPINION: The crisis-hit Greens really needed a break. Not this week.15 Mar 12:07 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Tone deaf or 'kick-a***'? PM's political radar offline againOPINION: The problem isn't what the PM says, but how he says it.11 Mar 10:54 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Uproar over boot camps, consents plays into Govt's handsOPINION: The centre-right Govt has left voters in no doubt it is more right than centre.07 Mar 11:50 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Luxon cops fiscal backlash after allowance blunder, rego hikesOPINION: The PM is usually the one delivering economic lectures. Not this week.05 Mar 12:17 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Pressure on Willis to deliver as Opposition comes out swingingOPINION: National has ceded the moral high ground, raising the stakes for its May Budget.29 Feb 11:10 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Child poverty statistics intensify battle over welfare reformOPINION: The stats relate to Labour's time in office, which makes them politically tricky.22 Feb 11:12 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: The real jobseeker shocker everybody missedOPINION: Critics might want to check the fine print before they cry 'cruelty'.20 Feb 12:21 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Flash utes fair game as Govt expands spending cutsOPINION: Optics are even more important when you're on a cost-cutting drive.15 Feb 11:43 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: The underestimated MP who's got Luxon's earOPINION: Simeon Brown is a punchline for some opponents. He may get the last laugh.12 Feb 11:31 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: The woman who saved Luxon from disaster at WaitangiOPINION: The PM's day would have been much worse if he wasn't able to speak at all.08 Feb 11:12 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Lingering issue remains after Govt's sloppy weekOPINION: Without a full reckoning, it'll be death by a thousand innuendos.01 Feb 09:16 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Luxon starts 2024 as the great unifier ... of MāoriOPINION: The PM probably wishes he'd never heard of the Treaty Principles Bill.25 Jan 11:27 PM
