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GOVERNMENT FORMATION COVERAGE:
Images: Top Jobs In NZ Signed Up At Govt House
Beneath an unsmiling portrait of Queen Victoria, a couple of likely lads in the shape of Winston Peters and Peter Dunne made up the numbers for the third successive Labour/Jim Anderton Government. The general vibe of the afternoon was cheery with Mr Peters flashing a magnificent smile as he went up for a handshake with the Governor-General. Mr Dunne looked pretty chuffed as well, his dreams no doubt filled with tax spreadsheets and plans for common sense revenue gathering. See... Smiles As Ministerial Employment Contracts Signed
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IMMEDIATE POST ELECTION COVERAGE:
Tze Ming Mok Reflects On Tilegate - Yellow Peril returns to Tilegate: Why? 1. Seeing bloggers use 'Taito' as Phillip Field's first name (it's a matai title guys) is driving me crazy. 2. My growing suspicion that I personally declined Sunan Siriwan refugee status to start with..... Public Address: My Part In Philip Field's Downfall. See also... Public Address 20/09/05 - Voters And Victors MORE POST ELECTION COMMENT:
An American Perspective On Democracy In Godzone & Germany - Over the weekend, two of the core industrialized nations voted in national elections, and they were joined by New Zealand, which, if it is not a major economic player, is still among the world's most advanced economies. The lens of left and right does not give a clear or accurate picture of what was, in fact, decided. Which was very little. See... Stirling Newberry: What's Left?
Gone By Lunchtime? ACT Says Brash Should Concede & Resign - ACT says: "Our advice to Don is to go now before the boys push him." It adds: "National ran a brilliant first past the post campaign. Unfortunately it was MMP. Don Brash is dreaming that he can form a coalition when he has eaten his allies. On the present results a National led government would have to rely on the Maori Party. Not credible. Our advice to Brash is to tell Murray McCully to stop plotting and concede that National cannot form a government even if the specials result in the Greens falling below the threshold." See
ACT Says Brash Should Concede Defeat
Scoop Audio & Images: Post-Election Cabinet Presser - Prime Minister Helen Clark held her first post election press conference in Wellington at 2pm today discussing how she expects coalition discussions to progress. The Prime Minister appeared confident that she would be able to scope out policy agreements with the five parties that Labour can deal with (Progressives, Greens, Maori, United Future and NZ First) following Saturday's General election. See... Pics & Audio: PM's Presser 19 September 2005Video, Post-Election Coverage: Helen Clark Faces The Media
Labour leader and caretaker prime minister, Helen Clark, held a press conference in Auckland Sunday to detail her views on how political parties ought to conduct post-election coalition talks over the next two weeks. Subjects include: stability, talks with centre-right/centre-left leaders, MMP (entire conference: approx 20 minutes). 
