The days of rental car companies giving pamphlets to confused overseas visitors and crossing their fingers they'll cope with NZ's oddball right-hand rule look set to be over.

New Zealand's unique right-hand rule, a relic of an old Melbourne tram system and cause of 2560 crashes a year, is set to be scrapped.

Reducing the current legal blood alcohol limit will hurt the law-abiding majority without tackling repeat offenders, say lawyers.

The Govt's failure to immediately commit to lowering blood alcohol limits for adult drivers is "just not good enough", say advocacy organisations.

An investigation into vehicle power restrictions is something that this country has been crying out for.

A Labour MP is taking the unusual step of asking people to join a protest against a select committee he sits on.

The Govt intends imposing a zero alcohol level on drivers aged under 20, Steven Joyce has confirmed.

Simon Power will tighten the rules for MPs to close a loophole that allows them to use taxpayer money for election advertising.

The most unpopular features of MMP could be ditched if voters opt to keep the electoral system in the referendum on it at next year's election.

There will be no spending limits on parallel campaigners under new election rules proposed by the Government.

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A top Auckland business leader says there is a growing perception that the Super City reforms are being imposed by Wellington.

Labour and Maori Party strongholds will be hit if prisoners are stopped from voting, a prison reform group says.

Neither the Government nor Maori would own the nation's beaches under a proposal to settle the dispute over laws governing the foreshore and seabed.