Stories by Peter Wilson

Analysis - National's Christopher Luxon moves to defuse a potentially vote-losing disaster, the Health Minister's problems keep piling up and the PM speaks at a NATO summit and unveils an historic…

Analysis - A health 'crisis' is the latest of the government's cascading problems, the Gib board shortage is elevated to ministerial taskforce level and the new police minister gets to work.

Politics this week was like a jigsaw puzzle with two pieces - National ramped up its law and order campaign, the PM responded and the casualty was the police minister. Here's what the big picture…

Is Poto Williams's job in jeopardy as public concern builds over gang violence? That issue as well as health restructuring legislation and the PM in Sydney feature in the Week In Politics.

Analysis - The prime minister meets the US president in the White House and China doesn't get all it wanted from Pacific countries.

Analysis - The PM visits the US, Australia's change of government raises questions about its effect on trans-Tasman relations and China moves to extend its influence in the South Pacific.

Analysis - It was the government's biggest week of the year with the Budget and the Emissions Reduction Plan coming out, and neither was given much of a welcome, Peter Wilson writes.

Analysis: The PM reveals when the border will reopen and the Police Minister announces a pre-budget law and order boost, but David Seymour steals the show at question time.

Analysis - National gains ground in another poll that shows the Māori Party could hold the balance of power after the next election.

Analysis - The government steps over a line as it sends weapons to Ukraine, albeit indirectly. Louisa Wall fires a broadside as she leaves Parliament and some MPs blunder their way through the week.

Analysis - The PM decides the country will stay in red for a while longer, the government ramps up sanctions against Russia but the opposition wants more, and Ashley Bloomfield resigns.

Analysis - Peter Wilson looks back at the week that was with China and Solomon Islands' draft security agreement, the controversial fair pay legislation, and David Seymour's "bottom line". Audio

Week in Politics: The Prime Minister announces a significant easing of Covid-19 restrictions - but she doesn't please everyone - and New Zealand offers non-lethal military aid to Ukraine.

Analysis - Tourists will soon be back, the government cuts the price of petrol to ease the pain at the pump and National loses one of its most experienced MPs.

Analysis - Christopher Luxon's attacks on the government over the cost of living and his promise to cut taxes pays off as National overtakes Labour in the latest poll.

Analysis - An end to MIQ allows Kiwis to come home, the government reacts to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the big clean up begins after the occupation of Parliament's grounds.

Analysis - Another week of protest politics, with Primie Minister Jacinda Ardern describing National leader Christopher Luxon's comments as "dangerously close to sympathy".

Analysis - Opposition parties gang up on Speaker Trevor Mallard over his reaction to the protesters, David Seymour upsets the prime minister by talking to them and a dialogue deal is rejected.

Analysis - A "reset" National Party takes on the government during Parliament's first week, but protests outside on the grounds dominate the media; and another poll shows National gaining ground.

Analysis - It's a mid-term year and the government has huge projects to progress as it faces what is potentially the worst Covid-19 crisis during its time in office, Peter Wilson writes.

Analysis - Parliament's final week was marked by decisions on traffic light settings, a scathing report on rents paid by MSD, and fresh revelations around MPs behaving badly, writes Peter Wilson.

Analysis - Christopher Luxon goes head-to-head with Jacinda Ardern; the government unveils a new strategy to combat family and sexual violence; and a world-leading plan to ban tobacco sales is…

Analysis - The traffic lights are switched on and New Zealanders are finding their way into the new Covid-19 era. The vaccination rate nudges 90 percent and National's new leader sets off a media…

Analysis - Judith Collins loses the National Party leadership after disciplining Simon Bridges, the prime minister sets 3 December as "freedom day" and there's a mixed reaction to plans for re-opening…