Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/politics

The WikiProject on New Zealand politics is a

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The scope of the project is government and politics, both current and historical, from national to local level. It includes the legislative, elections, referenda, opinion polls, the public service, the judiciary and law. Regional, city and district councils are included. People such as MPs, activists and councillors are included. In other words, all articles that are in Category:Politics of New Zealand or any of its subcategories fall within the project scope.

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The relevant category shows the membership.

2023 New Zealand general election

• Work on articles for likely new MPs; refer to the relevant sub-page.
• Results templates for parliamentary parties, non-parliamentary parties, and electorate results.
• Work on
  Candidates in the New Zealand general election 2023 by electorate and Party lists in the 2023 New Zealand general election
  .
• Go to campaign events, take photos, and upload them to Commons.
• Help with getting candidate photos through the parties themselves
• Add to 54th New Zealand Parliament and Sixth National Government of New Zealand articles.
• Fix broken links to electorate profiles (in "External links" sections; may be in Refs too) in electorate articles.

Infoboxes, parlboxes and succession boxes

All MPs should eventually have Infoboxes, parlboxes and succession boxes.

can be used to generate lists, and here are the links to regenerate the results, and counts at various points in time:

Group	4 Sep 2010	20 Jan 2011	16 Aug 2011	29 Sep 2011	22 Dec 2011	8 Feb 2012	12 Mar 2012	13 Apr 2012	26 Jun 2012	18 Aug 2012
All MPs recursive	1336	1368	1370	1368	1394	1394	1395	1396	1396	1391
Missing Infobox person/officeholder	978	988	980	974	969	958	954	952	947	940
Missing NZ parlbox	886	851	829	791	745	611	527	353	266	151
Missing succession boxes	1106	977	846	832	838	772	760	740	708	607

Parlboxes are all done.

Group	1 Dec 2012	6 May 2013	17 Jun 2015	8 Dec 2016
Missing Infobox person/officeholder	926	922	870	766
Missing succession boxes	567	419	341	315

As you can see, there's a fair chunk of work yet to be done, but there's certainly movement.

Assessment

Assessment results in articles are included in the above table. Article class and politics importance are the aspects to be assessed:

• Add{{
  WPNZ
  }} to the talk pages of articles that come under WikiProject New Zealand's scope.
• Articles that come under this politics task force's scope should have |politics=yes included in the WPNZ template. Importance to this task force can be defined by including and filling in the politics-importance= parameter.
• For example, for a start class article of low importance for WPNZ, but mid importance for the politics project, the full template entry would look like this: {{WPNZ|class=start|importance=low|politics=yes|politics-importance=mid}}. See WP:WikiProject New Zealand/Assessment for more information.
• All existing articles should have had the |politics=yes added to them; we achieved this through a bot run in July 2010.
• New articles created since need to have the parameters added manually.
• If you find a category where the articles fall within the scope of this project, but the politics parameters are missing, please leave a note on the
  project talk page
  .

The above table updates itself about daily. It's done by a bot, so if you have just assessed an article, the table itself will not change immediately.

Categorisation

The following category stubs can be added to stub articles:

• Government {{NewZealand-gov-stub}}
• Politics {{NewZealand-poli-stub}}
• Politicians {{NewZealand-politician-stub}}
  • Labour Party politicians {{NewZealand-Labour-politician-stub}}
  • National Party politicians {{NewZealand-National-politician-stub}}
  • Liberal Party politicians {{NewZealand-Liberal-politician-stub}}

Other stub types are also available.

Other tasks

• Party lists in New Zealand general elections

• Party lists in the 1996 New Zealand general election
• Party lists in the 1999 New Zealand general election; requires formatting to the same templates as the other articles
• Party lists in the 2002 New Zealand general election; requires formatting to the same templates as the other articles
• Party lists in the 2005 New Zealand general election

