September 09, 2013
Lessons taken from Australian election
The New Zealand Labour Party has taken time off from its leadership contest to consider the beating its counterpart over the Tasman has taken at the hands of Tony Abbot and his Liberal National Party coalition.
Hauraki Waikato MP Nanaia Mahuta says there are lessons to be learned from Kevin Rudd’s failure to win his Labour party a third term.
"Some comparison may be made with New Zealand Labour to the extent the perceived internal conflict did them in, and they left it too late in terms of a leadership change prior to the election. More relevant I suspect is a mood for change. That may play positively in Labour's favour because certainly on the ground here in New Zealand there is a mood for change," she says.
Ms Mahuta says National’s failure to create jobs in the region could hurt it at election time.
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