[Little Bill]

Back ground???, for those of us who don't live in the antipodes

[shaggy eel]

,,, we have a left wing government here that's comprised of Labour, fragments of a squabling Alliance and thirdly, the Greens.

To the right is the NATIONAL Party (www.national.org.nz), which equates to something like centre-right Democrats. They're pro-US.

To the right of NATIONAL is ACT (www.act.org.nz) - even better than NATIONAL and the best hope for NZ's future.