• Expand stub articles or reassess if appropriate (and if it's no longer a stub, remove the stub template).
• Complete the list of New Zealand by-elections (articles listed below have a complete list of by-elections by term that can be transferred; where this has been done, those articles are struck out):
  • By-elections for 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th New Zealand Parliament's completed. By-elections for the 14th | 15th | 16th | and 17th New Zealand Parliaments are partially complete with all by-elections and dates listed – they need party affiliation, Incumbent, Cause & Winner fields to be completed.
  • Using new templates for NZ electorates & by-elections — see politics talk page
• Candidates in New Zealand general elections (since 1996); new articles (see Category:Lists of New Zealand political candidates and cf Candidates in the 1999 New Zealand general election by electorate):

• Candidates in the 1996 New Zealand general election by electorate
• Candidates in the 2002 New Zealand general election by electorate

• Work on electorate articles, filling in election results from 1999 to 2008 using {{MMP election box}} and referencing from http://electionresults.govt.nz
• Fix external links to http://electionresults.govt.nz in electorate and other NZ articles – URLs such as 2008.electionresults.govt.nz are deprecated to http://electionresults.org.nz/electionresults_2008 (110 cases) – see also 2005 (46) and 2002 (6) , 1999 (2) and 1996 (2)
• Write articles about the missing referendums: NB: There are no redlinks on the New Zealand elections template but are there some redirects that require an article?
• Write articles about the missing by-elections
• Deal with maintenance templates
• Write a history of the Official cash rate. There is currently information about the definition, but not how the value of cash rate changed throughout history and why.

MPs for New Zealand electorates by location

At present the category Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives by electorate has subcategories for the South Island with further subcategories for Christchurch and Dunedin electorates, and subcategories for the North Island with a subcategory for Auckland electorates only.

• Should the Auckland category be for the Auckland Region, not Auckland as at present? Probably not?
• Should the Wellington category be for Wellington City only, or for Wellington Region (including the Hutt Valley, Kapiti and the Wairarapa?)
• Probably Wellington (City) only; in which case there should be a third North Island subcategory of MPs for Hutt Valley electorates.

Are any further subcategories required for other North Island urban areas, e.g. Hamilton. Probably not, as there have only been two Hamilton electorates (Hamilton, then Hamilton East and Hamilton West)? Hugo999 (talk) 09:52, 9 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Review articles

• List of electoral firsts in New Zealand, partly based on List of electoral firsts in the United Kingdom but with wider coverage of MPs and ministers generally. Hugo999 (talk) 03:40, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mayors of New Zealand cities

We should have lists of mayors for the cities in New Zealand, and eventually for the districts and regions. The following table shows that all the city articles have been done, though some may require additions or revision. The populations given are the Statistics New Zealand estimated resident population (June 2018).^[1] A Template:Mayors in New Zealand is included under resources below.

Mayor of city	Council population	First proclaimed	Ranking (size)	Notes
Mayor of Auckland	1,570,100	2010	1
Mayor of North Shore City		1989	5
Mayor of Waitakere City		1989	6
Mayor of Auckland City		1871	2
Mayor of Manukau City		1965	4
Mayor of Hamilton	165,900	1936	8
Mayor of Tauranga	140,800	1963	10
Mayor of Napier	64,100	1950	13
Mayor of Palmerston North	87,300	1930	12
Mayor of Porirua	58,200	1965	15	mayor of Porirua
Mayor of Upper Hutt	45,300	1966	17	Upper Hutt mayors
Mayor of Lower Hutt	107,600	1941	11	History of Lower Hutt, History timeline
Mayor of Wellington	209,000	1870	7
Mayor of Nelson	52,400	1874	16	Nelson mayors up to 1903
Mayor of Christchurch	380,200	1868	3
Mayor of Dunedin	130,500	1865	9
Mayor of Invercargill	55,800	1930	14	mayors of Invercargill up to 1905

Some tasks have been completed. Below is a timeline of achievements:

• Jan 2010 – all electorates have their own article
• Jul 2010 – all politics articles have been identified through adding politics=yes to the WPNZ tag
• Nov 2010 – all politics articles have been assessed for importance and class
• Dec 2010 – all MPs have their own article
• Mar 2012 – all cities now have a list article for their mayors
• Dec 2012 – all MP articles have a parlbox
• Dec 2012 – all nth Parliament articles have been published
• Aug 2013 – all MLCs have their own article
• Jan 2019 – all by-elections have their own article
• Aug 2023 – all Wellington mayoral elections have their own article

