The Pacific Islands Forum will be held in Auckland next September in the lead-up to the first game of the World Cup, the Herald understands.

The endorsement of Fiji's military regime by some Pacific countries is unlikely to affect the Pacific Islands Forum's suspension of Fiji, says Murray McCully.

Voters continue to hold long-standing doubts about Labor, and in polls consistently rate the Coalition as a superior economic manager

The Solomon Islands has beefed up security for the country's national elections, hoping to avoid the kind of violence that has marred previous polls following unpopular results.

MMP could sink or swim, not on its own merits, but on whether the All Blacks are successful in 2011, writes Brian Rudman.

If there were any doubts about where next month's election will be fought, they were dispelled yesterday.

Today Australia awakes to a race for the nation's conservative heartland as its political leaders try to eclipse each other.