Bill English's arrival this afternoon was uneventful compared to his first Ratana visit in 2002 - also the first by a National Party leader.

COMMENT: It's "game on" in the Maori seats for next year's election with a Maori-Mana showdown with Labour looking likely.

Tukoroirangi Morgan says he will be on a corporate fundraising campaign as new Maori Party president to finance a strong election campaign next year.

PM’s regular ‘disappointment’ with racheting salaries hits crunch time, John Armstrong writes.

The now-defunct pact between Hone Harawira's Mana Movement and Kim Dotcom's Internet Party was always a marriage of convenience. Probably too much so.

Internet Party founder Kim Dotcom says his party could still make another bid for election in 2017 despite its merger with the Mana Party coming to an end.

Laila Harre has announced she will be stepping down as the leader of the Internet Party by the end of the year.

Hone Harawira did not exactly grace Parliament while he was there, so nobody would have been surprised at the manner of his departure.

Mana leader Hone Harawira has applied to the Electoral Commission for a recount of votes in the Te Tai Tokerau seat.

Mana Party Leader Hone Harawira - who was ousted from his Te Tai Tokerau stronghold last month - says he will stand for Parliament in 2017.

Mana leader Hone Harawira has said goodbye to Parliament with a promise that he will not fade away quietly.

It was good to see the minor parties in the election did not get to play an inordinate role in governing our country.

Mana Party leader Hone Harawira says he hasn't spoken to Kim Dotcom since election night.

Mana Party leader Hone Harawira broke his media silence last night, saying he remains comfortable with the work he did with Kim Dotcom in a political alliance.

Ill-discipline, mini-scandals and Kim Dotcom's silence during The Moment of Truth damaged Internet-Mana's vote and may yet see the end of the Internet Party.

The dreamlike quality of the 2014 election was only confirmed yesterday when New Zealand woke to discover that everything was pretty much unchanged.

'I’ve always voted for Harawira since he’s been running, but yesterday I gave my party vote to National, and my candidate vote to Kelvin Davis' - Tau Henare

Hone Harawira has asked voters to 'hold fast to their mana' against the party leaders who have 'ganged together' against him.

Mana leader Hone Harawira claims the National, Labour and Maori parties are all out to unseat him by throwing their weight behind Labour's Kelvin Davis.

Hell hath no fury like a voter who feels he or she has been treated like a fool.

In its final few days, the 2014 election campaign has turned from weird to surreal. And that is not even taking the Kim Dotcom circus into account, writes John Armstrong.

All tertiary students would be paid a universal student allowance and also have the cost of their course fees paid under an Internet Mana Party policy.

On the face of it, Mana Party leader Hone Harawira and Labour Party hopeful Kelvin Davis agree on major issues that have plagued the Tai Tokerau electorate for years.

One of the star acts was a no-show, but the show of unity was on high beam for the Internet-Mana Party's last "Road Trip" meeting last night.

Mana candidate Georgina Beyer has lashed out at Internet Mana backer Kim Dotcom: "He's using his power and position to seek retribution".

If the Internet-Mana alliance attracts just 3.4 per cent of the vote at the election, as it has in our latest DigiPoll survey, John Minto will be in Parliament.

A political candidate who learned of a family tragedy during the launch of her party’s election campaign is paying tribute to her dead sister as she returns to the hustings.