SCOOP VIDEO:Helen Clark Post-Election Press ConferenceSCOOP AUDIO: Helen Clark (Discusses post-election party talks.")ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE:
VIDEO NEWSFLASH: It's Labour By A Nose Now The Talking Begins - While technically the center-right and center-left remain tied on 61 seats each, Winston Peters' promise to support the party with the most seats looks likely to make Labour the Government come Monday morning. While Labour may soon stretch its lead to two over National breaking this deadlock the final result remains in play and up the post count talking. Three parties will now be closely watched. NZ First, The Maori Party and United Future. See... Video: Election05 Helen Clarks Speech @ Labour HQ
On The Night: Brash Arrives At Alexandra Park - National, with 49 seats, failed to achieve the highest number of MPs in the Parliament. However, its leader, Don Brash, did not concede defeat in Saturdays General Election. Labour will take 50 MPs into the new Parliament. See... Images: Don Brash At Nationals HQ AucklandALSO: ON THE NIGHT - NEWSFLASHES:
Election 2005 Images: - Winners n Losers... Former Labour MP John Tamihere spoke perhaps the most humble conceding speech to be found. In contrast, Labours Dover Samuels displayed a bitter and troubled rendition. Nationals Richard Worth seemed jollied presenting a rather oh well, never mind point of view. See... Images: Election Losers Tamihere, Samuels, Worth
Jason Dorday Images: Pilot Ditches Aircraft In Sea After Threats - A Piper Cherokee aircraft taken from Ardmore Aerodromes Massy University flying school crashed into the sea off Kohimarama beach Saturday night. Police allege the pilot had threatened to crash the aircraft into Aucklands Sky Tower. See... Images: Aircraft Threatens Attack On SkyTower Labour's Family Tax Relief Calculator
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Election Reporting and Commentary... final days
ELECTION BRIEFINGS - SCOOP TALKS TO THE PLAYERS:
Thrill Seeking Voters Ready To Play Election Russian Roulette - Just before the election A Week of It thought it worthwhile to leave the funny stuff (or at least attempts at funny stuff) and furnish the public with a transcript of an interview with Winston Peters conducted earlier this week. Mr Peters appeals to the gambler in voters the sorta person that likes a loaded .357 magnum pointed at their head the question is 'do you feel lucky punk well do ya'? See... A Week of It: Winston Peters IV TranscriptMORE SCOOP ELECTION BREIFINGS:
Informed Choice & Unfinished Business
STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning - Unfinished business: that's the feeling that remains as this election campaign comes to a close. Unfinished from a media point of view in that proper and in-depth analysis of National and Labour's social policy has yet to be concluded. Unfinished, in that Labour's brand of third-way government has not yet been fully tested. Unfinished too in that the polls show people have largely not made up their minds. And unfinished, in that National is again presenting policy that lingers from the 1990s that it suggests had not been embedded once and for all in the New Zealand lifestyle. See... Election Campaign Reporting & Unfinished BusinessA FEAST OF ELECTION EVE COMMENT:
Jon Johansson Digs Deep Into MMP Strategy - In a few days New Zealanders will go to the polls with our eclectic mix of motivations. Some of us will vote according to the party we identify most strongly with, or against, some of us will vote in self-interest, some will vote with their hearts, some will choose in anger, some in impatience, and others with ambivalence, perhaps even profoundly so given the nature of this desperate campaign. See... Dr Jon Johansson: On Treaty and Race. See also Ross Himona... Te Putatara: Racial PoliticsEARLIER SCOOP ELECTION COMMENT:
Letter From Elsewhere: The Brethren Problem - If you're reading this, you will certainly know by now that the Exclusive Brethren are running a hugely expensive anti-Green, anti-Labour, pro-National-in-everything-but-name leaflet smear campaign, which Don Brash has now belatedly admitted he knew about and enthusiastically welcomed. Two more leaflets are being delivered this week. See... Brash and the Brethren: The Real Problem MORE:
See also...FULL COVERAGE: Don Brash & The Excl. Brethren
The Moral Agenda Behind The Exclusive Brethren's Campaign - Scoop Investigates: Don, Civil Unions & The Exclusive Brethren - Last year Dr Don Brash after careful consideration of select committee submissions on the Civil Union Bill changed his mind on supporting the controversial legislation. Among the submitters on the Civil Union Bill are the names of three of the "secret seven" Exclusive Brethren who over the past few weeks have distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of pamphlets attacking the current Labour Government and the Green Party. See... Don Brash, Civil Unions & The Exclusive BrethrenALSO:
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Ian Powell: Physician Associates - A ‘Solution’ Desperately Searching For A Problem
Binoy Kampmark: Natural Resources And Palestinian Sovereignty - Israel’s Further Isolation
Martin LeFevre - Meditations: What Being “Inward Looking” Really Means
Binoy Kampmark: Blinken Atrocious In A Dangerous World
Jim Mikoz: Look Out Rocks … Oops Too Late
Peter Dunne: Dunne’s Weekly - National And Labour Combine To Shut Out Greens