Show momentum, take some risks – Nats in election year / Labour’s ‘new’ look / Ohariu – why it still matters / Refreshing the trade policy refresh / Urban development - progress in theory, stalling in practice? / White House headaches / Civil Defence review

Sept 23 election – the ‘tired’ vs ‘the vibe’ / The Maori Party overplays its hand / Two weeks of Trump / Marlborough Sounds headache / The Thiel citizenship / May reshuffle signals in PPS appointments?

Election year dynamics / The battle for support partners / Shane Jones plots his return to politics / Is globalisation dead? / NZ economy continues to buck the trend – robust for 2017 / Kiwi in the White House / 2017 forward programme

HVxtra: Bill English delivers small ‘c’ conservative Cabinet reshuffle

New Cabinet this Sunday / A revitalising process / Resignations mount, but Sept 23 still best election day bet / Ins and outs / Retirement policy / Aussie economy re-emerges as a risk / Merry Christmas

HVxtra: Implications of a Key resignation

Urgent quake law to speed SH1 repair / After-shocks to continue, but Wellington should be OK / Quake highlights RMA logjam / Fiscal room to manoeuvre intact / TPP is dead, long live RCEP / Political jockeying on the rise / Next edition of Hugovision: Dec 16

The Trump presidency: implications for NZ / ComCom finds claws for media mergers / Labour’s future – will it work? / Interest rates: surely this is the bottom / RMA – a bedraggled phoenix rises / Cometh the maverick / Trust law review

Mt Roskill – the by-election nobody wants / Cabinet rejuvenation / Maori Party selections / Another rate cut Nov / FTAs get harder and harder / A rough week for corporate NZ

RMA reform on thin ice / Labour’s party machine – better-oiled than expected / Would Nick Smith survive a Cabinet reshuffle? / Climate change initiative uniting Parliament / Another rate cut assuredImmigration helps deliver surplus – and options / Immigration helps deliver surplus – and options / Democrats may control the Senate