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The article discusses the victory of the Labour Party led by Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand's general election on October 17, 2020 over the conservative National Party. Topics include the efforts of Ardern to cooperate with Green Party; possible re-appointment of the Greens' co-leader James Shaw as climate-change minister; and economic challenges faced by her due to covid-19 pandemic.

The article reports on the working of New Zealand's government regarding tourism. It mentions the presence of pristine land, water and air appeals including glaciers and jagged peaks, charismatic fauna, vineyards, lusty rivers for fly-fishing or rafting, dive sites and thousands of miles of glorious coastline for tourism. It also mentions the development of Tongariro Alpine Crossing national park.

The article looks at the results of the elections in New Zealand. New Zealanders learned the preliminary results of their election on September 17, 2005. The Labor Party, which headed the outgoing coalition government, pipped its chief rival, the National Party, by fewer than 23,000 votes--with some 218,000 left to count. Labor's current tally would give it 50 of 122 seats in parliament, one ahead of National. But it also has more potential coalition partners, since the Green and Maori parties are unlikely to throw in their lot with National, while two centrist parties, New Zealand First and United Future, are sticking to their campaign pledge to negotiate first with whichever party turns out to have topped the poll. Helen Clark, the Labor leader and prime minister of six years, has already indicated that she would prefer to lead a minority government, as she has for the past three years, with different parties providing support on different issues. National, led by Don Brash, is hoping that the outstanding ballots might help it draw level with Labor, or pitch the Greens below the 5% threshold required to enter parliament.

The article the opposition that New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key has faced regarding his proposition to change the nation's flag as of 2015, and it mentions the country's Deputy Prime Minister Bill English, a Flag Consideration Panel, and the symbolic aspects of ferns and flags.

The article focuses on New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and his efforts to create a new flag for the country in 2014. Topics include his desire to remove the British Union Jack symbol on the flag, how the new flag will reflect New Zealand's independence from Great Britain, and if the country's native Maori citizens will be represented in the new flag.

The article discusses politics in New Zealand as of March 2014, focusing on political parties and politicians that may be involved in a September 20th, 2014 election. Politicians mentioned include Winston Peters of the New Zealand First party, Colin Craig of the Conservative party, and the Prime Minister John Key. The entrepreneur Kim Schmidt, also known as Kim Dotcom, of the proposed Internet Party, is mentioned.

The article looks at politics and government in New Zealand as of 2013, reporting on a referendum on policy of the government of National Party New Zealand Prime Minister John Key to sell off certain government-owned assets and discussing opposition by some New Zealanders to offshore oil drilling.

The article discusses the relationship between politics and rugby in New Zealand and includes information about the victory of the All Blacks rugby team in the Rugby World Cup, the 2011 elections in the country, and the political party of Prime Minister John Key.

The article discusses results of New Zealand’s November, 2008 general election. John Key emerged as the new prime minister, and his National Party gained 59 of 122 seats in parliament. Although National has presented itself as a party favoring less bureaucracy and lower taxes, it has not yet said how it would address New Zealand’s economic recession.

The article focuses on the political situation in New Zealand. Prime Minister Helen Clark's government has been jeopardized by a campaign fund raising scandal which forced foreign minister Winston Peters to resign. Clark must call an election for November, 2008, and her Labour party currently trails the opposition National Party in public opinion polls.

The article reports on politics and the coalition government in New Zealand. Helen Clark was sworn in for a third three-year term as New Zealand's prime minister on October 19th. Her minority coalition, of Labour and the one-man Progressive Party, commands only 51 votes in the 121-seat parliament.To give herself a working majority, she has entered into peculiar agreements with two smaller parties. Their leaders will be ministers, but not members of the cabinet. In theory, that will give them a stake in the government's survival, while leaving them free to criticise its performance. Forming a government in New Zealand is no mean feat. The proportional-election system in place since 1996 has never delivered an outright victory to either main party, Labour or National. But smaller parties are often reluctant to join coalitions, for fear of denting their following at the next election. Winston Peters, the leader of New Zealand First, will be foreign minister, while Peter Dunne, of the centrist United Future, will be revenue minister. Their parties will have to vote with the government on matters related to their portfolios, and on motions of confidence, but will be free to rubbish it otherwise. Meanwhile, the Green Party has agreed to abstain on confidence votes, in exchange for being put in charge of two cherished schemes.

The article discusses elections in New Zealand. When New Zealanders go to the polls on September 17, 2005, they will face a stark choice. The current Labor government, led by Helen Clark, is bidding for a third term with the promise of improved public services and limited tax breaks for families. The National Party, Labor's main rival, is offering much bigger tax cuts in tandem with smaller government. Under New Zealand's system of proportional representation, neither is likely to win an outright majority, forcing voters to make complicated calculations about potential coalitions. Over the past 20 years, during alternating spells in government, both parties have supported the work of the Waitangi Tribunal, which investigates claims of past and present abuses of indigenous rights, and recommends compensation for them. Many Maoris think that both Labor and National take too narrow a view of indigenous rights.

Don Brash, leader of New Zealand's opposition National Party, is turning the opinion polls upside down. His party, which only in December trailed 17 percentage points behind Labour, is now leading the polls 45% to 38%. Brash's simple line is that the Maori, who make up 15% of the population, are being granted too many privileges. He is critical of policies in education and health care--where government funding is influenced not just by need, but by ethnicity--and of other special treatment, such as Maoris' rights over land they do not own. Maori leaders, not surprisingly, have condemned this line. The government's instinctive response was to brand his plea as racist. But ministers reversed themselves when it became clear that Brash's message had a powerful political resonance across party lines.

Focuses on the announcement by Prime Minister Helen Clark of an early election in New Zealand. Division in the coalition government over support for the war against terrorism; Failure of Clark to gain an absolute majority under the country's system of proportional representation; Political parties which gained power in the election, including the United Future party.

Focuses on results of the November 27, 1999 election in New Zealand. Results for the Labour Party; Labour's partnership with the Alliance party; The National Party; Goals of the coalition government led by Labour's Helen Clark, including assistance to the poor and increase of top rates of personal income tax; Clark's background.

Looks at politics in New Zealand as of December 5, 1998. Deborah Morris' resignation from Parliament; Call for Prime Minister Jenny Shipley and her ruling National Party to step down and call an election; When elections are scheduled; Lead the opposition Labour Party has in the opinion polls.

Contends that it is unlikely that New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger will fire his unpopular finance minister, Ruth Richardson. How Richardson is identified with cuts in government spending, painful economic restructuring and recession; Cut in government spending; Parallels to Australian government; Voter revenge; Unemployment.

Reports on the mixed-member proportional representation (MMP) election system in New Zealand in the wake of Winston Peters, leader of the New Zealand First party announcing that they will leave the coalition government in August of 1998. Party walking out do to the plans to sell the government's stake in the Wellington airport; Prime Minster Jenny Shipley firing Peters as deputy prime minister; Public support for MMP.