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Who is New Zealand's new PM?
New Zealand's new Prime Minister is a former farmer and literature student from smalltown Southland who once described himself as "specialising in being boring".
New Zealand's new Prime Minister is a former farmer and literature student from smalltown Southland who once described himself as "specialising in being boring".
Incoming Prime Minister Bill English has confirmed that Wayne Eagleson will remain in the influential position of the prime minister's chief of staff.
COMMENT: For a decade National didn't have to think about a leader, now they will be scrambling to make sense of it all, writes Barry Soper.
COMMENT: The stable predictable thing is English for PM, Bennett the deputy and Joyce for finance. Not my ideal, but safe. But is it enough for election year?
COMMENT: Alas, poor John, an ominous rumbling noise started in the bowels of the party's massive backbench rump. It could not be ignored.
COMMENT: 'The personal is political": a slogan that John Key, our outgoing Prime Minister, fudged vigorously throughout his tenure.
Judith Collins has laid out her policy agenda if she is elected Prime Minister.
The National Party is inviting Kiwis to thank John Key for his 10 years leading the party and eight years' service as Prime Minister.
Fevered lobbying to become the next PM has begun in the National caucus as Bill English, Judith Collins and Jonathan Coleman vie for position.
COMMENT: National MPs should think twice before automatically anointing as prime minister a member of Key's kitchen cabinet, Fran O'Sullivan writes.
The contest for New Zealand's next PM is shaping up as a race between an veteran politician, a lower-profile minister, and a wild card.
Leadership contests are usually damaging for political parties - but National's will be mercifully brief, writes Audrey Young.
It was the first time in Parliament since PM John Key announced he was going and Labour's front bench was a 10-metre-wide grin of schadenfreude.
National MP Nikki Kaye has returned to Parliament for the first time since her cancer diagnosis, confirming she will stand again in Auckland Central.
COMMENT: Having ticked all the boxes John Key leaves at the peak of his popularity and powers. It doesn't get any more impressive than that.
The cohesive National Party caucus that John Key has led for 10 years is about to start fraying as members grapple with how to replace him as PM.
COMMENT: If there were family reasons for John Key's decision to stand down, they were surely the demands of his art-school daughter or YouTube son.
John Key's bombshell announcement yesterday has thrown New Zealand politics into turmoil.
National faced a more uncertain future without Key at the helm, says University of Auckland political scientist Raymond Miller.
COMMENT: Winning that elusive fourth term in office has just become much harder, writes Newstalk ZB's political editor Barry Soper.
His body language suggested he was speaking honestly, an expert says.
Bill English is staying silent on whether he wants to be New Zealand's next Prime Minister and Judith Collins has not ruled out a bid to replace Key.
Leader of the Opposition Andrew Little has paid tribute to outgoing Prime Minister John Key, saying he has "served New Zealand well".
John Key's shock resignation has resonated around the globe with media and leaders from Australia and as far afield as China, the United States and Russia and France broadcasting the news online.
A terrible feeling of deja vu appears to have come over Prime Minister John Key. Here we sit, over a cuppa in a cafe in the centre of the Epsom electorate.
Key led his party to win the election in November 2008 after nine years of a Labour-run Government.
EXCLUSIVE: Hayley Holt has confirmed she will stand for the Green Party at next year's general election.
Even a close win in Mt Roskill could have been bad new for Andrew Little but the victory will transform the spirits of the party.
A former Labour member spurned for being "right wing" by Labour leader Andrew Little has signed up with National.
National's candidate for Mt Roskill is a former scientist and broadcaster who says Labour are getting "desperate" ahead of Saturday's byelection.