Jane Patterson is RNZ political editor.
The government's books are now expected to go into the red this financial year with a forecast deficit of $900 million, down from a budget forecast surplus of $1.3 billion.
The prime minister is in Thailand for the East Asia Summit. Jane Patterson sets the scene.
In 10 years of public documents from both the SIS and the GCSB, there are zero mentions of right wing extremism, writes Jane Patterson for RNZ.
After happily attacking the government on capital gains tax for the past few weeks, Simon Bridges finds himself again on the back foot
Jami Lee-Ross’s secret recording may not contain a smoking gun on party donations, but the comments about ethnicity and his own MPs leave National's leader on shaky ground
You'd have to go to back to the Lange-Douglas meltdown in the late 1980s for anything that comes close.
The government will welcome the unexpectedly large surplus, but it brings with it a heap of extra pressure from all sides
The leak of a report into allegations of an assault by the Labour MP on a staffer has sparked another probe. Who might have leaked it, and what does it mean for Jacinda Ardern
The ongoing saga around leaked details of the National leader's transport spending reveals a party with serious internal problems
The stakes are high after Trevor Mallard's announcement of an inquiry into how the opposition leader's travel costs became public.
It was always in his interests to keep things stable, and Peters proved to be at his pin-striped best
As the Labour Party goes into overdrive in an effort to acknowledge its woeful response to sexual assault claims at a youth camp, RNZ's Jane Patterson looks at the political mess that's been left in its wake.
