Coalitions start after the elections, not before...

Writer Peter Wilson doesn't know squat. Coalitions begin AFTER the election, not before. It doesn't help the Nats all. They will continue to talk the crap they have talked for the last six years. The Nats will be unlikely to put a coalition together; the GG will then ask the opposition to put a coalition together. Labour and the Greens will commence talking when the election results are known