Note that you can watchlist these alerts: Categories for discussion

• 24 Apr 2024 – Category:Rātana MPs (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Apr 2024 – Category:Rātana politicians (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 22 Mar 2021 – Westland County (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Schwede66 (t · c); see discussion

• Liberal Government of New Zealand
• Reform Government of New Zealand
• United Government of New Zealand
• United-Reform coalition Government of New Zealand
• First Labour Government of New Zealand
• First National Government of New Zealand
• Second Labour Government of New Zealand
• Second National Government of New Zealand
• Third Labour Government of New Zealand
• Third National Government of New Zealand
• Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand
• Fourth National Government of New Zealand
• Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand
• Fifth National Government of New Zealand
• Sixth Labour Government of New Zealand

New Zealand ministries

See

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For more on media of current politicians, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/Content task force#Photos of Current Politicians.

Wikipedia

Terms of the New Zealand Parliament

1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th 21st | 22nd | 23rd | 24th | 25th 26th | 27th | 28th | 29th | 30th 31st | 32nd | 33rd | 34th | 35th 36th | 37th | 38th | 39th | 40th 41st | 42nd | 43rd | 44th | 45th 46th | 47th | 48th | 49th | 50th 51st | 52nd | 53rd | 54th

Current Political Parties.

Parties no longer in existence. When working with parties, please refer to the page on colours and other meta attributes. And if you need to define a new party colour, there's a helpful page that has a whole bunch of different shades. If you need a hand with that work (it's a bit complex), leave a call for help on the talk page.

Mayors in New Zealand – note that all fields needed have been created, but most is commented out, as we would otherwise have a sea of redlinks.

Internet

• New Zealand Acts As Enacted

Books

• ISBN 0-86870-006-1
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• Boston, Jonathan, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth McLeay, and Nigel S. Roberts, eds. New Zealand Under MMP: A New Politics? Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1996.
• Boston, Jonathan, Stephen Levine, Elizabeth McLeay, and Nigel S. Roberts, eds. From Campaign to Coalition: New Zealand's First General Election Under Proportional Representation. Palmerston North: The Dunmore Press, 1997.
• Clifton, Jane (2005). Political Animals: Confessions of a Parliamentary Zoologist. Auckland: Penguin Books.
  ISBN 9780143019640
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• ISBN 9781988533223
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• Lipson, Leslie (2011) [1948]. The Politics of Equality: New Zealand’s Adventures in Democracy. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
  ISBN 978-0-86473-646-8
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• Hayward, Janine, Greaves, Lara, & Timperley, Claire: Government and Politics in Aotearoa and New Zealand (2021) (7th ed.). Oxford University Press.
• McLeay, Elizabeth, ed. The 1990 General Election: Perspectives on Political Change in New Zealand. Wellington: Occasional Publication No.3, Department of Politics, Victoria University of Wellington, 1991.
• McRobie, Alan (1989). New Zealand Electoral Atlas. Wellington: GP Books.
  ISBN 0-477-01384-8
  .
• Martin, John E. (2004). The House: New Zealand's House of Representatives 1854-2004. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
  ISBN 9780864694638
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• Miller, Raymond (2005). Party Politics in New Zealand. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
  ISBN 9780195584134
  .
• Milne, Robert Stephen (1966). Political Parties in New Zealand.
  Clarendon Press
  . pp. 299–303.
• Norton, Clifford (1988). New Zealand Parliamentary Election Results 1946–1987: Occasional Publications No 1, Department of Political Science. Wellington: Victoria University of Wellington.
  ISBN 0-475-11200-8
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• ISBN 9780868681474
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• Siegfried, Andre. Democracy in New Zealand. Translated by E. V. Burns. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1982 [1914].
• Wilson, James Oakley (1985) [First published in 1913]. New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 (4th ed.). Wellington: V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer.
  OCLC 154283103
  .
• Wolfe, Richard (2005). Battlers Bluffers and Bully-boys: How New Zealand's Prime Ministers Have Shaped Our Nation.
  ISBN 1-86941-715-1
  .

