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The Spinoff Book podcast: Toby Manhire on the helter-skelter 2017 election
6th January, 2020

The Spinoff Book podcast: Toby Manhire on the helter-skelter 2017 election

In the latest from our pop-up podcast, we revisit the days of Jacindamania.
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By The Spinoff Book Out Loud
Guest writer
Former and current leaders of The Opportunities Party, Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons. Images: Getty
5th June, 2019

TOP down? How in-fighting is risking The Opportunities Party’s survival

Former leader Gareth Morgan says The Opportunities Party's remaining members are 'grovelling, compromising political aspirants' and that's the least of new leader Geoff Simmons' problems.
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By Max Towle
Guest writer
Toby Manhire and Jacinda Ardern at the Aotea Centre for the Auckland Writers Festival
25th May, 2019

Reliving the 2017 election with Jacinda Ardern

In this bonus edition of Gone By Lunchtime, the prime minister talks to Toby Manhire at the Auckland Writers Festival
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By Gone by Lunchtime
A broadcast for iPods
Were journalists ‘just doing their job’ in the political resignation of Metiria Turei?
17th April, 2019

Were journalists ‘just doing their job’ in the political resignation of Metiria Turei?

Massey University's Sean Phelan and Leon Salter look at the role media played in of one the biggest controversies of the last election.
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By Guest Writer
Guest Post
Metiria Turei at Blue Oyster Art Project Space. Image: Rory Sweeney
3rd October, 2018

Metiria Turei: Beyond politics

In one of her first interviews since she stood down from politics, Metiria Turei talks to Waveney Russ about her new life as an artist studying at the Dunedin School of Art.  
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By Waveney Russ
Guest writer
Illustration: Toby Morris
15th September, 2018

When the wheels came off: James Shaw on Election 2017

The Green co-leader on fearing he might be the party’s last leader, why Jacinda Ardern was a boost to their electability, and the nine-dimensional chess of coalition negotiations
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By James Shaw
Guest writer
illustration: Toby Morris
14th September, 2018

‘Confident but paranoid’: Bill English reflects on election 2017

New Zealanders were highly engaged in the campaign of 2017, and despite the result Bill English loved it.
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By Bill English
Guest writer
Illustration: Toby Morris
13th September, 2018

‘We chose the harder path’: Winston Peters on election 2017

The NZ First leader defends his party’s approach to coalition negotiations, explains why they went with Labour and, of course, upbraids the media.
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By Winston Peters
Guest writer
‘I remember the crunch point’: Jacinda Ardern looks back on the 2017 election
12th September, 2018

‘I remember the crunch point’: Jacinda Ardern looks back on the 2017 election

The now prime minister recounts the wild weeks that saw her catapulted to lead the Labour Party.
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By Jacinda Ardern
Guest writer
The option to move between the two electoral rolls has closed for another five years (Photo supplied)
15th August, 2018

What now for the Māori seats?

The Māori electoral option results are in, but for now we have more questions than answers.
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By Maria Bargh and Andrew Geddis
Guest writer
Summer Reissue: A visual history of the New Zealand parliament
6th January, 2018

Summer Reissue: A visual history of the New Zealand parliament

Chris McDowall explains the origins of this epic graph view into our political history.
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By Chris McDowall
Contributing writer
Summer reissue: My advice for Jacinda and Bill after playing politics simulator Democracy 3
1st January, 2018

Summer reissue: My advice for Jacinda and Bill after playing politics simulator Democracy 3

Just how hard is it to win an election and successfully lead a government? Seems easy enough, but there’s only one way to find out for sure: simulate it in a computer game.
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By Calum Henderson
Production editor
Illustration: Toby Morris
31st December, 2017

Summer Reissue: Nothing is different, everything is different: Clarke Gayford on his first days as first gent

When you watch your cat attempt to derail your partner's phone call with Donald Trump, it's hard to avoid the word 'surreal', writes Clarke Gayford.
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By Clarke Gayford
Guest writer
Jacinda Ardern and Bill English during the Newshub leaders debate. Pic Michael Bradley/Newshub
16th December, 2017

National’s best chance now? The eradication of NZ First

How serious is talk of a new conservative party springing up, asks former cabinet minister Wayne Mapp.
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By Wayne Mapp
Contributing writer
JOHN KEY RESPONDS TO THE SPINOFF/SSI POLL RESULTS. PHOTO: GETTY
5th December, 2017

John Key quit a year ago, and it’s been a bonfire of the leaders ever since

The last National leader buggered off before it was cool.
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By The Spinoff
Staff writers
Illustration: Toby Morris
6th November, 2017

Nothing is different, everything is different: Clarke Gayford on his first days as first gent

When you watch your cat attempt to derail your partner's phone call with Donald Trump, it's hard to avoid the word 'surreal', writes Clarke Gayford.
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By Clarke Gayford
Guest writer
The tick-splitters: how New Zealanders used their two votes, a visualisation
26th October, 2017

The tick-splitters: how New Zealanders used their two votes, a visualisation

More than a quarter of those who voted gave their electorate vote to someone from a different party than the one they backed for their party vote. Chris McDowall breaks it down.
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By Chris McDowall
Contributing writer
delivers a speech during Labour Party Congress 2014 at Michael Fowler Centre on July 6, 2014 in Wellington, New Zealand. Labour’s election year Congress runs from July 4 to 6 and focuses on preparing and planning the party’s nationwide election campaign. New Zealand’s general election will be held on 20 September.
25th October, 2017

Tamati won Waiariki with hard work, nous, and a little help from the Māori Party

One of the biggest surprises of the 2017 election was Tamati Coffey’s win in the electorate of Waiariki – unseating Te Ururoa Flavell and ushering the Māori Party out of parliament. Campaign manager Haydn Marriner takes us inside Team Tamati’s strategy.
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By Haydn Marriner
Guest writer
That Labour-NZ First coalition deal, in 150 words
25th October, 2017

That Labour-NZ First coalition deal, in 150 words

Jacinda Ardern and Winston Peters yesterday signed an agreement establishing a governing coalition. In the service of democracy and brevity, we’ve chiseled it, roughly, to its core.
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By Toby Manhire
Editor-at-large
That Labour-Green deal, in 150 words
25th October, 2017

That Labour-Green deal, in 150 words

The confidence and supply deal that Jacinda Ardern and James Shaw signed yesterday comes in at seven pages, or an appositely sized PDF of 4.20 MB (not kidding).
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By Toby Manhire
Editor-at-large

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