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Claire Trevett: Rough going for Labour's battered rickshaw
If polling tracks were Roads of National Significance, then National is in a people-mover on the Waikato Expressway, writes Claire Trevett.
If polling tracks were Roads of National Significance, then National is in a people-mover on the Waikato Expressway, writes Claire Trevett.
Public opinion has turned against the Government's SkyCity international convention centre deal just days before it is due to be signed off.
Voter support for Labour and its leader, David Shearer, has slumped in the latest Herald-DigiPoll survey which he's admitted came as 'a surprise'.
Labour desperately needs to review both how it takes the fight to National and how it should treat its would-be partners in government - the Greens and NZ First.
A majority of voters want an inquiry into the GCSB spy agency and the SIS, the latest Herald DigiPoll survey shows.
Voters are almost evenly split on whether the parliamentary term should be extended from three to four years in the latest poll.
There is no time limit on a honeymoon, but they usually do not last for more than four years and almost certainly do not last that long in politics.
Labour and its leader David Shearer have had a boost in support in the latest Herald-DigiPoll survey - but it appears to have come at the expense of its potential coalition allies.
'I just don't accept the poll to be perfectly honest,' John Key told Newstalk ZB.
A new poll suggests the saga around David Garrett's false passport and Heather Roy's ousting as deputy leader have hit the Act Party hard.