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Newstalk ZB brings you comprehensive coverage of Election 2026 - the policies, the issues, the debates, the personalities, and the results of New Zealand's general election.

1h ago

Christopher Luxon: Caretaker Prime Minister talks negotiations, APEC and outgoing MP's

The Caretaker Prime Minister has said that coalition negotiations won't happen until the final vote count is in. He said he's had conversations with Opportunity Leader Qiulae Wong and NZ First Leader Winston Peters, and they are in agreement to wait until the count is final. Christopher Luxon told Mike Hosking that in the meantime, he's been working on some 'life admin', and preparing for the APEC summit. "It's important for us to go to China because we've just had a record trade balance with two-way trade with them, $44 billion." LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
3h ago

Andrew Dickens: I blame the supermarket breakup for National's poor election result

I'm quite a fan of Herald journalist Kate MacNamara. I first noticed her business reporting, but she really stood out during Covid. She's the kind of reporter who digs through mountains of documents to uncover facts and hold politicians to account. Now she's done it again. In the Weekend Herald she wrote about advice obtained under the Official Information Act about National's election policy plan to break up the supermarket duopoly It found National's plan would only cut prices by about 1%. One report also advised that biosecurity rules and labour costs, like our high minimum wage, were bigger drivers of grocery prices. Yet only the advice supporting the policy was released publicly. Despite the warnings, National pressed ahead. Now this idea came at a big political cost. It unsettled traditional supporters, drove some voters towards ACT, and raised questions about National's commitment to personal property rights. That was the concern in the survey of the Mood of the Boardroom before the election and Harry Mowbray. If you want to appeal to the right, you don't threaten the sanctity of personal property rights And then we got the result. Christopher Luxon may still be claiming victory because National remained the largest party thanks to the overhang, but the election result was one of the party's worst. More importantly, it left many voters wondering what the National Party of 2026 actually stands for. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
22h ago

Peter Dunne: former Minister and commentator unpacks the 2026 election results

The 2026 election wrapped up last weekend, but there's still a lot of uncertainty around the results. Preliminary results show National, ACT and New Zealand First would be able to form a Government with just a one seat majority, but the Electoral Commission won't publish the final results until November 27th. Former Minister and commentator Peter Dunne says there's still a measure of doubt about who's really won, but it's likely Chris Luxon will be confirmed as the next Prime Minister at the end of the month. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1d ago

Nichole Lewis: Did this election change the value of your house?

The election result is still unclear, and we find ourselves in a bit of a limbo, but does it really matter when it comes to property investment? If you're buying a property you'll have for decades, there will be several government changes anyway, so why does it matter? CEO of The Property Lifestyle Nichole Lewis joins Tim Beveridge to discuss the impact of the election on the property market. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2d ago

Mark the Week: What's with the sore losers after the election?

At the end of each week, Mike Hosking takes you through the big-ticket items and lets you know what he makes of it all. The election: 7/10 Went to time on the night, roughly turned out how most thought, and the week of reckons and mad speculation has been in full flight. Opportunity: 8/10 Winner on the night and have conducted themselves sensibly so far. Losers: 4/10 Between the Greens, Hipkins, and any number of whiners, what is it with being a sore loser, and blaming MMP, and wanting reviews and rule changes? Jensen Huang: 1/10 The humiliation and the value destruction is next level. New world, but old habits. Liam Lawson: 7/10 At last! Not a moment too soon. LISTEN ABOVE FOR MIKE HOSKING'S FULL WEEK IN REVIEW See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2d ago

Mike’s Minute: Report card for week one, post election

I think week one post vote has gone pretty well, hasn’t it? Two to go and the coalition chinwags begin. These could be the real news. I have got from all sides the sense that: 1) The two smaller players are out for a way better deal 2) From National, they are well aware the smaller players are out for a way better deal It could be spicy. I've been disappointed in the moaning from the left. The left lost. Full stop. Accept it, take it, learn from it, and move on. Technically of course, it may turn miraculously their way. But I think the behaviour this week indicates even they don’t think it will. From Helen Clark and her omnipresent reckons, to any number of Greens who want to storm some barracks, to even poor, old Hipkins who fell down the rabbit hole of gerrymandering, not one of them knew how to be gracious. They are torching a system that produced nothing more than one of the myriad of results that is possible when you set rules around two votes with some geographic sectioning, a list, a weighting around said electorates and a threshold. But a different threshold if certain things happen in an electorate. When you start with that as your recipe, guess what? A lot of stuff can unfold and it did. Just because you don’t like the cake, it doesn’t mean you start again. I could be charitable to the left. One term Governments are rare and that’s before the math and pathway were always easier for the right . A left win would have been a boil over, so you fell short. Tough luck. The hypocrisy was bad too. A lot of attention on billionaires over manipulation, and yet scant regard for the Māori Party who did exactly the same thing. Chris Bishop said it was "soul destroying" – good reaction. Gerry Brownlee talked of kids and matches – not a good reaction. Vanessa Weenink lost her shit completely – shocking reaction. And as for Tamatha Paul on social media, it's not under 16s we need to be worried about. Rabid MPs should be banned as well. The good news is it will be alright in the end. A Government will be formed and the world is not over. In fact it may not even change that much. The All Blacks will win and we'll look at week two this time in seven days. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
3d ago

THE RE-WRAP: First Week of Nothing

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Friday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) Like Watching Margins Grow/Mark the Week/Robot Apocalypse Update/Update Update/Reinventing the Wheel See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
3d ago

Wrapping the Week with Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson: Election reckons, David Jones alternatives, NCEA exam crash

Friday has arrived, which means it's time for Kate Hawkesby and Tim Wilson to Wrap the Week that Was. This week they discussed the NCEA exam crash, gave their reckons in the wake of the election, and asked where Mike will shop now that David Jones is gone. LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Newstalk ZB brings you comprehensive coverage of Election 2026 - the policies, the issues, the debates, the personalities, and the results of New Zealand's general election.