Coalition of chaos

In New Zealand politics, the phrase "coalition of chaos" was widely used during the 2023 New Zealand general election campaign. The phrase was a pejorative term used primarily by Christopher Luxon, Leader of the New Zealand National Party to describe a potential left-wing coalition that Prime Minister Chris Hipkins of the New Zealand Labour Party might have formed after the election with the major progressive third parties, Te Pāti Māori and the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Since the election, "coalition of chaos" and similar pejoratives like the "three-headed taniwha" have primarily been used by the opposition and some media commentators in reference to the resulting right-wing National–ACT–New Zealand First government that formed upon National emerging as the largest party after the election.

Chris Hipkins occasionally used variants of the term, such as "coalition of cuts", to emphasise National's austerity measures in its partnership with ACT New Zealand, and the New Zealand First parties. The Green Party has used the term 'coalition of cruelty' in response to policies such as evicting state housing tenants and reducing benefits, which punish the most vulnerable and exacerbate poverty and homelessness.