Kiwis are interested in very little, if the PM is to be believed. The America's Cup is the latest in a long list of things Mr Key has declared NZ to be unconcerned about.

David Cunliffe has questioned how Prime Minister John Key knew about a letter Mr Cunliffe wrote for Donghua Liu weeks before it was received and released by the media.

The candidates list for Kim Dotcom's Internet Party has been announced this morning.

Almost half of National's own supporters believe the fundraising tactics the party uses with its "Cabinet Clubs" are a bad look, according to the latest Herald poll.

Given the hype and the publicity, Kim Dotcom and his fellow comrades in Internet-Mana have not exactly set the world on fire in yesterday's Herald-DigiPoll survey, writes John Armstrong.

New Herald poll shows Internet-Mana would get two MPs, as their success eats into the Greens vote while National is still well ahead of Labour.

Yet another poll - the Herald-DigiPoll survey today - suggests National is heading for a decisive re-election in September.

Colin Craig's Conservative Party may be buying into a fight over the proposed alternative logo it is trying to register with the Electoral Commission.

Labour has issued its clearest sign so far that it will mount its own tactical voting strategy in the Epsom electorate by encouraging its voters to give their electorate vote to National's candidate, Paul Goldsmith.

With 100 days to go until election day on September 20, the political parties - no doubt fibbing through clenched teeth - profess to be ready. Or close enough.

Will the Internet Mana Party succeed? To answer this question, one first has to define what success is., writes Bryce Edwards.

It's the major political parties who lose the tens of thousands of dollars allocated to satirical outfit the Civilian Party for election advertising rather than the taxpayer.

The Taxpayers Union is furious a joke political party has been given public money to fund its electoral campaign.

The announcement of Laila Harre as leader of the Internet Party again put the political focus on the high rate of abstention in the 2011 general election, writes Mark Williams.

Act Party leader Jamie Whyte has told disgraced MP John Banks to consider resigning before he is sentenced in August.

Taxpayer funding for National and Labour's election campaign broadcast advertising has been cut for this year's election but the Greens and NZ First will enjoy a substantial boost.

This generation of young people are apathetic. Apathetic young people are a constant of life, like tax and Keith Richards, writes Verity Johnson.

Church and health leaders are calling on all parties in the upcoming election to raise the price of alcohol and phase out alcohol advertising and sponsorship.

The Internet Party's first leader, Laila Harre, is promising young New Zealanders an "awesome" future in a growing digital economy.

The Green Party's new plan to tax companies for their carbon pollution would see farmers charged half-price and all revenue returned to households and businesses.

Kim Dotcom picked me up on the way to the candlelit vigil outside John Key's house last weekend to protest the unethical drone strikes that have killed more than 2400 people.

Laila Harre's appointment was one of the worst-organised interviews we've attended, writes Edward Rooney.

The David Cunliffe experiment has failed. Eight months into his leadership Labour is polling below what it was under Phil Goff and David Shearer.

Teenagers would get free GP visits and prescriptions under a Green Government, co-leader Metiria Turei revealed this morning.

Dotcom was upfront about his $3 million donation. But that may have been a bit of mischief designed to send a shiver down the spines of other parties, writes John Armstrong.

Broadcaster and former Alliance MP Pam Corkery is back working with erstwhile Parliamentary colleague Laila Harre as the new Internet Party leader's press secretary.

Is the Internet Mana alliance a con job on the New Zealand electorate, or is it a fair and smart use of the MMP system? This is a debate we can expect to have over the short term, writes Bryce Edwards.

Newly reinvented as the leader of the Internet Party, veteran of the political left Laila Harre made an immediate play for young voters with a pledge to tackle "unfinished business" from her last time in Parliament - free tertiary education.