Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

This site has information about the role of the department, current cabinet members and the New Zealand Honours registry.

Politics collection – NZ On Screen

An excellent collection of politics-related documentaries, interviews and even cartoons and a music video, from NZ On Screen. Includes material on a number of prime ministers.

Premiers and prime ministers

This page on NZhistory.net.nz has historical information about former leaders of New Zealand.

Bassett, Michael. Tomorrow comes the song: a life of Peter Fraser. Auckland: Penguin, 2000.

Grant, Ian F. Public lives: New Zealand’s premiers and prime ministers 1856–2003. Wellington: New Zealand Cartoon Archive, 2003.

Gustafson, Barry. His way: a biography of Robert Muldoon. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2000.

Gustafson, Barry. Kiwi Keith: a biography of Keith Holyoake. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.

Gustafson, Barry. Michael Joseph Savage. Wellington: Reed, 1968.

Johansson, Jon. Two titans: Muldoon, Lange and leadership. Wellington: Dunmore Publishing, 2005.

Johansson, Jon. The politics of possibility: leadership in changing times. Wellington: Dunmore, 2009.

Sinclair, Keith. Walter Nash. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1976.