Tomorrow's New Zealand election is too close to call, but the centre-right government looks to have its nose in front.
Category: Oceania
New Zealand a week out
New Zealand votes on the same weekend as Germany, with some interesting similarities and contrasts.
Left falls short in Norway
Norway's government is returned, partly due to the electoral system. Next stop, New Zealand and Germany.
Election preview: Papua New Guinea
A chaotic election in Papua New Guinea represents, among other things, the failings of Australian colonialism.
Fiji, and the enabling of democracy’s enemies
Julie Bishop visits Fiji, apparently finding no cause for concern in a military ruler approaching ten years in office. And we wonder why voters seem to be giving up on democracy.
New Zealand sticks with the centre-right
New Zealand prime minister John Key has been comfortably re-elected, but his country's voting system makes the result very different from what we would see in Australia.
Nauru – a political system in miniature
Nauru elected a new parliament on Saturday, with a record number of candidates and an unusually high turnover among MPs. Being Nauru, however, the numbers are all very small.
A new old president for Polynesia
Veteran anti-independence leader Gaston Flosse is back in charge in French Polynesia, but ongoing corruption charges mean that his tenure is far from assured.
French Polynesia to vote for stability
French Polynesia votes next week in the second round of an election designed to end a long period of instability. It looks like returning the controversial Gaston Flosse to the top job.
New Zealand gets ahead again
New Zealand votes for marriage equality, with a bit more partisanship than you'd guess from the media reports.
The World is Not Enough 