A plan to promote the Internet Mana Party’s cannabis law reform policy was scrapped after Hone Harawira protested in a “very strongly worded” email.

Phil Goff has accused John Key of having a direct hand in the release of intelligence documents to Cameron Slater for the purposes of embarrassing the former Labour leader.

Finance Minister Bill English says tax cuts will begin taking effect from 2017 – conditions allowing - by which time a National Govt will have $1.5b a year free cash.

Labour leader David Cunliffe says there'll be a maximum of three parties in any Government he leads, and has ruled out including the Maori Party.

Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking asks about building in Auckland and teaching policy questions to Labour party leader David Cunliffe during the first of his Leaders breakfast interviews.

Upside-down photographs of some of New Zealand's leading politicians may hold the key to why voters trust them or not.

Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking asks non political quickfire questions to Labour party leader David Cunliffe during the first of his Leaders breakfast interviews.

Labour leader David Cunliffe says he would sack the party's Rangitata candidate Steve Gibson if he could, and "he has no future as a Labour candidate."Mr Cunliffe held his punches over Selwyn candidate Gordon Dickson, saying Mr Dickson had some issues he was not at liberty to discuss. "They're not offences, they're attributes."

Police have been ordered to release back to Kim Dotcom clones of computers and electronic devices seized in 2012 from his Coatesville mansion.

Labour's finance spokesman David Parker this morning jibed that Act-held Epsom should be used to trial that party's policy of abolishing the Resource Management Act.

Labour leader David Cunliffe says there will be a maximum of three parties in any Government he leads, and has ruled out including the Maori Party at the Cabinet table. Speaking to Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking this morning, Mr Cunliffe said he intended to only include the Green Party and NZ First in any government.

"That hall looks as healthy as the Labour Party," someone remarked of the Runanga Miners' Hall - a building with a fine history to organised labour in the party's spiritual home.

New Zealanders are evenly divided about whether farmers are moving quickly enough to reduce their impact on the environment, a Herald DigiPoll survey shows.

Up to 25 people could see their jobs axed as Maori Television ditches its Te Kaea news show, Mana leader Hone Harawira claimed late last night.

If Colin Craig thinks it's been a struggle getting his Conservative Party close enough in the polls to clear the 5 per cent threshold on election day then he hasn't seen anything yet.

New Zealanders remain sceptical about whether Kim Dotcom's pre-election bombshell will prove Prime Minister John Key hasn't told the truth, a Herald- DigiPoll survey shows.

The Green Party's policy to lift the minimum wage by almost $4 to $18 an hour by 2017 is undoubtedly smart politics.

Andrew Dickens writes: Well, this is turning out to be a boring election, isn't it?

Labour leader David Cunliffe says its up to All Blacks captain Richie McCaw if he wants to pose for a selfie with the Prime Minister.

If you don't own assets you can't avoid tax by converting your income to tax-free capital gain, writes Josie Pagani, and this means you can never get ahead.

The Act Party would seek to abolish the Overseas Investment Office and the Resource Management Management Act if it became part of the next government.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters will not be drawn on who he might work with after the election.

Dear me. David Cunliffe has only himself to blame for a very bad week on the campaign trail.

A Green Party policy would require all farmers to fence off rivers, lakes, waterways and wetlands from stock with a buffer zone for vegetation by mid-2017.

The Labour Party election campaign is in a mess after one candidate reportedly made an anti-Semitic jibe shortly after another candidate sent a bizarre email.