The New Zealand Journal

  National Party Election Campaign Poster 1949   They won the election, thanks perhaps to the friendly shopkeeper vote. The same rhetoric wa...

In the Speech from the Throne delivered by Governor-General Anand Satyanand following the opening of Parliament, New Zealand's incoming ...

New prime minister John Key and his National Party cabinet ministers have been sworn into office. Mr Key will depart today for the APEC (Asi...

The National party has secured agreements with the Maori Party , ACT , and United Future to lead a 70 seat majority in New Zealand's 12...

The New Zealand Treasury sees hard times ahead in its November Economic and Fiscal Update of 7 November 2008, produced on the eve of the ele...

The National Party will rely on the minor party, ACT, to govern. ACT will offer "supply and support" - vote with National on budge...

Still licking its wounds from last Saturday's general election loss, the New Zealand Labour party elected Phil Goff as its new leader wi...

Going into her last Labour Party caucus after she lost her Auckland Central seat in the recent election, Judith Tizard wore a black badge th...

National leader, PM-elect, John Key and Rodney Hide, ACT leader, take the New Zealand electorate for a post-election ride...

Given all the attention in the New Zealand news media - and the interest of the public, perhaps the real winner of the NZ General Election o...

National, as expected, pulled off a win in yesterday's general election in New Zealand. What was not fully anticipated was the huge swin...

While we're waiting for the New Zealand General Election results to start rolling in, let's remember in the immortal words of one Fr...

The New Zealand General Election campaign limps to a close within the next 24 hours. No broad vision, no coherent set of policies has been p...

The final leaders debate turned out to be a bit of a yawn. The video is here on Television New Zealand's website. Both Labour's Hel...

The Christchurch Press is calling the Labour and National Party leaders debate on TV3 on 3 November "an honourable draw" here . TV...

The Minister of Finance, Dr Michael Cullen, says the Crown and New Zealand's largest mortgage lending banks have exchanged letters on th...

Much under-reported by the New Zealand news media and certainly overlooked for its significance, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand announced o...

National leader John Key unveiled the party's emergency economic assistance policy for those who become unemployed as a result of the ec...

"On current trends, about 50 percent more Kiwis overseas are likely to vote this year than in 2005," according to Ivan Moss, chief...

Stealing a march on National which is expected to announce its policy to respond to the effects of the global economic crisis, Labour's ...