Labour

• ISBN 0-908564-35-X
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• ISBN 0-14-029793-6
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• ISBN 1-86971-094-0
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• Bates, Peter (1975). Labour 40 years on : New Zealand Labour Party 1935-1975. Wellington: INL Print.
  OCLC 2543410
  .
• Brown, Bruce (1962). The Rise of New Zealand Labour: A history of the New Zealand Labour Party. Wellington: Price Milburn.
  OCLC 5464338
  .
• ISBN 9780864693235
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• ISBN 9780864693945
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• ISBN 9781877399107
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• ISBN 978-1-98854-785-5
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• ISBN 0-908988-20-6
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• Franks, Peter; McAloon, Jim (2016). Labour: The New Zealand Labour Party 1916-2016. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
  ISBN 978-1-77656-074-5
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• ISBN 0-86473-478-6
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• Garnier, Tony; Kohn, Bruce;
  OCLC 5288883
  .
• Gee, David (1977). Our Mabel. Wellington: Millwood Press.
  ISBN 9780908582020
  .
• Gee, David (1993). My Dear Girl: A biography of Elizabeth and James McCombs. Christchurch: Treehouse.
  ISBN 0-473-02084-X
  .
• Grant, David (2014). The Mighty Totara: The life and times of Norman Kirk. Auckland:
  ISBN 9781775535799
  .
• Grant, David (2022). Anderton: His Life and Times. Wellington: Te Herenga Waka University Press.
  ISBN 9781776920563
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• ISBN 0-19-647986-X
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• ISBN 0-474-00138-5
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• Hayward, Margaret (1981). Diary of the Kirk Years. Auckland/Christchurch: Reed/Cape Catley.
  ISBN 0-589-01350-5
  .
• Henderson, John (1981). Rowling: The Man and the Myth. Christchurch: Fraser Books.
  ISBN 0-908620-03-9
  .
• Hobbs, Leslie (1967). The Thirty-Year Wonders. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs.
  OCLC 459718
  .
• Jamieson, Rosemary (2009). In Command: Minesweeper captain & Labour parliamentarian Phil Connolly. Wellington: Steele Roberts.
  ISBN 978-1-877448-81-2
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• ISBN 0-670-04556-X
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• Logan, Mary (2008). Nordy: Arnold Nordmeyer: A Political Biography. Wellington: Steele Roberts.
  ISBN 978-1-877448-33-1
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• Mackenzie, Craig (1975). Walter Nash, Pioneer and Prophet. Dunmore Press.
  OCLC 2491395
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• OCLC 5576697
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• Parussini, Peter (2020). Believer: Conversations with Mike Moore. Auckland: Upstart Press.
  ISBN 978-1-990003-04-2
  .
• OCLC 4362774
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• Phillips, Hazel (2014). Wild Westie: the incredible life of Bob Harvey. Auckland: Penguin.
  ISBN 9780143569770
  .
• ISBN 978 0 473 190255
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• ISBN 0-19-647949-5
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• Thorn, James (1952). Peter Fraser: New Zealand's Wartime Prime Minister. London: Odhams Press.
• Welch, Denis (2009). Helen Clark: A Political Life. Auckland: Penguin Books.
  ISBN 9780143202417
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• ISBN 9781988587844
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• ISBN 9780046410490
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• ISBN 978-0958240130.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  )

National

• Belshaw, Sheila M. (1979). Man of Integrity: A Biography of Sir Clifton Webb. Palmerston North: Dunmore Press.
  ISBN 0908564414
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• ISBN 0-670-88369-7
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• ISBN 9781775541967
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• ISBN 9780864692917
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• ISBN 9780864694362
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• ISBN 9780864694652
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• ISBN 9781877399336
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• ISBN 9781988547510
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• Doughty, Ross A. (1977). The Holyoake Years. Fielding.
  OCLC 4464822.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  )
• ISBN 9781991006103
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• ISBN 0-474-00177-6
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• ISBN 978-1-86940-236-5
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• ISBN 978-1-86940-400-0
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• OCLC 1015320124
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• ISBN 0-908812-69-8
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• ISBN 0-14-301967-8
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• ISBN 978-0-00-217202-8
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• ISBN 1-86950-003-2
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• ISBN 978-0589008734
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• ISBN 0-589-01087-5
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• ISBN 0-589-01385-8
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• Tattersfield, Brad (2020). Bill Birch: Minister of Everything. Mary Egan Publishing.
  ISBN 9780473501976
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• ISBN 1-86940-128-X
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• Vance, Andrea (2022). Blue Blood : The Inside Story of the National Party in Crisis. HarperCollins.
  ISBN 9781775542155
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• Watts, Gwen (1969). A Husband in the House. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs.
  OCLC 100303
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• OCLC 5288861
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Liberal

