In New Zealand’s bellwether seat, what are locals thinking as a knife-edge poll looms?

31. Oktober 2026 um 00:15

When the Guardian visited the Maungakiekie electorate, two themes emerge: a grudging fealty to the National party and growing support for minor parties

It’s a hot spring day in the Auckland suburb of Onehunga, and the main strip is starting to hum with life. Builders slip into a bakery for a snack, retirees chat over coffee outside cafes and a shoeless man zips by on a scooter.

There are few signs New Zealand’s general election is looming along this shopping strip but Onehunga and neighbouring suburbs that make up the electorate Maungakiekie, will be closely watched when New Zealand heads to the polls on 7 November.

Judy Gumbo, Who Found Freedom as a Yippie, Dies at 83

NYT > U.S. News

Von: Richard Sandomir

19. September 2026 um 21:20

She was part of the leftist radical group, which mocked institutional authority with political satire and street theater.

Judy Gumbo in 1971, with Stew Albert, left, and Jerry Rubin. “I don’t remember the scary as much as I remember the empowerment,” she later said of protests that drew the ire of police.

Conservatives around world at war against ‘leftwing globalists’, Bridget McKenzie tells CPAC London event

The Guardian

Von: Nicola Slawson in London and Tom McIlroy Political editor

19. Juli 2026 um 00:37

Nationals senator echoes comments by Pauline Hanson as Labor criticises One Nation leader’s divisive stance

The National party’s Senate leader, Bridget McKenzie, has used an appearance at a conference of the populist right in London to declare that conservatives are “in a war” against mass immigration, “leftwing globalists” and “woke” institutions, and to urge rightwing movements across the English-speaking world to unite and fight back.

McKenzie was speaking at the inaugural CPAC GB in London, a British spinoff of the influential US Conservative Political Action Conference, organised by the former British prime minister Liz Truss. She gave a speech on Saturday morning before appearing on a panel chaired by Truss, alongside other rightwing figures.

Tourists to Australia would have social media accounts vetted under Trumpian Coalition plan

The Guardian

Von: Tom McIlroy Political editor

13. April 2026 um 13:30

In hardline rhetoric, opposition leader Angus Taylor also says ‘many’ prospective migrants would be a ‘net drain’ on the country

A Coalition government would end Australia’s non-discriminatory immigration program and introduce Trump-style social media vetting for visa applicants, as Angus Taylor accuses Labor of allowing migrants of “subversive intent” into the country.

As the opposition loses support to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Taylor says too many people seek to use Australia’s generosity “for self-serving purposes”, promising to speed up rejections of asylum seekers from countries deemed safe to return to.

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