OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Bennett asset to NatsTo understand Paula Bennett's value to the National Party, you just have to see how much Labour cant stand her.21 Nov 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Norman's climate change lecture strikes the wrong noteMisery united Parliament yesterday - until politics intervened, writes Audrey Young on Greens co-leader Russel Norman's climate change speech.12 Nov 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Cunliffe gets a bloody noseCunliffe implied that National's opposition to the policy is because it received big donations from the insurance industry in 2005, writes Audrey Young.05 Nov 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: PM moves on to next regional talksApec's focus is trade liberalisation, writes Audrey Young. The East Asia Summit focus is wider; leaders will talk about regional questions of the moment, including security issues such as North Korea.08 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Mystical Bali missing the magicThe absence of US President Barack Obama from the Apec leaders summit leaves a gaping hole, and a lot of disappointment, if not misery, writes Audrey Young.07 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: PM's chance on world stage as 'honest broker'New Zealand really likes being characterised as the firm but fair "honest broker" in matters of world affairs, writes Audrey Young.06 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Union, party support bolstered light caucus backingNew Labour leader David Cunliffe received less than a third of the support of caucus when the votes were counted yesterday.15 Sep 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: A fish out of water whose leadership never took offIt has been a leadership not so much in decline, as never taking off, writes Audrey Young. Shearer was a risk his supporters thought worth taking in 2011.22 Aug 09:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Wow factor missing from the conference of bright ideasConference 2013 was meant to be the conference of good ideas. Political editor Audrey Young looks at whether it delivered.11 Aug 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: At least the office didn't drop into the poolThe <i>Herald</i>'s political editor Audrey Young says the Press Gallery hunts as a pack and panics as a pack during a quake.21 Jul 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Ball in Key's court to get GCSB bill passedThere are three things John Key could do in the coming week to make the GCSB bill more acceptable than it is now, to the public and others, writes Audrey Young.19 Jul 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Turmoil on cards for Labour leadershipAt the start of the week, I would have put Shearer's chances of surviving at 80/20. Now they would be closer to 50/50.12 Jul 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Best speeches of the dayI'm not sure about the timing, but the day after Labour leadership coup rumours swept through Parliament, deputy leader Grant Robertson delivered a brilliant speech.10 Jul 08:50 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Academic up against heavies on GCSB billMost Western intelligence agencies had analytic teams that had developed whole disciplines around making sense of data, writes Audrey Young.05 Jul 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Key keeps spy bill ticking alongOne can only hope that John Key doesn't run his Cabinet meetings the way he is running the Intelligence and Security Committee meeting, writes Audrey Young.02 Jul 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Haka coaching goes down a treat in DCThe Air Force kapa haka group and band spent several hours yesterday with a couple of schoolboy rugby teams in Washington DC.22 May 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Kerry I'll be back to NZIt's usually the Terminator who says "I'll be back".21 May 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Wrong audience for Bolger tiradeAs a former Prime Minister and a man very firm in his views, Jim Bolger has always been a bit stroppy, writes Audrey Young.20 May 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Horomia - the good and the badThe late Parekura Horomia was universally liked and respected across Parliament when he died, but he didn't always have the respect, writes Audrey Young.30 Apr 07:10 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Charm and NZ-China friendship need boost of Fifth MilestoneWhen John Key met his second Chinese vice-premier in two days yesterday, he and Wang Yang shared a joke about the photo Key had seen of them hanging in Guangzhou's Foreign Affairs Museum.12 Apr 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: NZ gets a lot of attentionWhy does the world biggest country pay so much attention to such a small country as New Zealand?10 Apr 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Key raises a glass to China friendshipPrime Minister John Key begins his Shanghai schedule today where chicken is likely to be off the menu.08 Apr 05:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Sir Bob part of quest for waterfront investorsSir Bob Harvey arrived in China yesterday morning for the 22nd time.08 Apr 05:30 PM
New ZealandBlog: John Key in ChinaPolitical editor Audrey Young blogs from China, where the PM has arrived for a week-long tour.08 Apr 04:40 AM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: A new era of trust with ChinaThe new broom in the China leadership is ushering in a new era of trust in the relationship - after five years of a free trade agreement, writes Audrey Young.07 Apr 09:00 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Result clean sweep for John KeyIt is a judgment that effectively says to the Crown, "You've won this time but we're watching", writes Audrey Young.27 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: New Speaker tones down pomp but keeps ministers on their toesIt didn't take long for David Carter to settle in to his job in his first question time as Speaker - it was almost business as usual, writes Audrey Young.12 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Summit solves leaders' two prickly problemsOn the same day that NZ agreed to share Australia's boat people problem, Gillard agrees to look at collecting $600m in student debt from Kiwis in Australia, writes Audrey Young.10 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Anxious holiday for minister as Key mulls reshuffleParata may have been relieved when the State Services Commissioner told her this week that Longstone had agreed to resign, writes Audrey Young.19 Dec 04:30 PM
