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Battle to replace Turia neck-and-neck
The battle for the Te Tai Hauauru electorate is almost neck and neck between the Labour and Maori Party candidates according to a new poll on Maori Television.
The battle for the Te Tai Hauauru electorate is almost neck and neck between the Labour and Maori Party candidates according to a new poll on Maori Television.
Support for New Zealand First and the Conservative Party has surged since the release of Dirty Politics, while both National and Labour have stumbled in the latest political poll.
Labour would be able to offer first home buyers two-bedroom properties in Auckland for as little as $360,000 if elected, party leader David Cunliffe announced today.
The Chief Ombudsman will launch an investigation into the way the Official Information Act is being used - and it'll include a probe into Ministers' offices.
The country's busiest house builder, which expects to put up a third more homes this year, has welcomed the Government's KiwiSaver boost announced on Sunday.
Political parties - tired of repeated attacks on candidates' billboards - are using motion sensor cameras to catch the vandals, and passing evidence to police.
Labour wants drivers' licences and passports in New Zealand to offer three gender options.
John Arsmtrong writes: After two weeks of absolute tumult, the election campaign looked like returning to normality yesterday.
Education Minister Hekia Parata is in negotiation in the hope of opening more charter schools next year, possibly allowing tertiary institutions to run them.
It started well enough, but John Key left Greymouth with a heartfelt plea from the widow of one of the 29 dead Pike River miners ringing in his ears.
Two fresh faces have been catapulted up the New Zealand First ranks as the party dumped sitting MP Andrew Williams and demoted MP Asenati Lole-Taylor
Voters will know where Labour stands on buying back partially-sold power companies before the election, leader David Cunliffe says.
Prime Minister John Key says he believes his daughter should be off limits in any criticism of him as Prime Minister after a song by hip-hop band @peace referenced her.
A Herald-Digipoll has found that 57 per cent of respondents thought Winston Peters' Two Wongs joke was just harmless fun.
New survey shows majority of voters want to legalise cannabis, but there is little appetite for change among most political parties.
The Conservative candidate whose campaign trailer promoted party leader Colin Craig all day in a 30-minute parking space has been fined $30.
Dame Anne Salmond says revelations in the book Dirty Politics show a Royal Commission of Inquiry is needed to clean up Parliament.
In the latest Herald policy series, we put the election spotlight on the parties' plans for law and order.
Labour is reaching the bottom of the pork barrel with its remaining election campaign spending promises curbed by Treasury’s forecasts last week of lower tax take.
More than a third of New Zealanders feel they are more likely to have their home burgled compared to five years ago, a Herald-DigiPoll survey shows.
National's proposed home loan subsidies could help many young people into their first homes - although experts warn that the extra money will also push up house prices.
Maori Party founder Tariana Turia and former Governor-General and National Party Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake feature prominently as political heroes.
Bill English somehow neglected to mention New Zealand First in his press statement yesterday decrying the "big spending" promises made by Labour, the Greens and Internet Mana.