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

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.

New laws to make sole parents look for work after their youngest children turn 6 will be phased in over several years, the Govt says.

A proposed three strikes law would have done nothing to prevent some of New Zealand's most notorious killings, critics say.

Homophobia is on rise in Uganda as the government seeks an Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the minister for ethics and integrity insists that it will be every citizen's duty under new laws to denounce anyone they suspect of being gay.