Labour's ex-President Mike Williams had some of the best lines at the Labour Party conference in Rotorua.

Larry Baldock's open letter is critical enough of Key personally for him to be justified in avoiding any personal meeting.

Let's not be too hasty in our praise for Act leader Rodney Hide in standing by his principles over Maori seats on the Auckland super-council.

English and Goff are over-cooking their plight and virtue in the ministerial housing row to ridiculous effect, writes Audrey Young.

It is an indictment on the National Party that such a high calibre candidate as Wira Gardiner could not even be elected to the party's board, writes Audrey Young.

Welfare minister Paula Bennett has sounded half-hearted in defending the release of the welfare bill paid to two critics of training allowance cuts.