About $70,000 was raised for Act in election year.

The current immigration debate is "farcical", the Act Party says.

Cross-party group urges condemnation of brutality against gay men

RMA reforms will take NZ "down a racially divisive abyss", Winston Peters says.

Security among the reasons cited for cancellation of Muslim critic's tour.

Nick Smith says criticism of iwi powers in RMA reforms are "a nonsense."

Major reforms to the Resource Management Act are finally ready to progress.

Proposed changes to superannuation in New Zealand have inflamed resentment between Baby boomers and younger generations.

The Prime Minister's proposal to lift the retirement age has been rejected by National's likely coalition partners and opponents.

Isaac Davison takes the pulse of the parties to reveal who is in good health and who is a dead man walking.

"If anyone thinks it is going to be safe after this election, then they had better think again," The NZ First leader says.

David Seymour is on a mission to rebuild the Act Party.

Gareth Morgan has accused the Act Party of gunning for his political party by making petty complaints about its election campaign and party rules.

The Government remains unconvinced about a proposal to put a cap on how much money households can borrow for a mortgage.

Resignations by MPs has been pronounced since MMP began in 1996, of both of list and constituency MPs.

David Seymour has disputed claims charter schools have been inflating their NCEA exam results.

Labour MP Louisa Wall says her proposed law change to legalise assisted dying in New Zealand will not go into the private member's bill ballot.

Property and farming rich listers are among those who have made big donations to National over the past year.

Judith Collins will not be drawn on whether police acted illegally when targeting euthanasia advocates.

Police have admitted setting up a drink-drive checkpoint near a euthanasia meeting.

COMMENT: Spring has arrived and National's self-appointed canary is trilling with gleeful abandon. That canary is Act leader David Seymour.

Former National Party leader Don Brash says a new anti-separatist campaign may end up donating to one of his old enemies, New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.

COMMENT: Act's demand to do away with a Minister for Women shows how out of touch the party is with reality.

The Green Party is the first party to include a voluntary euthanasia policy in its manifesto.

A brief liaison with a man she didn't know cost a young Auckland woman $28 a week off her benefit for two years.

COMMENT: Late phase of election cycle adds further tension to Act and United Future's need to back National while keeping their own supporters happy.

Act Party leader David Seymour is accusing a teachers' union of bullying a state school which offered to share resources with a charter school.

COMMENT: It is not often that the big surprise in a Budget is something that will not be in it at all.

David Seymour used his keynote speech at Act's annual conference in Orakei to call for the sale of the state-owned farmer, worth about $1.6 billion.

Act wants the green vote - arguing its ideology is the best bet to save the environment and the party's proud green history has been ignored.