• ISBN 1-86940-079-8
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• Brooking, Tom (2014). Richard Seddon: King of God's Own.
  ISBN 9780143569671
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• Burdon, Randal Mathews (1955). King Dick: A Biography of Richard John Seddon. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs.
• Hall-Jones, Frederick G. (1969). Sir William Hall-Jones, The Last of the Old Liberals. Invercargill: Hall-Jones and Sons.
• OCLC 18420103
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• Loughnan, Robert Andrew (1929). The Remarkable Life Story of Sir Joseph Ward: 40 Years a Liberal. New Century Press.
• McIvor, Timothy (1989). The Rainmaker: A Biography of John Ballance. Auckland: Reed.
  ISBN 0-7900-0024-5
  .
• Seddon, T.E.Y. (1968). The Seddons, An Autobiography. Auckland, London: Collins.
• Sinclair, Keith (1965). William Pember Reeves: New Zealand Fabian. Auckland: Oxford University Press.
• Sinclair, Keith (1967). The Liberal Government, 1891–1912: First Steps Towards a Welfare State. Auckland: Oxford University Press.

Reform

• ISBN 1-86940-117-4
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• Stewart, William Downie (1937). The Right Honourable Sir Francis H.D. Bell, P.C., G.C.M.G., K.C. : his life and times. Wellington, [N.Z.]: Butterworth.
• Farland, Bruce (2009). Farmer Bill: William Ferguson Massey & the Reform Party. Wellington: First Edition Publishers.
• Farland, Bruce (1995). Coates' tale: war hero, politician, statesman, Joseph Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925–1928. Wellington, [N.Z.]: B. Farland.
  ISBN 0-473-03182-5
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• Scholefield, Guy H. (1925). The Right Honourable William Ferguson Massey, M.P., P.C., Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1912–1925: a personal biography. Wellington, [N.Z.]: Harry H. Tombs.
• Watson, James, and Lachy Paterson, eds. A Great New Zealand Prime Minister? Reappraising William Ferguson Massey (2010), essays by scholars

Greens

• Browning, Clare (2012). Beyond today : a Values story. Wellington.
  ISBN 978-0-47320-955-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  )
• Chamberlain, Jenny (2017). Constant radical : the life and times of Sue Bradford. Masterton, New Zealand: Fraser Books.
  ISBN 9780994136008
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• ISBN 9781988547831
  .

NZ First

• Hames, Martin (1995). Winston First: The Unauthorised Account of Winston Peters' Career. Auckland: Random House.
  ISBN 1869412575
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• ISBN 978-0994106414.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
  )

Social Credit

• ISBN 0-908564-73-2
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• Sheppard, Michael (1981). Social Credit Inside and Out. Dunedin: Caveman Publications.
  ISBN 0-908562-56-X
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• ISBN 0-86464-025-0
  .

Articles

• Boston, Jonathan, Stephen Church, and Hilary Pearse. "Explaining the Demise of the National-New Zealand First Coalition." Australian Journal of Political Science 39, no. 3 (2004): 585-603.
• James, Colin. "Comment: Ten Prime Ministers." Political Science 56, no. 2 (2004): 5–10.

A number of other countries have similar articles to which we can compare to.

• Australia – articles such as
  First Howard Ministry list Cabinet ministers etc., but have little else. There is substantial information on the actual policies etc. at John Howard#Prime Minister
  .
• United States of America – substantial articles such as
  George W. Bush's first term as President of the United States
  . Major outlay of policy, election, scandals, responses to international events.
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland – No article equivalent, instead major detail on each PMs page (see Tony Blair for instance) and a separate list of ministers (see Blair Ministry for instance).