We are not alone: The end of the Westminster model?
(Via Open Democracy) Patrick Dunleavy from the LSE has written a post on the decline of the “Westminster model”: For the first time in history, the Australian outcome means that every key ‘Westminster model’ country in the world now has [...]
"He can't tell a kiwi from a kangaroo"
Tony Abbott’s been claiming again that New Zealand is an object lesson in why we don’t need the level of economic stimulus delivered by the Rudd government. Abbott, who said in an interview in 2003 that he found economics a [...]
Prince William comes to town
A number of the commenters on the earliest political memories thread recalled having been taken as schoolkids to see Her Maj, and a number of us also recalled weird little pledges and scratchy recordings of ‘God Save the Queen’ being [...]
Comparing FOI regimes: NZ vs Australia
A couple of years ago I wanted to trace the government’s decision-making process on how forestry and agriculture would be included in its then-planned (and now “suspended”) Emissions Trading Scheme. So I wrote to the Minister and asked. Within a [...]
LP augmented!
As some may have already noticed, we’ve been joined on an ongoing basis by our two resident NZ election bloggers – Deborah of In a strange land and Idiot/Savant of No Right Turn. [Among other things, we're hoping to promote [...]
Greens back in the spotlight after the WA election?
With all the attention on the role of Brendon Grylls and the Nationals as the kingmakers in the WA election result, the improvement in the Greens’ vote has slipped under the radar somewhat. Counting subsequent to election night has seen [...]
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